Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 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. Many individuals and foundations are taking “baby steps” towards creating learning cultures, but lack of time for learning is one chronic complaint. Flickr Photo by Zen.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

The closing of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's print operations a few weeks back, coupled with Hearst Corporation's announcement that may close the venerable San Francisco Chronicle as well, has brought the plight of print journalism into focus. What we need is journalism." Tags: journalism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One of my favorite things about this time of year is reflecting and planning. I've been enjoying other bloggers' reflection and planning posts like: Journal Peek: My 2010 Strategic Planner—Goal Setting for Creatives by Lisa Sonora Beam musepreneur: creative ways to commemorate your year by Jennifer Lee on wishstudio.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. Thanks again for the post you bad blogger. ; > 4 Alfred Nutile 07.11.08 So what’s the news? These are good steps forward.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Keep a gratitude journal, or make monthly gratitude collages Participate in a fundraising walk for a cause I care about, like Women for Women International's Run for Congo Women. Cooking (especially new recipes) Baking (especially cupcakes!) Join a read-a-thon, or blog-a-thon for a cause I care about (anyone know of one?).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

He is a frequent blogger and tweeter on nonprofit marketing and a nationally sought-after speaker on topics such as online cause marketing, web video, and social media for social change. Cara is also a yoga teacher, life coach and part-time instructor in the Multimedia Communications Department at the Academy of Art University.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 25, 2012

But I’m a first time blogger here, so before I invoke that well-worn (but apt!) Our publishing operation is extensive— it consists of a monthly printed magazine, a quarterly journal, various e-newsletters and about a dozen books per year. We have in-house, full-time editorial and creative staff. Here’s why.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The Wall Street Journal's influential tech blogger Walt Mossberg just posted his latest and most comprehensive review of Windows 7, two weeks before its official release on October 22. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I've been trying to organize and clean up I don't know how many gigs of information, some dating back to 1992, the year I started working online full-time. I'm having a little bit of trouble with the word "reporter" - perhaps a play on citizen journalism? It goes beyond blogger and tagger. Nonprofit Technologist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Super duper nonprofit tech blogger Amy Sample Ward has tagged me in a new meme started by Mindapples: What's Your 5-A-Day? I'm supposed to share the five things I do each day that keep my mind healthy (kinda like how five servings of fruits and veggies keep your body healthy), and then tag 5 more bloggers to share their 5-A-Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

Jon Stahl points us to a piece in the Seattle Times on the emerging local citizen journalism movement in Seattle. Notes a journalism educator in the article, "We're in a time when activist citizens and sometimes even the general public have an opportunity to be involved and create meaningful and easy-to-share journalism."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. So far, it’s simply vaporware.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

It will be a powerful grassroots greening machine; with bloggers, writers, and volunteers all contributing to local greening efforts; and held together by the added sticky-ness of good dynamic content, great search engine optimization, and of course that Web 2.0 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

” Here’s some insights generated through the discussion about that: Allocate Staff Meeting Time: Teresa Crawford reported that her organization devotes some time at staff meetings each week to see what content is catching the most interest, what messages seem to have the greatest reach.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy). She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Always ready with great fundraising advice, guest blogger Gail Perry has terrific guidance for us in her guest post this week below. BE SURE you decide on what they are ahead of time! If you show up as an interesting person, then your donor will want to spend time with you. Thanks Gail for these terrific tips.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. The discussion was animated and even heated at times. This post originally appeared on the AshokaTECH Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2009

The Tech Hermit blogger, Mike Ames, was so irked by the inaccuracies and negative tone of the article, that he emailed the authors. At the same time, nonprofits probably give more weight to something in the Washington Post or New York Times (not to mention CNN, the Philanthropy Journal, and so on) than anything else.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2012

Long-form journalism is finding new legs through social recommendation (#longform, #longreads) and time-shifting apps. Many readers are using time-shifting apps to collect web content and read it later. Author: Seth Merritt. E-books and e-readers are a growing part of the attention ecosystem. What content makes sense?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2008

It's time to expand my Changeblogger reading/listening/viewing list. blog social change activism net2 podcast vlog citizen journalism I'll re-post the list of blogs/podcasts/vlogs you suggest on May 21st. Do you know of one? Would you like attend one? Lemme know.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Stanfield, ArtBizCoach.com on the Arts and Healing Podcast LINK LOVE The October 1st episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show will feature New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, and his wife his wife Sheryl WuDunn talking about their book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Change.org is hiring bloggers.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Cutting Edge Integrated Social Media Strategies When: Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time. We have a limited amount of teleconference lines, so please take a moment to sign up now. About the Presenters: Alan Rosenblatt is the Associate Director for Online Advocacy at CAPAF.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. This will be my last tech blog entry until at least August 6th. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Cite me by name, journal title, and the URL of the post (Maya Norton, The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy, www???). That is if you didn't discovered the link but you discovered through another blogger, give them acknowledgment. Basically, use quotes to distinguish your words from the author words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Her efforts were chronicled in a recent Wall Street Journal article. On October 1, 2007, Sarah Bunting announced that it was time to do it again. The DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge is an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of public schools in need. s not too late to create a challenge or to donate to another blogger???s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long. Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

More content) Birdie's stories have appeared in many online and print journals, including Good Housekeeping, The San Diego Reader, Adoption Today, Mipoesias , and the American Press Institute's Media Center blog. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2005

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an article in the career section, entitled "Blogging Becomes A Corporate Job: Digital Handshake?" The job skills are: "someone who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients, and potential recruits. " by Sarah Needleman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? Nonprofit Times covers it here. From the IT Manager's Journal, " Like it or not, Web2.0 is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Blackbaud, Inc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) I hope you'll take some time to follow the project! I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

8:00 - 9:00 - Coffee / Tea + “Real-Time Social Networking&#. 11:20 - 11:40 - (M) Jeff Jarvis, Associate Professor and Director of the Interactive Journalism program at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. 8:00 - 9:00 - Coffee / Tea + “Real-Time Social Networking&#.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blogger. Today we''re giving a big thank-you to the dedicated members of NTEN''s committees. A big thanks to all of our committee members: Editorial Committee.

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