Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

If IT is not making a noticeable difference in how your org works, then it's failing. But Jason is lucky to work at an org where IT already has a seat at the leadership table. Look at the places where tech moves from the back office to the programs of your org. Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. Institute for Strategic Clarity, March 15 Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, Tags: maps movement building netaction network effectiveness network weaving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. Tags: scholar. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits. Understanding who is connected to whom can strengthen your strategy. A lot of the ideas resonate with.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Formal authority is granted through position on an org chart, or through mandate (or sometimes fiat) from the senior management of an organization. Tags: Change Management Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Leadership and formal authority are not the same thing -- anyone who has experienced a bad boss can attest to that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Your workshop encouraged us to devise a strategy for using social media, and to tease out what these tools could really mean to our mission, vision, and constituencies -- rather than just, "hurry up and get your org up on Twitter!" Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Setting up a blog.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

It’s almost silly that we just got the ability to show percentages in pie charts on the last release, and now we finally have combination charts. Now that “feature&# can be turned on and off for each chart. There are many other charting enhancements, but these are the ones that stood out the most to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And, perhaps many took her advice, opting for turkey versus tagging items with the NpTech Tag! The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn !

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Sometimes a system owner is like the person whose budget pays for that product, so director of development, VP of development, philanthropy manager, whatever title you have in your org. People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. Start with five that you should be paying attention to regularly.

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