Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those.

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MAY 3, 2012

Instant connection to unlimited knowledge and ideas! While I’m often glued to my iPhone or Mac (ask my husband and daughter), more than the devices themselves, I love the PROMISE that technology offers. Access to new and diverse individuals. The opportunity to create and be creative with little cost.

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JUNE 12, 2008

Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. Share your knowledge with someone else. "Tools come and go, but a strategy based on experimentation sustains."--Beth

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

(I've been wanting to do audio and video for a long time, but it wasn't until my blogher experience that I actually got moving and picked up the knowledge to try my first one. Lisa Williams showed her vlog from Blogher at the Berkman Thursday night blogging group and during the walk to dinner, I got to ask her how she did it.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

She has put her knowledge to work for sustainable development on the ground in Madagascar when interning for the local municipality and focusing on improving the living conditions of the country's poorest neighborhoods. You can support the effort here ) Cross posted at BlogHer.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Check out the Forum’s Giving Circles Knowledge Center to learn more about this innovative form of giving and learn best practices for starting and tapping into giving circles. A recent survey of over 160 giving circles by the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers shows that 81 percent of giving circle participants are women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

for knowledge capture before, during, and after conferences and meetings and included some points about wikis. Amy Gahran's wiki for blogher posts - to organize them from the huge tag stream that came out of the conference. I recommend that you watch her intro video for a good overview of the what and whys of wikis. Classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

It made me think about another digital divide - for those who don't have the Internet connection or haven't yet engaged on Twitter - the knowledge divide. In reflection, I've been thinking about how much richer it is being social - how you don't have to know all the answers when you have a good network (and a decent Internet connection.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

submitted by Rachel Weidinger, Common Knowledge. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. Social Networking Lessons from Nonprofits Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge We believe that social networking is the most important trend on the Internet for nonprofits. Are you eating well? With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I probably should stop, but if you want to focus on what women are blogging about in the nonprofit space, check out the blogher ngo/npo blogroll. The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into. (I The N-TEN blog is an excellent source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Like many of us out there, you work as an independent consultant - so you are paid for your expertise and knowledge. Cross posted at Blogher I had a chance to reconnect again with Michelle when she signed up to volunteer for the NTC Day of Service. Here's my interview: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Power has always carried with it the ‘ burden of omniscience ’ – that is, those at the top of the hierarchy have to possess a complete knowledge of everything of importance happening everywhere under their control. Where they lose grasp of that knowledge, that’s the space where coups, palace revolutions and popular revolts take place.

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MARCH 24, 2008

I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. Well, less than 24 hours after the camera of was in the hands of the activists from Common Knowledge, I received this comment on the Flickr photo of my camera from Karen Apricot. So, I thought, why not offer it up as a prize for video blogging workshop participants?

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JANUARY 31, 2006

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. Personal Politics & News Race & Ethnicity Religion & Spirituality Research & Academia Sex & Relationships Technology & Web Travel & Recreation World In addition, they have blogrolls of women bloghers in each category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Lasica at the 2006 Blogher Conference where I found out about his one his projects on ourmedia - the Personal Media Learning Center. - a "Democratic knowledge clearing house." " I subsequently joined the group of volunteers working on the project and am working on some how-tos myself, including a primer on screencasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Now that FIRM has built stuff, learned stuff, we have to share that knowledge in a comprehensive and useful way. Cross-posted at BlogHer They show an organization the cool campaign or website, but don't give the organization the tools or insights needed to build their own. That's the importance of the guide I'm helping pull together.

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JUNE 30, 2007

He had lived in Europe for several years, and had teahouses in Prague, so he really had the tea knowledge. When you don't know, you want to know, and you become like a sponge of knowledge. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. And it was called Numi. So we did, and started our company. And you learn on your feet.

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