Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. But it isn’t the technology that matters. E-learning opens up the potential for peer learning’s broad-based adoption. Peer learning is an important concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

My colleague Geoff Livingston says that “Shiny Object Syndrome&# makes nonprofits and individuals to adopt the latest cool social tool based on peer pressure, buzz, or a strange desire to be one of the first. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Per NTEN, the Cloud Summit will: Teach you how to distinguish hype vs. reality. And take a look at the human side of the Cloud - staff training and technology adoption. " This is a great opportunity to get all your cloud questions answered! You can get more information and RSVP for the streamed broadcast here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? technologies for knowledge sharing??? " technologies, these tools allow people to collaborate over time and distance in both new ways and in new networked forms. It is easy to focus on the technologies. This issue.

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JULY 17, 2023

Should we believe the hype? But technology moves fast. The people who are closest to this technology have already sounded an alarm,” Amy said. Yes, there are dangers, but that profound impact on culture and society is the best reason to begin understanding this technology and to become an early adopter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

with a rhetorical question, "Do you agree with his point ?" " I never expected that anyone would take the time to reflect on that question, let alone lead me towards understanding. How to help npos think about this in a way that leads to thoughtful adoption? The technology is there now to foster this growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

And now, the first question in everyone's head: why the heck would I EVER want to follow this 140-character tripe? But, hopefully, most people will get to the next questions: What is this thing, really? If it is adopted by a whole team, I think twitter can be quite useful internally for project management and group updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL has the potential to add a new level to the existing web technologies. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. Come on, get real already.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." If you are an organization that has technology people on staff, you are likely to be much more satisfied.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again. Are there other challenges we as a sector face in the adoption and successful use of social networking for awareness, communications, and fundraising tools?

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