Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. for Educators. Put it on the list to explore.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

360MatchPro by Double the Donation , the leading provider of matching gift automation software, integrates with the best school and university fundraising platforms. GiveCampus provides both software solutions and educational resources to help schools reach their fundraising goals. Why We Love This School Fundraising Platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Since the software is alpha, Allan raises some important questions about whether the site is reinventing the wheel or filling an important need in the nonprofit sector?" Do you have advice?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software. The biggest turnout was one thousand students for my lecture to engineering and business students.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They received their donated Adobe software through Techsoup. The project, designed through a collaboration between CUP and 15 local high school students, investigated the community impact of a new housing development in East New York.

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JUNE 11, 2020

major impact they have on over 122,000 students. In light of COVID-19, the School District of Palm Beach County shifted to distance learning for the safety of students and staff. One tactic I observed being particularly effective was individual fundraisers tagging their friends who had donated thanking them for their support.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Department of Education includes overseeing OSEP, the people who are funding our Bookshare for Education project to serve every student with a print disability in the United States. Tags: Department of Education OSEP Justesen Bookshare. Justesen, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. ." The total value of the prize could be up to $7,200!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

The coolest thing was that they then explained that there was a big opportunity for someone like Benetech to write software to help them with this kind of expansion. They just need software to help cities understand the size of their challenges around these issues. Tags: WEF Skoll Brilliant social enterprise Waste Concern.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. survey software. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. It only enters one social media contest a year.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Just a few weeks ago, we put out the call to nonprofits and libraries in the United States and Canada to demonstrate how their innovative use of Adobe software acquired through the TechSoup product donation program helped them change lives, communities, and the world for the better. Other Media.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer. There should a good place for notes in your donor management software. Phone or In Person?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

The Kindle2's text-to-speech feature wasn't something that actually worked for blind people, but you could imagine how a software update could make this into an incredible product. And of course, we have the dystopian vision from Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software movement, in his short story from the 90s, The Right to Read.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

The electronic encyclopedia is available either as a standalone product or packaged with Microsoft Student. Tags: E-Learning E-Learning Reference Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Either donation is available for an administrative fee of three dollars.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? Your choice in course authoring software is just as crucial as the tools you choose to deliver the content to learners. What are the best eLearning authoring software? What is course authoring software? Should you invest in an authoring tool?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 It’s funny, and appropriate. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

The electronic encyclopedia is available either as a standalone product or packaged with Microsoft Student. Tags: Community Tech Centers Community Tech Centers Digital Divide E-Learning E-Learning Services Software Using the Web and Internet. Either donation is available for an administrative fee of only three dollars.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 13, 2008

Virtually New Orleans : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera: "High school students enrolled in the camp are spending this week intensively exploring what led up to the 2005 storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and went down in history books as one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. I'm even more of zoombie after the event because managing events takes a lot of adrelin.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Consult Details: Selecting the right database software or host-site to keep track of our constituents; mine that database of information for maximum return from investors; use better on-line fund-raising techniques. Tags: 10NTC beth kanter dos NPTech. Layout and design ideas for my site. Group #007 - Miles for Cystic Fibrosis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. It's messy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Very sophisticated for a student team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones. Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? " Findhabeas. " Have any to add?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Ben works on Blackbaud’s Corporate Communications Team, is a Graduate Student at University of Texas School of Advertising (Hook ‘Em) and a Mississippi native. By encouraging the hashtag in emails and ads leading up to your nonprofit event, people will be prepared to use that tag and use it often. Everybody wants to be a VIP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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. Tags: ROI. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

How can you possibly keep up with all the new little internet-based software applications being placed online everyday? This site was created by 19 year old Brian Benzinger, a student at Gibbs College in Norwalk Ct. Tags: web2.0 , nptech There are a few web-sites devoted to serving as portals to all these new apps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I promise (!) at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I promise (!) at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Teachers still steer the boat, but students have much more freedom and opportunity with the controls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

s democracy - it was just about showing the beauty of her country, sharing her experiences in school, and learning from her peers and fellow students. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. Technorati Tags: cloggersummit2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

HTML code doesn't phase me as I've had over ten years playing with it, but it seemed like a lot of extra work (find the image url you like, cut and and paste it into the tag, and if the size isn't write -you're out of luck). Another question I had: What is the easiest way to make a hard copy "Class Book" of student blog?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

We’re building new cataloging software that we eventually hope to provide free of charge to jumpstart other collections. Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors. Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences. We start each official meeting with introductions.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

Maybe your food bank is working on a special program to send meals home with students over a holiday break, for children who might not have any other way to get food when school is closed. You can make your list in a spreadsheet or if you already have a donor tracking software, you can tag or group names so you can easily find them later.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. His specialty: user testing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

The real show in the museum was a series of canvasses showing tags--graffiti--and the curator and education department installed a wall in the middle of the gallery so that visitors could tag (we provided colored pencils, and people brought their own markers and stickers). Tags: web2.0 You don’t know it’s a blog.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Consider the grandfather who points to a computer and asks if it does google, or the college student who downloads killer app after killer app, without wondering (or caring) how the software will affect or support her life. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out. We don't think, "is this X useful for me?"

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

You can also see the images I used, which were constructed with an extremely cool presentation software called Prezi, here. There are college students who cannot make it through the day without checking Facebook multiple times. I want a college student to feel like her week is not complete if she didn’t make it to the museum.

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