Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 31, 2010

Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation. ROI of Social Networking. Female Ferocity.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Have you used Yammer , the internal "enterprise social network," to help connect, collaborate, and share with your staff? Eastern), get familiar with how to use Yammer, a social network from Microsoft, to help connect, collaborate, and share with volunteers, staff and stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Co-authored by the Institute’s Executive Director John Esterle, Malka Kopell and Palma Strand, the article discusses a new project named “The Civity Networks Project,” a collaborative effort between the institute and the Silicon Valley Community. Networks and their relationships, however, embody interdependence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. Dave Gray : Dave Gray is a guru on the topics of design, innovation, culture and change. Learning Organizational Culture'

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

These types of events are not only engaging but also encourage teamwork and social bonding, making them attractive to a wide range of donors, including Millennials and Gen Zers. Collaborate with influencers: Partner with social media influencers or advocates who align with your cause.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I am also interested in the intersection of the government and the nonprofit sectors, which includes cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit provision of public services, etc. migrant associations, and government-nonprofit collaboration. My main research interest is in individual and institutional philanthropy. Any secondary interests?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world. What do you think? Check it out! Great slides.

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Tech Soup

JULY 3, 2013

He wanted to merge with a pop-culture following who could not just donate but support, engage and contribute to his goal of raising $10,000 a year. Teespring quickly designed Brad’s Champion System cycling kit and became involved in his pre-existing fundraising efforts. Image: Teespring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

where he discussed the crossroads of movements and campaigns and the need for an open culture. Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I've been playing in a sand box to explore online collaboration/social media tools and how they support network weaving. The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture. 5: Make sure your content has a social life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. Says Richards, "Confidentiality is a big part of Planned Parenthood’s culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The organizational network is best served by a leader who can manage the “net work of leadership:” that is, they create the capacity in others to understand and work in networks and they know how to steward the network by creating conditions for networks to emerge and succeed. Please share your ideas!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Emergence: This is a term that I first heard from Eugene Eric Kim when talked about how making your ideas or content transparent on social networks like Twitter was similar to what ants do when they leave tracks so other ants can follow. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In this workshop you will discover how the latest tools for online collaboration and sharing can offer opportunities to improve the way you work. Ways to collaborate and share knowledge using social media tools View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. T Technology isn't the barrier, it's culture. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

In the age of the social network, new sites want to be “the hub” for information/engagement and the non-profit space is no different. Non-profits must collaborate to create change, and we are no different. Outside of that, non-profits need a culture shift an they need to take leadership.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

Having a venue from which your organization can share its knowledge will expand your audiences, and build a robust internal culture. That will make it more likely that others will want to spread the word about what you’re working on, and collaborate with you. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Trends.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation. ROI of Social Networking. Female Ferocity. And more…. >

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Some topics of interest for me include: social media measurement, ROI, networked learning, information overload and mindfulness, Civil Society 2.0, networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Online social networking was just being born. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Social Networking Web 2.0 Tools social media Twitter NetSquared' The Iraq War was raging.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

While many of us in the nonprofit sector are arguably ahead of the corporate sector in terms of collaboration and participant-based interaction, the following conclusions that the authors draw may also be interesting for nonprofits as well: The transformation to a bottom-up culture needs help from the top. Tools Social Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Learning agility is valuable skill because it can help organizations get to better outcomes, especially when it becomes embedded into organizational culture and systems for continuous learning and improvement. And, in this day of social networks — feedback can come from a variety of sources and unsolicited.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

WiserEarth is more than a "green" online social network for individuals, although you join as an individual. The vision is to help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborative, share knowledge, and build alliances.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. Steve said silo culture has been a barrier to effective web strategy for years. What lies beneath the use of these social media tools? If you witnessed how Web 1.0

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Care2

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What we’ve seen across all organizations, regardless of size, is that digital teams—their structure, leadership, and how they are affected by the culture of the institutions where they work—are the biggest predictor of online effectiveness. Most teams need more full-time help.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. This same dynamic is true in other cases as well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. Is it better to start from scratch?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

A great fundraising plan is one that both serves as a blueprint, but also offers this information through the lens of your nonprofit’s culture, mission, and values from beginning to end. The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. This same dynamic is true in other cases as well?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process. Furthermore, how can museums and communities work together to share strengths in the community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yes, there is a delicious list of tools to explore which include some of my favorite types of tools - aggregation, analytics, monitoring, collaboration, blogging, microblogging, and more! I think there are some definite social implications that interest me: Speed and quality of information. My interest just isn't in the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Social media is a conversation engine. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

including African Americans and Hispanics, typically participate or volunteer less in a broad range of formal social and political activities than non-Hispanic whites (Hodgkinson & Weitzman, 1996). The literature on minority philanthropy shows that minority groups in the U.S.,

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2013

Instead of siloing social media into “that stuff that so-and-so does,” what would a more integrated approach look like? Since social media relies on social networks, let’s examine junctures in various organizational relationships where social media could be useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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