Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” My collections: 2 examples. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. Book reading list is a popular BuJo collection.

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Non Profit Quarterly

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Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. For nonprofits, this moment presents an opportunity for a social media strategy “do-over.” For example, shortly after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the company’s entire accessibility staff was laid off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

If you're interested in nonprofits and blogging and podcasting , drop everything and go read Brian C. Russell's (AudioActivism) and Ruby Sinreich's (LotusMedia) presentation slides at the recent RPTnet conference. Thank you Ruby and Brian (and congratulations on your upcoming open source wedding ! Definition. Thanks Jim!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. Dar Veverka (DV): Grassroots Mobile Survey is a great example of this. DV: I saw Trish give a presentation, and I could really see the need for an app like this. What was it about the project that drew you in?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. Although I do have a couple of uneasy feelings about blog spontaneity. ll blog it. If I have a ???

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

However, she laments that issues of inclusivity, representation and participation across society remain largely ignored in spite of the rapid growth of the Open Data movement even though they should be placed at the front and centre. Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. You can watch her full, in-depth presentation. For example, a file path on your computer could be something like this: file:///Users/sarahlesh/mywebsite.html. Closing tag: An example of this would be: Hello!

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Here are some examples of categories and how they might be implemented within a website: Show – Recent Tweets, Likes, Comments. Open Source – API. The site presents, one reason at a time, why one should give to the Red Cross. Authenticate. Share – Like & Tweet Button, E-Card, Fwd to Friend.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Direct Content. Indirect Content. Why Social Media?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Let’s take Salesforce, for example. Client success story: We’ve seen plenty of examples of organizations that have switched from free fundraising solutions to Bloomerang and experienced a boost to their fundraising and donor management strategies. Many of our nonprofit customers have switched from Salesforce to Bloomerang.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

An in-depth guide related to the target issues they care about, tools or templates, case studies, and ebooks are all great examples of this. This kind of content gets shared and spreads the word, and it keeps people opening your emails, and even looking forward to them. Join the open source culture.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Most examples we have of successful IT practices would likely fail in a nonprofit context, though. Trying to follow the example set by a commercial company, just in a nonprofit way, probably won't work, but there are lessons to be learned. Proper use of open source software can make systems easier to expand and integrate with others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

First, there’s the blogging issue. I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

I've been following Christian Kreutz 's blog, CrissCrossed Blog , which explores social changes through communication and focuses on the impact, potential and challenges of using Web2.0 So, I'm posting this here on my blog to alert my Cambodian blogger colleagues (whose email I don't have) that Christian is coming to your country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. Ever since the SXSW blog discussion " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social media for social good " I've wanted to play the game with a critical mass of smart people who have a program and social change lens. . The Audience As Part of the Presentation.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In fact, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Giving Tuesday reported that participants gave $2.47 For example, instead of something like “WestwoodHumaneSocietyGivingTuesdayCampaign2021,” try “WHS21.”. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. Keep it simple. Host an auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Each topic introduced a framework and story, and was followed by discussion and activities to identify examples in the Arab world and or determine whether the principle was relevant. Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2010

(The fact that I had the opportunity to write that sentence is itself an example of the power of Drupal!). Or you may be looking for a CMS platform for your next web site, and giving Drupal a hard look -- and not just because it's free and open source, but that helps, right? The Presenters : Grand Junction Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Presenters: Peter Deitz , David Greenberg , Ramya Raghavan , and Marnie Webb. Connecting nonprofits to youtube users like blog brothers who have thousands of viewers. link] shows a good example about a pop up call to action and links to url for donation #cfbc09 from charitywater that was successful. Moderator: John Scott.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

They ask, “How can we present to our Board of Directors, our funders, and our volunteers how much value volunteering brings to our ability to carry out our mission?”. The authors present statements from Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area to illustrate. An example of this follows. The Socioeconomic Resource Statement.

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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. Department of Education Office for Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. In the morning, each of the ten case study presenters gave a 5 minute “teaser ” about their case study or what one presenter called “showing a little leg.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Primary Navigation Bar: Footer: 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users. and Katya A. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Currently, he's blogging about his Web Office experiment which is well worth following. Let's talk about your blog - What value do you get from it? The blog is a pretty new thing to me and I get a tremendous amount of value out of the blog through connections I've made with other bloggers talking about the same things that interest me.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. A couple of examples: Recently, Rep.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. Even if Allan’s vision does become reality some time in the future, why rush to present your figures now. That dog won’t hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The social media game can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's one of her training presentations. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. for NGOs there.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Any suggestions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The question is "When is video a good.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. " - from Gordon Dymowski, summarizing Kerry Obrist's Chicago Net Tuesday Presentation - here. For example, many visually disabled prefer to use keyboard shortcuts - or even a game controller - over the traditional mouse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The Basics I experienced day two of the SoCap09 conference where one of the first presenters joked about “glimpses of demystification”. An easy example is green technology. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. link] [link].

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