Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. Many people can’t afford the things we make, and our imagined users are molded by our biases and current power structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

Lately, I have been working in far flung places which means long, very long airplane rides without Internet access! They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. People who can bridge networks – fill structural holes – stand to benefit. Small talk nourishes trust.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. Google Workspace Platform overview: Google Workspace for Nonprofits is a flexible productivity and communication platform with multiple apps to streamline team collaboration. transaction fee per donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Internet Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

"Cloud-based" refers to any software or application not physically installed on a local server or computer, but rather hosted outside your organization and accessed via an Internet connection. Mobility and Collaboration. Money saved is money that can be reinvested in public programs and your mission. Reliability. Hidden Fees.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Cloud computing software and services are delivered over the Internet and are accessed mostly through our web browsers. The pricing structure of cloud services is really different than traditional software and takes some getting used to. They just need a computer or mobile device and the Internet. What Is Cloud Computing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

It covers different models for purpose, structure, style, value creation, design, leadership, and change management. But what about for internal coordination/collaboration? . There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration. Collaboration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In fact, this may be one of the largest collaborative social media efforts in the nonprofit world. Social media success: collaborate, inform, build, engage. Livestream.com is a web service that enables users to create free accounts and broadcast video live over the Internet. To promote the greatest participation on Nov.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2005

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If In this case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

The analysis looks at frequency of interaction, relationship structure (two-way, one-way), and helps reveal structural similarities. This can be useful to find potential collaborators. Who isn’t connected? Who should I spend my time responding to and cultivating?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

You may have heard about the cloud , the "next big thing" in computing, virtual storage, sharing, and Internet technology. that] caused organizations to be inwardly focused on highly structured frameworks for how pieces of data worked together. They were repositories of data and information. It's not.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

We wanted to round up all your posts and resources in one place, so you can continue to collaborate and learn from each other. 12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights , Carlos Bergfeld. Greenpeace Experiments With Technology Team Structure , Derek Lieu. If we missed your blog post, we're sorry! Session Blog Posts.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Check the internet and ask colleagues at other organizations for their recommendations. Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Define a few specific parameters for your project, including a general budget, a start date, and a tentative timeline.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

This software features built-in wizards to help structure your presentation’s narrative and build libraries of standard graphics and slide elements (like logos and maps). Huddle The Program : Huddle is a cloud-based collaboration and content management tool that helps up to 25 people inside and outside your office to work together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. But it's also easier to disseminate information than ever before, since the internet, web and mobile technologies allow for more connectivity and access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Telephone, and internet, and electricity, and fuel are spotty. As information moves up and down the highway, from headquarters to field offices to in-country partner organizations, to consultants, and volunteers, and to the general public or the clients or the project sites, there is a point where the structure breaks down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The diagnostic tool includes 8 different areas: membership, leadership, governance, purpose, strategy/structure, assessment, communications/technology, and resource management. How can we best support our network's work online if some members have slower Internet connections? Are there best practices? Inward Facing.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rewriting strengthens logic, structure, and transitions. Collaboration provides an outside perspective to counter biases and assumptions. Overall, this methodology structures regular critical analysis of output to curate higher quality through ongoing refinement. Basically, great writing comes from great editors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. The internet is a way for people to key in to that need, but it's so inadequate. [At Isn't this one of our dreams for museums?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong When: Friday, March 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Room A Description: Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Also, my whole career is predicated on a structure where I give away ideas on the blog and then people hire me for money. Why Self-Publish?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In the days following the fires in Maui, many people didn’t have access to Internet, cell service, even land phone lines. It has created more structure and consolidation across the organization and saves money too. When the decision was made to close our offices during the pandemic, we didn’t miss a beat.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. In thinking about tagging, flickr, and rss tools, what are some ways that you can collaborate with others to create content or have your students create content? In most cases simple syntax structure is used. Hiring people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. This is the ninth Future of the Internet study the two organizations have conducted together.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

I think of the origin of Nonprofit Online News as one of those sweet Internet accidents, something that always reminds me that networks are infrastructures of natural abundance. During 1995 and 1996 I found myself in the position of being the person best informed about the Internet in my professional nonprofit circles. Collaborate.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. If you want visitors to answer questions collaboratively, whether in real-time or in a distributed manner, make sure your question and answer structure clearly supports visitors building on each other's ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While the questions vary between the version for private foundations or small nonprofits, the 990 collects details on the financial, governance and organizational structure of America’s universities, hospitals, foundations, and charities to the end of ensuring that they are deserving of tax exempt status.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Most importantly, you are looking for a system architecture that allows some partners to work completely privately, some collaboratively, and some fully integrated--and these options need to be concurrently deployable. User Flexible or Provider Flexible? You know that your needs will change over time. Is there code in escrow (ie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. That enriches the experience.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We also are practical, and agile, and collaborative. Other things around collaboration: making sure that everyone on staff knew exactly which tools to use to collaborate with their colleagues, and obviously management. But then it becomes rolling out, without anyone…any real collaboration in terms of approval, so to speak.

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