Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. Flickr Photo by Mburpee.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Then, we’ll review how your organization can promote volunteerism in your community and manage volunteers effectively. Volunteerism definition Volunteerism is the act of contributing free labor to conduct community service or support a nonprofit organization. This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. There is an added benefit to learning communities. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. Why am I excited about this project? Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 25, 2022

billion internet users, with the average user spending nearly seven hours a day online. . TECH TIP: Attract new members by integrating Nimble AMS with YM Careers , Community Brands software designed to foster your members' careers and maximize revenue. Technology is irrevocably integrated into our daily lives.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

HTML Knowledge. The ability to manage multiple communities and projects simultaneously without significant mental drain day after day is a rare skill. Because their knowledge base is representative of your nonprofit’s public persona, they need to be allowed the time to read and research trends and news related your nonprofit’s cause.

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2010

Even phone calls aren't phone calls anymore; increasingly they are Voice over IP calls that happen over the internet. This all works because the Internet is one thing above all else: OPEN. Because the Internet is open, our nonprofits can share knowledge, empower people and make our communities better places.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

When we hear about nonprofits like Community Technology Alliance (CTA), we get really excited. This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. Images: Community Technology Alliance' What CTA Uncovered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? Knowledge Management for Development Journal??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? technologies for knowledge sharing???

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

posted by Kevin Godfrey Academic Advisor, Rio Salado Community College. of all households reported having high-speed internet access. In every age category, over 50% of households have high-speed internet access. percent of people have high-speed internet, with at least 80% owning a computer.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

" 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report – "Five years into the research, it is clear that direct mail giving is still the overwhelming majority of fundraising revenue, and organizations must find ways to optimize multichannel giving versus hyper-focusing on internet giving alone.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

For example, if you want to spread awareness of your cause, it may be beneficial to partner with influencers whose communities span a range of interests. In contrast, if you want to promote your services to potential beneficiaries, purchasing social media ads and joining groups for your local community may be more effective.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. popular topics of interest from the TechSoup Community Forums and other. online community channels. As our community discusses the topic of building a culture of accessibility, an important distinction arises. Opening Hearts and Minds. and Ottowa.

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There were signs of life out there in our community nonetheless, which we've wrangled together to help you get back into the swing of things. This week Chase launched the voting period for the 2012 Chase Community Giving program which will award $5 million in grants to 196 charities.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Unlocked Labs is one of a number of nonprofits using tech to create opportunities for people from marginalized communities. Many of our users in emerging markets such as Nigeria have access to the internet sporadically,” Wilson says. Helping Immigrant Communities of Color. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . It doesn’t require internet access. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2012

Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. 98% have a Facebook page with an average community size of over 8k fans. Tweet It!].

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Not all that long ago, intellectual capital —knowledge of processes and data, informational resources, etc.—was The people had the knowledge, and knowledge is power. So perhaps the first step in making a name for yourself in your community is to actually go out into your community and interact with potential donors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

This is a communiqué on the current state of cloud adoption in TechSoup's NetSquared international community from Marc Manashil, community evangelist for NetSquared. You may have seen our recent blog piece called Help Shape the Future of NetSquared that describes our work in this community-building work.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, I wrote a paper for my Ethics in Nonprofits class that explored whether nonprofit theatres should pay actors more or use their resources to prioritize their communities. This is a great way to find credible sources for research assignments or to simply improve your sector knowledge.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Not so with the behemoth of the Internet, WordPress. One of the most laudable attributes of WordPress is that it’s an open-source CMS: there’s an entire community of users backing it up and creating thousands of plug-ins—beyond the basics that come with the starter version of the platform—that make it faster, prettier and more efficient.

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Cloud 4 Good

JANUARY 5, 2022

Basic needs are categorized as the resources and knowledge our Goodies need to do their jobs successfully. Basic needs are categorized as the resources and knowledge our Goodies need to do their jobs successfully. Let’s take a deeper dive into our results and explore what it means for the greater culture at Cloud for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants, most of them women, are exposed to a variety of tech tools, which are easy to adopt and help in organizing community activities, such as: messaging via cell phones, mapping tools, remote conferencing, arranging meetings for large groups, social networking, and more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2009

Next week, I'll be attending The Online Community Unconference (OCU) , along with my TechSoup community colleague, Susan Tenby. Those involved in online community development for-profits and nonprofits alike share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal issues, and more.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Internet use has reached 45% of the total population in LMIC, with 5.1 Thankfully, this is changing. What Ideas Were Generated?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2008

Arial Goldberg, Common Knowledge, winner of video camera I am in New Orleans this week because the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN is taking place. Another team of nonprofit techies helped install a wireless network at the Community Center St. Bernard , thanks to a generous donation from Cisco Systems.

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NetWits

MAY 24, 2009

Facebook is an ever growing force in the internet space and it looks like it will be for a while. It’s free, it gives you an immediate way to build a tribe and engage people in online community. You have to be thoughtful, strategic and knowledgeable. With 200 Million users (and growing) it’s hard to ague otherwise.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Nonprofits exist to advance causes and support communities in need. Deep linking flattens the hierarchy – similar to how we navigate the internet. That leads to people devising their own methods, abandoning others, and propagating bad habits. Fundraising requires strong donor relations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

As part of our agenda planning process for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we hosted a community planning call this past Friday. How do you build communications between your members/constituents -- to get members comfortable using new media tools to interact with each other. Tags: 10NTC community NPTech NTEN.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

WordPress is the most popular website builder on the internet, and for good reason. Use WordPress’s extensive community to find resources. If you have web design and coding knowledge, you can play around with some aspects of your theme yourself to add personal touches to your website. Enter WordPress. Research and add plugins.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

Here are the details: Sessions Today: Building and Sustaining Vibrant Online Communities 1:30 p.m. Many organizations are looking beyond social networks to create their own private communities of supporters, advocates, or collaborators. What are the characteristics of successful online communities? Designed by Susan Tenby.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

It is with the same combined emotion of being impressed and knowing it's true that I announce today that Brett will be stepping down from his role as NTEN's Communications Director at the end of February. The magic of the Internet is elusive to many, but Brett has always known what makes us want to click and register for events.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 6, 2018

Community Brands brings you this information from our partner, BluePay , which offers fast, easy and secure payment processing solutions to fit every organization’s needs. If anything, it’s more about your time and knowledge becoming critical to creating a safer online payment environment. Jay Ablian.

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