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MAY 14, 2012

Much of the “good” done throughout history has been financed by what one could call “repentant sinners,” such as Carnegie with his libraries, funded by the exploitation of labor in the days of the robber barons. Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Social Movements for Good is a great addition to your nonprofit library! If your organization or network is trying to catalyze and support a social good movement and you want it to succeed, you need a solid strategy, the tactics, and tools that this book has to offer.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the past two years, from the gratitude of thousands, this global event has built two classrooms and a library in Arusha, Tanzania, where the twitterkids, led by local changemaker Mama Lucy Kamptoni, learn and grow at one of the best primary schools in their country.

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JUNE 11, 2013

The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. I first heard Laura speak when she launched her book , Giving 2.0, at Stanford two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I discovered the WWW Virtual Library in 1993 when there were only 200 servers on the Internet. What that meant was that the Library pointed to my dance links on the Arts Wire server. It also enabled the WWW Virtual Library to scale in terms of server capacity and allow for a distributed network of volunteer librarians.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2016

People walk for many purposes, such as for transportation to get to school, work, a store, or the library or for leisure to have fun, socialize with friends or family, walk their dog, or improve their health. Because walking is multipurpose, it provides many opportunities for people to incorporate physical activity into their busy lives. .

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MAY 8, 2018

Create a leadership library of nonprofit books for staff to check out and read. Asking about career goals and how they might be pursued at current job. Paid volunteer team at another org. Encourage sharing what is learned at conferences with staff. Professional development plans/funds. Allow staff to identify “stretch assignments”.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

I queried my friends on Twitter and my library, museum, archivist, and educator colleagues suggested Diigo. Alyson Kapin has a better idea – to petition Yahoo to make del.icio.us open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives.

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APRIL 6, 2017

It is large space with a kitchen, library, and enough chairs and technology to accommodate an all-staff meeting including remote staff. There are no traditional offices with doors to close, but there are conference rooms with doors. They also have a large communal space that is used for socializing, staff meetings, learning, and events.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Sign up for FREE anti-spam software from Mailshell For just 24 hours on December 5, nonprofit organizations and public libraries can request free anti-spam desktop software, donated by Mailshell, at TechSoup Stock. This special offer is part of the 5th annual "Stop Spam Today!" " campaign. ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE * U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. This is part of the Sharing Economy with the most transformative potential: the ability to address societal inequities and envision new ecological solutions.

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

Get all of your staff involved: In the early stages, it's important to get started with a strong community, so encourage interaction by asking nonprofit staff to participate in creating content.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Intercepting wildlife transferred across borders is critical to slowing illegal trade and DNA barcoding provides a public library of DNA barcode tests for enforcement officials to use as a front-line tool.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

I like to think of content curation is going the library to research sources for your term paper! We know that content curation is much more than slapping together links or engaging in “push button” sharing with your circle of friends.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In a recent email, she described her newest project: In years past, our gratitude has been invested in changemakers from the US, Tanzania and Nepal to build classrooms, a library, a children’s technology lab, a temporary home for disabled veterans, and more.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2007

has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources. Save the Children.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

There is so much happening in Second Life with nonprofits, educational institutions, museums, and libraries that it is hard to keep up. The amazing Wayne MacPhail has been helping the Alzheimer Society of Ontario and Second Life Library 2.0 curator Shadow Fugazi put together a photo exhibition in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

I'm looking for nonprofit libraries that could cover the cost of postage for a box of books in exchange for a donation of some of my books. To close the circle, I connected him with Tanya Davis who raises money for Diabetes in Canada. In about 8 weeks, I'm moving to California and need to pair down my book collection.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2006

This powerpoint presentation, Ten Ways o Keep Techies Happy , comes from David King, a library techie. Much of this advice is appropriate for nonprofit techies too. Wouldn't you agree? Techies are part of the team 2. Toys, Gadgets, and Server Playgrounds 3. Everyone plays a part - do your part 4. Healthy Workplace 5. Adequate Staffing 7.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2005

RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. The organization maintains a blog called " Hanging Together ," the name inspired by the Ben Franklin quote above.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

Donations thus far have focused mainly on library and school construction projects through various organizations. Mata, over at Blogher, wrote a terrific post called " Three Ways you can simply change the world for the better.

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MARCH 8, 2010

World. . . The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

I've been looking at the books that I haven't yet donated to our library that sit on my bookshelf (yes, I'm so 19th Century, I do still read books in paper format). These are the books that are probably of more interest to nonprofit and social media folks than the local library patrons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. That doesn't bother me personally - it's for a good cause. The number of karma points doesn't necessarily synch up with real world impact.

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AUGUST 5, 2007

nera organized a video blogging workshop at the public library of the poor and often violent neighborhood of La Loma San Javier. ??lvaro They have already registered a domain and the website is under currently construction. Just one week after receiving confirmation of their Rising s outreach grant, ??lvaro lvaro Ramirez and Mauricio M??nera

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2006

Library Services in Second Life [link]. As Lori Bell recently noted in an article about library services in Second Life, "The learning curve is somewhat steep because Second Life is like a different culture and things are done differently than in real life. But, I know that reading about it isn't the same as experiential learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Direct Link to " Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law " Museum, Education, and Library IT networks have special interest or affinity groups on the topic of copyright and fair use. The MCN (Museum Computer Network) Intellectual Property Special Internet Group is chaired by. Amalyah Keshet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. and externally (with all of your fine readers!). .

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MAY 21, 2009

Over the past couple of months, I've been shipping them off various nonprofit libraries, friends, and doing giveaways on the blog. (Okay, I confess I'm a book addict) Unfortunately, books are heavy and when moving costs are based on weight, well, sadly, I had to say good bye to a lot my friends. Simplicity is a good thing.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. The week is a signature event created by the Points of Light Institute , to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging. Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Library clips picks up the thread with a detailed analysis of enterprise email and blogging processes and talks about where blogs shine over email for particular types of communication. The more we can siphon off the non-time sensitive stuff into channels that are more suited to them, the more we???ll

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Subject Matter Expertise: My entry to Quora was through connections who come from the library and education areas and by side stepped into a couple of technology areas. It prompted deeper insights about at topic I’m interested. As Louis Gray suggests, it offers relevancy and community. .

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. If you have put on running shoes for the first time, do you think you can really expect to win the Boston Marathon?

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OCTOBER 15, 2005

for the video blog will be available through the city and country libraries. There is talk about making a DVD of several events around the country next season and selling it through libraries nationwide. Video/Photo blog from the October 1-2 event. Next week, all the video shot. on a two disc DVD set.

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