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MAY 12, 2016

Smaller sized content also enables them to absorb and retain the training courses in a better way. Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. Creative content is required to enable new and refreshed learning experience to employees. percent of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections. Instagram Overview. As of September, 2015 , Instagram had 400 Million users.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is also a commonly held view of programmers, web developers, IT professionals, database administrators, and other tech staff in an organization. But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. Tech people have unique exposure to the inner-workings of an organization. X-Ray Glasses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. By using this feature, Convio clients will be able to do things like, for example, use the API to display a list of your organization's upcoming events on your website. Oh, memories.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. They don’t tend to lead to widespread adoption that benefits people with disabilities directly, though. Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Big goals in addition to iterating on the products and getting them adopted widely: By 2016, they will solidify their business strategy, aggregate a mentorship program of 100,000 students around the world, and plant a million trees. Eventually they will launch a more formal program. • Are schools receptive?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2012

I get a lot of nonprofit email messages through subscribing to lists, working with lots of organizations, and being a donor. Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. It was almost as if many organizations were reading from the same recipe book. So Different, Yet So Similar.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

technologies to see about rates of adoption. Video is the most compelling content online. Video is the most popular content online. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! If you have been reading this blog, then you would not be surprised. That’s HUGE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Generations of Hope is one of 189 organizations going for February’s two top prizes of $250,000. It’s really about having a great idea and being a good community organizer.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Can your theory of change be hard coded into what your social benefit organization builds? By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. Do we need more user generated content? I know them not-well-enough.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Allowances for import and export of such material between countries by people or organizations. •

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

It really reflects what we're trying to do here to transform our institution into as relevant, dynamic, and successful an organization as possible. It wasn't until 2010, when MAH executive director Paul Figueroa resigned for health reasons, that the idea of the potential fit between Simon and the MAH first emerged.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Here are five reasons why: 1) Blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of fresh, timely new content to Tweet, post on Facebook, etc. Social media is content driven. Blogging allows nonprofits to quickly and easily create and post content that’s timely and relevant to the here and now. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

Companies are no longer content to do well. From B Corps to companies with robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, for-profit organizations are increasingly motivated to align with relevant causes and social good programs. Now the top-selling brand of organic and fair trade body care in the U.S.,

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Only 501(c)(3) organizations? Probably not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately. This was in the solidly web 1.0 Is it all just TCO arguments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

We also want to better empower our participants and supporters to spread the word about Entoure by developing content for our social media channels that is unique, exclusive and kick-ass!”. In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills! SafeAmerica Foundation , Bill Soule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Petri’s post shares a few thoughts about how his organization is focusing on the relationships through connection, not just traffic. Recently, we adopted a new vision for wish.org and our online channels, including social networks. Content Curation. Guest Post by Petri Darby, Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You’ll be able to review the content, maybe even share it with a friend or a colleague if you want to. Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations. We’ll get all that good stuff in your hands.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

She is responsible for the site’s non-database content and the GuideStar Newsletter. tax-exempt organizations. For example, you could have two animal welfare organizations dedicated to reducing the number of animals euthanized each year. Author: Guest Blogger. million nonprofits. So how do we bridge this gap?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You’ll be able to review the content, maybe even share it with a friend or a colleague if you want to. Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations. We’ll get all that good stuff in your hands.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

1999 study led by Doug Oman, University of California, Berkeley : Research found elderly who volunteered for two or more organizations were 44% less likely to die over a five-year period than non-volunteers, even after controlling for their age, exercise habits, general health, and negative health habits like smoking.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. She is one of our great online community organizers. As Twitter and Google Plus still adopt their more business-focused strategies, nonprofits will benefit from the added functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Since becoming widely adopted just a couple years ago, social media has supercharged social action, cause marketing, and social entrepreneurship. Political Organizing : In the next presidential election, politics will not only be local but location-enabled. The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.).

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