Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? Year in Review.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The process of combining words and images helps me to work things out in a different way than writing in my journal does. Full disclosure: The books I linked to are attached to my Amazon Associates account, which means that if you buy anything after clicking on the link, I receive a percentage of the sale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Aiming at the revenue potential of these growth markets, the main international players in the world of digital content distribution – such as Amazon, Apple and Google – are racing to enhance their platforms with non-English content. Spanish publishing is one of the hottest digital battlegrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2006

Go buy the book, but while you're waiting for your amazon delivery, you can read Chapter 5 here. Editing The best pieces I read so far about video editing that gets a novice up and started quickly is in the book Secrets of Videoblogging by Michael Verdi and Ryanne Hodson.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. Author Neil Gaiman put forth similar arguments in his Journal , which I appreciate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

Click Through to Amazon and Get This Book! For example, keeping a journal of what you consume and taking incremental steps towards reducing it so it becomes a lifestyle change. I know for myself that a return to keeping visual journals on paper and drawing with magic markers has been incredibly useful in this area.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Full disclosure: The link to Stacey's book, Global Girlfriend, is linked to my Amazon Associates account. Its fair trade boutique offers a line of women-made, fair-trade products including stylish apparel, accessories and gifts with one purpose - to help women in need help themselves.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Sorry, Amazon. Amazon has this thing sewed up tight, whereas books are to be shared. Kindle is a bust for me. { at 1:52 pm Thanks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

The disorder was identified in this study, “ The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology ” published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications. You can purchase one on Amazon. It isn’t a joke. It is called the “ NoPhone.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Amazon seems to be leading in the next wave of evolution of hosting – pay only for what you need, when you need it. The news today, and why I’m bothering to talk about this, is that Red Hat announced that it will offer RHEL – their enterprise distribution, on Amazon E2. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

It will be led by Simon, author the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller, We First: How brands and consumers use social media to build a better world (named Best marketing Book of 2011 by strategy+business). What support or advice would be most valuable to you?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2012

Long-form journalism is finding new legs through social recommendation (#longform, #longreads) and time-shifting apps. Furthermore, new outlets for long-form journalism ( Atavist , Longform.org , Longreads , Matter , PostDesk (UK), among others), should be part of your media planning. Author: Seth Merritt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Click to Amazon. Sometimes I ask them to include their names and I do a drawing for a free book during the learning culmination exercise (see below.) After the session, I spend a few hours doing an analysis of what people wrote on the cards and use it to review with my lesson plan. 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. He’s right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 16, 2011

BroadPoint Technologies Visit BroadPoint Technologies in booth 56 and enter to win a $200 Amazon Gift Card! Center for Technology Leadership Pens, Can coozzies, Sticky pads, T-shirts, and Journals. StreamLink Software We will be giving away an Amazon Kindle. Visit American Technology Services, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

More reflections on technique can be found on my N95 learning journal ). Patti Anklam (who has written a practical guide to creating and sustaining networks at work and in the world and I just ordered from amazon.) Ryanne and Jay even Ustreamed our live streamed - how meta. Her blog post is here. Naava Frank, Knowledge Communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Companies such as Amazon are creating massive grid storage and computing services for applications in the cloud. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin useful school-supplies you need with links to Amazon product pages that parents can buy for the school. Pin images from medical journals and magazines highlghting the research your medical teams are working on. Pin athletic awards and trophies before putting them in your display case. Credit to Flickr user: Tropic~7 29.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

If there is a book I really really really want, I search for freebie chapters on the Web or use the search inside feature in Amazon. Magazines: Can't afford subscriptions, but when you get offers for your extra miles. I take advantage. Right now I have wired and runners magazine. But, if I have to pay cash, forget it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This ongoing study has been cited in hundreds of publications, including Forbes, TIME, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He helped Dian Nelson launch the division and brought DCE into digital publishing through deals with Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I'm thinking of the KM4Dev Journal where I was a guest editor and the article " A stealth transformation: introducing wikis to the UN." I bet within 6-12 months you'll see a title on Amazon along the lines of "How To Develop and Write An Effective Web 2.0 " "Web 2.0 Opportunity or Threat for IT Support Staff?

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JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I wanted to go out and experience the world, so I went at nineteen years old to the Amazon in Ecuador and ended up working with indigenous women who were struggling because there had been a oil contamination (four times Exxon Valdez) on their traditional lands. Those women asked me to be their messenger. What was your first step?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

Amazon Fire Phone Teardown. Our friends at iFixit recently did one of their teardowns of the Amazon Fire Phone. Back to the Amazon Fire Phone, iFixit gave it a sad 3 out 10 for Repairability (10 being the easiest to fix). They showcase beautiful photos from around the world centered around a common theme, holiday, or event.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Security – because of the nature of the industry, cloud solutions leverage highly secure data centers and server technology furnished by leading providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. In addition, solution providers typically comply with Service Organization Control reporting, also known as SOC2.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2011

Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders. And the Wall Street Journal recently reported that sales of greeting cards have fallen 9% since 2005 amid the rise of social media and email. Do you diligently set aside time each day or week to read your industry's trade journals and Blogs, and do you attend industry trade shows?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Cellphones and cable boxes; Google and Amazon, Facebook and Twitter; cable boxes and the cameras at stoplights; the bar codes on milk cartons; and the RFID chip that whips you through the toll plaza — each of them captures a sliver of what we're doing, and nowadays they're all calling home. Data Mapping and Visualization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 17, 2006

Just as Amazon wants you to buy all the books you like at their site, we want you to donate to all the charities you like at our site. If you want to do public relations, you should get some journalism experience first. AOL and Cisco in the wake of 9/11 with the vision of generating more money to charities online.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

12 More pertinently, Amazon likely uses the service internally to train its own controversial software, Rekognition, described by the company – in terms as vague as they are sinister – as a tool for monitoring ‘people of interest’. At first glance, it’s not entirely obvious what Amazon gets out of the platform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

GPI (formerly the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World) uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women, who produce high-quality local news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (May 18, 2010) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 4.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They offer a wide range of education resources, including simulation scenarios for civics classes, design thinking studio classes, complete game-based curricula, and research journals. Tree House’s page includes integrated donation tools, sponsorship options, information on tribute and planned gifts, Amazon wish list donations, and more.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So I was a journalism major in college. I loved all things journalism, magazine, newspaper. So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. So take a look at these Amazon skills. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. And I loved writing. So pretty neat.

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Candid

OCTOBER 20, 2021

At Candid we saw an opportunity and felt a responsibility to provide an approachable, holistic picture, democratizing data that can be useful for organizational benchmarking or context-setting for research and journalism. . Candid thanks Amazon Web Services and Vanguard Charitable for their generous sponsorship of the U.S.

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