Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

such initiatives for a limited period of time to see if this method generates alternatives that may not have come to light through other means.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time. So here goes. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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BoardAssist

MAY 20, 2014

Alternatively, does the mission of the organization state that certain investments should be excluded or others included? 8) Are the roles and responsibilities of the board trustees, investment committee members and staff properly articulated? Do donors have specific objections to certain kinds of investments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We believe that print disabled people should be able to buy accessible books at the same time and at the same price as nondisabled people. Long post alert!]

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. You can also watch time lapse video of any frame being created.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

The ideas and narrative are laid out in a well-articulated strategic brief. The alternative, in most cases, is a lot of time, effort, and money poured into a website that either misses or ignores that context. And, as a result, it never really connects with the people on whose support, financial and otherwise, you rely.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 17, 2007

In an articulate polemic Laura Quinn of Idealware lambastes what she calls the "tooth-fairy" idealism those who maintain that all content in the non-profit sector ought to be free. A person's time has value! You need to capture the consumer with your free content and then extract value through alternate channels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2015

.'” Community foundations also are using “impact investing” that aims to address social and environmental problems by making alternative investments such as loans to nonprofits or allocations to socially responsible investments. ” Subscribe to the Index for monthly updates!

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Your homepage should welcome visitors to your organization, letting them know who you are and why it’s worth their time to explore your website further and take the next steps to back your cause. To avoid missing out on key support, create a stellar first impression with a strong nonprofit homepage.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

It's good to have some time to write amidst hectic traveling. You know you've spent too much time in airports when you stick your hands under your bathroom faucet at home and expect it to magically turn on. I've been thinking recently about ways to represent issues (social, political, scientific) in museum settings. Why question?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. Nonprofit websites have grappled with this problem for some time and have come to a few useful solutions, such as: Blog. Classes, webinars, and presentations. Color contrast.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

The more time between the good stuff, the less likely you are to tune in again in the future. Pandora uses collaborative filtering to create a real-time radio station for you based on your preferences. Pandora is a model for an alternative. Could I have articulated that at the start? I learned something! From experts!

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes Year-End Appeal Guide The end-of-year giving season always seems near. Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based). Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? I introduce these notes with three general observations: Some leaders are more radical than I hoped, and these people have a hard time advocating for change when their accountability is to those who have not changed. Who owns the stuff? Who controls the experience?

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