Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2012

When you have a large team from all different areas of a company, it can be challenging. The Blogger Alias. We have a blogger alias set up in Outlook that allows me to easily communicate with team members. Good question! In fact, sometimes the marketing team not so secretly refers to blog team management as “herding cats.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Aaron Bramley Lights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

There are numerous challenges to be overcome when a nonprofit seeks to use digital channels to engage with its stakeholders, including the following: Prevalence of fraud. Digital Storytelling Framework. Limited budget. Worldwide competition. Lack of visibility online. Physical distance from audience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

He challenged us to name a new (formed in the last 10 or 20 years) nonprofit Google, or Microsoft or YouTube. And, I've had twenty attendees come up and thank me for challenging this point, because they felt the question was crucial. Carl then took the social sector to task for its lack of scale. We weren't disappointed!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Can we be as brave and direct as these young women?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Road Ahead As the nonprofit sector navigates evolving challenges, it’s crucial for us, as leaders, to embrace empathetic leadership as a guiding principle. Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

DonorsChoose has launched a new program called BloggersChoose which allows bloggers to search through mini-grant proposals that school teachers have submitted to DonorsChoose, and ask their readers to fund them. blogger fundraising education bloggerschoose philanthropy Photo of Children's Garden from spacecadet's Flickr stream.

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers, and direct response agitators all in one place. 6 Specific Challenges Online Fundraisers Should Consider When Using Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Roger Carr from the Everyday Giving Blog presented the Bloggers Who Create Community Award to Beth's Blog! I feel like I should be giving you this award for all you work to support the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and sharing the very valuable information on your blog! Thank you Roger! But, it doesn't stop there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2009

I didn't, until I read about the San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. You can take the Challenge for one day, or for the whole week. food bank hunger food stamp blogger

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

(disclosure, I was a judge(=) 1st Prize ($5,000) - Social Actions Interactive Map 2nd Prize ($3,000) Zemanta's Related Social Actions for Bloggers 3rd Prize ($2,000) - SquarePeg's iPhone Application. The Change the Web Challenge such a huge success! Congratulations to the winners and all who submitted an app! Read more here.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Because it recognizes the root causes of social ills, by definition it describes a long-game issue that extends beyond solving challenges for an individual. The challenges of strength-based messaging Finding the balance in your story. Describe a person by their human qualities and contributions, not the challenges they face.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2012

Join the Civic Data Challenge and help turn the raw. The first-ever Civic Data Challenge will bring new eyes, new minds, new findings, and new skill sets to. Participants in the challenge will turn the raw data of civic health. Beth Kanter, nonprofit technology expert, author, blogger, trainer. decision-making?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Are you a bread baking blogger who wants to make the world a better place? Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Tag/invite five other bloggers to join the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2007

Meet Virak , Phnom Penh Geek, and a member of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit team. The major challenge is the Internet connection is slow. He sees this a creative challenge - how to make brief videos that tell a story and sit with text. Yesterday, I taught him how to use the video cameras and he made his first video blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! My America's Giving Challenge Dairy. Day 1: We're Entering the America's Giving Challenge. Cambodian Bloggers Want To Support Our Cause. Thanks to the Bloggers. Sina's Story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Digital fundraising professionals face a significant new challenge when it comes to fundraising on Facebook. His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). The most challenging part of training is the skills transfer and adoption. Nonetheless, I'm confident that there will be more video bloggers in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. I'm back in NYC which has been great thus far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

One of their calls to action, is to be a "Blogger for Human Rights": If you are a blogger, you can use your bully pulpit to stand with the victims and activists to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people from inhumane treatment in wartime, and campaign to bring offenders to justice. blogging human rights

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Last Thursday, I attended at the Berkman Center Bloggers Thursday night meeting and shared some learnings about personal fundraising and facilitated a discussion. See Birthday Challenge ( pt.1 | View | Upload your own. Seth Godin wrote a post called " I Gave at the Office " responding to an insightful post by Mark Rovner.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

Mark Phillips, the founder and CEO of Bluefrog shared an in-depth analysis of the report on his blog Queer Ideas : “For me, this report offers a challenge. The data clearly shows that integrated direct marketing is essential for maximizing the long-term value of online-acquired donors. But why aren’t more organization’s doing it?

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge. It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

I was a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger. TWLOHA won the #AmericaWants USA TODAY Twitter Charity Campaign and Invisible Children won the Chase Community Giving Challenge. Launch a blog. I launched this blog in September 2009. I was wrong. My search engine results have transformed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2008

On Saturday I completed the 29-Day Giving Challenge that I posted about last month. On Day 26 of the Challenge I came across the Get Service video (above) about empathy. are about halfway done with the Challenge. giving challenge The process felt like peeling an onion. It lies with each of us individually.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He would like to see the Fund support new models that disrupt the system, focus on results, and challenge other aspects of how government works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It seems like just yesterday when Harry's tooth was loose and Wanna, a Cambodian blogger, taught us about the Cambodian tooth fairy. This year, I'm sitting out the America's Giving Challenge , but this group volunteers, parents of Cambodian adopted children, and board members took the plunge into Facebook.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Many of the most respected professionals run their own blogs to shed light on best practices, challenge the status quo, and even offer humor to help folks fundraise smarter. And their content will challenge you to do the same. With years of experience and candid, off-the-cuff writing styles, these bloggers are sure to inspire.

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Care2

JUNE 14, 2013

Speakers will include top thought leaders like Beth Kanter, author and blogger helping nonprofits use networks and social media for social change, Jeremy Heimans, Co-Founder of open-source global activism platform Purpose.com, and Allyson Kapin, Blogger-In-Chief of our Frogloop blog and Founder of the online marketing firm Rad Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Here’s how we can unlock our challenges! GEO’s 2012 National [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraising experts and direct mail gurus all in one place.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Maybe even talk about Information Technology and learn about the challenges facing NGO's in your part of the world. Needless to say - if any readers of this blog are anywhere along our itinerary, we'd love to get together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place recently in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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