Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This ranges from online discussion of the issue to hosting an Emergency Social Data Summit – or #crisisdata on Twitter on Thursday August 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C., Conference attendees will be asked to download and join the Emergency Data Society.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2013

This post will focus on some key features of younger generations and tips on how to use data to drive a stronger engagement strategy with this bunch. There a number of ways your organization can develop the right plan to facilitate the right strategy to guide your constituents through the constituent lifecycle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. If ten similar nonprofit organizations came together to build a system that would work for them, they each would get 10 times the software that they could afford individually.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

In 2010, Mr. Masson came up with a brilliant idea: to establish an innovative project that catered to the needs of dyslexic children. The Ordyslexie program has now been active since 2010 and has affected the lives of more than 1,500 students. He also suffers from dyslexia and has two dyslexic sons.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com). Wanted: Defense Against Online Bank Fraud" (February 8, 2010, Wall Street Journal). Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). Have you mitigated your privacy risks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

.” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. Low-technology settings require high-touch network facilitation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2011

President Obama directed the Task Force with preparing the National Strategy in a 2010 Presidential Proclamation. A federal Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship developed the national strategy. What the National Strategy Will Do. certified recycler or refurbisher for their discarded electronics equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

The Blue Key site was only launched in December 2010, and its social/digital aspects were relatively new, so there was not a lot of data to base KPIs on. We used Hashtracking (which was offered to me as a free trial for testing purposes) to pull data on how many tweets used the hashtag, etc. Why important?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In my first blog , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. 2010 AT&T Foundation Grant (This is a QuickBooks "Job"). 2010 NEH Grant. 2011 NEH Grant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

There are just too many things we need – too many cool new peripherals, we want to manipulate too many kinds of data and media, etc. Adding a new printer is facilitated by a few different things hplip, cups, ghostscript, and gutenprint/gimpprint. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Transparency and accountability increases as data becomes more available and as the use of technology becomes more important to the work of philanthropists. Collaboration enables governments and the development sector to get and better understand data. ” Coined the doom decade (2010-2020), (so we are actually living in it.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

If these organizations shared data, they could improve services and have a much clearer understanding of their impact. Together, we designed a data analysis project that answered this key question, and provides tremendous insight into the nature of their relationship to each other and the nonprofit sector as a whole.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. Whereas formal organizations have a harder time facilitating a shared sense of space and events. Really interesting. No visible bylines.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Plus, the facilitators encourage viewer interaction, often incorporating Q&A sessions in their presentations. Affinaquest was, in turn, acquired by SSB (a data management and sports analytics company) in 2021 while retaining the Affinaquest brand name. Explore our ultimate compilation of charitable giving statistics here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

The “smooth” part refers to ClientTrack’s ability to facilitate (i.e., In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive. Tell us about GuideStar’s role in helping NGOs get their messages to their audience and how does WhatsApp facilitate this?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010. NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. Friday, April 9, 2010.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Possible threats, such as funding cuts, lack of stakeholder/donor involvement and ineffective leadership, have the ability to weaken nonprofits and can result in creation of duplicating organizations or efforts in order to serve social issues (Suárez, 2010). References.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

What would it be like if we could help nonprofits with the following: Asking whether technology implementations in their organization in the past have really facilitated their mission? How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Not to mention getting receipting right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. It opens additional doors. 2 cheryl 04.26.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Our data showed that those coming with the specific intent of giving were able to complete that task with ease. We are working to develop a system that syndicates fresh content to chapter websites, delivers search engine optimization benefits, and facilitates the marketing of first-person wish stories in social channels.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Let’s look at some of the science and data so you’ll never again feel bad about asking someone to give. 2010 study led by Nathaniel Lambert, Florida State University : Expressing gratitude to a close friend or romantic partner was found to strengthen one’s sense of connection to that person. Generosity is wired into our brains.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Where traditional social networking is about connecting individuals, Crabgrass is social networking to facilitate network organizing. In particular, we aim to help groups to communicate securely, network with other groups, and make decisions in a way that is easy to understand, transparent, and directly democratic.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g., But the new ignorance has old class roots.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. payday loans), subpar products (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization. The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.). The Green Map app is another that facilitates discovery and connects us to local green environments.

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