Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

In the Games for Change Festival opening keynote speech, Former Vice President Al Gore jokingly admitted that his last video game experience was playing Pong , though he acknowledged the power of games, observing that "Games are the new normal for hundreds of millions of users.” Show me something and I will remember.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." After all, building and maintaining a meaningful social media presence requires a significant investment of time — and it’s not always easy to measure the return on that investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

I’ll keep this simple, as many of us have a lot on our minds as we experience the world grappling with a public health crisis. And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. Now is the time to think about a budget reforecast. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. percent in 2009.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

To borrow a phrase, the accepted model is “build it and they’ll come.” ” We suggest that a better model, following lean thinking principles, is to prototype and test relentlessly. Eric Ries adapted this philosophy to entrepreneurship in his 2011 book, The Lean Startup.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. PEW, 2015) As time goes on, this generation will accumulate more wealth and become increasingly more critical for nonprofits to pursue as a revenue source. Millennial Donor Report, 2011).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. PEW, 2015) As time goes on, this generation will accumulate more wealth and become increasingly more critical for nonprofits to pursue as a revenue source. Millennial Donor Report, 2011).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Shirkey also said, “Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments.” Knight Foundation ; Sharon Pian Chan, Director of Journalist Initiatives, the Seattle Times ; and Joe Neel, Deputy Supervising Editor, NPR. Fast forward to 2014, and this prediction still holds true. million in 2009 to $687.6

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I believe that new models of aging and senior life will emerge from this wave, and can't wait to see what is created, which is why I loved stumbling upon The New York Times article, For Healthy Aging, A Late Act in the Footlights. In 2011, he received the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

It also gave me an opportunity to share some stories about my experience as Visiting Scholar over the past 6 months coaching grantees in becoming Networked Nonprofits. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this. Did they translate or were they lost in translation? This year my birthday (Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college. I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Adolescence is a critical time when youth develop their own personal identities (their own concepts of who they are and what makes them unique) and social identities (based on what groups they belong to and their interactions with others). 5] When a person feels good about one’s self and one’s ethnic group (i.e., How can we make a difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. Launched [.]

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. There has been some discussion about for-profit alternatives to the traditional nonprofit model, such as “B” (for benefit) and “L3C” (Low-profit Limited Liability Company) corporations, which combine low profits with a social mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

And, as much as we can, we’ve tried to do this in public—sharing our thinking online in real time and asking grantees, colleagues, and the world at large for their feedback and advice. Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last June, I live blogged the virtual Millennial Donor Summit and it was an interesting experience. This scenario plays out time and again in cities across the country. This past June, the Case Foundation , Achieve , and JGA teamed up for a little virtual experiment of our own.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

Businesses spent an estimated $12 billion in leadership development in 2011. From a funding standpoint, foundation support for leadership development was less than 1 percent of overall giving from 1992 to 2011 (Hirschfield, 2014). The social sector spent $400 million, just.03% 03% of the sector's $1.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

In some cases, fundraisers become casino nights or raffles drive donors to purchase family vacations for two to three times more than their standard price, all just to support a charity. Engagement Model. He received his BFA from the Herberger Institute for the Design & Arts in 2011. Target Audience. Player Goals.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. Overall, the experience has been positive. But I want to be clear: Is this something you can do with free tools in your spare time? I waited until the time was right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. February 27, 2011. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, March 25, 2011 Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector 2011: All quiet on the nonprofit front" posted by Angela Francis , Senior Associate Nonprofit Finance Fund Welcome to Research Friday ! This is an area where both grantees and their funders could aim to make great strides in 2011.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

I’m back from Dreamforce 2011 , trying to process everything I saw and learned. So much going on at one time. When I started in 2006, there was essentially one nonprofit experience on Salesforce. Each direction is very different, using a different data model (see below for lots more on that) and approach.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2013

Infrastructure hosting requires massive amounts of capital, experience, and knowledge in IT services, along with a deep history working with and understanding customer needs. SLAs are very important, so I always take the time to read them (see the link at the end of the blog for more information about SLAs). Verecloud: A Scam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

” Here’s some insights generated through the discussion about that: Allocate Staff Meeting Time: Teresa Crawford reported that her organization devotes some time at staff meetings each week to see what content is catching the most interest, what messages seem to have the greatest reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. The full group discussion allowed people at different levels to share their experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. as a first time donor. They sent a thank you email and asked if she’d sent diapers.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We had no idea when we introduced our new Communities of Practice (CoPs ) engagement model that there were be so many questions and concerns, and I think this may be that very "once in a while". Current Affinity Groups will have until October 1st, 2011 to notify NTEN if they would like to become CoPs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2011

On July 8, 2011, founder and co-CEO of TechSoup Global Daniel Ben-Horin paid a special visit to the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. So impressive was this experience that it continues to inform Daniel's support of virtual worlds today. This led Daniel to participate in one of the first virtual communities, the WELL.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I was fortunate enough to be invited to be a guest speaker at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. The idea, grand in scope, was to present models and technology that can assist organizations shift internal cultures to make diversity of all types the norm. But in time, it could be. So, how about a little background?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

We now have a painting hanging from the ceiling that you can lie under and experience in 3D. We also have 75 new friends, slightly bleary from the experience, which felt like one part intense work project, one part marathon, one part hallucinogenic love-in. Four years later, my appetite for these kinds of experiences hasn''t changed.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. Overall, the experience has been positive. But I want to be clear: Is this something you can do with free tools in your spare time? I waited until the time was right.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. At the same time, our community relevance was limited. Being a strong community hub requires bringing people together across difference, encouraging bridging experiences instead of targeting a specific audience. The couches didn''t match.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. And so this concept of asking visitors to spend some focused time thinking about their relationships with objects and artworks really made sense to me. That required more space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” We analyze the content that users spend the most time, referral traffic, and other key metrics over time.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. I had a really wonderful time, and the Community-Driven Social Impact session was terrific! Know Your Community. Knowing your community.

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