Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

What bloggers have yet failed to achieve in full , is having been able to clearly communicate and explain the power that these tools offer to the non-technical person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable. Collective and collaborative problem-solving can get us farther faster.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We highlight and support their work by connecting teams with local Net Tuesday groups (for feedback, presentations), foundation and nonprofit organizations (to help implement technologies in the real world), and the larger community (for new ideas and collaborations).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. Photo by Eric Eugene Kim. Guest post by Patti Anklam. Social media in its many forms – blogs, Twitter, social networking sites, wikis, etc. –

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

I agree we need more of these model communities. Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Our 15 year old son is severely autistic. All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot of Communi.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. In putting people into small groups to collaborate on a strategy, I've always made sure that there was at least one person in each group who had a lot of hands-on social media tool experience.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Pierre Khawand is a guest blogger with more than 20 years of experience in the software industry. I often hear people say that [the] cloud is just the old time-sharing model used in the mainframe era. He is the author of the popular Less-Is-More Blog on the People-OntheGo.com website. What are the resemblances and the key differences?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. to developing recommendations collaboratively. EPA has also apparently trained 60 people to be trainers in online collaboration. News: InformationWeek ? to information exchange. to agreements. to stakeholder action. Impressive. Threats Evolve.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

From collaboration to cost management, nonprofits are trying to protect their (precious little) infrastructure and enterprise while serving even more people. Partnerships, fee-for-service models, social enterprise models, and networking are just a few avenues nonprofits can take to help navigate around the economy's traffic jam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . The chapter identifies a new area for PR folks to measure - education, participation, and collaboration. Simplified ROI Process: It sort reads like logic model to me. Mentions an alternative tool to Feedburner - Pheedo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some long time favorites: Nancy White is my go to guru on all things facilitation and has been for more than 10 years! Michelle Martin who writes the Bamboo blog was one of the first bloggers I connected with that was interested in peer learning, reflecting, and training design. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda. These two penguins do not want closed API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

This has to be done in the spirit of improvement and collaboration and with staff and grantees being allowed to make mistakes, to go in a wrong direction, learn from previous work, and take corrective action. Guest blogger Gale Berkowitz directs evaluation at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies Phil Klein , nonprofit technologist of Pen and Pixel Alexandra Samuel , online community consultant with Social Signal Michael Stein, nonprofit software developer and technology blogger Yann Toledano, nonprofit technology consultant and TechSoup forum co-host. These leading voices of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Blogger's angst. The openness sparks creative solutions, collaborations, accelerates partnerships, and sharing. It appears that Convio is more closely modeling their initiative after the wild success of software-as-a-service giant Salesforce.com. I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

So, the ASU Lodestar Center survey, modeled on the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Panel Study , emphasizes several major prompts. Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. This simple prompt turned 2.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We’re hoping to find out how the nature of civic engagement and mobilization is changing – along with the business models needed to support this kind of work. All of which brings me to MomsRising.org – perhaps one of the most compelling “new” models for issue-organizing. and collaborate to move issues forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. It builds connections with clients and collaborators. Sometime in the year or two after that, they started blogging.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. And I also struggled with the consulting business model. at 8:11 pm I guess bloggers don’t really get to choose their readers. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The NTC brings together the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness with technology. Each year, the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the nonprofit industry's signature technology event, and 2016 will be no different. Technology / #16NTC / @NTENorg.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. We aren’t reaching all the audiences we’d like to. We’re not essential parts of every community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. As one NYCResistor blogger effuses , "Will this endless parade of awesome classes never end?" Noisebridge defines itself as "an infrastructure provider for technical-creative projects, collaboratively run by its members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

So, we decided to " eat our own dog food " that is model the use of crowd sourcing to design and implement the panel. Using this open source collaborative platform, the Manhattan-based nonprofit has so far engaged more than 600 communities in 55 countries in creating citizen maps to catalyze new environmental projects, large and small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2006

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. This week the adult mentor blogger, Joitske Hulsebosch posted her answer to the question, "Who in the World Would you Really Like to Send an Email/Letter to, or to Read Your Blog Posts and Why?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! When you see someone inappropriately attacking another blogger either on comments on or a blog, say something! shows what amazing things can happen through collaboration. I also think that those who make the tools need to have awareness of this too.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. TechCrunch. reported earlier this month that Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace for $60 million. Disconnect is a certified B Corp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Cool Factor : Personal PSAs , 24 Hours, and Collaboration. I see this site growing as the use of mobile increases, but it’s a great first step and a good role model for other government agencies. Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute. Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

In our reflection session at the end of the last day, she wondered out loud to the group, "Even if I was able to help Zee by being a role model and helping her with her homework, was it really worth it?" Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot of Communi.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I think that, ultimately, is a good model for me to be an effective activist in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." " Nicola M. Wells is an activist for immigrant rights.

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