Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Don't limit high quality information , filter out the crap.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused. We encourage users to report such content and we have a large team of professional reviewers who evaluate these reports and take action per our policies.”. It was created in 2009 long before there were Community Pages.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Now’s the time to take advantage of the opportunity to put in place an intensive evaluation process that will allow your fundraising, marketing, and communications programs to function at the highest degree of efficiency and effectiveness. Copyright © 2009 by Mal Warwick. Tags: mal warwick NPTech NTEN Planning Fundraising.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

We believe that they have begun to do so, and will more and more base their giving decisions upon such information. Since its inception, Charity Navigator has striven to provide social investors with unbiased, reliable, and accurate information regarding charities’ finances. October 2009. [4] Fraud charges loom for Pedro.”

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MARCH 23, 2009

2009 is the year of transparency. Since 1994, GuideStar has been gathering data about nonprofit organizations and publicizing the information to their paid members. GuideStar recommends that nonprofits become more transparent by posting the following information on their websites: Detailed program and evaluation information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Resident apps help us put the most up-to-date information in the hands of users, since our consumer seafood recommendations are updated twice a year. Our website , is the hub for all in-depth information and news. What were some of the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

These performances are then evaluated by judges and the audience. Listen social media geeks and you shall hear.) I hope it will be informative AND entertaining. Tags: sxsw. I organized at the NTC last year. So, what's a poetry slam ? It is a competition at which poets read or recite original work under a five minute limit.

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JANUARY 25, 2009

When: February 2, 2009 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM. Wade Hudson, co-founder of the Progressive Resource Catalog and the Strategy Workshop , an informal association of activists and organizers, are studying ways to help progressive activists become more effective and get results. . When: January 28, 2009 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

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 many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In September 2009, President Obama released the “Strategy for American Innovation,” encouraging agencies to use prizes and challenges. GSA picked the very cool ChallengePost platform after evaluating eight platforms that were identified in response to this Request for Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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 many more panel proposals. Handheld Awesome Detectors: Sustainable Apps Making more sustainable choices is getting easier with help ubiquitous information, thanks to passionate geeks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

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 many more panel proposals. Handheld Awesome Detectors: Sustainable Apps Making more sustainable choices is getting easier with help ubiquitous information, thanks to passionate geeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010.

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JUNE 27, 2008

And hopefully, the outcome of that multi-sensory engagement will be conversations that sustain and spread through the conference, both formally in the open plenaries and informally in the halls. The VSA will be doing post-conference evaluations to find out. Tags: professional development. Are you headed to Houston?

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JULY 23, 2009

Historically, we've accomplished this through the tried and true method of paper evaluations. At the 2009 NTC, we decided to give this system a major tech overhaul by implementing a mobile text messaging version of this: the Mobile Evaluation. This would trigger the next question, and so on until the evaluation was complete.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. Open Access publishing therefore leads to wider dissemination of information and increased efficiency in science … Which is, actually, a very practical down to earth argument.

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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. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Who stores the donor information and how quickly does the nonprofit get it? One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. But what happens after the click is tremendously important to the nonprofit. But, here's what I think.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Traditional community organizing informs a successful online campaign and lays the groundwork for a sustainable, effective movement for social change. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. We’ll use the TSdigs event in October 2009 as a case study. Tags: events 10ntc netsquared nten presentation.

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MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Have a response process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The opera will be performed throughout the weekend of Deloitte Ignite (4, 5, 6 September 2009). How do you evaluate this? Crowd Voting: This category uses the crowd's judgement to organize vast quantities of information. Tags: crowdsourcing. Hat Tip Blog Herald ). I wonder if they will crowdsource the review?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. On December 8, 2009, OMB released the Open Government Directive (OGD), which provided specific guidance on fulfilling the vision set forth in the January memorandum. USAID Should do More to Require their Contractors to Share Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

While we have a number or random staff also creating relationships with people that are interested in what they do, the programs allow for a very specific audience to collect information about what they are most interested in. With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). set audience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

A guest Beneblog by By Anita Gohdes, Megan Price, and Patrick Ball Several media organizations including Reuters , Foreign Policy and New Scientist covered the January 21 release of the 2009 Human Security Report (HSR) entitled, “The Shrinking Cost of War.” Tags: IRC mortality human rights Congo HSR warfare.

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