Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

Overwork and stress can lead to burnout and depression and that can lead to even bigger problems. The book devotes an entire chapter to the problem of working excessive hours. Working excessive hours during the year, but not taking paid time off. And here’s a summary of the research that proves it. Working when sick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Effective social media outreach takes at least 25 hours of staff time per week, according to the Ditch Digital Dabbling research report. Cultivating a prospect is not a one-time event. No problem. The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It takes time for an organization to build a good reputation, but it takes only one publicized issue to ruin it. The problem with this outlook is that it leaves organizations ill-prepared to handle large-scale PR problems. But think it over for a bit, and you’ll soon see that it’s quite applicable to management, too.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! Europe’s highest court in a ruling against Google has decided that search engines should allow online users to be “forgotten” after a certain time by erasing links to web pages unless there are particular reasons not to erase that information.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa is a digital transformation strategist with twenty years of experience working with large non-profits in 55 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and the Pacific. “As

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

But a mission statement can be adapted over time. Designing and building apps: Caravan Studios is a division of TechSoup that uses a community-centric process — generate, design, select, build — to develop technology solutions that address pressing social problems. This link takes you to our current mission statement.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2018

Deena Shakir from Google Ventures shared the following stat: smartphones are one million times more powerful than NASA’s computing power when we went to the moon in 1969. Consider these areas, and how incorporating some of these ways of thinking into your organization can inspire innovative solutions to old problems or challenges.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

We were not prepared for the journey, and we had been ignoring the destination off on the horizon for a long time. That’s like taking a thermometer from your child’s mouth, reading 104 degrees, and dunking the thermometer in ice water to fix the problem. Fixing the KPI does not fix the problem.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. now is the time to give them access. But that’s not always what brings them to you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. Europe and Latin America. Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. How can they get started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.”

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As a firm, our family of 2,600 professionals across 17 global offices engages in volunteer opportunities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. With an aim to take on some of the world’s greatest problems and our commitment to leaving no one behind, we’ve concentrated our work specifically on two of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When it's time to check out, you wave your phone over the payment center and the transaction information is passed through the chip to your bank. Problem solved.). Paying by mobile is already a done deal in Japan and Europe. The concept is simple. Another downside: when you lose you phone, you also lose your wallet.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The problem is that trying to ''reduce'' stress is simply a waste of time. Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. The problem is that willpower is a very limited resource, and it’s easily exhausted.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

China, India, and most of Europe combined -- but another thing entirely to show it. Given the multiplicity of nonprofit-related examples -- including the past 2 issues of NTEN Connect -- crowdsourcing may very well be (part of) the future of nonprofit problem solving. "Farmville is so huge! And the future of Old Spice Man?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. More importantly, over time we will see that the expectations that the cloud engenders have changed how we define what is worth working on. Lucy Bernholz, Blueprint R+D.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

When it comes time to call in, you just click on 'Join Lync Meeting' in the meeting entry and everyone gets connected to the conference." The software essentially addresses the problem of busy people struggling to get a hold of each other whenever they need to. " That's just one thing it does.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . A limiting factor, to scale up, will remain the local technical capacity to support and “own” these systems over time. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. Frontiers is a “first person shooter” style experience surrounding Europe’s migration policies.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Founded by three of the most respected web analytics professionals in the world, Analysis Exchange creates value for nonprofits by connecting them directly with experienced web analysts willing to donate their time to help efforts identify opportunities to increase online donations, engagement, interaction, and list distribution.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

I think there is now lots of evidence to suggest that American consumers are increasingly aware of the world's problems. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. Hell, people in this country don't even have time to vote.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. It runs the gamut based on what the needs of the community are, and what they're most passionate about solving at that time. And at that time I really believed that if you worked hard enough at something you could achieve it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It was held in Newcastle in the north of England, and about 70 folks from around the world (but mostly Europe) came to play, learn, make stuff, and help each other work out challenges inherent in trying to make risky ideas happen. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In the last few years we’ve learned that the climate crisis is one of the most unifying challenges of our time, as extreme weather events have indiscriminately affected both rich and poor countries. The climate crisis is one of the most unifying challenges of our time and a key strategic issue for nonprofits and educational institutions.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know, it’s a busy time of year. We’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. I know both of you are super busy you’re speaking at conferences, and doing webinars, and workshops all the time, so it’s really a treat to have you. . ” I love this topic. And thanks for joining.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

Beth observes that visitors searching for the bathroom often have an expression somewhere between stress and panic, as if they're fearful they won't find the place in time. In Europe, they seem to have figured this out. Museums of all sizes have this problem with tradeoffs: they perceive the choice as cases of objects or seats.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Technology has an important role to play in solving the world’s biggest issues, but for trafficking in particular, technology is a foundational piece to solving the problem — for everything from tracking offenders to supporting the survivors who are critical to developing a more victim-centered solution.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. The great thing about Europe is that has a comprehensive and formal regional strategy on electronics recycling. Things are actually going pretty well in Europe. The countries of Eastern Europe are largely on track to develop their WEEE Directive laws.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

The browsing problem is exacerbated by the fact that staff rarely actively monitor and curate videos as they do comment cards--moving the gems to the front and removing the duds. These primarily were about "talking together" and required a serious time investment on the part of participants. Video is a whole other animal.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Building programs and services to support a community means not just learning about the problems they face, but understanding how technologies can help make a difference. Different regions around the global have a very different level of access than those in North America or Western Europe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Two or three times a year, I publish a president's update for Benetech. She’s currently working on “spatial quantile regression” and has learned at Benetech how to use statistics to address real-life problems. In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world. We believe.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

At frank, we divide our time among great talks by strategists, storytellers and scientists and casual opportunities to connect with other sophisticated communicators over coffee or cocktails. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you will find benefit in taking time away to attend. Feb 23 - 26. frank / Gainesville, FL / Invite only.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

But what they also tell us is there is still time, if we do act. These still use valuable time and resources to produce, and so-called biodegradable or eco plastics might not actually break down as we might expect. But how do we know what actions to take to actually make an impact? Need to cross the ocean?

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