Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The article describes the great lengths that Silicon Valley insiders are going to disconnect from social media and their mobile phones. These insiders are the same engineers who designed and built different features in social media platforms that created our behavior addictions. You might argue that it is an overly dystopian view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh , a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. My colleague, Meico Whitlock (aka “ Mindful Techie “) has more suggestions as does this recent post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Nonprofit new media managers often battle mobile and social media burnout. Mobile and social media stimulates mental chatter and can sometimes even affect a person’s ability to sleep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2012

Source: Mobile Mindset Study. Two excellent sources for stats on how mobile use in the US has become more pervasive. American’s are no longer tethered to their desktops to use the Internet, especially social media. This is not the only study that tells us that mobile is not a fad and is here to stay.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. The downside?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2019

Technology is eroding our health and wellbeing: There have been more and more reports of Silicon Valley insiders going to great lengths to disconnect from social media and their mobile phones. These insiders are the same engineers who designed and built different features in social media platforms that created our behavior addictions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Resist the Urge To Check Email: It is easier to say than do, especially if you are addicted to your email and mobile phone. Add a few days to your bounce message, so when you come back, you won’t feel obligated to respond to everything at once. At least your thumbs will have to do a walk of shame before taping your email app.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Marketers are obsessed with mobile first… EVERYTHING! Mobile responsiveness, ease of use through mobile design and now mobile donations. Consider this: When we receive a text our body floods us with the chemical dopamine , which can cause addiction to our phones similar to that of alcohol.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Marketers are obsessed with mobile first… EVERYTHING! Mobile responsiveness, ease of use through mobile design and now mobile donations. Consider this: When we receive a text our body floods us with the chemical dopamine , which can cause addiction to our phones similar to that of alcohol.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2018

Mobile phones and 24/7 connectivity blur the lines between personal and work time, especially during summer break or vacation. Resist the Urge To Check Email: It is easier to say than do, especially if you are addicted to your email and mobile phone. Be specific in your out-of-office response who should be contracted for what.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

” The article profiles the work of Alex Pang , a Stanford University technologist and author of the forthcoming book, “ Distraction Addiction.” The article showcases “Calming” technology – which is to use technology to help you focus or what he calls the “slow web movement.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

This makes more sense as you begin, if you begin, to use the FourSquare mobile App. Related Webinar: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use Group Texting, Mobile Websites, and Smartphone Apps. Tags: FourSquare How To Mobile Technology. FourSquare has received quite a bit of buzz over the last few months.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

I just responded to a text message then took a quick peek at my Instagram feed (I'm addicted!). Now, think about the last time you thought about your organization's mobile strategy. Mobile Strategy 101. To assess what your organization needs when it comes to mobile, you'll need some basic analytics and statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Will the platforms we are all addicted to truly make us more powerful, or will they simply be participation farms? In an age of participation, those who mobilize best will win. We, in the social good sector, especially need to keep honing our skills in unleashing new power for good causes. These are key questions of our times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 3, 2009

Love & Devices | BlogHer - Susan Mernit has a wonderful piece on BlogHer about her "connection" (not addiction) to technology. It'll bring together the 14 Mobile Challenge Project teams selected in a community vote next week, along with funders, innovators, developers, nonprofits and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

” Now, just two weeks into January, I am completely addicted to pinning boards for social good on Pinterest. Go mobile with Pinterest. Related Links: Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofits. Not relevant to the vast majority of nonprofits and (whew!) not another site I need to pay attention to.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. All in all, when gamification enters the workforce it can become an addictive behavior, when put to work in the right way.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 12, 2020

This campaign was so successful it even branched out into an addictive mobile game, with 190 million downloads! The video depicts some of the most ridiculous and avoidable ways to die, including not practising basic safety around trains. Watch the original video below, and follow this link for more information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Social media can be addictive and for some it’s hard to turn it off on Friday afternoons, but for long-term sustainability, it’s necessary to draw the line in the sand and shut it down on the weekends. In reality, you’re laying a foundation for what is to come… the Mobile Web. from working on the weekends.

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NTEN

JANUARY 20, 2011

Sprint U300 Mobile Broadband Modem Donated by The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Sprint mobile broadband data plan and Sprint SmartView software required. This painting looks almost exactly like something your kindergartner would make if he had a social web addiction. It can be downloaded from the Sprint website.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

On Monday night I went to a great event, Money, Mobs, and Media: Mobilizing Action for Change , presented by The Hub Bay Area. Create an addictive experience. Social Innovators Converge at The Hub by Nancy Friedman on InBerkeley What are your tips for mobilizing online action? Regina Connell of SaltCellar moderated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

My suggestion: if you like gadgets, are addicted to being connected at all times, and you feel like you need reading glasses to read email or the web on the Blackberry screen, the iPhone might be a good bet, but I’d wait until software version 2.1 comes out.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Hosted applications and platforms also require equitable access pathways, so while low cost hardware are available, it is broadband and mobile divides that are important. From this frame and initial thinking (which was captured on www.crisiscommons.org ) a network of eager volunteers was ready to be mobilized after the earthquake hit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. So, if you want to follow me on Twitter, please do. {

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Hosted applications and platforms also require equitable access pathways, so while low cost hardware are available, it is broadband and mobile divides that are important. From this frame and initial thinking (which was captured on www.crisiscommons.org ) a network of eager volunteers was ready to be mobilized after the earthquake hit.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

But gamification has become higher tech and much more addictive. For instance, the location-based mobile platform foursquare incentivizes individuals to share their locations with others by offering points for check-ins and badges, sometimes even discounts for their efforts. Game-thinking can also be used to mobilize your membership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Tags are one easy option, if I can get nice mobile access as the food and travel/city relevant info does me more use from a mobile.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox continuously replicates local files to a personal cloud file space and synchronizes those folders across multiple computers and mobile devices. Lastpass has add-ins to all browsers, on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and in the premium version, on mobile. Available without prescription, ScreenSteps is addictive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Holly Ross, after her 21-day experiment, now says she's an addict and others are trying to like twitter. Ed Schipul wonders whether Facebook mobile and text integration will make Twitter redundant? Nonprofit Tech Software + Mobile Phones = Citizen reporting? Mobile citizen reporting ? million users.

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Care2

APRIL 12, 2009

Join environmental experts at the next Internet Advocacy Roundtable on April 16th at 3PM for a discussion on breaking our addiction to oil. Panelists will also discuss how environmental groups are leveraging online strategies to educate and mobilize a diverse and broad-based audience of citizens and policymakers.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I have clients that have mobilized entire communities and Facebook groups around advocacy and around, especially for people that are in very niche communities, like, rare diseases or communities that have a lot of stigma where they need like a private group, so they can have a safe space to talk. We just got off of giving Tuesday.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Warning: this is addictive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

My job is actually using sites like that to help spread brand awareness of our company and our product, the WHERE mobile application. Once the research and profiles are set up, less time (or more time, depending how addictive these sites can be ;) will be needed to maintain the profiles and conversations.

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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. You can pre-order the report here.].

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We discussed the challenges and opportunities around codifying an online request code, what role mobile must play, the needs for increased capacity and public education. Wendy Harman is a professional listener, an online communities explorer, a hopelessly addicted Tweeter, and a nonprofit lifer (so far).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

You could hear crackberry addicts screaming from miles away. Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election.

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