Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector. It was always peer learning – I’d share about the technology and they’d teach me about their work. Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sometimes at first you feel like – oh crap – this didn’t work and don’t even want to look at it again. Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. What part of the workshop was most useful to your work? Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. What practices work best for nonprofits on Facebook? Alternately, nonprofits can also use Facebook to cultivate foundation relationships.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

My colleague Colleen and I spent weeks working closely with the three convening organizations, helping them identify key ways to share their messages and summit activities in a virtual space. The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Know your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

  I set up a wiki where I've collected links to others who have remixed and was hoping to create some templates and source material for people to remix it.    That was until I got this email from Demetrio Maguidgad explaining how he remixed the game, how it worked, and the files! . 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise. I don't like the repeated use of support, but at the moment am lacking good alternatives). Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

wiki that Michele Martin created. I've been fooling around with alternative ways for share presentations over the web. I'm also curious to see what works for a webinar. I added a lot of visuals, I changed the examples, reorganized and tweaked the steps. You can see my remix here. I like having a leave behind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

You can find other Twitterers who are interested in your book's topic on the TwitterPack wiki. The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. You can email me your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. They wanted to integrate social responsibility into their work, and make a decent living. They made 3 lists: a. I'm not worried.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2009

Unfortunately, things don't always go according to plan, especially if you are starting something new, and you need to be able to come up with alternative solutions and course corrections, or you'll become frustrated and burned out very quickly. Social change work happens over the long haul. the end of poverty). Collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Many of you have offered encouragement and great ideas through the writing process on the development wiki for the book and in the blog posts that are excerpted from the draft. Go to the wiki , read a bit, and add your comments and suggestions for improvement. Doodle on this form and share some of your work. Dear Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

The vision is to help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborative, share knowledge, and build alliances. It can also support the work of organizations and networks of organizations. Pick three things you want to do together.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

(bring your own device) movement has been a staple topic in the IT press, and it is commonplace for us to use our own mobile phones and tablets for work related activities. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! I do have experience as knowledge engineer and conceptualizer, which basically means that I am used to working in fields I know nothing about. To find the dynamics, or lack thereof at Naturalis, I set out to speak to everyone working there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. One of the most valuable experiences I've had in my professional work is having critical friends (You can see what that means here , here and here ). What does feedback look like?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. I have met so many of you in the last year who are working on projects and new ideas and would really benefit from connecting to others in the loose "museum 2.0" Thank you so much.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 3, 2022

It’s important to consider which option(s) will work best for your organization. This way, you give people alternatives that fit their pockets. However, if Google Analytics won’t work, it’s okay to use other analytical links and software as long as the admins have a reporting section.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

The winners do receive prizes from The Tech, but all of their work is under a Creative Commons attribution license , which means that any museum/institution/inspired person could take a virtual exhibit and run with it as long as they credit the original creator(s) by name. But that's just a start.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And it’s been a pleasure to get to know you a little bit, Francis, in planning for this webinar, and what an extensive body of work in helping people plan for and use technology effectively inside organizations. Those are some of the hallmarks of the way we conduct our work. Next slide, please.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Possible Working Titles: 1. The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. Since this screencast will only show how one tools works, Google Analytics , her article provides the larger context and summarizes the pros/cons of the complete range of tools. Analytics This! Learning Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You're testing different social media tactics and learning what works. And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. This is a different way of working. Do you have the most efficient work flow and tasks in place?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

While working on the chapter about crowdfunding I began studying Kiva.org , Donors Choose , Sell A Band. Excited about the work we were doing they asked if they could send out an email blast to their list of 500+ about the reporting efforts we were undertaking. Trust – we want to work with folks that we can trust and who trust us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Working from home provides amazing freedom, but with that freedom can come isolation. Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. That made me realize that I could bring my environmental values to my work. Chris Messina: My name is Chris Messina.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

One piece we did not use that we could have gotten some leverage- Pathable can add a mini WetPaint wiki to each session listed in the calendar, so we could have asked people to share notes, links there. Thanks Jordan S for working with us on this! And there was another bonus we found later, see the twitter section.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It therefore comes as no surprise that a number of our staff have made a commitment to contributing their ideas on open government outside of work. At Forum One, we are passionate about the open government initiative currently underway. A select group of these ideas are provided below. Young Diplomat Program. Vote for this Idea].

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It apparently works in Windows 7, but not Windows 8 as yet. It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc. You can download all the guides here. to get started. and tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them."

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