NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. A good number of your Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and Flickr, YouTube, and Foursquare friends will come directly from clicks on social media icons placed on your website with “Follow Us” pitches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Now I am lucky if I can get through a first chapter much less read an entire book in less than 6 months. and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). The era of winging it in social media is over.

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NTEN

AUGUST 27, 2009

Flickr Photo: pete collins aka uniball The Houston YMCA runs a lot of youth basketball leagues, so they have a lot of volunteer coaches. In this podcast, Steve talks about his chapter in the book, and some of the themes he and John will present at the ONTC : Subscribe to the NTEN Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. Crowdsourcing is the process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. Where is it most useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

This includes a a wiki , Twitter conversations during the conference via the #crisisdata hashtag, Flickr photos and U-Stream (to be provided by NextGenWeb ). He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. Which means it's the perfect time to invest in your professional development, and seek out opportunities for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we devote an entire chapter to something we called "Learning Loops" which is a combination of tracking and monitoring in real time as a project unfolds, but also incorporates a process of reflection at the end of the project to the next experiment. . Easier said than done.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Flickr Photo: rakka I love public speaking. These guys are rocking the nptech social media world: Adeeb Khan, American Red Cross Mile High Chapter, redcrossdenver. My husband would swear it's because I love the sound of my own voice, but really, I like it best when I get to hear the questions and comments from the crowd.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Flickr: elyob. There's a chapter on sharpening your political savvy in my latest read, " Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap for Success." " We hear a lot of answers, answers that involve ROI, patience, and the like. I've dished out plenty of platitudes myself. I'm still waiting to hear an answer that wows me.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. By Jamie Millard and Lori L. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2009

Flickr Photo: david reece In the nonprofit sector, we've been maligned as slow tech adopters for a long time. Note that there's only one chapter in our book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission , devoted to actual technology in any way. But I don't think it's the case anymore. I couldn't agree more. What about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. This book is a gem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. It is important to define and get broad agreement on what handful of data points will be most informative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. Africa the next Chapter??? Her background is in the field of architecture and urban planning. Currently, she is a project manager (design and architecture) for Foko.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The photo is of the Pacific Ocean at Monterey taken by a Flickr user, Amayu. (No, it wasn't a presentation about Google Wave!). The title of the presentation was inspired by the title of a 1995 Harvard Business School Journal piece called "Catching the Wave" by Clay Christensen who coined the term "disruptive technologies."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Content Ideas Nonprofit Interview 117

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: The Importance of Selecting the Right Donate Now Vendor. Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Chapter 2 :: Deciding What Social Media Tools to Use. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 2 :: What About Myspace? However, defining Web 1.0

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

flickr: Beach650 Most days, we're hiding from the rain in our Portland, OR office. designed for present and future AFP Chapter leaders -- on More than Just Friends: Building and Sustaining Relationships with the Next Generation. But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events. Are you going?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

I'm excited to finally meet Michaela face-to-face after following her personal blog and flickr stream over three years. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 1 :: The Importance of Selecting the Right Donate Now Vendor. Chapter 1 :: Network for Good. Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Chapter 2 :: Deciding What Social Media Tools to Use. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 2 :: What About Myspace? However, defining Web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

My Listening Ears, Flickr Photo by niclindh. " In the chapter on listening in Josh Bernhoff and Charlene Li's new book, Groundswell. During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. The first module is on Listening. Why listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Chapter 1 :: The Importance of Selecting the Right Donate Now Vendor. Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. Chapter 2 :: Deciding What Social Media Tools to Use ( View Excerpt ). Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. However, defining Web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

next, with LOLseals campaign, they made it as easy as possible for people to participate, used the Flickr API to allow people to upload from their website instead of going to Flickr, etc. ARC - we are set up similarly, Robin Parker does Oregon Trail chapter for example. this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. See Chapter One of our book. It stinks, but you have to do what you have to do. You need to articulate how IT relates to mission, over and over again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. The basics include: benefits, value, metrics, and financial calculations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Almost six months ago, I wrote a chapter for BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook apps about fundraising applications on Facebook. When I first saw the article, I thought it was the article from a year ago where they said basically the same thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building local chapters. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube. Strengthening your connection to grassroots supporters. Creating meaningful volunteer opportunities. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Connecting and enriching a national movement. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

If you’d like to explore developing a robust gratitude program in more detail, get your free downloadable ‘Show the Love’ e-book from npENGAGE — with chapters from 14 nonprofit experts (me included) — on the subject of donor retention. Photo cred: Flickr.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week, we're covering the fourth objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : supporting (chapter 8). This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 by years: customer support forums. without any intervention by the institutional authority.

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