Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2014

Through this, we have gotten great insight into the inner-workings of a variety of nonprofits and charities, and the creative ways that they connect with and reach out to their communities. We are constantly moved by the motivations of our community. And ultimately, we’ve created a community that feels more connected.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

It’s very inspiring to be part of a community dedicated to sharing and discussing and am thankful for all of you joining me! As part of practicing what I preach, I wanted to recap the process Matt and I used for this redesign to offer to you as just one of the many options for engaging with a designer and a community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. An important ingredient to our strategy was building a community around our mission.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 16, 2015

Eli van der Giessen — Netsquared Community Manager. Remote employees have always held the NetSquared community manager role. No matter where I'm based, I'd still be spending most of my day on email, Skype, Google+ Hangouts, and the phone. web conferencing video conferencing Skype telework Yammer telecommuting'

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2015

Michael Enos — Senior Director for Community and Platform. I work on the Community and Platform team. For meetings or chatting, we use Skype a lot, which is good for group text chat or group voice and video if everyone is in a different place and has a good Internet connection. Don't miss part one and part two !

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

This post was written by Evonne Heyning , part of TechSoup's Community team. Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 26, 2009

For quick consultations with colleagues, or staying in touch with your contacts, free instant messaging (IM) services like Google Chat, Skype, AIM, and many others will fit the bill. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech online community MeeboMe Social networking Non-profit Communications collaboration websites chat. read more ).

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

It all started twenty years ago when esteemed members of the Lincoln chapter of the American Marketing Association created a community project in 2001. This was long before Zoom, and Skype was still relatively new. But before it became the nonprofit conference sensation that it is now, Cause Camp started with humble roots.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

StoryCorps provides a free, downloadable Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide , as well as an Education Toolkit to use in a classroom or library, and a Community Service Toolkit to use in, "veteran’s hospitals, senior centers, homeless shelters, and other community centers." I also like their Great Question List.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2014

Whether you're managing volunteers or an online community, the SF Online Community Meetup is a great place to learn from (and share with!) other community managers. This month's event featured our own fabulous forums manager, Jayne Cravens, sharing her online community and volunteer management wisdom.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2010

Today, the telecentre is in Lota , one of the poorest cities and Chile and one of the communities hit worst by the earthquake. Fundación CEPAS gladly received our team and the mobile telecentre, allocating a safe place outside their damaged building in order for the telecentre to serve the community.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. Skype - Skype's video conferencing abilities are a great way to have free long distance or international phone calls to family or friends. Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah Marston!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. The Community of Practice includes diverse perspectives: community foundations and private philanthropies working across a range of issues.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. Instead of leading with answers, let’s start focusing on the questions we can ask each other, ask of funders, ask of our communities, ask of ourselves. There is no agenda. We do not work together. Put questions before answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Rather than skyping in, they will show this video short as part of the keynote and I will participate on the Twitter chat via the hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest desktop apps for Windows 8. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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NTEN

JANUARY 18, 2011

While we've used the public humiliation of the NTEN staff as the theme in the past, this year we want to celebrate the collective awesome of the NTEN community. See your colleagues and Microsoft Community Affairs team shake it like a salt shaker in a Kinect Dance Central Dance off! New to yoga? This auction item is for you!

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

Some interesting ones are: Skype — the overwhelming favorite free audio and video calling service internationally. So far, the Skype premium mobile phone app allows only group audio calls. GreenTech Microsoft Green IT online community online collaboration webinars teleconfering virtual conferencing'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. ” Philantroteens. … Read More

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

things like this happen: I had lunch the other day with a friend who is very knowledgeable about the hacker world within in the so-called "intelligence community". Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. As for Skype, the e-bay owned internet phone service: " There is basically no security employed by Skype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. Colleague, June Holley , was not able to participate in person, but was able to participate via skype. Have you used design thinking in your nonprofit’s work? What was your experience?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Either way, large nonprofits with multiple chapters have much to gain by empowering their chapters to create mobile and social media communities tailored for their local area provided that it is done well and with much preparation. For 10 chapters or less, use Skype Premium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

This is a group of women who have been working/playing together to explore how technology can support the World Cafe global community. Two years ago when this group was meeting in California, Nancy White saw me online and skyped me. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! Spot Us,???

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Since reading the The Networked Nonprofit a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for nonprofits that typify the new breed of nonprofit organization that is agile, open, community driven, hyper-connected and extremely effective. With a distributed global staff, we depend on things like Skype video chat to reduce travel.

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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. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. The blogosphere is a huge, fractious, disorganized community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I come back to my computer and a SKYPE call from Nancy White comes in who tells me she is at Juanita's house working on a girl geeks supporting the World Cafe global community and showing Juanita how to use SKYPE! Update: Just got skyped about the link to her book and corrected it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Community Foundation of Monterey County. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Radio Bilingue. What is the shape of the network mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

The half-dozen podcasts were rolled out in January and February as part of the publicity for fundraising activites held in 46 communities across Ontario. A few days ago, I got an email from Seth Mazow with a question about how to record a SKYPE call. I know that Nick Noakes records via SKYPE, but don't know what tools he uses.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week Four). Anna praises Skype's capacity as a telecommuting tool. Susan examines strategies for using Facebook as a part of your nonprofit's communications strategy. From TechSoup Stock : Don't miss next week's special two-day offer from GrantStation. TechSoup Blog.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leading a group of passionate volunteers, doing deeds that help the community around you, and making a meaningful difference to an important cause are what make the job of a volunteer management leader worth it. Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. Online document collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The agenda was packed, with 30 more plenary sessions per day (highlights here ) ranging from 5 minutes solo presentations, 10-20 minute panel discussions, and live interviews via skype. But the speakers were not just technologists, they included global leaders – many who are used to a different format for conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. The E-Mediat Implementation Partners at SF Planning Meeting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 18, 2010

One of the most compelling and entertaining arguments for reducing consumption is Annie Leonard’s famous little online video The Story of Stuff , and now her new The Story of Stuff book, subtitled How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health — and a Vision for Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

The GiGis were meeting in California last Thursday and I was hoping to SKYPE in but spotty wifi in my hotel room. I'm so proud to be part of the BlogHer community and to work with the amazing founders of blogher - who were just featured in the NY Times regarding the Cyberbullying issue. I just discovered this congrats video!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Katya Andresen of the Nonprofit Marketing Blog left me a message on Odeo in response to the question "What do you think about widgets for building community, in particular fundraising widgets?" " Here's the transcript: "I think widgets are a great way to build community if you are authentic about it.

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