Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Part 1 addresses the prevalent concern shared by their peers about adopting transparency, a fear of the unknown, or that sharing the gritty details with the public will be too overwhelming and therefore misconstrued. The total value of our endowment took a significant beating as demonstrated in the online statistic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Eventually, nonprofit and for-profit sectors in the United States began to adopt some of the concepts from the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship movement (Defourny et al.,

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JULY 13, 2011

Demonstrate expertise? Respect copyright laws by quoting and linking to the full text and only use images that you have permission to use (i.e. Adopting an attitude of generosity on the web goes a long way. Explain why you're blogging. Are you trying to start a conversation? Foster community? Get press leads? All of the above?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Is this one of those flashy third world technology demonstration projects where a prestigious organization and a digerati provide a wad of cash to impose a technology solution that gets a lot of media hoopla, but isn't sustainable? It has adopted a cyber strategy in its own development that is sustainable and scalable. " Oh no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. I've added a wiki to my Facebook profile. I'm not quite sure yet how it might be useful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Rather than just telling people how the world needs to improve, the successful social entrepreneur demonstrates how to do it. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. Fast forward to today.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Pet Adoption Event Obviously, pet adoption events make perfect sense for animal shelters and other animal welfare-focused groups. Have your organization collaborate with local animal shelters to host adoption drives, connecting animals in need with caring families. That’s a great way to demonstrate value in your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

One of the advantages of being a nonprofit that treats animals is that our patients have no expectation of privacy – we can publish images of the animal’s treatment without having to navigate complicated privacy laws like HIPAA. Figure 2: WildCare's owl patient was rescued, rehabilitated, and released.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Achieving scale usually leads to sustainability: when we demonstrate that a new Benetech solution is far more effective than the status quo, we can usually find a way to finance that innovation for the future. Respecting the law. We are about big, positive change using technology as the vehicle. Avoiding conflicts of interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The report also looks at the challenges for nonprofits, which are common in the nonprofit sector when adopting new technologies. The medical field is also subject to strict health and privacy laws for safeguarding patient data. This includes: skills, leadership, and risk appetite.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

The adoption of appropriate digital tools has the power to revolutionize operations, build trust amongst program participants and stakeholders, and offer more agency to those who depend on services. System Failure 4: Funding is tied to data and analytics, but the system makes accurate and standardized measurement impossible.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

But with change comes new opportunities to evaluate and improve on existing business processes and demonstrate to existing and potential supporters that your organization is dedicated to compliance and ethical accounting practices. It helps ease the adoption of new policies and increase the likelihood of a successful transition.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

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