Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

When we found out about Lovay Wallace-Singleton's new project to build a solar-powered organic garden in North Carolina, one that also brings rehabilitation and jobs to veterans, we had to talk to her. The full name of Lovay's project is Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden. for disabled veterans. Nothing is wasted.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 13, 2013

400 purchases a laptop so students can study at home. provides a free, immersive IT training program to young adults, ages 18-25, who have their high school diploma or GED but have not moved on to college. Each student is given corporate-class career guidance, interview training, and connections to dozens of possible employers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART for Animals is a one-stop rescue organization for all things pets in rural Maryland. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5 " Veterans Organic Garden. Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. Program Design.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? In fact, that fundamental training allows me still today to be independent and not to rely on office assistants, and it helps make grant writing a snap. Keep in mind there are many nonprofit organizations asking for funding. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.”

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MAY 16, 2018

This year’s ATD conference was the largest conference yet, and it was astonishing to see how many exhibitors attended the Conference, how big the Training and Development industry is, and the importance of Training and Development to the world. ” 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

My friend and fellow consultant John Kenyon is fond of saying that, after people, data is an organization’s most important asset. An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more. NTEN www.nten.org/blog.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 1, 2020

High-profile data breaches in recent years show just how vulnerable some organizations can be to attacks from outside. Ultimately, it’s up to you to make sure your organization’s data is secure ? For larger organizations with IT departments, it should be a regular part of the department’s activities. Train Your Staff.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Rather than a clever hacker directly targeting your nonprofit, your organization is more likely at risk from a software update you skipped in haste, a disgruntled employee who still has access to your cloud drive, or an unencrypted device left in an airport bathroom. That fundraising contractor whose laptop was stolen?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But then, your coworker calls and informs you that your donation page is broken, your organization's CRM just ate half of its entries, and the kitchen dishwasher is flooding… Guess you probably should pack along your laptop. Eligible organizations can receive 50 percent off a one-year subscription through TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone. I think he’d be proud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Note from Beth: This week I’ve been in Finland at the invitation of the US Embassy to do trainings. One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. You may justify it by coming up with excuses like that you are only working for a few minutes, or that the organization really needs your help.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In addition to the challenges inherent to any nonprofit mission, these organizations and their personnel must often work in areas with poor security and limited resources. Organizations should critically review proposed data collection and ensure that the intended benefits and impact justify the risks of data collection in the first place.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters. People can post comments and converse with your organization in public for all to see. is all of the above except that the Web experience is no longer limited to desktop and laptop computers while stationary in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. I’ve trained myself with the 18 minutes technique to avoid temptation of looking at friends’ dog photos that way while I am working.).

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APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I’ve been reflecting on the discussion we had about how meetings are “under belly” of an organization’s culture and ways to make incremental changes to improve meeting culture to avoid wasting time or frustration. This can happen even if your organization is using video conferencing.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

But, since it was a train ride away and they had some great discussions planned on topics like email marketing and big data, I decided to go for the day as a participant. The morning of the conference, my bag felt too heavy to lug around all day (laptop, charger cables, notebook, etc). My laptop, Twitter, Instagram, and stealing ideas.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I remember the day my boss set my first laptop on my desk. "I think it's time we replaced your laptop. For example, it will implement technology that moves the organization closer to being a paperless office. I had no idea I was getting a new computer. "Here you go," he said. Check it out!

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

Develop and adhere to your organization’s privacy policy and safeguarding policy. This goes for laptops as well as any servers or databases. If your organization limits the amount of data it retains by deleting it after a defined period, there’s less data that can be exposed in a data breach or security incident.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Check back for part two and three of this series, in which I'll recommend the next steps that organizations should take to be successful in closing the digital divide , and I'll describe the "secret sauce" that makes community solutions effective and sustainable. Basic training. Low-cost Internet service.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2013

In a perfect world, your nonprofit would have the resources to equip every worker and volunteer with a secure laptop. If your organization is full of foreign devices, hackers have more ways to break in, full stop. Train Staff Members. Treat it like one by training staff members to take basic security precautions.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. If your organization demands an immediate change, an external time component in unnecessary, and the inevitable reception of a bill to reflect that proposed demand can be completely averted.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Donate to Organizations Providing Relief. Network for Good has a list of relief organizations accepting donations as well. Prepare Your Organization for Any Disaster. Image: life preserver, dibytes.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The nonprofit provides laptops, tablet computers, training, and other technology resources to elderly people. The organization began as a project of Jane Ratliff, inspired by her own 86-year-old mother’s quick and easy grasp of using an iPad purchased by Ratliff and her brother. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2015

The New Jersey-based organization serves almost 600 youth in Morris and Sussex counties with about 60 employees. An organization that provides life-transforming services to those who are most at risk does not have time to worry about accessing email remotely, having up-to-date versions of Excel, or sharing information among staff.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees. CACRC quickly scaled up to meet the computer needs of relief organizations, and then schools that opened up, and also low-income families. The organization looks for opportunities to serve disadvantaged communities wherever it can.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Organizations in every industry today dependent on good data to be successful. Within a nonprofit organization, many data inputs are often manual. Side note: Did you know that your laptop contains far more storage and processor capacity than the Apollo 11 computer systems that landed the first man on the moon? What’s going on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. Points of connection included: -Training. February 27, 2011.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I have some of my best ideas while washing dishes, and I find some of the best sites while on the train. Evernote lets me organize files, web sites, pictures, audio, and notes, from any device. I can retrieve these items from my phone, my tablet, my laptop, or any computer with a browser. That is all, and that is enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I just got back from doing a plenary session at the Arts Summit organized by the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations. Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State. Many, many memories.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This innovative platform presents new opportunities and challenges for organizations. The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. Therefore, innovative and influential nonprofit organizations must monitor these trends carefully. New Platform = New Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. We don’t have a lot of time and it will come after a long day, so have been thinking of ways to do a train the trainers in an efficient way. Begin Connections.

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