Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 18, 2021

Let’s say your organization builds and funds water infrastructure projects in poor communities, then works within the community to operate and maintain those resources into the future. You know your hot topics better than anyone! The post How to Nail the Perfect Elevator Pitch appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) Personally, I don’t feel impassioned by the discussion because 1. public media is all about donations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! But can we talk candidly about our options to support that growth financially?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I went to cover one session, “ Building An Information Infrastructure: Unlocking Data for Philanthropy.” What follows are my notes, but if you want to spend more time learning about this topic, I’ve pulled together these additional curated resources: 1) Curated Tweets. No infrastructure to do this!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I had the opportunity to facilitate 3 world café sessions on this topic this morning at the GEO: Growing Social Impact in a Networked World funder conference. I am struck by how much this work is still evolving and am glad there is a community of learning to dig into these topics further.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2013

Nonprofits that spend more than a tiny fraction of their budget on administrative staff, fundraising, or technology infrastructure are inefficient, wasteful, or just plain greedy. In a recent GuideStar blog post she says that she "starved FORGE to death," in her zeal to limit overhead. Wha t Is the "Overhead Myth"?

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you've been keeping up with this blog series about applications of our annual Nonprofit Tech Staffing & Investments research, you've noticed that we refer to "Tech Adoption" when gauging the impact of staffing levels or investments on an organization. You can download the complete report for free here.]

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

made me think again about the open-ended topic Ashoka posed in it’s “Blog your way to Hyderabad&# competition announcement: the interconnection between technology, invention and social change. This blog post is an entry in their competition to find the official blogger to travel to and cover the event.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

Want to set up a quick blog for your. DIY blogging. The event will include tips on creating a blog and getting it online on day one. Watch our archive of NPLive interactive online events , covering topics like giving online presentations, fundraising, and storytelling. Read about innovative DIY infrastructure.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Throughout the year, I’ve been blogging about key trends from our 2011 survey, which was completed by nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide. Capital is for one-time, extraordinary projects like building a new facility or investing in the planning and infrastructure necessary to make a new business model work.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

This is the topic that covers whether or not it's risky for you to put your data on someone else's website that you don't have any direct control over. You might also check out TechSoup blogger, Robert Weiner's cautionary tale about securing passwords in his blog post on Twitter Hacking and Cloud Security.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address? Working with virtual teams is an important topic for nonprofits to address because more and more, they are working with staff members or contractors who do not share an office with them. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)?

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address? Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Blog: [link] (revamping site, coming soon). Tags: 10NTC Bruce Wolfe Infrastructure NPTech IT Staff. Like RSS feeds, when an agency updates its data, so does the website, auto-magically.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2010

Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address? Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Tags: 10NTC CRM E-mail george durham Infrastructure microsoft NPTech. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? And space travel. ghdurham (personal twitter account).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Personal Blog: [link]. Idealware Blog: [link]. Earthjustice Blog: [link]. Tags: 10NTC Budget Infrastructure NPTech peter campbell Planning IT Staff. That's a really big deal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders. This post summarizes gems from both reports.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

It watches for emerging trends on the site and when something is becoming a hot topic of conversation - Evri uses that as a trigger to prompt a query to other sources for information on the topic. Evri then uses that updated information to build the topic pages it serves up in partnership with its publishing company customers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

We’ve been discussing this very important topic in a 3 part series of guest blogs posts from the folks at the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). infrastructure and administrative) expenses, but also the ‘full costs’ associated with implementing programmatic activities (i.e., funding balance sheet and other long-term needs).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

While an AUP should be tailored to your unique circumstances, these are some of the important topics you may want to address: What users are (and are not) allowed to do while they are connected. TechSoup’s broadband wiki also has some great resources about developing tools, policies and resources for your IT infrastructure.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

New laws and policies will help, but any movement toward greater cultural and racial understanding and communication must be supported by our country’s cultural and educational infrastructure. Could your director or other senior staff join local initiatives on this topic? Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Webinars are awesome, and so are blog posts — but there's a special magic that happens when we get face to face. That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you've probably encountered one of my twice-monthly roundups of nonprofit tech meetups. Describing NetSquared events is difficult, because each one focuses on a different topic and has a unique flavor set by the organizing team. Thursday, April 9, 2015. Monday, April 13, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change. link] [link]. Role of Foundations in the movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Her blog, Nonprofit Management and Operations Blog , is an amazing resource for anyone who is responsible for managing a nonprofit. Many nonprofits (the smaller ones) are so focused on achieving their missions that they don't think about maintaining the infrastructure of the organization. Why did you start to blog?

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. As with physical simulation, we expect to see challenges around integrating the AR/VR experience into your learning infrastructure.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Ramping in public is hard enough - meeting & leading the team, taking inventory of a community of supporters, revitalizing relationships that may have wilted – without finding yourself facing unexpected infrastructure failures. Website, blog updates and other social media. Need topic ideas? Supporter record keeping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. On the topics of metrics, we don't have a name for virtual worlds yet.

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Forj

MAY 13, 2021

For an in-depth look at this topic, check out this past blog post we wrote about virtual conferences for associations — however, the sections below should provide a good overview. How To Host a Virtual Conference: A Quick Overview. This can remove much of the administrative lift from your team’s schedules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

The emergence and application of tools such as blogs, wikis, tagging, social search, web based content and learning management systems, pod and vodcasting intersect with various forms of collaboration such as distributed communities of practice, networks, and online communities.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

This was originally posted on the TechSoup Global Blog and was authored by Keisha Taylor. I’ve summarized the report and its main points for you as an easy introduction to this important topic. A Review of the “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” Report.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here. While this is partly a matter of need given our relative youth as an organization and present lack of paid positions, we intend to maintain a strong culture of supporting volunteers (not just volunteers supporting us) no matter how much infrastructure we build.

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sgEngage

MAY 8, 2023

As with most government-related topics, you will encounter many abbreviations while applying for and managing a government grant. You are more likely to find grants that cover operating and infrastructure needs as well as to grow specific programs. You can also call the office of your elected official for more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Ongoing Topics: Tags like #jobs , #education , #sales are informal (but useful) ways of asking questions, discussing, and commenting on certain topics. Trending Topics: At anytime on [link] , several of the most active topics on Twitter are also #hashtags. For example, SalesForce.com practitioners often #askforce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

In the future, challenge topics will be crowd-sourced from the public. Our intent is that building this high-tech “civic infrastructure” will improve the functioning of our entire sector. One thing we will definitely do differently is source challenge topics from the public. We need to have more partners around the state.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With membership dues representing an area of utmost importance for most organizations, we’re going to cover all the important topics, like annual versus monthly dues, how much you should be charging, how best to collect your dues, and FAQS. That’s why we’re here! What Are Membership Dues?

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