Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

I just attended a great event at the EPA offices in San Francisco called the Zero Waste Brain Trust , which was organized by Portia Sinnott of the nonprofit Zero Waste Sonoma County. TechSoup's home city of San Francisco has a target of 90% diversion by the year 2020 and is already at 77% diversion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

December 8 (San Francisco): The Power of Women Leading from the Heart with Nina Simons * What posts, articles and events inspired you this week? I can't remember!) Events December 6 (Berkeley): Seeds of Resilience: Women Farmers Striving in the Face of Climate Change hosted by Women's Earth Alliance. Photo by me. Share Tweet.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest). We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. My point is that movement gets blood flood to brain and people wake up if they’re in an information overload coma).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me. Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . San Francisco Ballet. Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. Bernard Mauricia. Oncology and Kids. Helped co-found Oncology and Kids, Inc. Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

He is based in Australia, a far way from San Francisco. Thus, I was left with two options: one, to let the award go; or two, put my creative brain to use and launch a campaign to raise the funds. Below is the blog post from him, calling for help. Every little bit helps…well, you can read that in his words, not mine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

To successfully compete for those brain cycles, we've found four characteristics of successful mapping projects, whether the products are fixed images or interactive applications: 1. GreenInfo Network helps 80-100 public interest groups a year work with computer based maps using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.”

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

As I wrote this post on the flight back from my third NTEN Conference I know I felt similar to many of the other 1,600 “NPTechies” (Nonprofit Techies) who are leaving San Francisco. Some people work one-on-one with organizations consulting on anything from technology budgeting to online social media strategy.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Same goes for the San Francisco Zoo , which often tweets out visitors' cute photos taken at the zoo. So please, get together with the most creative (and concise) brains in your institution and find the idea that will work for you. Weird and surprising behind-the-scenes victories and challenges. Topical, provocative questions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

For me, it was interesting because living in San Francisco, the Tenderloin fascinates me. I think it fascinates a lot of people in San Francisco because it's almost like this zip code in the middle of the city right next to Nob Hill, which is a very affluent area. The Tenderloin has a lot of issues, to say the least.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Disabilities like dyslexia, vision loss, or a brain injury or physical disability that gets in the way of using a printed book. Just in the San Francisco Bay Area, we convinced eleven organizations that collectively spend seven figures developing their own databases of this information.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Last Friday, #SFBatkid took over San Francisco, twitter, Instragram and our hearts. San Francisco from The Riddler and The Penguin. The San Francisco Giants and 49ers tweeted to thank Batkid for saving the city. The goal is to ingrain your hashtag into attendee’s brains.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

It’s been a few days since I returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. The conference was amazing!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. So I just want to say, by the way, that artists have left a huge legacy around San Francisco during this pandemic. And is just all over the place. It’s really because no one asks them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

I got a chance to attend one of the cutting edge conferences we have out here in San Francisco to get a sense of how nonprofit technology fits in to the leading edge of innovation. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. The Big Picture.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

When Batkid saved San Francisco, the whole country watched. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Thirty to fifty percent of giving happens this month and next, so why not capitalize on the giving season to do more asking? Marc Pitman suggests 3 Things to Make Your Ask Easier. And we talked. Tell stories.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development. Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America.

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