Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08 I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. at 7:35 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 So the scarcity mentality isn’t just for small, struggling nonprofits. It’s very widespread.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. at 7:18 pm { 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 jack 06.24.08 at 9:04 pm I agree with your assessment.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM.

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MAY 7, 2008

If you have a favorite blog (or podcast or vlog) that uses its platform to raise awareness, build community and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place, will you post the blogs/podcasts/vlogs' name and URL in the comments? blog social change activism net2 podcast vlog citizen journalism

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . Are they tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. The Second C: Collaboration.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Drinking from the Firehose? These are ?software

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.) One of the reflections.

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JUNE 17, 2008

60) Search « Care2 Welcomes Dana Weissman to Nonprofit Services | Main | Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns » Tuesday Jun 17 2008 New Research Findings: Advocacy Groups More Trusted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 10:51AM | by Dana Weissman American citizens trust advocacy groups – a lot more than they trust the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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MARCH 4, 2008

What were the costs associated with facilitating the competition? March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Of course, we had no budget for this. No fancy video upload tool or software.

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MARCH 3, 2008

What were the costs associated with facilitating the competition? March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Of course, we had no budget for this. No fancy video upload tool or software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If you have had a change to play with Jumo and have some insights, please share in the comments. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. But participatory facilitation can be taught. Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf Some are calling it impact investing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. Seems like facilitative leadership is key. This made curious: How did Twestival get started?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In their eyes, there are four main goals that grantmakers can hope to accomplish: Facilitate communication among grantees – enable them to connect before and after in-person gatherings (see Purpose Prize Innovation Network ) and promote tagging on sites like Flickr as an information sharing tool. and even some 3.0 ) tools in their work.

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AUGUST 27, 2007

In their eyes, there are four main goals that grantmakers can hope to accomplish: Facilitate communication among grantees – enable them to connect before and after in-person gatherings (see Purpose Prize Innovation Network ) and promote tagging on sites like Flickr as an information sharing tool. and even some 3.0 ) tools in their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.)

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

The report was released on December 8, 2008 (with an interim report published earlier this year in July). Hill staffers prefer to know which organization is facilitating the communication, as well as an easy way to categorize the organization's and constituents' position on the issue or bill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." My email signature (which I use when posting personal questions and comments on autism-related Yahoo groups) includes all of these channels as well. Is there a risk involved with this? Emphatically, yes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

What would it be like if we could help nonprofits with the following: Asking whether technology implementations in their organization in the past have really facilitated their mission? How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support.

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JANUARY 18, 2008

First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. Now, on to the lessons thus far.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Processing a credit card transaction or facilitating a financial transaction will always have a cost. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. smaclaughlin Thanks for the comment. smaclaughlin Peter.I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. I’ll be facilitating a plenary panel with: Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former Chairman (1998-2008) of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund) and author of Giving 2.0. Let me know in the comments.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Blackbaud’s CEO Marc Chardon will be facilitating a panel to discuss Global Trends and What They Mean to You. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I first encountered Tharum when he commented on my Cambodia4Kids blog in 2004, and we got to meet face-to-face in London in 2005 when he participated in the Global Voices Summit that year. He continues to write his blog and is a new media specialist at Voice of America. All in all, it was a exciting evening.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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