Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The real-time, in the moment nature of social media increases the likelihood that donors will be inspired to give to your nonprofit on cause awareness and giving days provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote them effectively. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. For a nonprofit organization, perhaps the most important reason for implementing Web accessibility is social responsibility. I’m glad you asked.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. use the platform to drive local social movement. Feedback to presentation: would want to involve staff and services in the offline local events to share their experiences, too. Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled. intrinsically motivated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

Social media introduced the “selfie” and innovative accessories like the “selfie stick” for capturing better pictures. As a result, website experiences have had to change significantly—from the way websites are designed and developed to the Content Management System (CMS) used and search engine optimization (SEO) strategies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Making the public-facing user experience feel seamless. Drawing from experience, we have a few ideas about why that could be, and how Drupal can help. Extracting or importing data.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

Giving a gift isn’t the only way for your prospect to have meaningful experiences with your nonprofit. In order to find individuals who exhibit propensity, affinity, and capacity markers, you’ll need to comb through and organize a lot of data. Invite involvement. Reach out when an opportunity arises that you think they’d be interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An Incorporating social media and the online world to bring the walk to live virtually. Extending the walk experience and the impact made to the weeks and months after the walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

The films that we work with touch on serious social justice issues, so we link them up with organizations who are already doing work on the issue. Building an online presence on Social Networking / Web2.0 For each of the social media tools you are using, you might want to set up your google analytics so you can track referral traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. I started thinking about how a lot of the online collaboration was taking place on the social web is between people who had never met each other and after they work together may meet each other. What has been your experience?

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? What many people don’t realize is that.org is an open domain for social good – meaning that individuals, businesses and companies can register this domain, in addition to nonprofits, in order to promote their cause or mission. Think about the last time you pulled up your search engine of choice.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Even the most traditional museums often manage educational programs in which teens develop their own exhibits, produce youth-focused museum events, or provide educational experiences for younger visitors. Teens are certainly not the only people who like to express themselves and engage socially through technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

He isn't relying on the traditional approach of asking an expert, but wants to crowdsource suggestions through social networks. Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. This is my first experiment in solving this problem. That was rather encouraging.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

If you aren’t a hacker but still want an in-depth experience, join North Carolina’s Tech4Good group for their annual conference June 6–7 or visit lovely Vancouver, Canada for their NetSquared Camp unconference on June 1. Social Media September is coming! Manchester, UK: MediaCity social media surgery.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It boils down to following the few to find the many!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). They engaged in a bold experiment of “trusting the talent”—giving people a way to think and engage and create. I was anxious for a year,” is what Sue said repeatedly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 It will also facilitate collaboration between activists, allowing them to find each other, share tactics and strategies and experiences. Via Global Voices Advocacy blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

I’ve walked through a few libraries, but I can say that Bookshare is unique within my experience. The library is a unique, neutral social and cultural space. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 All libraries bring people together in ways that no other institution does.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

If this isn't a "fun" and comfortable experience for both of you, it's going to fizzle out quickly. What is a mentor and what do they do anyway? There seems to be a lot of confusion around this as well. What Is or Isn’t Mentorship? Mentoring takes time. The mentor has to be interested in making an investment in you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. with a detailed account of her organization's experience. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Some of us experience goal conflict between individual and the group. We knew what was coming.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. here are 22 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : 1. The Social Web, and Web 3.0: and Web 3.0.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Real-Time Publishing. has jumped substantially. Real-Time Sharing.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Experiences? See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

When I created the hierarchy of social participation shown in this diagram, I debated what shape it should take. Was it a spectrum from individual to collective experience? In Shulman’s article, she points out the folly of a rigid sequential theory when it comes to learning (and my case, I’ll expand that to social engagement).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

In the weeks leading up to the event, the smart minds of the NPWF staff were hard at work with a plan to not only entertain guests while in line, BUT add value to their luncheon experience with the use of a little technology. Join us there and experience the QR fun for yourself!

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