Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. Social Media Game: Washington DC View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter.

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MAY 2, 2012

Embracing your fearlessness is one of the keynote conversations that Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation, and Paull Young, Director of Digital for charity: water will have to kick off the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference on June 15 th at SEIU's headquarters in Washington, DC from 8:30AM to 4:00PM. There will be no powerpoints.

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MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training.

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JUNE 5, 2013

The ways that Millennials are connecting, participating, and giving to organizations requires nonprofits to question the old logic and adopt new approaches that build relationships with this dynamic generation. How Millennials are Changing Social Causes Thursday, 6/13 at 2pm ET.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. This “relationship building&# conversation is the foundation of forming stronger ties. Dancing on Different Sides of the Adoption Curve.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

The Obama Administration announced yesterday what had been widely expected, that Vivek Kundra, former Chief Technology Officer of the Washington DC government, would be taking on the role of Federal Chief Information Officer. It's a pretty exciting development!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. I also lead a workshop on social media strategy for communications professionals who work with networks, nonprofits, and foundations. Know Your Audience’s Social Technology Adoption. Photo by Justin Benttinen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. The CWRF model has been adopted by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop was hosted by the Packard Foundation and Monitor Institute. It worked well.

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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2009

I attended a session called "a Day in the Life of a Federal Web Manager" at the Transparency Camp in DC this weekend, and we had a very interesting discussion about the tension that large organizations face with respect to letting different departments and groups at their organization experiment with web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. For more context, see Networks and Philanthropy Exploration and the most recent release of the Working Wikily paper from Monitor Institute.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

This is the group charged with advising the Department of Education on the adoption of the new digital standard for electronic textbooks for students with disabilities. My next trip is to Kansas City for my nephew's wedding, and a chance to speak informally at the Kauffman Foundation about technology social entrepreneurship.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. The District adopted consumer technologies for use in the public sector to make the District’s public information more accessible. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2016

Designed for anyone with internet access to set up an in-person gathering and invite like-minded people, Meetup helped create the foundation of Dean’s campaign and enabled broad networking in areas where there was no campaign office or staff—revolutionary at the time. And who could forget Howard Dean’s turkey sandwich fundraiser?

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Right now there are decisions being made in your town, in your state, and in Washington DC that could change the Internet. Resources: American Library Association at Benton Foundation "Using Technology and Innovation to Address our Nation's Critical Challenges"; Knight Center for Digital Excellence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away. If your nonprofit is based in the DC area, NpowerDC reminds us that the deadline for their annual Technology Innovation Award is two weeks away. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. " Web 2.0, Live Blogging Conferences.

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Forum One

MAY 29, 2005

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

We’re fortunate to have been able to present this idea to funders who have given us a great start and we recently struck up a relationship that we’re very proud of with one of Denver’s most innovative nonprofits, the Open Media Foundation. One of the giving circles I like is the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network Denver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Do you have a foundation background? Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. When we both got back to DC we got together , and he and Mari needed some help with some business development support.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Peter Campbell is the CIO at Legal Services Corporation in Washington DC. Cloud services are rapidly scaling to the point where larger NPOs can safely adopt them, and Google and Microsoft will keep the heat on to get NPOs there at low cost. She is a Fellow at the New American Foundation. Peter Campbell. John Merritt.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

22 Nationwide, Uber adopted a complex new “full fare” algorithm in 2021 that many drivers claim makes it increasingly difficult to track rider fares or understand what they will earn on a given ride. 50 Cooperative banks and credit unions are a possible source of business capital, as well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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