Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

Congrats to Megha Bhagat , Winner of HP Laptop/Printer Bundle Contest that I ran on my blog last month. To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. My theory for a change has some linkages to my law specific profession: 1.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, compare the impact of the following statements: “Because of our nonprofit’s tireless efforts, we were able to provide 100 laptops for local students interested in pursuing computer science careers.” As you can see, just a few subtle wording changes turn a nonprofit-centric statement into a supporter-centric one.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 10, 2021

From the smartphone, Zoom calls, and the home delivery of goods and services, changes in the virtual world stepped up to change the real one. Their findings concluded that this was in large part due to CEOs and boards reporting higher productivity as their staff worked through the pandemic from their laptops. .

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

Closeup Woman hand using Laptop pc with email icon, Email concept Creating your nonprofit’s digital strategy comes with its own set of challenges, from creating engaging campaigns to standing out in donors’ inboxes. But the good news is that nonprofits benefit from higher open rates compared to regular marketing emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2012

Soaring tablet use and an online commons increasingly battling information overload has fundamentally changed web design as we know it. Bigger pictures, less text, larger fonts, and easy-to-tap and click buttons and navigation are the new Web design aesthetic.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action.

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Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

The unfulfilled promises of blockchain to advance social good, a proliferation of mobile apps in developing countries that failed to garner adoption , and cheap laptops that were going to change the world are just a few examples. To be clear, I believe there is far more substance and potential with generative AI.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

While some stay, others change the way we use computers and mobiles devices every day. Here are 4 up and coming technologies that have the potential to change your nonrpfit’s daily operations forever. Staying ahead of this fast paced world is often times difficult and even confusing. Tech trends come and go. Mobile Donations.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

Like many public libraries, Curtis has seen a dramatic change in use and utilization over the past several years. Laptops and hotspots were offered. More power stations and a laptop bar. That tradition of local support and philanthropy sustains Curtis to this day. In response to Covid, the library had to adapt. The solution?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I love laptop stickers! What caught my attention was how this might change peer knowledge sharing in a group context. How does it change is you look at as 'social feeds." Photo from Ian Kennedy. I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

Toyama on that issue: If a private company is failing to make a profit, no one expects that state-of-the-art data centers, better productivity software, and new laptops for all of the employees will turn things around. A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of " embedded giving." That's a buzz word coined by Lucy Bernholz to describe the common practice of building a philanthropic gift into another, unrelated, financial transaction. Leave a comment sharing your "Theory of Change".

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Companies and corporations large and small have rolled out some truly extraordinary things, from changing what we pay for our cellphone plans to apps that make our lives easier or just more fun. Microsoft Takes Over the Laptop/Tablet Hybrid Scene.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! Reminder: when you are not using it anymore, make sure you change the settings. And it can be exhausting staring at a screen most of the day. But it can also help you feel closer to your colleagues when attending a meeting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2012

Soaring tablet use and an online commons increasingly battling information overload has fundamentally changed web design as we know it. Bigger pictures, less text, larger fonts, and easy-to-tap and click buttons and navigation are the new Web design aesthetic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

This might be playing music, or it might be changing the lighting. I also have a winding down ritual – I set the alarm, make my next day to-do list, and put away my laptop and phone. Create a conscious shift from work to life and life to work. For me, I have a making coffee ritual that signals the beginning of the workday.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Can the 50-Minute Phone Rule Change Your Life? Vogue : "Instead of laughing in my face for speaking in clichés, Simon shared that he’d taken motivational speaker and author Brendon Burchard’s advice on giving up “screens”—not just phones, but laptops and TV as well—for the first and last 50 minutes of his day.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This rule change will give more than 18 million low-income Americans $9.25-a-month "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change. "Mobile computing has boomed, and usability has improved to the point where tablets will start replacing laptops as the mobile computing device of choice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2010

However, you might be able to adjust them so that they better suit your work-style and may even help you extend the life of your battery, if you are using a laptop. If you are on a Mac or using Windows 7, it is likely that your sleep settings are already turned on, unless you or your IT person actively turned them off.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Indeed, experts now estimate that the vast majority of users access the web on a smartphone, tablet or the like, rather than a standard desktop or laptop computer. Pingdom is great if you don’t need to be making changes to your site on a daily basis.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 6, 2016

But there are also more encompassing trends to be on the watch for, watershed movements that will continue to change the way we interact with all our mobile machines and, ultimately, with each other. More platforms to keep us constantly connected to the larger world? Absolutely.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. That’s radical change in a relatively short amount of time and it directly corresponds with the rapid rise of social media worldwide. Nonprofits pioneered social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

For your website and blog to be compatible with desktops, laptops, smartphones, smart TVs, etc., Design templates that allow header images to be easily changed. Email is not dead , in fact, it’s growing in popularity and power with all age groups. 10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2016

For your website and blog to be compatible with desktops, laptops, smartphones, smart TVs, etc., Design templates that allow header images to be easily changed. Email is not dead , in fact, it’s growing in popularity and power with all age groups. 10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Although I was not able to immediately pinpoint how the breach occurred, I speculated it was via a laptop I had used earlier that day. Knowing that, I made sure the laptop was no longer online by disconnecting the laptop's network cable and shutting off its WiFi. Change your password (and enable 2-step verification).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Photo Credit: Mini Laptop Club Thanks to Sibley for sending me this fascinating article about "the laptop club"--a group of second and third graders in an afterschool program who designed their own (non-functional) laptops using construction paper, pencils, and a lot of imagination.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Participants take part from anywhere using a cell phone or laptop to connect to the event. Sometimes, you can get away with just a laptop with a webcam for a simple live-streaming event. Finally, with the dry run done and any changes made, host a successful virtual fundraiser. First, what is a virtual fundraiser?

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Send your newsletter to someone who reads it on their laptop, and to another one who is going to read it on their smart phone. Have them give the document a ‘once over’ Make the necessary changes your QA professionals point out, and move on to the next step. Compliance, compliance, compliance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. It’s a lucky thing my partner has a laptop I can beg and borrow (stealing might cause issues.) I’ll spare you the details.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

myNTC will allow you to search the entire conference attendee list, plan and schedule private meetings, map out your personalized event agenda — and print or export it to your laptop or handheld device.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 15, 2015

Google, along with Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the big boys on the Internet are intimately aware of the fact that more and more web searches and surfing are now being done on mobile devices rather than desktop or laptop computers.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 6, 2018

You may be accustomed to leaving your desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone laying around to use at your discretion for processing memberships and donations. Make sure every device is password protected , and regularly change passwords. Don’t give administrative access to just anyone.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Donors really are heroes that make it possible for organizations to change lives. Photo or video of how their gift is being used. The right photo or video can really hit the donor squarely in the heart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone. Dan was the sole anonymous donor for the program, which brushed off my indignity and furnished me with a new laptop, a mentor, and monthly checks for books, food and travel.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2015

The emergence of cloud technology has changed the way people around the world work, communicate, share information, and support causes. The Changing Landscape of Technology. And changes do not need to be applied to everyone’s individual computer. Licensing costs become a thing of the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

I made a commitment to change. The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Give readers a reason to visit again and again by crafting an e-newsletter that automatically alerts them when you have new content available or have made some sort of change to your site. Remember this: the vast majority of people now go online via their mobile devices, not a desktop or laptop computer.

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