Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 2009, the “Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” SXSW lead to a book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” What’s Up Doc? This panel will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

All you need to know before experiencing Tombigbee River fabulous San Francisconess of Ike''s is this: Bring a jacket, bring a friend (or a book), and bring your appetite and you''ll be one happy sandwich eater. Here''s the whole thing (minus the links): act. tryanew-typeofphonehere.us by [46.105.137.34] by tryanew-typeofphonehere.us

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 27, 2009

Ten years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. Parts of the book are nothing short of brilliant, while other passages still have us shaking our heads in confusion about the intended meaning, a full decade later.( read more ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

Doc Searls on VRM. To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. Searls also wrote The Cluetrain Manifesto , a business book about the impact of the Internet on commercial marketplaces and organizations.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2010

In case you were lucky enough to get one of these goodies recently, I thought you might like a couple of tips about how to turn the best mobile movie and book machine into something close to productive as well. The iPad of course! It's a little pokey, but for small everyday tasks, it's essential. Keynote/Pages/Numbers.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2010

In case you were lucky enough to get one of these goodies recently, I thought you might like a couple of tips about how to turn the best mobile movie and book machine into something close to productive as well. The iPad of course! It's a little pokey, but for small everyday tasks, it's essential. Keynote/Pages/Numbers.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 14, 2016

If staring at a blank Word doc makes you feel anxious, you’re not alone. Creating web content, a blog post, an email, an e-book or a press release can be intimidating even for professionals. But what does “conversational” actually look like? How do you have a conversation with someone you can’t see, hear or talk back to?

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

Check out all the awesome resources, opportunities, and summer learning programs on the docket for this summer: Superstar member Heidi Massey created this handy Google Doc full of free/low cost tech resources for nonprofits. Fortunately, the NTEN community is making it easy this year. The best part about it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good After reading my friend Keri Smith's book The Guerilla Art Kit , my 16-year-old daughter Lillian decided it would be delish to write little-bitty love notes and plaster them all over our tiny town. She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2011

You tap on the photos of the t-shirt and the book to add them to the sales slip. Reconciling the transactions could be easier, but you can download the data from your online Square sales record into an Excel doc. Alternately, you can also ring a cash purchase or input the number of a card that refuses to swipe. It is magic, right?)

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

A calendar has been set up for meeting rooms, so anyone can easily tell if a meeting room is booked or not. Google Docs and Google Sites are also used by some groups and not others, depending on the familiarity with these applications and individual preferences. What issues has OCASI run into? How have they been dealt with?

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

Instead of booking a room and inviting people to come and see what they’re up to, our community team is much more likely to host an online demonstration like this one so they can reach many more people, regardless of where they are. This team brings you our discussion forums. How SlideRocket Works. SlideRocket is very easy to use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I looked over Allan Benamer’s post on the Convio and Kintera initiatives, I looked harder at the Convio Open and Kintera Connect docs, and I also had a chat with some Kintera folk. I have a few comments. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

This is similar to the “ Fortress ” as described in the Networked Nonprofit book. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. As they explore in their new book, fear of failure holds many organizations back from a networked nonprofit approach. Supervised or supported service.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Personally, I voted for Betty Makoni (pictured left), because I was moved when I read her story in Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark , and when I heard her story again while interviewing Paola for the Big Vision Podcast. You can watch videos about each hero, and learn more about their stories on the 2009 CNN Heroes voting page.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. Allan, in his inimitable way, points out how bad the API is. So is it good news, when companies open APIs that don’t make it easy to really use?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 96% of people who ask Spock to scan their address book do not end up inviting anyone to their trust network.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Ten years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. Parts of the book are nothing short of brilliant, while other passages still have us shaking our heads in confusion about the intended meaning, a full decade later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type. asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. I ask participants to share on an index card as part of a raffle for my book. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

In his popular book “Eat That Frog!”, Schedule a couple hours in your evening to enjoy time with your family, read a book, or engage in your hobbies. The time you spend binge watching a show or reading a book is not wasted time but time that your brain needs to re-boot. Prioritize the important tasks FIRST.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

For a business with a need to invoice and have a product book, I’ve looked at ZohoCRM and like it, but don’t see references to any integration with a CMS. For nonprofit use, the clear leader seems to be civiCRM/Drupal as it looks after, content, memberships, events and mailing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When I wrote the “ Happy Healthy Nonprofit ,” in-person workplaces were the norm and the book looked at ways to activate a culture of wellbeing in the nonprofit workplace. For example, working as a team on a large report using a tool such as Google Docs allows each person to work on it at different times.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

G Suite is Google’s collection of business apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive. As you can all work on projects at once with Google Docs, and easily share information through the various apps, it will become easier than ever to work efficiently as a team. Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms. Book a Free Consultation.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

Jason also serves as an instructor in Digital Media Marketing at George Brown College, has held positions on several governing boards is also a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars. Before 13NTC, he teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking docs for the breakout sessions at the conference.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Even if you've managed to stave off the social media hounds in your nonprofit so far, you've seen other signs: Those twenty-something staffers who look dumbstruck when you inform them you don't know GDoc from Doc Holliday. I head a technology organization, so I'm likely more aligned with the premise of the book than most.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

He said the document-sharing capabilities of the site are limited, but sufficient for formal board book type collaborations. Google Docs will win out for collaborative document capability every time,” he said. It’s not real time, but you can use it that way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

The illustration above comes from a book by Rob Cross called " Driving Results Through Social Networks " which is about how to leverage informal networks within your organization or cross-organizational teams. We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. . Source: Rob Cross, What is ONA? Organizational Network Analysis).

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. I also buy a lot of books. Attend conferences. Build this into your time and budget plans.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Calendly enables people to book meetings with you at times when you're free. InVision and Marvel are prototyping tools in which you can have many people contribute and leave comments, like Google Docs for design. We all miss Sunrise! However, there are some alternative calendar tools.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

This is a full-time position with benefits and a starting salary of $28,000-$32,000 depending on experience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Please read the book “Influence” by Cialdini if you’ve never read it, it’s filled with psychological principles that you can use. This is Giving Docs, which the ACLU is using to let people just come on here and click and leave their legacy in very simple steps. There are new services now.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And, yes, Steven and I think we booked this date like in March or something, right? And, hey, here’s a Google doc parking lot that we set up that we want anybody who’s got issues or ideas about our technology, you can put them in here. Are you doing okay? Maureen: I am doing great. It’s Thursday, friends. ” .

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

How’s it going, doc? I did mention or in the readings, I did mention this book “Emergent Strategy.” But don’t do that right now because one of my favorites is graciously returning to our webinar series. Joining us from beautiful San Francisco, Dr. Renee Rubin Ross. You doing okay? . Dr. Ross: Oh, thank you.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Some operations teams use a log book to keep staff updated on the activities of the previous day, but too many rely on word-of-mouth and lose the opportunity to document institutional history and convey knowledge from staff member to staff member. Many people use Google Docs for this, though I find the interface a bit confusing.

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