Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

As an expert on commerce and culture, I am sometimes commissioned to do sponsored research. It creates communities when users can comment and exchange their stories about a particular topic. Culturally, it’s an invitation for private foundations to become more open source. It’s downloadable as an ePub or as a PDF.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

However, she laments that issues of inclusivity, representation and participation across society remain largely ignored in spite of the rapid growth of the Open Data movement even though they should be placed at the front and centre. Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our customers are improving in their ability to measure their impact and create a culture of data and learning. Open Source Commons and Community Sprints , where our Salesforce-savvy community gathers to co-create solutions together. This figure is up from 84% last year. How Salesforce.org Measures and Reports on Its Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. Each topic introduced a framework and story, and was followed by discussion and activities to identify examples in the Arab world and or determine whether the principle was relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. Convergence of Social Health Media With Youth Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. He told the story about the growth and challenges facing the Joomla! What is the gensis of an open source community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education." We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. to track personal fundraising campaigns.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Case-Studies: Three Stories of HR Management, plus a closer look at one small organization's migration of mission-critical data to a new database in the cloud. In the current issue you'll find: " How Your Organization Can Embrace Data--And Use What it Can Teach You ," by KD Paine, measurement expert and author.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We envision taking ProvingIt to an open-source platform, and ultimately offering it across the sector to those who share our desires: to track progress, to be honest about failure, to transform conversations with donors, and to measure impact not just once, but over long periods of time. We'd love to hear your stories!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Telling the Benetech story better is crucial to our future: crucial to making the social change at scale that we consider the essence of innovation. In 2012, we’ll be rolling out new branding, new media, and new stories all with the goal of getting better at what we do and raising our impact. They just worked!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Told story about doing a workshop and someone said the product didn't work. Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Christmas newsletters and recipes are the social media of their time, and women are the key social nodes of our culture. In her comic and though-provoking style, Heather Gold brings together amazingly smart women to discuss what makes social networks strong and predict where theyre heading next online. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It’s part of our culture, from the advertisements to the neatest, newest, coolest phones, to the new TV you should have. I have a story about nonprofits with a website they can’t leverage for their mission. Although complete fiction, this story will feel quite familiar. Technology is a rapidly moving beast.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

and you can then add a video, picture, or story to your cause’s page. Ehren Foss , Co-Founder and CEO: has a decade of diverse technical experience with web programming, database administration, and many of the open source tools that help make the web an amazing place to work. How To Use #hashtags for Giving. About the Authors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

One of their programs is the Reality Tours, where they bring groups of individuals to regions to look at the social justice issues and other pressing issues, that really color the experience and the culture of a place. So I would say that the inspiration comes from the connection that is available through opening up a space like this.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Was it going to be called the 92y’s Giving Tuesday, or was it going to be open? And they made the decision and there’s a story we tell in the book of there’s a conversation Henry has with his board and his board goes, okay, we liked this idea, but where does the logo go? His organization is called the 92y.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

DHS should partner with commercial companies and government agencies to provide a consolidated portal for citizen reporting zero day vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source code. Cultural Community to Build Bridges between U.S. Vote for this Idea ]. and Foreigners. Department of State.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

The first thing people ask me is the story behind my name. I understand you work with nonprofits and social media strategy -- Can share a story about one of your clients and how you worked with them to incorporate a social media strategy? It's been set up as an "open source activism" movement - anything goes.

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

She came to the library right before a significant capital campaign to transform the library into “an open source, people’s university” and hasn’t looked back since. It was the programming, culture, and vision of the library that attracted her, and the challenge that has kept her engaged and excited ever since.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

As Marx classically argued, the astronomical corporate profits made possible by new technologies do not come out of thin air but in fact ultimately only come about by “undermining the original sources of all wealth”—the soil and the workers’ labor. Platform Cooperativism.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ghost : Many folks who have moved off Substack have gone to Ghost which is an open-source platform with similar functionality. What I’m Reading by Phil Lewis – Phil is a reporter based in Detroit whose Substack newsletter shares engaging and informative news stories about the Black experience in America.

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