.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

That comment isn’t meant to cast shade; just to point out that although the bots are fun, there are still some hurdles involved in really putting them to work. Compared to today’s models, Eliza was tongue-tied. A tech staff, with some time on their hands, could have an out-of-the-box AI interacting with your members fairly quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Give Staff Time for Hands-On Discovery Leaders should provide time for staff for hands-on exploration. It helps them cultivate essential human skills like adaptability, creativity, and problem-solving, which are invaluable in a world increasingly shaped by AI.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. “itâ??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. But as Amber points out, no one was actually using it since no one on the senior management was taking creative time. How does your organization’s leadership model and support it? Share it in the comments below.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. Maybe it's time to change that. At one point, Mark commented that they have a "deliberately unsustainable" business model. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. Tags: business models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

Allison suggests in her post that there is definitely a business model problem. Allison says that arts organizations need a new organizational model: The problem of trying to figure out a new business model for arts organizations is much more difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

State of AI in Advancement Survey : According to the Nonprofit Times article on the survey , AI Uses Among Nonprofits is still in the very early stages. Do you have access to people with expertise to build the algorithm for predictive models? These E-books, research, and articles will get you up to speed. AI4GOOD NONPROFIT READS.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you’re wondering where to get begin, consider starting by spending some time creating a full committee meeting schedule. This process entails plotting out a standard timing and cadence for each meeting that the committee will have, such as once a month for three months or bi-weekly for the entire length of your campaign.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. But bottom line is we want to hear from you because we’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. What have I learned over my time, but especially over the last year of doing this podcast? But say hi.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Money, time, energy, goodwill…we have only enough if we are lucky. We try to solve problems and often look for the most parsimonious solution. We whip out our logic model. I cheered every time people tagged me in their shares. And, I liked every comment. I’ve been thinking about her comments all month.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. Peak of Inflated Expectations. We are all for it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Brad Dunn basically summarized the overall themes of people comments. Staffing: part time, consultants, interns instead of full-time with salary based on the cost of living and with realistic responsibilities. Technology was the number one worst trend in museums in people's comments. Funder-driven tech initiatives.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. My main problem isn't necessarily about Chase. Each charity had a page for comments, and those pages were filled with "use your spare vote for." Leave a comment » " pleas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. I'm also going to copy portions into the comments section of their specific posts. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. The FCC should embrace a more Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Building on last year’s session, we were pleased that this year we had the opportunity to introduce the “crowdsourcing” experiment to collectively solve our nonprofit technology problems."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Wikis can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.&# Learning in private is what most of us did in school. It can be “transparent&# so others can peer or browse or can be open and others contribute or comment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

At the same time, its assets have grown from $120 million to about $600 million, after giving away $500 million. “To This is the first time the foundation has asked for broad and direct public input in its grants process. We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback. to fund research in an attempt to address critical social problems. Every year over 7,800 grants are made in the U.S.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. My main problem isn't necessarily about Chase. Each charity had a page for comments, and those pages were filled with "use your spare vote for." Leave a comment » " pleas.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

It’s Time to Focus on Volunteers’ Results - Philanthropy.com - Evan Hochberg has a terrific post on Philanthropy.com starting an important conversation on what to do about all this focus on volunteering and service. "Government, You can add to the conversation in the comments, too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Salesforce was originally developed for a business-to-business sales model. The NPSP is basically just an “app” that takes the underlying architecture of the product and converts it to be more compatible with the nonprofit business model. It ultimately would have saved both time and money.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

At the same time, our community relevance was limited. Over time, we are getting more attractive couches that reflect a unified design aesthetic. But we weren''t going to wait to solve people''s comfort problem until we had the money or the design. No problem. We started with couches. Be rigorous. Help it spread.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

By Peter Drury, a child's right a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective. There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. It isn’t perfect.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. His commentary was first posted on the Communications Network blog. Foundation application?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 In a six month period ending last month, 655 comments were submitted to this boa rd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Have them prepare a list of contacts throughout these discussions that they should spend time reaching out to via telephone or, at times, in person, to acquaint themselves with these key people. It only takes an oversight or a small error to blow up into a problem that could have been avoided with some basic facts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

At this point, I still have to futz with the configs every time I start up, and it still isn’t right. at 8:42 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 02.29.08 I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.” While some long time members of the community were unhappy with change, scores of new people came in. This often requires real problem-solving. Share here in the comments or on social. We need to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

The timing of the mid-December notice, when many nonprofits are knee-deep in end-of-year giving campaigns and then holiday breaks, made it especially easy to overlook the changes required. We love this grant so we contacted the Ad Grants Team for comment and they were nice enough to explain what is going on. Source: Edelman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

He will join me via skype from Italy for an interview and discussion. I recorded the above skype interview as a technology back up – it is filled with great advice and worth listening to for 14 minutes. (If you’re short on time, I have a transcript linked to resources here ). Let me know in the comments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

To stop the growing problem of smartphone theft, a state senator in California has introduced a bill that would mandates manufacturers to sell devices with built-in kill switches. The first Surface Pro 4 models will be released on June 20, 2014 in the U.S. The app is free only for a limited time so snag it while you can.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

Sometimes, the desired visitor actions were hazy, represented by a general principle like “diversity;” other times, the actions were specific extensions of advocacy or policy espoused by the institution. This is what has made MoveOn so successful, and a powerful model for museum exhibit/program designers who want to inspire action.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Oftentimes, fundraising difficulties are a symptom of a deeper underlying problem—such as poor program quality or a checked-out board—that must be addressed beforehand. Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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