Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

I don’t always share links as I find them, but because I use content curation to support curriculum development for my training work, I like to share collections that organized so people can take an hour or so and get up to speed on a topic or to use if you are doing a training. Instagram Overview. Instagram Cheat Sheet.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In addition to bringing together people from across these sectors, Open Source Commons equips volunteers with the spaces, tools, and training they need to collaborate and create apps, content, and programs that benefit the greater Salesforce.org community. says Barbara Christensen, Salesforce MVP. Senior Manager, Open Source Commons.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Featuring Lincoln AMA members as speakers, the seminar focused on topics such as Marketing Planning, Understanding Your Target Market, and Branding on a Budget. In 2010, the event had a transformation. The rebrand featured a new logo, and a campfire icon and forest graphics were used in the marketing collateral.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Our latest shipment of refurbished computers includes Office 2010, which includes Word, Excel, and Outlook, OneNote, Visio viewer, and PowerPoint. We have a green technology place on TechSoup.org that features our content and products that support green IT. Greener IT Challenge is one of our newest offerings.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2010

We aim to work together to create a vision for meeting the education and learning needs of people in our field. Go ahead and criticize the substance of an action or the content of a speech, but just calling a person a nasty name is like pulling hair. We invite you to join us, take our survey, and we welcome your contributions."

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth.

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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. Although the Clearinghouse and Awards programs could be helpful to the cause of greater access for people with disabilities, I don’t think they truly take on the biggest opportunity for change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? Um, sorta. 2 Suzi 04.17.07

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For example, if a tech officer knows that an organization wants to allow members to log into the site eventually, they may choose a different kind of content management system in the short-term so they can make this feasible down the line. Tech people don't need to rely on gut or anecdotes to make decisions. What Does the Data Say? 'In

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

I know that personally, last year was the first time we’d ever had 20 people participating in our Rosh Hashana dinner, joining us around our humble Atlanta-based table from their own setups in Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Ah, technology. – Sarah Ackerman, Director of Copy + Content .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

her work appears on CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and the’s the author of a forthcoming white paper from the ZeroDivide Foundation about opportunities to use mobile to help serve and empower people in poor/marginalized US communities. Many feature phones also are web-enabled, so mobile web can broaden your audience. Twitter: @agahran.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

While web-based email went down in 2010, mobile email went up 36% in the US as we reported last week on Frogloop. Use a good subject line to catch people’s attention. If not, contact them about this feature request. And remember don’t write crappy content. Your members are reading on a very small screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. I love designing panels, not only the content but the interactive piece as well.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The current trend is away from the Apple iOS 2010 look with things like fancy drop shadows to the simpler Windows 8 'flat design' Flat design features contrasting colored simple icons to identify the sections of website. Invisible People. The cloud-based web-development company, Wix.com, reports. Faces of Drunk Driving.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In other words, people are now relying on their friends to recommend them content more often than searching for it themselves. As part of Microsoft Outlook 2010, features allow people to connect with their Facebook and MySpace accounts (the service already allowed you to connect Outlook to LinkedIn).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Available through TechSoup, Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate is a family of tools for designers building web and Windows client applications and rich media content. These articles and products can help you build your website from the ground up as well as inspire enhancements or new features on an existing site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform. They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning the more people use it. It is an essential tool for running projects that involves multiple people. regardless of where they are.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . If it’s just content, then link directly to the content. Add in FB’s “Like” rating feature next to key digital assets, as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Understandably, it has come to be somewhat different than I designed it back then, but it still feels good that something that I worked hard on is still serving people. And as time wore on, I lost touch with people and organizations. I don’t blame them – they needed the fixes, and the features.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

Combine that with this nugget: by 2014 more people will view web pages using a mobile device than a computer. And second, you don't have to count on users to upgrade their apps to see your new content. Once you update your mobile website content, you can be confident that's what people are seeing. Author: Sally Heaven.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

web content. admin fee: $45) features a straightforward interface, and allows your. People (the most important part — create profiles for folks inside and out of your organization). Word 2010: Create professional documents with this -processing program. Excel 2010: Develop spreadsheets and keeping track of data.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

The new Office 2013 products offer a number of new features and benefits over Office 2010, including direct integration with SkyDrive, new graphics options, the ability to open and edit PDFs in Word, plus syncing across several devices. One of the most interesting new features of Office is its integration with the cloud.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county. It also feels amazing to see some of my theories validated in this way--that giving people the opportunity to actively participate does really transform the way they see the institution and themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  As part of the preparation, we surveyed participants for their burning questions and that's how I created the content. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership.  created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief. 

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. 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. How do you connect with other people, and why? Do we need more user generated content?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? Does it really connect me to people? to Ma.gnolia. Sometimes, but not generally.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In 2010, we started preparing months in advance for end-of-year fundraising. Nonprofits always wonder whether they should talk about their cause in a negative (“This problem is really bad and tons of people are dying!”) More people were clicking on the video version, but more people were actually donating to the no-video version.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. So many people have limitations and are not able to take a walk, so go for it!" Meeting amazing people while doing interviews for the Big Vision Podcast.

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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.) For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, Building buzz and press for an advocacy action.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Officially, a silo is a large cylinder designed to insulate its contents. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party. George is also a featured contributor for the Huffington Post Impact section (HuffingtonPost.com/george-weiner). So what's holding us back? . In a word, silos. . During his 4.5

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Kivi Leroux Miller is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and the award-winning author of two books, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause” and “Content Marketing for Nonprofits: A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money.”

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010. A massive earthquake caused chaos in Haiti and killed over 100,000 people. It hit her like a lightning bolt that this could be a solution for Haiti…that she could build a digital content platform,” Stephans said.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

On one hand, you’re able to help more people and expand the reach of your mission. " Your nonprofit’s website is the first interaction that many people in the community, including constituents, donors, and grant makers, have with your organization. Do you need software to manage volunteers and human resources?

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See3

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

. • They documented the efforts of their street teams, and made a fun and inspiring piece out of young people advocating their way onto the Today Show. • Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Now that we have all this footage, what do we do with it?

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