Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

I remember a hot consulting topic was how to get your database off those 3x5 cards into an excel spreadsheet or how to mail merge in Outlook to send out an e-newsletter. . In the early days, the event offered a small selection of consulting, on-site training, or actual hardware or local area network auditing projects.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Flickr: marcp_dmoz Technology aside, it’s clear that the advent of Cloud-based solutions has had an impact on the culture of our work as nonprofits. It’s changed the jobs we do, both within the IT department and in more mission-related positions, and how we’re able to do them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. As a technology trainer, capacity builder, and consultant working with nonprofits, I always ask the fishing question, especially since I work in the area of emerging technologies that often falls prey to Shiny Object Syndrome — ( Google + anyone? He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

While listening to Kimberly Wilson''s Tranquility du Jour podcast interview with fundraising and philanthropic consultant, Lauren Brownstein on Saturday, the quote above really resonated with me. Flickr photo credit: Colored pencils by Alan Cleaver. How do you prioritize how you give your time and money?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Miriam Brosseau is Chief Innovation Officer at See3 Communications where she consults, coaches, and trains clients like Make-A-Wish, Alzheimer’s Association, and Ceres on digital strategy and storytelling. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Flickr photo credit: Ray of Light. Jeffrey Bryan, a veterinary oncologist Emily Jacobi, Digital Democracy Jenny Ramo, New Mexico Appleseed Kavita Ramdas, formerly of Global Fund for Women ( I interviewed Kavita in April 2008 ) Kenya Masala, Source Consulting Group, (he's the musician behind the Big Vision Podcast's intro and outro music).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. The Nonprofit Blog Carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants, support organizations, and nonprofits themselves are offering to the nonprofit community through their blogs. Note From Beth: Blog Carnivals are a themed collection of blog posts.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

You can also follow the action on Flickr and Delicious. Tags: Accessible Technology Consultants Consultants Digital Divide Running Your Organization Services Social Networking Tech Planning Training Using the Web and Internet Volunteers. All week, the Mozilla Service Week site will be featuring volunteer success stories.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Flickr: Dinner Series If summer vacation has you feeling a bit out of the loop, this week's Member Round Up is ripe with opportunities to re-connect with the community and, if you're feeling lucky, take a gamble with your great, innovative ideas. Sign up today ! Congratulations! Anything we missed? Share your links in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. ” Paul Connolly is Chief Client Services Officer at TCC Group , a 34 year-old consulting firm that provides strategy, evaluation, and capacity building services to funders and nonprofits. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Flickr: vernhart Member Appreciation Month here at NTEN is marching on, and as a way of saying "thank you" to our members, we've got a couple of great webinars lined up for you this week: Get Yer Free Ads Here: Introduction to Google Grants , Tuesday, 11/16. Google 101 for Nonprofits, Thursday , 11/18.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Reach out to your existing donors, volunteers and consultants and ask them to share their plans to give back on their social networks and in their online communities. My own idea: check out the clever #GivingTuesday images that Direct Relief International used on last year’s campaign on Creative Commons on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. If you don’t have a supervisor, or have one you struggle with, find a mentor by consulting with someone who has more fundraising experience than you and is therefore more likely to have helpful tips. So, to avoid my own burnout, please enjoy this guest post by Julie Fanning.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Flickr Photo by Trainer62 You may have noticed there's a lot going on at the NTEN court as of late -- new nten.org (just look around), release of the NTEN Data Ecosystem Report , NTC Scholarship Campaign , the NTC , and a great line-up of webinars ! Consultants RoundTable. Hosted by: Jeffrey Forster. February 11.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Flickr: ATOMIC Hot Links Ahhh, Labor Day weekend: the barbeques and parades, the hot rod drag race finals, and the wistful goodbye to summer, white shoes, and seersucker suits. AgileDC 2012 will run for one action-packed day on October 23, and feature as keynote speaker Jim Highsmith, Executive Consultant with ThoughtWorks, Inc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. We will provide a Gold Pass to SxSW and you will be the guest of honor at our launch party and will get, in essence, a free consulting session with Zoetica’s founders. Less of an agency and more of a change agent.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

Industry, including e-waste recyclers, refurbishers, environmental auditors, and consultants, as well as policy leaders from many countries globally, will be participating in this event. Image: Beanhammer (Flickr Creative Commons). GreenTech mobile phone recycling refurbishment Africa computers electronics reuse'

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Toms Aguilar , Progressive Technology Project; Yee Won Chong , Fundraising Consultant; Nadia Khastagir , Design Action Collective; and Chris Tuttle , Tuttle Communications. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): Here''s what they said.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

At Forum One, we spend a lot of time thinking about social media: we run the Online Community Research Network , we lead many social media events every year, and we have provided consulting services to several hundred organizations. Receive low effort / watching: LinkedIn, Facebook, Scribd, Flickr, YouTube, Paid channels. Blogs (five).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. Holly Minch is the founder of Lightbox Collaborative , a versatile, dynamic group of talented consultants making the world a better place, one project at a time.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

TechBridge will call you back within 72 hours to have a first consultation. The first phone consultation takes about 45 minutes. Founded in 2000, TechBridge provides subsidized IT consulting along with donated software, and pre-negotiated rates from business partners like Accenture. The initial online process takes 20 minutes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

Flickr photo credit: Juicy! . • Allison Jones shared her presentation on Five Common Challenges in Blogging and How to Overcome Them where she highlights five blogging challenges and offers some tips for how to overcome them like read and engage with other blogs in your field , and start by writing short posts. • by sunshinecity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. It was quite impressive/overwhelming to see everything we did in the past year–evaluations by consultants, training evaluations, family member surveys, post grant evaluations, etc. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I’ll be posting pics to flickr, for sure! { It will be my first international open source event, and it’s an amazingly interesting topic. So I am so excited to be going. I have been tasked to be “use case librarian&# which is very cool, since I am a real fan of use cases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. he went on to talk about their successes, but did point out that it required work and a good consultant ( JD Lasica ).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

They may even be written by a consultant or business that serves nonprofits. Also, I have written, consulted for, or financially supported some of these organizations. Flickr photo credit: Photo of question mark in flowers uploaded by Michelle. nonprofit blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Photo from Obbino in Flickr. Modeled after blog carnivals like Kivi Leroux Miller's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants , David and Michele are asking for contributions and ideas for their respective wikis on social media/web 2.0 The Wiki Carnival is coming next week! What's a wiki carnival? and nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It can bring in your photos (and the photos of your contacts) from flickr. Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.&# For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us It can keep track of your Twitter friends, etc. You can also use it as a blog editor, which I am going to start trying out. It’s amazingly good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. This is a good sign that things are going in the right direction. I’ll keep you posted, for sure. Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. This is, of course, great news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. Vince Stehle is a philanthropic consultant and a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. Resource: The Media Consortium – Campaign Cash – Who Is Funding Your Elections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. Vince Stehle is a philanthropic consultant and a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. We may not prevail. But we should not lose our voice without a fight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

Flickr Photo by Wesley Fryer. In addition to her consulting practice, Joan also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on nonprofit communications and leadership. Joan was previously the Executive Director of GLAAD, one of the largest gay rights organizations in the world.

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