Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2008

I was invited to give a keynote at a gathering of 300 IT leaders and managers who work for a large healthcare nonprofit. To prepare for this presentation, I used social media tools not only to locate the experts and good examples, but this time invited them to collaborate in a google doc that ultimately became the wiki resource page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” Craig Newmark wrote the foreword. I blurbed this book with, “If you are looking for a recipe book for tips and tactics to integrate mobile and social media to round out your nonprofit’s marketing plan, look no further than this book.” Click to see larger version. Develop shared language. Internet Director.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. The TechSoup admin fee for eligible nonprofits and libraries is $40.00. It is currently available for nonprofits and libraries at an admin fee of $265 plus $9 per user license. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Related Discussions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

This will (hopefully) enable hundreds of thousands of low-income people to begin using free cloud services like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Web Apps, and wide array of online educational programs to name just a few examples. What Is the Digital Divide? " In short it's a roadmap for closing the digital divide. A number of U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. This start-up company is accessible and generous if you work for a nonprofit, and has a growing community library of starter templates.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

and Nonprofits on Oct. But in an email this morning pointing out my, gasp, mistake, I learned that there were two nonprofit technology consultants named Michael Stein! Can you describe your work in the nonprofit technology field? and nonprofits? " I think collaborative tools like Wikis or Writely are worth exploring.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. What’s involved in this?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. 10 Lessons from Community-Driven Organizing. I also created a customized bit.ly

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Last week I posted John Elbare’s advice for new nonprofit consultants. Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&#

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector. " - Example from Marnie Webb on Twitter. - "Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive. from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. It goes much.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Papilia Online Tax Receipts enables nonprofits to provide donors with a secure web page that allows them to view their giving history and print personalized tax receipts. Papilia Online Tax Receipts enables nonprofits to provide donors with a secure web page that allows them to view their giving history and print personalized tax receipts.

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