Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives. Work at human scales and connect across networks of people and things. Look at both the detail and the big picture. Make things to explore, test and learn. Make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2015

Our session will take a very practical approach, filling our session with tangible options, alternatives, and activities to shift from tech possessed to tech happy. In the last handful of years, people have been talking and writing about the effects of rapid technology adoption on our society, our relationships and our selves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

If the crowdfunding platform cannot find the nonprofit to which the donor has designated, the platform must contact the donor to request alternatives. Confirm to donors that their donation was received by the designated nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. Basically, you take a notebook and a pen, and make it your calendar, journal and planner. BuJo was designed by Ryder Carroll, a digital product designer. What is the Bullet Journal System?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

What will the alternative to twitter Be? s Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or perhaps Pownce, maybe its BrightKite, or FriendFeed, Tumblr, or any other number of alternatives. Twitter is having stress issues. Learn more from this interview by Jesse Stay. Maybe it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

If your Feedburner feed is not working anymore, you’re not alone and you basically have two choices – switch to your blog platform’s atom feed for free (no analytics), or switch to the best alternative, Feedblitz for a small fee. Thank you so much Phil!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2011

The Future of Nonprofits combines twenty-first century innovations (social media, alternative currencies, digital channels) with enduring success strategies of the best nonprofits (hiring killer talent, structuring smart).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives. Alyson Kapin has a better idea – to petition Yahoo to make del.icio.us I queried my friends on Twitter and my library, museum, archivist, and educator colleagues suggested Diigo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. Nonprofit technology colleague Nancy Schwartz shared that link and it prompted a lot of angst for many who had grown dependent on this free software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

It is an innovative alternative to commercial social networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut, and contains over 2,000 member-created groups and 110,000 organizations in its directory. WiserEarth offers a free and ad-free network to a vibrant member base of 37,000+ people from 231 countries, regions and territories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

In other words, don't put all your online relationships and donors in one free software basket and consider the alternatives before you adopt free technology. There are over 500 signatures on a change.org petition to Ning requesting that they keep the service free for schools and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Packard and the TCC Group collaborated on an alternative approach evaluating the foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2008

The one above is an alternative badge from a collection created by Jenny Lawson. I just discovered that my blog is listed in alltop nonprofit version. There's quite a few of nonprofit tech bloggers in there too. You can now add a badge to your site. Here's the official badge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

What would be an alternative? Is the same as something else? Viewpoints and Perspectives: What is another way to look at this idea? Is it the best? Why or why not? What are the strengths and weaknesses? What is the counter argument? Implications and Consequences: What generalization can or can’t be made?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The post provides an overview of the alternative reproductive strategies to being a virus based on nature metaphors. Epeus's Engine has a post titled " How Not To Be Viral " which is talking about social applications spread on social networks. The term "viral" is now more like cancer - given application fatique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

I like to use as a closer, but perhaps it could be offered as an alternative for the introverted in the room. .” Another principle will work for them – “Writing vs Reading.” ” You get people to quietly debrief in writing what they learned. How do you learn best at conferences or workshops?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2008

I was a little weird in that I would alternated between "We Want the Bump" and Beethoven's 9th Symphony, but I'm getting distracted.) You may also wondering why I have this YouTube music video from Parliament singing " Tear the Roof Off the Sucker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

Be open to alternatives: Try to be as open-minded as possible and listen to alternatives to your IT department might propose. Also, sometimes it isn't necessarily a black and white situation of you can't or can do x. Look at your discussion at a creative problem solving opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

” It is a technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact. Is it in your hand all the time so you don’t miss an alert? Some enterprising entrepreneurs have created a product just for the mobile phone addicted. It is called the “ NoPhone.” You can purchase one on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ??? in which she argues that Creative Commons licensing, even if introducing an alternative and open licensing model, nevertheless ???strengthens Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit ???,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2008

As Chris Baskind points out in his post about Twitter, platform, and community: There are plenty of great alternatives to Twitter these days, and more in the pipeline. Are you investing in community building on Twitter alternatives? I'm also finding a few other rooms related to my interest of value. Move your communities over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Did it incorporate movement or other alternative methods? If you are a trainer or capacity builder, what are some creative ways you have infused movement into your training sessions? People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." This has been invaluable learning process because Dave's insights have sparked the above reflections. (Here are a few resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. They are a great alternative to the more traditional United Way program and provide features that stimulate higher levels of interest and participation in workplace giving campaigns.”. This includes some of the most basic student essentials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

such initiatives for a limited period of time to see if this method generates alternatives that may not have come to light through other means. It was posted by Jay Rosen and in a nutshell the idea is: The Obama White House should make some smart, strategic choices to carefully frame and highlight one or two (no more than three!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2008

Some users have reported success getting to their mail during outages by using any number of alternative links to gmail. Visit the gMail Google group to at the least find others in your boat and get the latest updates. Your mileage may vary, but here they are: Basic HTML version: https://mail.google.com/mail/h/. Older version: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings. The photo captures a improvised moment in one of the sessions of modeling “ Learning Over Each Other’s Shoulders &# as Nancy White likes to call it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

leadership pushing out terms like “alternative facts” and trumpeting #FakeNews haven also accelerated distrust in the Government and Media sectors. This erosion is a symptom of globalization, polarization, attacks on the media, and a general lack on consensus on facts. The net effects of the current U.S. Source: Edelman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

Anyway, also wanted to test another alternative to YouTube video hosting. This isn't intitutive. so this might be another reason why the message widget isn't be used by blog visitors. This leads me to another point. Test the widgets as if you were a user and make sure the interface is easy to use for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

Sue Waters send me a tweet about an alternative to hastags. Then she wrote an entire post on an alternative to hashtags - Tweetscan: My thoughts, after spending considerable time previously investigating how to get more out of using twitter , would be to use TweetScan rather than hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Sometimes at first you feel like – oh crap – this didn’t work and don’t even want to look at it again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! .” Next, to applaud an idea they liked and finally an idea they were wildly excited by. One of the counselors did a visual of the meter. Here’s a quick video. After the winning 20 ideas were selected, each idea was posted on a separate piece of paper on the walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

In the last 24 hours since the project launched, there's been a firehose of ideas for giving that don't require getting out your checkbook or credit card and cringing. Don't get me wrong - giving money to charitable causes is a good thing - but if you looking into your wallet makes you want to cry, there are alternatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

The Second Life build is a virtual representation of their alternative gift catalogue Communities in remote areas of the world request particular items, say a cow or a pig. Via a gift to World Vision, that item is purchased for the village or family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." (Dave points to a couple of resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ). "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I have a post brewing about audio widget alternatives and tools to record and edit phone conversation or skype conversations.) People want to use widgets to be messengers whether it is a fundraising vehicle or poll." " (For some reason, Odeo didn't let me download her message, so I had to re-record it and hence the noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2005

In isolated and rural areas of third world countries like Cambodia, where electricity and power lines are not available, not very reliable or expensive, alternative sources such as solar or battery power are employed. To run computers requires a power source.

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