Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

He leading a workshop in North Carolina at RTPnet on Open Source CMS and CRM systems. I wish I lived near by - because I'd definitely go. s and Open Source software ??? One of the smartest, funniest, and best trainers in the nonprofit technology space is my colleague, John Kenyon. in plain English.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Reset the Net is an effort to provide individuals and organizations with a technical, political, and social toolkit to fight back against government surveillance. While you should definitely explore the full site, here are the top five tips I distilled from the project. apps surveillance open source security mobile apps privacy data'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here.

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MAY 25, 2023

They most definitely don’t want other competing organizations in their community to learn about their issues, as it would show weakness and could impact their competitive advantage. How does that make sense if we are to make progress on awful and persistent social problems?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

– "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open architecture exists in the construction industry. " What do you think? It features concept de?nitions

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Hashtags and their usefulness are definitely open to interpretation. nptech : This hashtag stands for nonprofit technology and can be used in any Tweets relevant to how nonprofits are use technology and social media. Example Tweet: Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit: [link] || #mobiletech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. to Ma.gnolia. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world. Be Helpful.

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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. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. It’s definitely worth a listen. I need to figure out a good network configuration. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. So I like Joomla.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) at 8:16 am Privacy of data especially for a business social network is very important to most of linkedin and facebooks users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). " I'm beginning a project with NTEN in the next few weeks that focuses on social media, nonprofits, and curriculum development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice activists learn about free and open source software that can support their work and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing, fundraising, blogging, and campaigning. We’d love to see you there!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2012

For more nonprofit- and library-specific apps, also see: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. See our nonprofit and library app survey results and the nonprofit and library Apps Wish List to see how other nonprofits and libraries are thinking about apps. Arts Organization Apps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool. Be Helpful.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

Have some fun with it by creating teaser videos to create anticipation on social media, like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota does every year on Facebook (and this year on YouTube, as well!). Then create a video to announce it on social media! Nonprofit work is hard and definitely isn’t always glamorous.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. 3 Seth Schneider 04.15.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

Sheesgeeky will include women working in: Open Source. Social Networking Sites. Your definition of geekiness (if you don't see it here add it). Hardware companies. Enterprise IT. The Nonprofit Technology Sector. Search Engines. Research for and about technology/people. Startups generally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

The Future Tech panelists are experts in the development and implementation of new technologies that work for the social good. Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. Moderator: John Scott. grab attention quickly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# I’ll have to look for it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

This week, for example, NTEN members like Johanna Bates , Peter Campbell , Dean Matsueda , David Geilhufe , and many more debated the topic of privacy issues on social networks (a la Facebook recently) and whether that would drive more nonprofits to customized open source options for their communities. > DC 501 Tech Club.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Explore this definitive guide to learn more about Giving Tuesday, get great campaign ideas, and soak up some best practices. Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Encourage social sharing. Plan a social media campaign.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

I've been working closely with Kevin Lynch, the CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance, on countering the efforts of Salesforce.com to attempt to trademark the name of our entire field, Social Enterprise. Social enterprise is descriptive. Social enterprise is generic.

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