Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. .” Says Barb, “We need to learn from each other and collaborate more.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. I learned a lot. Available online at [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. ” The members don’t necessarily develop powerful relationships and collaborations. What patterns can social media use reveal that provide strategic insight for network?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. If program evaluation has been done well, this may be one useful tool to help convince stakeholders to buy in (Harris, 2010).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. I had lots of positive feedback.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Learn more about Mozilla Service Week and get involved! This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. You may already have an idea of how you want to help, and that’s great. Learn more about finding a project, here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. Learn more. Learn more. We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Learn more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The other arm is learning. And I can’t stay a technology expert without continually learning. Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. We have to apply lessons learned from the GFC. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Vote for your local organization: Some cities have already chosen the organization and others need local people to vote, so use the map on the Twestival site to find your city’s Twestival page to learn more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

These individuals were selected to apply their unique perspectives into the judging process and help determine this year’s Social Innovation Winners. Learn more about these thought leaders and their respective areas of expertise in the following breakdown of our 2021 Leadership Council. Helped co-found Oncology and Kids, Inc.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more! " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When I had surgery in 2009, I used eHop e as an online tool to help me stay in touch with my community and ask for help. This time, I'm going to try out two other online tools: CaringBridge , which will help me update my farflung family, friends, and colleagues. I'm scheduled to have surgery on January 20th.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). Childcare, meals, and transit can also be helpful to previously disengaged individuals. 2009, May 1). There is no golden standard.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009. They can even help elect a new president.). What happens when marketing evolves from broadcast to conversation, fundraising changes from large donors to e-microdonations, or collaboration moves from sweaty basements to vast social networks? Location: MIT room 3-270 (click for map).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. If you’re doing social media and you’re trying to be perfect, get over it – you won’t learn how to improve what you’re doing. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We both had a front row seat at start of the Web Industry (back then we called it “New Media”), helping to shape how people use new digital technologies. Aliza and I ran into each other again in 2009 at the first Wisdom 2.0 So, what better way to live and breath this topic than to collaborate on a book with Aliza.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. Then, try to think in even broader terms. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports regularly on the employment situation for people with disabilities, there is strong evidence that it has gotten disproportionately worse for workers with disabilities since 2009. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

However, if we are truly intent on using technology to serve and help others we cannot forget to make sure tools we use, whether they are websites or apps, are accessible to all. He is a learning disability consultant, technology trainer, nation's foremost expert on WordQ and SpeakQ.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people?

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. A July 2009 Pew Internet study found there is no digital divide for online when you factor in mobile access. But what's coming up in 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned. In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009. And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? Trust me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 17, 2011

Seniors, in particular, are an especially important age demographic to learn more about. Einolf (2009) [1] analyzed the baby boomer generation and predicted a similar increase in volunteer numbers and rates. Your responses will help provide a better understanding. of how to help Arizona best utilize the 50+ volunteer crowd.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms. Want help figuring it out for yourself?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority. Now, in 2022 Pew Research surveys show that 87% of U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. It was organized by our Center in collaboration with the ASU Morrison Institute and Knowledge Networks, a firm that specializes in web-based surveys. over 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. Helping the women receiving the funds. What is it about?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Slightly fewer millennials believe people like them can help make the United States a better place to live, with the biggest drop seen among females. Since beginning the study in 2009, Achieve continues to lead the national research team in partnership with the Case Foundation. themillennialimpact.com. About the Case Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. In Spring 2009, we were approached by a group that was building an advanced video + action platform and that wanted to draw on the Social Actions API. These were changes that we had wanted to make for a long time.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference. The Community Dissected (elements of the page).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

As executive director, Aaron's focus is on communication, collaboration, nonprofits, video, social media, and the bleeding-edge technology behind these things. LCH is the perfect place for him to learn, teach, share, and work to make the world, or at least a small part of it, a better place. Aaron Bramley Lights. Michael Hoffman.

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