Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It can bring in your photos (and the photos of your contacts) from flickr. I’m still on internet clients, believe it or not, and still have some to go. Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.&# For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us It can keep track of your Twitter friends, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming. Time and resources permitting, you can then expand to also using tools like TwitPic and Facebook Photos.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 12, 2009

This was a two percent drop in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation) compared to 2007’s $314.07 percent compared with 2007 estimates (-6.3 Photo: Peter Gerdes. Taking inflation into account, U.S. giving was down 5.7 percent, the largest drop since the group began tracking donations in 1956.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 29, 2009

A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords and establishing a password policy. Photo: Paul Linton. The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter's Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. The chief lesson: good passwords are key to good security. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Cute Dog Photos! They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos. They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos. Back in 2007, I noticed a pattern in the US. What types of photos or videos that your organization shares on the social web get the most attention? Cute Dog Photos!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

I think one of the biggest mistakes that an organization can make with its website is to promise more than it can deliver – make sure that the resources to create that blog, or podcast, or photo gallery, or whatever bells and whistles that you promise on your website, are there when the website goes live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The photo above is Leng Sopharath. Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. The photo above is Keo Savon with me this summer in Cambodia. She graduated from college and is married. She graduated from college and is married.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

6) Identification either, Passport photo page, Driver License or National ID. (IF Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with a private code for security, your code shall be (CARD 905:2007) Make this code your reference number when contacting us. 1) Full Name as wanted on Card. (2) NO P O BOX). (3) 3) Phone And Fax Number. (4)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2007, over ten years ago, I launched a crowdfunding campaign to participate in the first ever Cambodian bloggers conference, organized by Tharu m and colleagues. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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See photo on the left) Together, we joined forces and presented on the top tips and tools for creating visual media with a limited budget, and explained why its so important. I felt really humbled to be amongst a highly diverse group of both budding and seasoned grassroots activists.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. I was able to share photos , tweets , Facebook updates , and Instagram photos in real time. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Romney said that while he was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007 he looked through binders full of women to find qualified women candidates to serve in his cabinet. But things got even more interesting when Romney began discussing women's issues and in particular fair pay.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2012

A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2010 Course. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2007 Course. Video demo of Broadcast Slideshow. What is Presenter's View? Better PowerPoint Presentations: The Office Casual Way. Office Web Apps Home Page. What are Office Web Apps? SkyDrive Home Page.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. "Every year, we hold a photo exhibition of children from the villages we support to raise awareness in Japan. " "We are using Office 2007 for our daily office work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

The demo also showed a new 3D map feature and how you can take a photo and have it return google search results. The question reminded of a screencast I created back in 2007 for NTEN and Salesforce Foundation that covered Google Adwords campaigns). lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

The iPhone version, released in January 2009, built on an earlier mobile site targeted at feature phones that launched in 2007. iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. The Monterey Bay Aquarium clearly takes this approach seriously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

They will share the recipients’ stories and photos with the social web. Dubbed a “local blogging guru” by the Washington Post, Geoff’s award-winning book “Now is Gone” was released in 2007 and has been cited by the Wall Street Journal as a valuable resource for social media. The organization has served children since 1938 and helps 15.2

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2009

This was a two percent drop in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation) compared to 2007's $314.07 percent compared with 2007 estimates (-6.3 Photo: Peter Gerdes. Taking inflation into account, U.S. giving was down 5.7 percent, the largest drop since the group began tracking donations in 1956.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2009

When I wrote my first 10 Holiday Gifts that Give Back post in 2007, there weren't many posts like it. So, before you dive into your holiday gift shopping, remember that the "gifts that give back" the most are the ones given with love, no matter what they are. Last year, there were more, so I posted 10 Lists of Holiday Gifts That Give Back.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon. My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. Featured Photo: Business School for rural women in India by Mann Deshi Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Photo via Time. Laura earned an MA in Organizational Communication from University of Colorado at Boulder (2007) and a BA in Communication from University of Illinois at Chicago (2004). An unseasonable October snowstorm forced Occupiers to live amid three inches of slush last week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2008

Yesterday's Huffington Post article, 500,000 Iraqis Refugees in 2007 , reported that, "A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality." That's a statistic you don't often see in the news. Today, there is a total of 11.4

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2009

A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords and establishing a password policy. Photo: Paul Linton. The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter's Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. The chief lesson: good passwords are key to good security. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2008

Alan was the winner of my 50th Birthday Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix contest in 2007. This is an example of the types of ongoing, online conversations I've been having with CogDog blog's Alan Levine over the past three years. His blog was one of the first I discovered and have been hooked ever since. And he loves dogs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath, February, 2007. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath. You can read see the other photos and read the letter in flickr here. If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2007

To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in 24 Hours of Flickr, a day-long global photo project. On May 5 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures. More info here

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Object Based Social Sharing VS Social Graph Sharing : Objects are things like photos, bookmarks, slide decks, or in the case of Quora, questions. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post. Thanks Geoff! ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

I just received her April, 2007 letter where she shared what her daily schedule is like. I look forward to these quarterly updates and the photos. She is smiling and next two other young women who are being sponsored for college by the Sharing Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. Arthur Brooks' September 2007 article in the Journal of Economics and Finance , Does Giving Makes Us Prosperous ?, Photo of Sunflower by me.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Pangea Foundation developed the tool in response to the October 2007 wildfires that destroyed land and homes in and around San Diego. Photo: Random McRandomhead , CC license. Mobile Phones and Disaster Planning: Cell phones and "smartphones" are easily the greatest additions to accessible emergency preparedness and disaster response.

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