Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In May, 2010. I moved from my old typepad blog to a word press blog that was designed to match the cover colors of my book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Alison Fine. I have also gotten many emails from readers complaining that my blog did not look good on this mobile device or that mobile device.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news? MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Pressing Needs That Require Immediate Attention. You may well have pressing needs to budget for like upgrading from Windows XP and Office 2003 before April 2014 and getting newer IT equipment, for instance from TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative , that already has Windows 7 and Office 2010 installed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nonprofit organizations have the ability to connect and mobilize individuals. Social capital is defined as the “shared values, ideas, norms, and culture [that] shape the kind of political and administrative efficacy that enhances collective action, democracy, and effectiveness in public service delivery” (Kalu, 2010). Affordable Hous.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

84% of donation pages were not opimized for mobile, which made it hard for mobile users to complete a donation. Here are some tips that I''m re-sharing from another Frogloop blog post from 2010 that are still the gold standard. Save your press releases for the media, and your “talking points” for policy makers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up. What this means is that MS will have to take all of the varied input from the ISO bodies, and go through a second vote early next year. Microsoft thinks that it will win approval , but that is far from clear. (If

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07 1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07 . … One wonders how many bad stereotypes they can fit in one column? Anyway, if you read Linux Journal, please tell them how you feel.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. His mobile phone battery was nearly dead so he chose to send a message to twitter and ask for help as well as for those that couldn’t help to spread the message, instead of calling 911 in the chance that he would end up on hold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mobilize the people who already do. Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. Luke’s, StoryCorps, NPR, and Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Don’t waste too much time on people who will never agree with you. If money is an issue (isn’t it always?),

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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Frogloop friends: We at Care2 rarely issue press releases, as we’re more interested in being an organization that does things, as opposed to talking about doing things. But this week we bent our own rules and …issued the press release below. Care2 Surpasses 15 Million Members. Increased website visitors 175% year to year.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? With more than 270 million mobile-phone users in the U.S.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? With more than 270 million mobile-phone users in the U.S.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, This meant that press from the road trip also contributed to the buzz around the larger event. In the fall of 2010 the community rallied around a pledge to find common ground and unity in the Charter for Common Ground.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The difference between cloud-based and traditional software is that when we access the cloud, our computer or mobile device isn't doing the actual computing. They just need a computer or mobile device and the Internet. Most of the information processing happens in a large datacenter outside our organization. Benefit #1: Cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. And people in orgs hear all this buzz about this thing or that thing, and feel hard pressed and stressed to get on the bandwagon. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

"This is what a public library is all about," said Carol Cooler, the director of libraries and CEO at the Saskatoon Public Library in a press statement. A mobile library was set up with Wi-Fi and computer access, staffed by people trained in social services, disaster relief, healthcare services, job services, and more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. Jobs was as usual quite prescient.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2011

I pressed all these tabling skills into service over the last two weeks when I attended both the Non-Profit Technology Conference in DC and the Association for Fundraising Professionals Conference in Chicago. Consider using an iPad with a form optimized for mobile and encourage conference attendees to share their e-mails that way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Because what about our Peachtree accounting, our little Filemaker press clippings database, and oh yeah – totally wedded to Exchange/Outlook. And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). 3 Seth Schneider 06.24.08

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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. Will you get donors through a mobile app?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. Showing up on page one in Google search results has led to numerous press interviews and a few new clients… all without spending one single penny on search engine optimization. 3) To get access to statistical data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2010, eager to address these changes, the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) launched a program called Pioneers in Justice , offering intense support to a cohort of Bay Area Gen X leaders who had recently become executive directors of legacy social justice organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. Since we see many people carrying FlipCameras, mobile phones with video recording capability, etc, it seemed like it could be interesting to have people share footage of the conference from a participant perspective. Heck, it’s time to start thinking about 2010. I set up a drop.io

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The infographic focuses on four initiatives — the response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Charity: Water , Tweet Drive , and Twestival — and breaks down the campaigns’ success (how many people participated, how much money was raised, etc.). It also examines how the nature of donating and volunteering is changing in the age of social media.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2013

Overall: A very popular site with lots of press (Edward Norton is one of its. 2010, mGive’s services helped to raise upwards of $37 million in three. This post was authored by Mobile Beacon , a TechSoup donor partner. Though there is no cost to start a project, there is a 5 percent. donations under $25 and a $2.50

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2009

I do want to note that you'd be hard-pressed to find a single spelling error, but the fact that the sessions were not laid out by time was a serious oversight and I offer up my sincere apologies to all NTC attendees who had trouble finding the sessions they wanted to attend. We wanted to cram so much into 3 days. Breakout Sessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Are you building community on Twitter or just pushing out press releases and blog posts [that in time people start to ignore]? On a final note, many nonprofits will be launching mobile websites in 2010, and much of the traffic on those sites will be going to or from social networking sites. Do you have an account on Bit.ly

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) January 11, 2010 | Marie DeMars Excellent post.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Something more is needed. In this regard, the problem for platform cooperatives is not so much technical or financial as it is political.

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