Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By better understanding the wide cultural roots of this season of generosity we can fine-tune the means to communicate with all who make up our communities. The same example applies across so many cultures and communities, all of which can be important components in your nonprofit’s success. There are 7.5

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2013

NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation. At NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation, we were looking for a way to bring together their community around High Holiday celebrations. Community Data Morlie Levin nptech nten Strategy Communications IT Staff Program' Morlie Levin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. The strong community vibe in the room was inspiring and comfortable. Since this was the last BlogPotomac (read this insightful post about why), the community self-organized a wake after the conference. conference in 2010.

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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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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

Yoga challenged their community to do one yoga pose per day and share a photo on social media. Brainstorm something that your community members can do, pick a catchy hashtag, and ask them to post online. Corporate groups make great fundraisers as they often have connections outside of your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. We stayed in amazing places and enjoyed incredible meals by some of the top Chefs in Israel. topics, issues, and activites all linked to a respective location and a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The New Community Rules was reviewed in a guest post by Angus Parker of Wiser Earth. The lucky winner is Ira Wise who is the Director of Education from Congregation B'nai Israel. With our 100th post coming at the close of this year, our staff would agree that the blog has been a great success. The lucky winner is Dawn Crawford.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. There are 500 volunteers working for PresenTense each year, mainly from North America and Israel, but also from other places around the globe. PT used technology from day one, says Simi Hinden, the director of the online community. So how does this "incubator" work? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

She told me that she was planning to get a copy of Shel Israel's book herself, but had seen my Tweet leading to this post about the nonprofit book giveaway for Shel Israel's book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. I asked Betsy, why are you doing this?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As an Israel Defense Forces veteran, I relate to Jim Collins’ West Point talk about the ethics of service, commitment to a cause bigger than yourself, the understanding that you could die while serving and meaningful insight that the pursuit for greatness is a journey that never ends. And, as a nonprofit leader, it’s my call of duty.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Perhaps it was some of those that can help to account for the NTEN community's busy week. NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation released an interactive map of High Holiday services and celebrations to help connect young people with opportunities all over the country and in their own community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2015

So, I was really excited to hear that The Charles and Lynn Schustermann Family Foundation has just launched a very useful digital resource for organizations that need to cultivate and engage their alumni communities.

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CauseVox

JUNE 14, 2021

Beginning as a small religious community based in North Carolina, Dorcas Ministries has made a homegrown difference in the lives of Cary-area residents over the past 40 years. All of this to say – it’s important to meet people where they’re at, even if they’re not physically present. Example: Virtual Gala-Style Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

.” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia. ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia, focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia. I started blogging [.]

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2012

NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation. If I told you that we could find new expressions of Jewish communal work using this image as our inspiration, you'd probably think I was crazy: That's right, square plus triangle equals circle. Emily Comisar. Manager of National Projects.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

Don’t worry, there are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Mukono, Uganda: Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School & Community. Vancouver, Canada: Community Manager Forum. Upcoming Events. Sunday, March 9.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 22, 2013

I attend Sabbath services almost every Saturday morning at Congregation Beth Israel. Fink , Vice President /. General Manager. HMA Public Relations. It is my chance to have at least 90 minutes of down time to reflect on the week that’s passed and look forward to the week ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

The “Remand Homes,” although funded by the government, are pretty bare and under-resourced. In the community, there is only a boys home, but the director of this home, a very committed and passionate professional had just been assigned to set up the girls home. Remand House staff and director (right).

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NTEN

AUGUST 20, 2010

The case study about nptech in Israel will be featured in our August newsletter. Don't forget to keep up with your NTEN community pals (did I just say "pals"?) Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. Speaking of NTEN members sharing digital stories online, I saw this twitpic from Merav Resistal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

ASU School of Community Resources & Development. is Assistant Professor of Social Entrepreneurship in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. Gordon Shockley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor. Welcome to Research Friday ! As always, we welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions! Shockley, Ph.D.,

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

George Durham, Program Manager, Microsoft Global Community Affairs On January 12th, 2010, a devastating earthquake ripped through the Haitian landscape, literally decimating cities like Leogane, Petit Goave, and much of Port-au-Prince. George Durham is a Program Manager with Microsoft’s Global Community Affairs team.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We received votes from all over the world including Iceland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Poland, Chile, England, Brazil and Australia, with the most international votes coming from the United States. We continue to run our Penguin of the Month posts, and in October 2019 we repeated our Penguin of the Year online campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

First, I try to connect with people in the country or community via social media. In the social media world, now they just outsource it to their communities (in both good and bad ways)." . Whenever I teach workshops, I try to identify people in the community who have knowledge. Customize once you get on-site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. It's been my bible for community and relationship building. Johanna Bates, who has worked for a community organization in Massachusetts that will close its doors at the end of year, will venture in the world of consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

Our mission is to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community, and a healthier and more sustainable world for all. Because we run large group bike rides (all over the US and in Israel) the office culture prioritized bikes as the mode of moving. We bring a Jewish lens to sustainability outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it. Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. How is your organization tuning its Twitter network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I decided to give away copies of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith's Trust Agents , Shel Israel's Twitterville , and Nancy Smith, John Smith, and Etienne Wenger's Digital Habitats. We asked folks to leave a comment on the blog post sharing why they wanted the book. (I'm I'm going to ask for follow up case studies.)

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

I spoke on a panel on Saturday afternoon and discussed internet technologies and trends in global health, including examples in data visualization, social networking, community development, and transparency. Bobby Jefferson of Futures Group International talked about ?Building Surgeon General called ? Missiles to Mammograms ?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. The birth of CompuMentor is described in Howard Rheingold’s The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. How TechSoup Started. He was born and raised in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Implement an emergency notification system for all the University campus community. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel). Objective : Increase donations for the soup kitchens, while also communicating an individual’s impact on the cause. Cool Factor : Campus Alert System.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. Don't be afraid to experiment with other social media channels, but make sure you've been a member of the community first. I want to thank Carnet Williams and ChipIn for the challenge match! I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time.

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Everyaction

JULY 12, 2018

office, so I decided to head out to the festival and see for myself how Halcyon used database technology to bring together diverse communities for a weekend centered around art and dialogue. and focusing on themes of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I work out of EveryAction’s D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Molson reaches out to the community to find ways to spread the responsible drinking message, including supporting the TaxiGuy program and covering the cost of free public transit on New Year's eve. I literally gasped!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2009, it has evolved to incorporate a networked approach and there are even platforms or communities of people dedicated to click action philanthropy, including Every Wun. As a basic service, TwitCause will find a cause to support (partially based on community feedback) and use Twitter to drive awareness for it.

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Everyaction

JUNE 26, 2018

We do everything from legislative organizing to engaging in campaigns that seek to put nonviolent pressure on the government both in the US and Israel to respect international law. We also do a lot of work within the Jewish community. We've endorsed the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Our recent project for Masa Israel Journey shows how all these elements can work together. Have you run across any particularly moving visual stories lately?

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

So the cover photo had 35 people from many different countries: Israel, Peru, the Philippines, China, Guatemala. MCON13 Community immigration Jose Antonio Vargas Leadership MCON13 Millennial Impact Conference Millennials Nadira Hira social media undocumented' They asked where I''d find them. "Uh, Uh, Facebook." Just Not Legally.

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