Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

I've organized them into sections: creative ladies, yummy food, nonprofits/do-gooding, blogging/social media, and events, so that you can peruse the ones that fit your interests. A collection of blog posts and articles that caught my eye this week.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

A number of companies have successfully deployed the SaaS model to hundreds of thousands of users, most notably SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright's four horsemen of SaaS , and in the nonprofit world eTapestry blazed the trail. However, these benefits often come with limitations on flexibility and data access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn what types of questions are raised about social media in the context of strategic planning with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Marnie Webb asks a great question: Wonder what flickr has to do with nonprofits? Or maybe the question should be what can nonprofits do with flickr as answered in the comments. Nonprofits could use flickr to document and share a process with colleagues or staff in a remote office, similar to how these educators are using flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

It is quite possible that Beth is some manner of prototypical superhuman android sent from the future to bring nonprofit tech. If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing. no more than 3.5 no more than 3.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. You may have heard the words, but what do they really mean for nonprofit organizations? And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Poetry Thursday is an online project that builds community by encouraging bloggers to read and enjoy poetry, as well as sharing it with others. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times. Essay on corporate authenticity in More Space: Nine Antidotes to Complacency in Business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

Photo from CC site - It didn't have a CC license, but I am assuming I can use it? But they don't give tenure to nonprofits. Of course, I also have photos of other kids and bloggers in Cambodia wearing them - as well as friends. from Creative Commons in my bills. Creative Commons? I beg my staff to leave me to my books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I'm continuing with this informal research of the nonprofit blogosphere by pretending to be Terry Gross and conducting "Bloggerviews." " In previous weeks, I interviewed nonprofits who have jumped into the blogosphere trenches feet first. Why do you think a nonprofit organization should consider having a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Also, the game is licensed under creative commons - which means folks are welcomed to use as long as share and share like (with attribution). An explosion of EDF bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." Many nonprofit want to "protect" their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2007

While I was at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in March, I got to hear Tim Fullerton from Oxfam talk about how they used YouTube and other social web tools as part of their campaign. They emailed their activist list and asked them to email Starbucks about signing the licensing agreement. They did a protest.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

Images, visuals, videos, and infographics are being staples of nonprofit’s content strategy, especially for social channels. Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. That’s not the definition of fair use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

” Occasionally, like today, I find myself stuck or lack inspiration for what to blog about or there is a hole in my editorial calendar. I have been using the “Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly” Maturity of Practice model as a framework for over a year now to assess nonprofit social media practice. Source: Copyblogger.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I attended the keynote address on blogging by Atlantic journalist Andrew Sullivan at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta on April 9. My first thought was how is the experience of one of the most popular, persistent bloggers relevant to most people starting out or blogging for non-profit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" " What about out-bound and in-bound links? What rankings and influence?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

" The link will take you directly to the screencast , but I also went to the trouble of putting together some extensive program notes that will help you explore widgets in more depth and provides credits to all the wonderful cc licensed material I used in the screencast. You can do a general reader survey like, the nonprofit tech blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

When speaks to different groups, including nonprofits he gets push back. Used creative commons licensed e-book. Islanders treats bloggers like mainstream media. Everyone can achieve similar success. We don't all have Harry Potter to work with. We can all reach our audiences directly if you think like a publisher.

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