Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

It seemed very inappropriate given that my host, Stephen Blyth , collaborated with Peter Sykes, CEO & Founder at Mangere East Family Service Centre and we held the workshop on a Marae. Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

If I find a great article on IRS cell phone reimbursement policies, I can clip it straight from the browser into my Operations notebook. I can retrieve these items from my phone, my tablet, my laptop, or any computer with a browser. Did I already mention that this is a 24/7 job? That is all, and that is enough.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2011

When you're on your laptop, phone or iPad, tweeting or posting to Facebook, you can be nearly sure that the people near you are doing the same thing. We keep up with each other and collaborate, but we rarely meet. That's one incredibly cool thing about NTC: no matter where you go, you can feel the energy. This is my community.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look what I can do with my phone! The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. Emerging tablet computing devices, such as the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy, promise the benefit of mobile access with a larger form factor than a phone screen, making it much easier to do work in the field.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

remote workers need in order to maintain workflow and collaboration with colleagues. including, laptops, instant messaging, VoIP, smart phones, and more. very often continue to use it on a daily basis to improve the quality of meetings that would otherwise be held only on the phone or not at all. confidence.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2013

ReadyTalk Mobile (iPad) makes it easy to jump in on a meeting if you left your work laptop behind. The app syncs with your phone or tablet's address book as well as your other email or social media accounts so you can easily connect with your colleagues and constituents. Tango (Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7.5)

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Think about a tool like YouTube, where people can share videos (uploaded and created in various ways from mobile phones to laptop computers to high quality cameras) and then find others who care about similar issues. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Store their contact info like email addresses and phone numbers and easily track donor interactions when they make a donation or volunteer for your organization. In the modern age, mobile phones are most people’s constant companions. Text fundraising. Social media tools help you manage your social media accounts. Design tools.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

Users can go to any bus stop and simply text the stop ID number (listed on every bus stop) to a local phone number (415-528-3226). The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, that can connect to Wi-Fi. Collaborating with Public Libraries. Watch this video to see LocalFreeWeb in action!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

After all, they let you work from practically anywhere using almost any device, and they make it easy to collaborate with coworkers. A former employee could still have shared login information stored on a laptop that gets stolen. Cloud-based applications and services are super convenient. Before You Move to the Cloud.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Mobile phones. Computers and phones require power, and whether batteries or electricity, if you don’t have it, you can’t work. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. Tablets/Touchscreen devices.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

This means you can start working on a document on your desktop and then continue where you left off on another computer, laptop, or tablet because Office saves your work in the cloud as you go. The notes you take on your desktop or laptop will be accessible from any other computer as well as your tablet and smartphone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Pizzigati Prize works in the spirit that collaboration, rather than competition, and moves us forward by honoring those who work for social good. Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2013

On the other hand (and this was Mayer’s main point), working remotely affects both planned and accidental collaboration and can have an impact on the culture or feeling of identification with the organization. Whether formally or not, who hasn’t dashed an email off from their phone in the evening or caught up with work in a hotel room?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The options include: Flex (in office 1-3 days for meetings/collaboration) and Fully Remote (work from anywhere). The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. What this means? Green Technology.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

One of the best memories of Isaac was standing in the Schatzalp hotel holding a laptop to his ear like it was a cell phone, because someone had made a Skype connection to Nigeria. Plus, getting a chance to eat and talk together is the best thing for serious collaboration. As he puts it: "shit business is serious business."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully. Like the time I was doing a session in an artists loft and the phone jack was 150 feet away and my phone cord was only 125 feet.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Five years ago, it was the laptop. It doesn’t replace my laptop, but I sure get a lot of use out of it. –Tom When evaluating new apps and systems, I look primarily for ease of use, ability to collaborate with others, and interoperability with phone (I use an iPhone 4s) and desktop. –Bo We’ve done your homework for you.

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NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

In other cases, the families knew, from last phone calls, whom their loved ones had been with in the end. The information they received in response to their request was complicated and amazing: "Sometimes victims were cohorts, or best friends. and wanted those people listed together."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. They're done on the phone and chat. once and it was disaster, best to use to supplement discussion in between phone calls). Know of any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

Taran, whose back problems kept him in bed on painkillers with his laptop, was also there and has written a great report on his explorations.). I've facilitated and participated in many online meetings - using various tools (phone, chat, whiteboards, etc.) and so I volunteered to take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Net2 ThinkTank gives up a round up of how Nonprofits and NGOs are Using Mobile Phones and SMS for Social Change. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email).

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

For a more collaborative online auction idea, you might want to throw a virtual community market. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. Virtual Community Market Themed Auction. Garden Party Auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

This field or cloud is created by a constant, seamless, automated collaboration between. the digital devices people carry, such laptops, media players, and camera phones, 2. the wireless and wireline networks that serve their various locations as they move about, 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. " He used the example of Harry Potter books - not just reading them, but young people working on collaborative writing projects via the Web -- writing and getting feedback from peers around the world.

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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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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

That means you can access any of your files anywhere, whether you’re on your work computer, phone, laptop or tablet—as long as you have your login info and an internet connection, you’re set. Collaboration. These features are particularly useful when editing drafts of articles, emails or any other piece of writing. PowerPoint (.pptx).

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Some stand-out features of Absorb Create include: Collaboration tools including team workspaces and the ability to differentiate permissions across team roles.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Urban Sprouts Executive Director, Abby Jaramillo, brought her laptop to one meeting with a funder and showed them the positive comments written on a post by teachers and students who were being served by the program. When we publish the NetSquared e-newsletter, we often draw from the NetSquared blog for material.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Here are the plans: Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Since the project launch, the BRIDGE project has become a collaborative that includes the Foundation Center, Global Giving , GuideStar , and yours truly, TechSoup Global. Mifos provides a web app with mobile phone capability. This should be available in 2015.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. Who could have predicted that one of the most popular iPhone applications would be one that turns the phone into a flute , or that a first-aid app would save the life of man trapped in the rubble in Haiti?

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