Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

This was a big topic that was explored during the #npsmpeer workshop at SXSW. Brian Fitzgerald who works at Greenpeace and is an expat in Amsterdam tweeted an amazing example of employee social media guidelines. The general tone should be one of trust and empowerment. Dos and Don’ts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. The trainer trains up to ten community members to create videos. At the end of the year, the NGO has the skills and capacity to continue producing community videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. Why this resource? To create change, data must lead to action.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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). " How to Piss off an Online Community – 4 Recent Examples | Search Engine Journal – "People are resistant to change.

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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

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. Learn More .

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

Next are learning points from each story and finally examples to help you apply the concepts in your own business. Lack of empowerment at lower levels. You'll learn practical methodologies and easy-to-use tools. Your organization is misaligned when you experience these symptoms : Decision making takes too long. Too many meetings.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2009

I usually paraphrase blog posts I like but this one speaks for itself. Empowerment of niches communities and small businesses – It used to be that only in a city someone could find others with a shared interest in an area outside of popular culture. There are 7 things identified by Mediagiest that are benefits of social media.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

I got some interesting answers: Ken, at the Nonprofit Consulting Blog, talks about transparency , and how it’s a big mistake not to be transparent. ’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. Individual bloggers sign up and commit to devote at least one blog post on January 22 to the topic of choice. I like efforts like these to organize individual bloggers around a particular theme - Blog Action Day is another example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society. My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Nonprofits in Second Life Blog coverage. Virtual to Reality Blog. Linden: You mentioned pornography.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. For example, if they speak English really well, they were asked to put 3 dots on their name tags, two dots for okay, and one dot for just a few words or not at all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. To add images to your blog, create custom tabs on Facebook, and/or design an e-newsletter template, you need to know basic HTML code. Learn Basic HTML.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. For example, GreatNonprofits , encourages people to post reviews, photos, and videos about nonprofits. And there are some very good efforts to collect and value feedback on non-profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

This is more of a transcript than a recap, more of what I hope can be a refresher or stimulator for follow up blogs than simply the whole story itself. Question #2: what are some of the best examples you’ve seen? elliotharmon Here’s a good example from just today of the wrong way to use social media [link]. Both important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. Here’s an example. The good folks at Event360 kept us warm and powered with coffee !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See Twitter users are encouraged to craft their own Tweet or use one of the examples below. “I I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. for clean drinking water in developing countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. For example, on Day 2 we covered strategy and social media integration. organizational change, and technology.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

For example, they recently set up an Amazon wish list for their Food Pantry and posted to their FB page. Within minutes, a fan commented that they had just placed an order for them. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

For example, the City of San Jose is trying to save money by turning off the street lights in the city. Carson talked about the impact of government cuts in California – and that it is going beyond effecting those in lower income neighborhoods and reaching a broader swath of individuals.

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sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

Here are a few examples: Ohio awarded more than 82,000 private school vouchers for the 2023–2024 school year—triple the number of previous years. Arizona reports that its Empowerment Scholarship Account has aided more than 77,000 students at $4,000–9,000 each with even higher amounts going to students with disabilities.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

This was first posted on the GuideStar International blog. themes of the conference, many examples of successful social. by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. good to highlight a few examples of its uses and briefly examine its. There are many examples of the benefits of the mobile in emerging and. It is an extraordinary example of one of these tools. Can you remember when a huge mobile. a device only seen on TV!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. Here’s an example from nonprofit tech day at Microsoft in Seattle last year. first met Juanita Brown who created the method through my blog in 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Often, they’re messy, but vibrant and all about real time learning. While the traditional case study is tidy, packaged, and finished – the living case study is open to input, questions, reflections and most of all empowerment of peers. Erika Croxton from Grist and Daniela Aceves from Roots of Change agreed to each share a living (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

When we asked older workers who report to Millennial managers what advice do they have for young managers this is what they had to say: Listen Be respectful Be patient Be a learner Treat employees as equals Lead by example Don’t take on too much Be confident Chip Espinoza Question : What are Millennials' strengths as managers and leaders?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For example, AI can accelerate low-code development by helping you build a workflow or an app just by using natural language, or it can generate content from data using large language models like GPT-4. The post Join the AI Revolution: Build Your First Low-Code Fundraising App first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track. I liked the feeling of empowerment and how it can shift you out of your usual way of thinking. The peer coaching exercise allowed participants to work in small groups of three people and take turns being the talker, listener, and witness. Here’s what we did: 1.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site.

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