Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Digital Dumpster Fire: Tips to Handle Social and Online PR Problems ( Communications Networking Lunch). Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Nonprofit Communications Strategies That Get Results.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

massnonprofit news :: : "November 17, 2014 — Nonprofits have been trained to think about themselves “in a backward way” that is stifling their potential to change the world, Dan Pallotta, an activist who has garnered renown for his efforts to get people to think about nonprofits the way they think about for-profits, told a Boston gathering of human (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

General rule - fix the problem upstream. The problem is that you don't own your feed. Soundsoap - post-producton - does noise reduction. Program costs about $90. Can do this with audacity but you need some technical skills and it doesn't do a good job. Less work to do it. Have your chain be as clean as possible. You need this.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Twenty years ago, I was privileged to serve as a senior consultant and trainer with the newly created Center for Corporate Community Relations at Boston College (now the Center for Corporate Citizenship). Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Stephanie is also a master of getting things done, thinking and doing in incremental steps (scaffolding), and problem solving. I have had the honor of working with Stephanie since 2009 when I arrived at the foundation as Visiting Scholar. She is always cheerful, enthusiastic, curious, and well – so much fun to work with!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” When the book is published next fall, I look forward to leading many workshops on the topic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Free Geek looks at two problems: e-waste and access to technology and throws them at each other in a way that saves the earth and gets computers into the hands of people who would not otherwise have them I had a field day with my camera and made the above music video on the plane home. Creative Commons Licensed Music from CCmixter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Oh, I've had problems before, but only minor hardware failures and crashes because I have a duo-RAID hard drive. I always seem to have computer problems before important presentations (see here and here ). It looks like one of the ram sockets on the motherboard is fried. I don't need this to happen to me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

It’s this kind of problem that the global treaty is designed to solve. Today, Bookshare has more than 175,000 books available in the U.S. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. Unfortunately, we can’t export these books, as other countries have copyright laws that we wouldn’t violate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Working on a 50-page handwritten report (with illustrations) at the end of the school year so I could go on a class field trip to Boston, and visit one of my favorite places, the Mapparium. We live in a time when we need creativity more than ever to find innovative solutions to the world's problems.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The problem is that we can only get so far by teaching ourselves through YouTube videos and endlessly searching Google. Tangible problem-solving. Inbound 2017 is sponsored by Hubspot and hosted in Boston, MA, September 25-28. Social Good Tech Week strives to solve the world’s most challenging problems by way of innovative tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Games’ strength is not showing “this is the problem, and here is the answer,” but to broaden players’ perspectives, build engagement, and ask “what are some ways we could address this?” The Senate Immersion Module will launch in Boston in March, at the opening of the EMK Institute.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston: Creating a 90-Day Online Marketing Plan for Your Nonprofit. Austin, Texas: Google AdWords for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. My problem has been retrieval. There are some technical and design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Davis is a Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. In The Generous Leader , Joe tells a story about a performance review he received as he was just starting his career: He was told he was not the best at problem-solving solo; but in collaboration with others, he could solve any challenge.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

For example, the City of Boston used the motion-sensing capabilities of smart phones, through encouraging voluntary download of a Street Bump app to automatically send the city information about the condition of the streets they’re driving on.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Yarin lives near Boston, Massachusetts with his fiancée and two children. That story always stuck with me, but I''d see the same thing happen again and again; the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, the explosion of BP''s oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.and I searched for a reason why fair warnings continued to be ignored. Yarin : Yes 9.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

Whatever your social media problem, we'll have a cure for what ails you this June. Boston, Masschusetts: Summer Happy Hour Featuring Karen Graham, Idealware Executive Director! Newest Groups. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Check out our newest groups: NetSquared St. Louis in St. Thursday, June 18, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The early adopters tend to come from large national organizations, those with larger budgets/capacity in regions, small agile/activist nonprofits, and probably more concentrated in metro areas where there is an active social media/tech community - San Francisco, Austin, Boston, etc. I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Deborah Finn has invited me to be an instructor for a workshop on using outcome-based measurement for social media integrated strategy as part of a series of workshops on measurement and data in Boston next spring. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

The idea is that if you're overwhelmed, there's a problem in the way you work with the tool. I met Joe Casco at the Boston MediaMakers a few months back at Boston MediaMakers and he made a comment about how email is really outdated - it's over 25 years old and that we need to evolve. I haven't reverted back, I've thought of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Yesterday, in preparation for a session I'm doing at BlogHer Boston , I created a quiz for folks to self-assess how much information overload was a factor. Now that we've acknowledged the problem or a desire to do better, what are the best surefire tips? Original cartoon from Rob Cottiingham Social Signal.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Distributed mobile content experiences seem to suffer from two basic problems: Underwhelming entry points. I know that there are very smart people working on these problems. And a note to readers in the Boston area: I'll be participating in a MuseumHive real world / Google hangout on these topics (and others) on October 26.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Last week I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Association of Children’s Museums annual conference, #interactivity2014, with Julia Kennard, CFO from EdVenture, Carole Charnow, President and CEO from Boston Children’s Museum and Katie Boehm, Annual Fund & Events Manager from KidsQuest. The only problem?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Let’s be real, staff turnover in the trenches of peer-to-peer fundraising is a common problem, and we’d be kidding ourselves if we didn’t recognize the impact this is having on retention and loyalty numbers. Offer their team admission to the VIP lunch buffet after the event. Focus on staff retention. times faster and profits 1.5

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The following are a few of my favorite sites with great research to get you started: Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Base storytelling on that broader impact: how the funds helped a community problem, social issue, or specific nonprofit. Cone Research. PwC Keys to Corporate Responsibility and Employee Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Ten years ago, before my son Harry arrived, I volunteered as a mentor for the Computer Club House in Boston. Experiments require short-term losses for long-term gains. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

When I saw Steve Garfield model this technique in his workshop at Boston Podcamp , I realized my problem! Ryanne told me to practice and that eventually I'd get a feel for what works. I didn't believe her. but tried it anyway. Practice does help. My arms are too short.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2005

Airport: Arrive in Terminal 3 from Boston on Virgin Atlantic red eye at 6:33 a.m. If delay or problem, can page each other at BAA info booth near customs exit. I've got to get organized. so here's my pile of links that I'll need to get myself to London. Get a latte as soon as possible. meet at #16 on this map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. I spoke briefly about nonprofits in second life and techsoup efforts , although I had some audio/technical problems.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2006

In my last post , I was pondering the problems in the communication process between users and technology assitance providers - problems that are so pervasive they have given rise to a whole series of internet jokes. Only after they are articulated will the techy become responsible for providing a solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

A minute later I noticed Pistachio's tweet about flying Virgin America from Boston and Glenn Stratchan direct messaged me asking what seat I was in because he thought we might be on the same Virgin America flight. . Process Steps One important lesson is that you should really spend the time framing the problem or your goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. Or sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community. One of my favorites is the computer recycling group, FreeGeek. May: When I think of May, I think of Mother's Day. Why not donate to a Women's Shelter in honor of your mom?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

I pitched a session at podcamp Boston called "Screencasting for the Masses" -- this app is perfect for that workshop! Any Facebook member involved in a project that needs funding can submit a proposal, outlining things like the problem they are addressing and where the money will go. Yet to be created).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. By the spring of 2003 I felt I'd learned what I could in Boston and tried to figure out where to go next. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

And awesome examples like 826 Valencia or the Boston Children's Museum's GoKids program demonstrate that sometimes putting traditional social services like tutoring or food distribution in a cultural context can destigmatize them. If EMPSFM is never relevant to the majority of their community's needs, there's a problem.

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