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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Earlier this week, KD Paine and I started our “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” book tour with solo and duo events in Boston and Rhode Island. Next week, we will be in NYC for these book events: October 11: 10-11:30 am- Foundation Center NYC Meet the Authors Book Talk and Workshop.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The book tour for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit continues in NYC with events on October 11 and October 12th and there are a few spots available for October 11th 6 PM NYC TechClub Event. San Francisco and Silicon Valley Events – Week of October 15th. If you are in the bay area, please join us!

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

London Event at Just Giving. All in all, a fantastic time in London and special thanks again to my colleague and friend, Steve Bridger , for organizing these events. You are my good parents because I am an orphan. I love all of you!&#. Right before Thanksgiving, I was in London on my way back from Kenya.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. Two weeks ago, I wrote up my prediction for fundraising trends for 2009.

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MARCH 30, 2015

Note from Beth: Give Local America , powered by Kimbia’s technology, is an effort to coordinate giving days on one platform. Last year, Give Local America raised more than $53 million from more than 306,000 gifts in 2014. 1) #iGiveLocal.

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MARCH 25, 2008

Today, I'm co-hosting an online event on TechSoup about Flickr with Heather Camp, Flickr Community Manager. This event will run today. I love online discussions with a mix of experience. I just learned something really important from colleague Michaela Hackner about uploading. Ask questions, share your learning, and learn from others.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

It made me think that you have to think a little about choosing an event tag. -It I did some searches on the conference tag, woc2006 and noticed that the tag is the same for the World Orienteering Championship. It should be unique, unless for some reason you want to integrate or connect with another tag stream. tools at NCDD.

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MARCH 7, 2022

On launch day on March 9th, I’ll share a very special video and more information about free book events in March, April, May, and June. Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a book event or having us speak at your event. And if you’d like to buy a copy yourself, well, I would be grateful for that, too!

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APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. Even just a decade ago, a typical nonprofit charity black tie event would have a committee of dedicated volunteers who would plan and promote the event.

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MARCH 27, 2008

A few days ago TechSoup and Flickr sponsored an online event discussion about the use of Flickr and photography in non profit organizations. Michaela Hackner participated and had some great insights. She blogged her reflections into one excellent post! More from the TechSoup blog.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Stay tuned for more information about additional book events in March, April, May, and June. Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a book event or having us speak at your event. And if you’d like to buy a copy yourself, well, I would be grateful for that, too!

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Look for features like: Event pages that can be fully customized to your campaign. Registration pages and forms that are accessible through the event page. Encourage your participants to personalize your event to themselves. Each of your recruits is going to be posting your fundraising event on their own personal networks.

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MAY 12, 2007

Chitika held an online event during the month of April called a "Blog Bash." Get free eBook Now! " The goal was to empower bloggers. So they invited 30 experts on blogging to participate. Each expert contributed one post during the month.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. And, of course, your evaluation will also include looking at the data from surveys and interviews with participants after the event. What is your process?

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JUNE 22, 2007

There are almost 200 hundred avatars here and it's twenty minutes before the event! Check out the article on the New York Times !

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MAY 9, 2008

Before the event started, I ran into Micah Sifry and got some quick thoughts on what he'll touch on today and the potential for micro media tools like qik. I'm speaking later today at New Politics Institute (NDN) New Tools, New Audiences Forum later this afternoon.

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OCTOBER 23, 2006

Brian Del Vecchio has put a call out for nonprofit projects for a hacking event that will take place in Cambridge in December. Here's mine: Please take the Flickr API and integrate Andy Goodman's Best Practices for Story Telling to create a Nonprofit Story Teller in Flickr.

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JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. TechSoup's Virtual Office space was pretty busy last night, hosting an earlier mixed reality event in Cambridge and SL , featuring Pathfinder Linden , head of educational activities for SL. Both events had their share of clunkiness.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

United Way of Ohio – Healthy Eating Event. Healthy Food Events – The agency will cover the cost of for purchasing fruit as snacks for staff through a program called “ Fruit Fridays.” Challenge Events – The agency also does step challenges using trackers and gives out gift cards to winners.

