Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2011

Yesterday, Holly Ross at NTEN , mentioned that a common question she gets after talking about Social Media with nonprofits is from organizations that work with students or young people and are concerned about liability issues surrounding what students who “like&# their page may post on their page, or on their own walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." " This report is from NTEN, Common Knowledge, and The Port. These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Read more posts on our blog. A recent sexist Barbie book about girl coding encouraged a Georgia Tech student to personally rewrite it. Finally, we here at NTEN HQ hope that 2014 brings you joy to its last second of existence and that your socks remain dry. You can create and share a personalized snowflake.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What are learning platforms?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). His definition: A style in which the trainer acts as a peer to the student, physically sitting with the student and explaining technical concepts simply. Note from Beth: This post is from the blog tour on the What’s Your Calling ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. It has many examples of using blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare and other tools for both face-to-face workshops and e-learning.

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JULY 1, 2011

But NTEN members are using the newest, and some of the oldest, technologies to do good all over the world. This week our members used and blogged about HTML5, the radio, and even gamified a campaign to help other people and nonprofits! Beth Kanter summed up the implications of this new platform on her blog. Anything we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

All Idea Accelerator participants will be encouraged to continue to refine their pitches, work on their projects, and document their progress going forward on NTEN’s blog. To learn what they had to say, check out the link to the Instagram videos via the @NTENorg account. For the full list of project pitches, visit: [link].

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Last year, Clay Shirky wrote a now-infamous blog post called " A Rant About Women ". Shirky observes that his female students tend to miss out on career opportunities because they rarely promote themselves like "arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks", as his male students seem far better able to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. An easy way to do this is to pause or take a breath after ten minutes to answer questions or give participants something active to do rather than passively listen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

You don’t have to code to do what should be basic tasks using the tool (for instance, this eliminates a good time tracking program, which at some point I might blog about, but that you have to learn scheme[1] to get customized reports with any complexity. )

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. You can find all resources materials here. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Sure, we report a lot of things -- how many people we fed, how many students attend our classes -- but we rarely use data to talk about what matters: Are we ending hunger? Are our students learning? . You can also read his recent article on the subject , published in our blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

(And yes, it would be cheating to make that a separate blog entry!) Because the Firefox artwork is proprietary (and therefore a violation of Debian’s free software guidelines, the browser was rebranded. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I gave a lightening talk at the Gates Foundation convening of the Markets for Good community on “ Between the Keyboard and the Chair “ Facilitation and Train the Trainers: I was honored to co-facilitate a leadership track at the first ever Leading Change Summit hosted by NTEN which was an amazing learning experience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

A couple of days ago, she made a call on her blog for academics to stop publishing articles in closed journals. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Beth Dunn , who was getting up at 4:00 am, stayed up late to respond her blog. And, there have been many spin-off conversations on other blogs as a result. As Holly Ross notes on the NTEN blog , Chris doesn't like to call himself an expert. As of Friday evening, there 77 comments on this post. Impressive. Being a learner.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Last week I dropped in on the weekly NTEN Water Cooler chat hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish. Many community members are avid users of and students of social media – for some it is an integral part of their profession, so this is a great place to learn about social media. Tags: friendfeed guest blogging.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 The college students enjoyed the t-shirts too even though they were not aware of the companies. Like street hawkers. "Google? YouthNoise?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. I could barely utter two words let alone blog about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr. Mike Connery from OpportunityAgenda shared a fascinating project his nonprofit did in flickr in partnership with students in a media production class. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Later in the day, we split up into three groups and were welcomed into the homes of three different students at Star Fish School. We did the same opener with the family as well as played a few games. Then we cooked lunch together in their home and had a meal together and conversation. Learn More .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. The media here IS the service. So how do we propose to pay for it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

If you're reading this blog, you likely have a skill that can be put to use helping folks out with their tech needs. Here's how ( from the Mozilla blog ): Choose from a list of service opportunities: Search our partner sites ( Idealist & betterplace.org ) for a volunteer opportunity near you or anywhere around the world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

I've also been using my own blog data as a sandbox for running and interpreting reports. I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters. We had quick email back and forth and he gave me permission to blog or rather their marketing director David Owen did and called Larry a genuis. (I

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Facebook isn't just for college students anymore.

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