Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. The Importance of Energizers Throughout. Then each person gets to speak with another participant for 7 minutes and we do 6 or 7 rounds of speed dating.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 24, 2016

We move to our smartphones, to our laptops, to the attached screens on our desk, and at any time we could have hundreds of active tabs open and ready for our immediate use. Instead, it allows for collaboration the likes organizations have never before encountered. Perhaps our greatest perceived weakness is our greatest strength.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Employees feel isolated, communication suffers, and collaborative efforts plummet. 21 percent of people who work remotely believe collaboration suffers when they’re removed from the office. This is a major risk for the nonprofit sector where collaboration on projects is critical. But—it’s only half the equation.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Hybrid meetings are where some participants participate remotely through a video conferencing platform like zoom, while the rest of the participants are gathered together in a conference room in an office or several in-person group clusters. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. How can we identify “ free agents” and involve them in our work?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

New Dell discounted laptops. TechSoup has a number of cloud-based donor partners that offer collaboration platforms to ease communications and data sharing between grantmakers and grantees. Symantec Norton Small Business Security Suite. Adobe Creative Cloud. Tableau for data visualization. Grantmaking outside of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

This is our story on how we use Box, the online file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. It allows staff to view and reorganize documents in folders on individual laptops and then sync changes to the Box online platform. Sharing Files Around the World. And we've enjoyed the sync function.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners. Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In addition to visual programming and Java, MathAndCoding now offers classes on HTML, CSS, and template-based web design, as well as a Technology Day event where they introduce games and apps for different platforms. MathAndCoding volunteers are now doing this at more than 12 libraries in the region.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Here are some of our favorite platform and application recommendations in the TechSoup NCVS toolkit for multichannel, live, interactive, and mobile media. Facebook — We post frequently to our TechSoup Facebook page from our laptops, tablets and phones by tagging @TechSoup in our updates. We think Watchitoo.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Online auction platform and versatile bidding tool. Themed branding elements on your online platform and mobile bidding app. For a more collaborative online auction idea, you might want to throw a virtual community market. This can take place via livestream or with a video conferencing platform. Garden Party Auction.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. (An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Citizen journalism. Google Maps.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

But what's even better is that this wasn't an isolated training, it was part of an new online community called Engage365 which runs on a platform called " Conference 2.0 ". The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. It has 400 members. Know of any?

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. The community will see that you aren’t making changes, aren’t communicating, and aren’t collaborating and will disengage. Don’t ever go for a new, shiny, cool social media platform or tool simply because you’ve heard others talking about it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. Thunderclap has been called a "crowdspeaking platform." Using Uber's platform, people can have their clothing picked up on demand and donated during a winter clothing drive.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

While lots of other great sharing platforms exist, we like Google because pretty much anything you’d ever need to do on a computer falls under its big, convenient umbrella. Collaboration. Pretty much every Google Drive platform (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar) allows you to work on documents simultaneously with your coworkers.

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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. And I’m seeing a big trend in just using new platforms, especially for virtual meetings.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Create hubs and extend platforms.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction. Create hubs and extend platforms.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. Since the project launch, the BRIDGE project has become a collaborative that includes the Foundation Center, Global Giving , GuideStar , and yours truly, TechSoup Global. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

New Platform = New Opportunities. This innovative platform presents new opportunities and challenges for organizations. Such tablet platforms will create new consumer expectations. The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

When it comes to selecting service providers and partners for projects and collaborations, make sure they are just as committed to privacy as you are. Make sure your privacy principles apply across all platforms, both on your own hosted sites and elsewhere. Privacy across the board. Does your organization have a mobile app?

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Gyrus

APRIL 12, 2018

We move to our smartphones, to our laptops, to the attached screens on our desk, and at any time we could have hundreds of active tabs open and ready for our immediate use. Instead, it allows for collaboration the likes organizations have never before encountered. Perhaps our greatest perceived weakness is our greatest strength.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

That kind of on-the-go access dramatically increases opportunities for collaboration amongst your team. The emergence of cloud computing coupled with mobile devices (smaller laptops and netbooks as well as sophisticated tablets and smart phones) has forever changed the way we access information and data in both our daily and business lives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Wired Impact is a website platform built specifically for nonprofits. Built for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. See also Duda and Wix. Loomly :: loomly.com.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

I’m very platform agnostic. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way. And doing things as a team in a collaborative, trusting way is always way better than like storming off on your own and expecting people to follow you. Remember faxes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It appears that a fair number of these predictions (on mobile payments, cloud computing, collaboration tools, and crowdfunding) have actually come true. In 2015, I saw steady growth in the use of these platforms by fundraisers at public and private schools, small and mid-size charities, and community-based projects. " Mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What started as an ad hoc group of volunteers is growing into an impressive organization building out a platform that can be deployed for different purposes, from election monitoring to disaster relief. (Even in unintended and surprising ways ). iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in.

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