Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2013

This is my Welcome post that originally appeared on the new Benetech Blog. We’ve made things more engaging, adding more images and video along with the ability to share and comment on content. We’ve started a Benetech blog that will feature voices from across our organization (one that is separate from my personal Beneblog ).

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Free Social Media Scheduling Tools for Nonprofits. Unless you have a dedicated social media manager at your nonprofit, you know that routinely sharing your stories on social media can take up a lot of your time. You have programs to deliver, big goals to achieve, and more pressing priorities!

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

The best time to create a crisis communication plan isn’t when you’re in a crisis—it’s before. Some issues might just require close monitoring while others may require a press release that’s approved by your CEO. Now that you know what a crisis communication plan is, it’s time to put yours together!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 26, 2021

Years ago when I started my leadership and management blog, I posted the question “ What’s The First Leadership Book You Would Give To a New Manager ?” That question generated 603 comments and 690 book recommendations. Some during the course of the 18 months of the active discussion made the same book recommendations a couple times.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Do you have the time to devote to it? Posting a video around three times per day on TikTok is considered best practice. If you’re unsure if you have the time to manage a TikTok account for your nonprofit, create a draft content calendar. Press the “Go LIVE” button. How your nonprofit can use TikTok for marketing.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

After months of wandering you’ve made it to the (nonprofit blogging) promised land! You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

Your organization is starting a blog and you have all your ducks in a row. You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. Explain why you're blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The message was clear: Dig into the potential of AI to solve some of the world’s pressing problems. I happy to see that the Responsible AI panel was all women and included my long-time colleague, Nancy Lublin from CrisisTxt Line one of the AI Impact Challenge recipients. Nancy comments are always right on.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Her Blog has been recognized as one of the "Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs" and also as a "Top 100 Socially-Shared Leadership Blog." Be sure to visit both her website and her blog. At the time, it felt genuinely impossible. Other times, more action is needed. Do you agree with this approach?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 22, 2010

Have you started a blog for your nonprofit organization and then got stuck trying to come up with content? If you don’t consider yourself a writer, it can be daunting to pull something together a couple of times a week. Ask questions in blog posts and invite readers to comment. A story ALWAYS works!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Blog: BigCatRescue.org?/Blog. We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2023

The “backstage” is everything that happens behind the scenes at the same time as the customer is experiencing the “front stage” journey. We conducted interviews with internal stakeholders—anyone who had a hand in content development, from ideation to pressing publish in their website CMS. Get in touch!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

You finally finish the post believing it’s your best ever only to find no-one comments. The unfortunate fact of blogging is writing good blog posts is more than just the words. Spend time observing probloggers and you’ll see they use various strategies to make each post count. One incredibly long paragraph. PERSONAL RANT!

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

This follows on three recent press events with newspapers, radio and bloggers on similar topics, so it will be interesting to compare the Twitter results and my experience from these different media channels. Top of my mind are these issues: I am preparing three main talking points to anchor my comments, as I do with all press events.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. The last time I coded in a CMS was when I was working on the (now dead) perl CMS I wrote many moons ago. It will be interesting to learn the innards of a CMS.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Please let us know in the comments! 15NTC Community NTC press' Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Did we miss anything?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But working with the media is tricky, especially if you don't have a dedicated marketing or press relations person on staff. After years of being on both the press side and the PR side of the media game, here are some of my favorite tips for elevating a fundraising campaign. Many neighborhood blogs have event calendars as well.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

This could include blog and website content, social media updates, press releases, email marketing, and so on. They are often stand alone campaigns that you do one time for a very specific purpose. Applying Remarkables to Your Nonprofit If ever there was a time for engaging and inspiring communication, it's right now.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

The press, donors, and supporters are looking for great stories too. Giving - They give their resources, whether it be time, money, or reputation. Extend your reach by targeting press. Getting press can help you reach new audiences of supporters. They also have a hard time approaching press.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Invite your guests into the program through interactive features they can use to participate in real-time, back and forth interactions with your team and the other attendees. Have a host lead the conversation and consider bringing in a specialist on a subject to ensure the time stays focused on the mission.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

NTEN staff has finally recovered and we are positively overwhelmed with all the blog posts, videos, pictures, and other instances of the 14NTC celebration from the nonprofit technology community. Please let us know in the comments. 14ntc Community NTC press' Did we miss anything?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn’t with social media and I’m lucky that they have offered to continue sharing their knowledge on my blog! Dawn’s blog was incredibly personal and compelling and she received hundreds of positive comments. Her story was right on the mark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning I got a pitch a from someone who wanted me to blog about one of their programs. Even worse, hadn't made the attempt to comment on my blog or refer to any posts. It was a number of thoughtful comments on some blog posts. or perhaps evening reading the blog. It wasn't really a pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. Here's a summary and chronology of blog posts and Facebook and Twitter chatter. The post got retweeted over 160 times.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

“We have so much going on right now – how can we even find time to fundraise?” . Make no mistake, current times are challenging. Tip: Right now really might not be the right time for some organizations to fundraise. Now is also a great time for a “thank-a-thon” in lieu of fundraising. . That is 100% okay! Why It Works: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. What is Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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See3

MAY 21, 2007

For those of you who are blogging, one key is longevity. I recently passed my one-year blogging anniversary. As I look at many interesting blogs I realize that it’s never too late to start. Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment Mary-Louise I work for Guy Kawasaki. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

These tasks are often important, yet they get kicked down the road because you don’t know how to do them and either don’t have time or don’t want to learn how to do them. See how it goes then add more time for them as you’re comfortable. Keep in mind that you are not committing to a full-time hire. Start small.

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NetWits

JULY 31, 2008

is about using blogs, discussion boards, and all the latest social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. Last month, Comcast received a lot of press when they began monitoring and responding to anyone who tweeted about Comcast on Twitter.com. You have probably heard lots about Web 2.0, Customer Service 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c) And I would like to respond to the third.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Click To Play Earlier today I posted about discovering some new photo blogs, podcasts, and videos from Cambodian Bloggers. Vuthasurf left me a comment that he created a video clip, uploaded to blip.tv, but was having trouble getting the video to display in his word press blog. Where is it? Who are those kids?

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