Tech Soup

JUNE 6, 2011

We've covered serious gaming before on this blog and at events hosted by TechSoup. As more nonprofits are looking towards technology to create effective social change, I wanted to take this time to present some exciting events taking place at this year's festival from June 20 - 22 in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Note from Beth: Last June at the New York City book party for the Networked Nonprofit , Stephanie Strom, New York Times, moderated a discussion on the themes in the book. Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. Ironically, he had vetoed a bill that would have provided $50,000 for the pedestal as governor of New York. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As you probably know, the Pope is visiting the United States this week in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; and New York City. And these conversations will not be just be with and among Catholics or occur in a silo by issue or preach to the die hards who care about these issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

The 8th Annual Games for Change Festival takes place on June 20 – 22 in New York City. Together they will discuss how entrepreneurs, philanthropists, academics, and business leaders can leverage popular media channels, be it games or social media, to address pressing social issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

On January 30th, I’m speaking at the Social Media for Nonprofits in New York City. The practice of curation is being able to sift through daily whirlwind of tweets, blog posts, and other content streams quickly in order to pick the right pieces that create an accurate view of the subject matter.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2013

Inspiration, innovation, events - and of course, cat videos - are just some of the latest news in nonprofit tech land. There''s less than a month to register for the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival , New York City''s largest gaming event. But you don''t have to travel to New York to attend a great event!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Don’t miss this special offer for Beth’s Blog readers: Get 10% off tickets with the code beth_g4c14. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s PulseGuest Blog by Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Social Media for Nonprofits. Learn who your followers are, what issues they care about, which posts are firing up your base, and what types of content are gaining steam and going viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

We have a family membership at an upstate New York sculpture center featuring outside exhibitions. So I emailed requesting to be put on the e-news list (didn't see where to subscribe online). But there's no e-news! Tags: guest blogging social media. Courtesy of Nancy Schwartz, publisher of Getting Attention.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] Everyone also steps up to take on responsibility, and to take on the more difficult task of discussing process issues.”

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

For the full list of strategic lessons learned in our last Nonprofits Live session, visit the Amoration blog. ARIS is used for designing local, geolocative games at Global Kids connected to libraries and schools to talk about the history and issues in their. Nonprofits Live! A Selection of Strategic Game Design Lessons for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Particularly disturbing is the bad odor that this new political force will attach to nonprofit advocacy. What can the networked nonprofit do to counteract the impact of secret money in elections?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

Hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these hard times. Bloggers have helped raised awareness of this important issue. Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog ,part of its innovative giving series.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2009

If you'd like to learn more about national and global hunger issues, check out the national and international organizations listed below. For a local perspective, peruse the list of food bank blogs. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix White Center Food Bank Blog Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 17, 2014

So instead of just sharing that there’s been an increase in traffic to a promoted project page or blog post, say that we’ve seen an uptick in traffic that is directly coming from Facebook. Stay tuned for part 2 of our “Getting your board on board with social media” primer (which you will find here on the BoardAssist blog later this week)!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Just like many of the nonprofits and other loyal readers of Beth’s Blog , we at Social Media for Nonprofits are excited about the recent release of Beth Kanter’s new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change. And now for those tips and tools: 1 — Get to Know Your Audience.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 20, 2014

A great goal around blogging is to encourage board members to write at least one blog post per year. The post could be tied to initiatives you are trying to support or could be a way to generate new supporters. The title of the post could simply be along.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently returned from New York City, where I was able to spend two incredible days with 72 fellow global nonprofit leaders selected to attend the fourth annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit. What has been different are the approaches the sectors have taken to “solve” or address the issue.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

He focuses on pursuing new markets and making sure that customers are using the Mobile Commons software effectively. Michael works directly with some of Mobile Commons’ larger clients including the Obama Campaign, the California Department of Public Health and the New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene. _.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I'm sitting in the press area at the Presidential Forum on Service at Columbia University in New York City. I'll be blogging from both events. Or that New York's Governor David Paterson is creating a cabinet position to address issues of national and community service. Check out the speaker list.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Editor's note — This blog piece by Micah Sifry touches on the still inadequate state of funding for nonprofit technology. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. According to the new Foundation Funding for U.S. You can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif. Image 1: TechSoup. Image 2 and 3: Foundation Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Even better, she agreed to share a blog post about what she learned on this blog. I’m the Executive Director of Exhale and I attended the conference to increase my own knowledge and awareness about how these legal and ethical issues around social networking may affect our work online with women who have had abortions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

The first thing that I often hear when I'm talking about the work that I do around health, food, and ag issues is, "You know, healthy food is more expensive. I'm going to be contributing to two blogs Civil Eats , and The Root , a new website that The Washington Post created, that is specifically geared towards African-American news and views.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

If you don't read Beth's blog, well, you oughta. This week I discovered the blog of Ken Stein (no relation), a teacher in New York city. While the blog is not primarily about technology, he explores in this post his ideas for utilizing Writely, a web based collaborative word processor, as an educational tool.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. Her blog, CBreaux Speaks , is one of the most eloquent I've ever read.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising are now new. Common Best Practices Remain Uncommon. Sadly, that is not the case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

A Quick Look at Pride Month History Pride Month happens every June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots, which took place in New York City in June 1969. Here are some ideas to get you started: Host an educational event or workshop : Why not organize events that teach your community about LGBTQ+ history, rights, and issues?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival. Culture Project's mission is to present work that is socially relevant and that calls attention to issues of human rights and social justice around the world.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

speak, it's a web application that combines data from more than one source to create a new tool. One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address. Chick: My dog steals them and eats them.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. If your issue-focused content includes data, create a dedicated area of your site that lets users quickly get to your findings. They extend the conversation by providing their own commentary on each plant's data page with blog posts. Make it easy to find.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Two weeks before the first issue, Neuharth reported that his employees "produced complete prototypes of the paper every day -- printed them, put them on trucks, dropped them at delivery points to pinpoint timing, then picked them up and burned them at the local dump to keep them out of the hands of the competition." Author Bio Robert L.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. For example, LinkedIn is a professional network where people generally discuss issues related to the workplace and share professional updates. When did Giving Tuesday begin? Request Demo.

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Forum One

MAY 30, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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