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Networked Nonprofit in Boston: A Story of Contrasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. Dancing on Different Sides of the Adoption Curve. We are seeing the use of social media broaden beyond the early adopters and becoming more mainstream. to “how does our organization begin to adopt social media strategically?&#.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Are the fees charged by the various new online fundraising platforms to high for mass adoption to occur? Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers? Questions for you … Will the fragmentation of online fundraising effect non-profits? Negatively? Positively?

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What a fabulous cross-blog discussion about cross blog discussion, care to join us?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I asked him some questions about connections between offline/online communities and how to encourage non-bloggers into a blogging community. Blogs compliment offline relationships because they help archive and trace out a discussion and because they occur ascychronously. He's written about this topic here. *

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An Ode to the Accidental Techie

NTEN

Look at most online and offline forums in our space, even outside of NTEN, and you'll find it's the accidental techie who offers helpful down-to-earth counsel. The Accidental Techie is a problem solver While we're early adopters of new technology, we're not distracted by shiny objects.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. But in many areas there will always be scope for offline delivery of a non-profit’s message. 8 Allan Benamer 09.21.07

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The corporate sector have adopted it. There are offline ways to do it. Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. Priscilla has a set of simple guidelines for the bloggers. You need to get past the information overload and information clutter. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector.

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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart!

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