Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2010

I’m hoping that someone (hint, hint) will write the blog post or report taking off on this work, and articulate the major nonprofit use cases for Social CRM. Tags: CRM Data Nonprofit Tech Web2.0 This is a bit high level for me – my job in life is generally to make use cases real using technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

See Larger Version here from Labnol's Flickr Account Charting and graphing your data helps you see patterns and trends more easily and articulate them to decision-makers. Tags: visual thinking. Digital Inspiration found this terrific visual field guide to selecting the right chart or graph or graph format. It's nifty too.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Patrick was able to explain our human rights work articulately and passionately as always! Tags: Department of Education OSEP Justesen Bookshare. He had spotted the Frontline PBS special on our work in Guatemala, which had led to him deciding he wanted to visit us.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Often when a person struggles to put something into words, it means the issue is very important to them and they want to articulate it in an accurate way. It is often easier for people to communicate their feelings and opinions by telling a story than trying to explain everything, which can feel too abstract and hard to put into words.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

I realized, in getting this stuff, and trying to figure out what to do with it, that I needed to be better at understanding myself what I was doing, and articulating that clearly. Tags: Nonprofit Tech nptech. Once I get this blog post done, I can clean out that “To Blog&# inbox. And, more balanced and less snarky. :-).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I love the way Laura articulates this. This is not to say that there's no place for social media; rather, I think that the phone test can actually help you articulate the purpose of any communications tactic, be it a fundraising letter, a donor event, a print ad, or a Facebook page.

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NTEN

MAY 14, 2010

Tag your own news with "ntenmember" or "nptech" to help us find your awesomeonline, or contact Annaliesewith your updates.) I heart this post from Groundwire about developing and articulating yourorganization's "engagement superpower." Tags: community buzz nten members. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

This value network, or web of formal and informal relationships that must be managed, is the third level of network a leader needs to understand and articulate. Tags: Guest Post Networks Organizational Culture leadership. Social media in its many forms – blogs, Twitter, social networking sites, wikis, etc. – Please share your ideas!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Guidelines should be articulated to participants in community guidelines. (Information shared behind this password protected area should not be shared with the mainstream media.). If community guidelines are formally articulated, they need to be enforced. Tags: scholar. User or community guidelines are important.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

So today's Articulating Tech: How to Win Friends and Influence Luddites turned out to be a pretty fitting followup session for that discussion. One of the biggest issues that surfaced at the IT Directors Affinity Group at NTC on Thursday was that many nonprofit employees are a hard sell when it comes to new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

By embedding tagged links in the ads to the Ocean Conservancy site, they were able to track the referral traffic for different ads. . Articulate learning questions on the front end, identify metrics/data to collect to answer questions. Tags: reflection scholar. Incorporate 'rinse and repeat" of experiments over time.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Here are some of the highlights: If you aren't articulating how IT relates to your mission, expect leadership to cut deep. You need to articulate how IT relates to mission, over and over again. This prompted @jasonricci (CIO at the Energy Foundation ) to reply: IT shouldn't have to "articulate" anything.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2010

At the end of the 9 weeks, you'll be able to: Articulate the value of technology in your organization for yourself, your staff, funders, and other key stakeholders. Tags: Budget Change Management Infrastructure Leadership microsoft NPTech NTEN Planning Social Media Web Sites. You can see the full schedule here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Is there an articulated need that we can help fulfill? Tags: listening. Here are a few conversation starters that you may want to have with your social media team on staff to help you prioritize your listening. What are people saying about our organization ("brand")? . Are there negative issues/complaints that we need to correct?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected. As always, tag me in your posts and shares so I can include you in my summary post at the end of the month ( @artlust , @seemarao , @_art_lust_ ). I was woefully wrong. What went awry? What did I learn: 4. Partners need to understand each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Tags: change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization. Tags: ROI. I'd love to see some more. .

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Be able to articulate what you help orgs do and accomplish, not necessarily the technical products/skills? Tags: Consulting NTEN. You may be a specialist, but come off as a specialist — focus on benefits of a few things in your elevator speech. In the mid-nineties one could be more of a generalist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I hope you’ll spend the three minutes to watch and listen to the video – both Mark and Christian articulated the issues so well. Tags: Free Agent. He has found that agencies that are willing to work with him to be more transparent. He explains more in the brief video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. The tag line for this blog is “Conscious, mimalist, neo-luddite perspectives on nonprofit technology.&# There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

I know that because we articulated that message repeatedly at the Alliance. Blog Tags: Patrick McWhortor. If we lose sight of that, I worry that we lose the entire rationale for our sector. Metrics should not stifle innovation. We hear much these days about the importance of impact measurement. And measurement is important.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Much more than the flexible symbols of a logo or tag, brand is the durable sense of value an organization adds to the world. Nonprofits now must demonstrate impact to attract resources and, moreover, they must be skilled in articulating that impact. Whereas providing services used to yield resources, it is no longer enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

This is absolutely true and the reason why we must lead with a value proposition that is transparent, and clearly articulates how impact and long-term sustainability will be achieved. Tags: movement building. "If one tweet after another is seeking donations, people might just get fed up."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

And many folks don't seem to understand, as the book Groundswell articulates so clearly, at the end of the day it's really all about relationships and NOT the technology tools.It Tags: guest blogging Religion.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2006

The problem with this picture is the techy's passivity: she assumes that the user alone is responsible for articulating his concerns. Only after they are articulated will the techy become responsible for providing a solution. Tags: nptech , agile , tech_support All I'm suggesting is the Polo's should admit they are moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

When then took those graphics and incorporated them into the program, name tags and all emails. The evening closed with an inspirational speech from a board member who articulated our story and our vision for the future perfectly. We then turned to one of our volunteers who is a designing wizard. In the end, everything tied together.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out design Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent. What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems? What's the "use" of visitors' comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

and he has promised to me sound smart and articulate!). Technorati Tags: 501c3cast , nptech , net2 , nonprofit , npo , ict He also told me it takes time to edit and he has gotten to a point where he can edit 20 minutes in an hour. (I I guess it is like the kind of editing you can do in Photoshop to make yourself look thinner.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Tim Anderson tackles an issue I've troubled over in the back of my mind but never quite articulated. Tags: nptech , web2.0 , agile

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. Many shouldn’t, but, some, arguably, certainly can.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. Tags: accessibility Kareem Dale SCCR18 PTO copyright Pallante copyfight SCCR Chafee Bookshare. Long post alert!]

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Clearly articulate the issue -- and your plan to solve it. Tags: email Newsletter NPTech NTEN online communications websites. This last email raised more than the previous two combined: over $7,000 in two days. We exceeded our goal and raised more in online donations than we had in all of 2006. Lessons learned? Create urgency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I'm going to quote the notes from David verbaitem because he has summarized the key points much better than I could ever articulate at this moment and my text notes suffered because I was attempting to incorporate video capture: All techniques (whether intentional or not) are part of our vocabulary as visual storytellers and communicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This is important because there is so much to learn and it can get overwhelming. I do a variation of ”speed dating,” each person creates a name tag with a first name and last name the name of a platform or tool they know about or have questions about.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

People with "leadership, empathy for what people like and don’t like, ability to sooth ruffled feathers, articulate." Critical people are sought after; "yes men" are not as useful as those who have clearly articulated issues with the game. Tags: game visitors. Who are these influencers? What's going on in your museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Tags: ROI. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. View more presentations from kanter. But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Can we calculate it if we haven't done anything yet?

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