Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IP Tidbits August 18, 2005 Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It's not uncommon to see the "official" hashtag included with the promotional information about the event, even events or conferences that are not technology focused. The Nonprofit Technology community has used a special tag, nptech, created by Marnie Webb in 2004. The hashtag creates a backchannel for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide. technology behind these things. conferences and public events around the world.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Stefani gave an overview of health care technology trends and some projects that Google is working on. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” Stefani Klaskow, Head of Industry, Health Care at Google. Carrie Martin Munk, The ALS Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I made a movie about another interesting piece of technology that is on my desk called The Watt Stopper. There's also a YouTube Channel with some how-to videos and lots of other useful information. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. For example, storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Amira Achouri, from an NGO in Tunisia, observed, “As the communications landscape gets denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is gaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an enhanced ability to undertake collective action. .”

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

Alan Rosenblatt from the Center for American Progress, who referenced a Wall Street Journal story indicating that worldwide more internet users communicate via social media channels than email. technologies. cannot be ignored by the government and military.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals. Anaheim Ballet has a YouTube Channel with over 130,000 channel views.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Rather than starting your own blog or YouTube channel, find the sources out there that relate to your topics of interest and respond to them. The Boston Museum of Science could start their own YouTube channel and post videos about whatever they want. And make sure that you are linking back to your own site/blog/YouTube channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL has the potential to add a new level to the existing web technologies. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. Come on, get real already.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Voting for the 2012 NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) is now open and the competition is fierce. In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. As usual the nonprofit community has pitched some incredibly useful sessions.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

At the same time, technology advances, global consumer trends, and the urgency of so many causes have given rise to the networked individual who is rewriting the rules of engagement. Rachel Hutchisson, VP of CSR, tells us it’s today’s individual change agents who are deeply connected to cause, community and technology: Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Though it was nothing like the polished, beautiful products they produce today, it was enough to demonstrate their vision, get introductions to manufacturers and distribution channels, and create their successful Kickstarter campaign. Kyle Rush, Author and Technology Consultant. Deepa Bachu, Fasal (Creator).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. Going forward we need better technology solutions on-site to help visitors and staff share responses as they are happening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

This is the last week of the Groundswell book discussion, in which we've been looking at five strategies (listening, talking, energizing, helping, and embracing) for business use of social technologies, as defined by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Now the ideas were channeled and directed by the groundswell of Salesforce.com's own customers.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Are communication channels clear? So let folks know, this is the current structure, this is the current communication channels, and then we’ll check in with you to make sure it still works for you and adjust as we need. How do we do this well?

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Digital BerkShares will launch with a newsfeed feature, providing a community channel for local businesses, like the local food co-op, to communicate with their constituents. Beyond these benefits, running a local currency on an app opens even more potential for experimentation.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

According to Barbara Newhouse, in an interview with Beth Kanter , it takes a strong collaborative of partners and technology infrastructure to make a feat like this possible. Even an hour or two of downtime or crash in technology could have throttled or derailed the campaign. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven.

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