Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2017

TechNow is a one-day regional conference that connects nonprofits with the technology resources, information and people it needs to succeed taking place on October 19, 2017. If you don’t alreay know my co-author, Aliza Sherman, she helped pave the way for women online and in the Internet industry.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Gen X and gen Y both came of age during the rise mass Internet communications and increasingly shun print communications and fundraising while adapting quickly to new trends in mobile and social giving. The millennial generation consists of 76 million Americans who are tech savvy, well-informed, and results-driven.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. This blog seeks to capture the information gathered at the workshop, keep the discussion alive and build momentum." " The Web Is Dead.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

of all households reported having high-speed internet access. In every age category, over 50% of households have high-speed internet access. Even in states where the amount of people with high-speed internet access is lower than the national average, at least 62.3 Provide information about alternate methods of donating.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

“Mobile-first” became a major topic for websites when Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, popularized the idea in 2010 at the Mobile World Congress. Today, it is projected that nearly three-quarters (72.6%) of internet users will access the web solely via their smartphones by 2025 —this is equivalent to nearly 3.7 Taking a mobile-first approach.

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APRIL 13, 2021

This connectivity has allowed patrons to access the internet when they needed it most over the past year. A 2010 study by the American Library Association found that libraries were crucial during the economic recession, offering valuable job-seeking technology, training, and resources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all. Also, text alerts are limited to 160 characters, so if you want to do a call to action or inform your subscribers beyond a 160 characters, then you are going to need a mobile website/page to do it. population!).

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APRIL 12, 2011

Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits. Let’s help share information about what’s happening across the nonprofit sector. Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at. All Rights Reserved

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania. For context, think about it this way: in a country of 21 million, where only about 7 million have internet access , about 1 in every 20 is on facebook!

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

One year later, April 26-27, 2010, more than 260 people from over 60 countries gathered in Washington, DC for an unprecedented two-day Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by President Obama and the U.S. In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries."

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MAY 6, 2021

Because artificial intelligence is so powerful, and we know that it will outstrip the most intelligent human’s capacity to process information, we would be foolhardy not to try to understand the topics that affect us. The answer is a lot, including bots and tech, that stole personal information and led misinformation campaigns.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2008

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

62% connect to internet wirelessly. millions PCs in Q4 2010. 90% of mobile subscribers in the US have internet-ready phones. Millennials want basic information and tools for action. 79% of respondents volunteered in 2010, and they prefer to do it in groups. Millennial Distinctions. about 85 Million. most over 45.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. Now I primarily only watch the PBS News Hour and listen to NPR and the BBC on the Internet more often, but not all day.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

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Forum One

JANUARY 15, 2008

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" Hey, Let’s Fix The Internet – What do you think – can we change? Change the internet? The big guys quickly followed suit: Yelp introduced "Check-Ins" while Facebook launched "Places" and most recently, Google Latitude updated to incorporate check-ins and check-outs.

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Forum One

JANUARY 3, 2008

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Or perhaps you want to notify donors in e-mail newsletters or on your website that they can also call in their donations if for some reason they don’t feel comfortable entering their credit card information on the Internet? 2010 is going to be a big year for nonprofits and mobile technology.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. Watch the demo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

and to keep supporters informed and engaged. Text messaging campaigns help keep supporters engaged and informed, and can significantly increase traffic to nonprofit mobile websites and smartphone Apps. 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks Report. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 26, 2006

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. ASU Lodestar Center. MySpace – 29%.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. The Relevancy of the Internet Problem. He said that the first order of business is to address what he calls, "the relevancy of the Internet problem."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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Forum One

JULY 14, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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