Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. Flickr partnered with TechSoup in 2008 to launch Flickr for Good. potential consumers). 2) Google/YouTube. for Good program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

My six 2008 Activist Resolutions went so-so: I did. Adult volunteers read once a week, one-on-one with two students for 30 minutes each. Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag. Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. No, I'm not blogging on the plane! conference like SXSW?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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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. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. What About You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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