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APRIL 19, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup sent me an email about a free, two-day online event at TechSoup on Social Networking for Nonprofits. This event will be an asynchronous discussion that will occur in the TechSoup.org forums.

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JUNE 13, 2007

More about the event from Rik Riel There will be a live audio feed. It will be interesting to see if Fanton's avatar looks just like him or something different. Photo Source: MacArthur Foundation Spotlight Blog.

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JUNE 22, 2007

I just came from an historic and ground breaking event. For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. Following the event, I summarized the reflections and analysis in this post: Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals. A report about the event from Hastac. The John D. and Catherine T.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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JUNE 7, 2005

Nancy White at Full Circle found a great example of a ngo event blog called "Walk the World. perhaps after the event is over. Thanks Nancy! Gotta track down Michael and interview him.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

And join me next Tuesday, February 22 at 10 am PT for an event hosted by TechSoup about Automation and Nonprofits! I’m passionate about workplace wellbeing and digital transformation and the topic of smart tech weaves these two themes together! The post Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work first appeared on Beth Kanter.

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MARCH 24, 2008

On Tuesday, March 25, 2008, I will be co-moderating with Flickr's Community Manager, Heather Champ, an online event over at TechSoup called Images of Social Change. The event will cover the benefits of creatively displaying your nonprofit organizations' work in images. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

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MAY 1, 2008

I'm leading a session at NDN Event the week after next in DC. Are you planning to go? Let me know.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

SOLD OUT BUT WAITLIST AVAILABLE for Tech Soup Event. ➳ REGISTER HERE for Hack the Hood Event ($5 or book + admission for $25). ➳ REGISTER HERE for Foundation Center West & YNPN Event. Registration for Livestream broadcasting from the Feb 2 event. ➳ REGISTER HERE for Boston Event with host Women Online. ➳

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JANUARY 20, 2007

In cooperation with Amoration AMO Studios, NMC Campus is hosting a large scale art event February 11-13, 2007. Here's the email announcement from Alan Levine: The NMConnect Visual Symposium will be the largest collaborative art event ever created in Second Life! This will take place over multiple sims on some of NMC's new land.

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AUGUST 10, 2005

Christopher Dover from the American Cancer Society who blogs about Relay For Life (RFL) just posted some thoughts about how to use blogging and other techniques to support and promote Relay for Life, the ACS's signature event. This long, but very thoughtful post lays out some ideas, along with some questions.

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JUNE 6, 2018

The planners of this event offered some valuable lessons for any organization on how to design effective and engaging retreats. The goal is to ensure that adult learners are prepared to learn new information, and then able to transfer that information to application after the event. I was genuinely inspired.

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OCTOBER 19, 2005

TechSoup Online Event: October 24-October 28. Emerging Technology forum www.techsoup.org/web2event The topic is how Web 2.0 is/will impact nonprofits. Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? What on earth is a Wiki?

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JULY 9, 2006

The official announcement for the TechSoup Event is out and Deborah Finn has posted the details here. This might help you enjoy the event more and get more out of the presentations if you're new to Second Life. In that spirit, I'm offering an informal newbie mentoring session prior to the event on Friday, July 14th at 2:00 p.m.

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MARCH 19, 2019

If you think about it, our nonprofit organizations already have rituals — from the boring everyday activities like coffee breaks to larger events such as annual meetings and holiday parties. Schedule regular staff social events: Plan regular times to get together to talk about the team or just to socialize.

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MAY 28, 2008

| View | Upload your own. I live blogged the session on Second Life here at Netsquared. I especially enjoyed Rik Riel's presentation about Global Kids work in Second Life.

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MARCH 28, 2007

Digital Storytelling: Using Technology to Create and Share Powerful Stories. What digital storytelling is, and how you can use it tell. your nonprofit's story. March 28-29, TechSoup's Community forums. org/digitalstor y.

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