Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Create a “run of show” document that you will send to each remote guest speaker. Contact Local Media. While many organizations strive to have their events covered by national outlets like the Today Show or the New York Times, Krista encourages event planners to not overlook local newspapers and television and radio stations.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

Before you begin working with a consultant, you should create a list of your team’s most pressing tech questions. In the next section, this information is documented and becomes the main deliverable of the nonprofit technology assessment. Step Three: Documentation. Prepare questions for your consulting team. Deliverables.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Building local chapters. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. This meant that press from the road trip also contributed to the buzz around the larger event. Schedule local events in advance along your road trip route.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

” That’s when you use software on the Internet versus your local hard drive or local computer network. It makes your data and documents available anywhere, anytime. For the past year or so, she’s thinking about and talking about “Cloud Computing.” Training, you know, is something everyone needs.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If you are transitioning in a new Event Chair we recommend having your previous Chair document their “Best Practices” as a Hand Off Guide. Hiring a photographer/videographer to document the event. ( Working with sponsors or other local businesses specializing in media to reach as many potential attendees as possible.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Map out every way you can think of to promote the event to your intended audience then create an action plan with deadlines for things like posting on social media, sending out a press release, and anything else on your list. Obviously, a local celebrity can help draw people into your event, so choose carefully.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! Speaking of the press, it is clear that they really get my overarching goal: to engage more of the tech community in serving the 90% of humanity we haven't been focusing on (yet).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

Whether it’s local interest or a specific niche. Check out any of the national and international press about museum technology and social media. Fact #4: We must document it. We can’t let this moment pass without thoroughly documenting your efforts. Formally documenting your projects is so important.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

And using cloud services means we don't need to spend as much on IT staffing costs to maintain local networks. We must track and communicate well with our donors, members, and volunteers — really anyone who interacts with our organizations, including press and partner organizations. Benefit #2: Working from Anywhere.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

However, while in Asia I got to watch CNN Asia and the BBC and read the local press. Essentially the Cloud is a server/service where you can store your hard drive/database/documents/apps/software making it accessible any where at any time thus giving it mobility. By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

Organizations with healthy IT infrastructures are continually making iterative improvements based on their program needs, documenting those improvements, and monitoring for future iterations. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Technology Phase Laptop Tech 54

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I love Trevor Donnell's brilliant book and blog, Marketing the Arts to Death , in which he documents the disasters caused by our inability to be audience- and data-driven in our marketing efforts. It allows us all to be involved in promoting and documenting experiences at the museum.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. State/Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I also discovered that I could use listening to build collaborative connections to other organizations via the social web, both locally and nationally. I put less emphasis on one-way communications like websites, newsletters and press releases, and focused on more two-way mediums like blogging, Facebook and face-to-face exchanges.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2015

Microsoft offers many apps for its popular Office suite to review and edit documents, as well as an app for accessing your OneDrive account remotely. Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup Global, has produced three apps to help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Several respondents we interviewed indicated that cloud products and related information, such as blogs and newsletters, were not available in their local language. This is especially important for CRM databases and document management, which can get complicated and difficult to manage very quickly. And it's hard.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2007

I get LOTS of emails and press release from people asking me to write about the good work their doing. As a community volunteer and program officer at a local community foundation, I am continually inspired by the folks you profile and by the concrete tips you regularly offer! Update January 17, 2008: She won first prize !

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Here are some other ways we compensate our collaborators: Give them as much press as possible. Suggest them to press for a feature in the local paper. New to the art form and the museum, we gave them a gift certificate to reflect over milkshakes at a local burger joint after the event. Pay for all their materials.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Is it because their gift translates to 10 meals provided for a hungry child in your local community? Or, it could be the impact you’ve had already, such as a food bank that has fed thousands of local citizens— and counting! The overwhelming guidance around nonprofit marketing is to let your mission do the talking.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Princes of Surf is about the young Hawaiian princes who brought surfing to the Americas 130 years ago--relevant because they did it in Santa Cruz, with boards shaped from local wood, on waves I bike by every week. Yielded mountains of press.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

A marketing plan is a document that details the ins and outs of your marketing strategy for a specific event or campaign. Some organizations prefer to prepare these documents at the beginning of each fiscal year, and some create them as individual campaigns come up. Press Release. Put Your Plan into Action.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In order to do this, we knew that we had to increase civic engagement both on and offline, so we recruited local street artists to help. By creating and distributing signage made by these local artists across the city to show voters where polling places were located, we infused Philly’s voting process with excitement, joy and energy.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

It could be a pancake breakfast, a barbecue, or a brewery fundraiser done in partnership with a local business. For other types of nonprofits, hosting a local band or improv group would be a great way to put on a show and get people in the community together. Virtual: This is an event held online instead of in person. Do your research!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. The mainstream IT press was alive with the topic. There are remedies. Google Drive. Big Data and the Internet of Things.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 8, 2024

Now, it’s time to take another look at it to make sure the document has evolved with your campaign and is ready for the public eye. Along with providing your case statement to prospective donors to secure their support, this document will be instrumental in crafting marketing materials for the public phase of your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. Not the press release. Write about how hard it is to find decent studio space. Write the truth.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local. State/Local.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

Create your communication tactics such as your web site, brochure and press releases. The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. There is a growing movement focusing on building the local, green economy as an alternative to the transnational corporation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

local time). They document their learning." Press Release for the Event ( Blog post about the PR aspect ). I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. They focus on the media creation of what they learned. " Later in the conversation, it was noted that change will come, but slowly.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

We got a lovely bit of press on the first four exhibit selections, and I'm thrilled by the diversity of participants and novel creations that have been submitted thus far. We're already at the point where documenting projects after the fact, via conferences, papers, and sites like ExhibitFiles, is par for the professional development course.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Nolo Press has some good boilerplate contracts. document your work (for yourself, and the client): configurations/settings, inventories, assessments, options, recommendations, decisions, plans, budgets, meeting minutes. - build in time for billing, organizing files, reading the trade press, watching webinars, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Amanda says "I did not expect to find myself in tears at 3am after seeing a video by a team in Asheville who spent their weekend making a video after campaigning locally, spreading news about how 1 in 6 people in the world don't have access to clean and safe drinking water.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips. Twitter feeds with hashtags like #Egypt and #ArabSpring were stories unfolding by the minute, documenting the revolution and how the world felt about it, in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

media: local and national. saw increased press for each disaster based on newsroom. Move from huge disasters only to documenting daily disasters such as home fires. Well, we got thousands of mentions by press. So we can begin to document not just big disasters but also small. set audience. affected people.

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