Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2008

As you know doubt know, airports are not designed for travelers with laptops. One of the best gadgets I picked up was a travel plug with three outlets. There were few plugs at the gate, so I asked this young guy named Alex who was using the plug to recharge his Ipod if could share. Alex is on route to Fiji.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Interviews have suggested that SMEs think that word of mouth is a more important way to establish their business’ reputation. It’s true that online presence management and website design can be hard work. Why not take a tour of our website design tools to see how easy it can be? They think word of mouth is more important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Interviews have suggested that SMEs think that word of mouth is a more important way to establish their business’ reputation. It’s true that online presence management and website design can be hard work. to make sure you design your web pages in a way that will get them seen, first. They think word of mouth is more important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

What: The art of social instructional design. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. We had similar spread for those having experience designing and delivering trainings. I think you can design around it. Social Instructional Design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. There was a wonderful interview with Jane McGonigal and Kelly McGonigal about their work. Soren welcomed everyone and asked to be totally present and give full attention – which is becoming rarer and rarer at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2008

In a recent interview for a magazine I was asked, "What tips do you have for the unemployed who are seeking full time employment?" It’s helpful to have a designated note-taker to write down what each person says they are going to do so that at the next meeting they are held accountable. I thought I'd share my answer with you: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. I should have thought more about using my laptop and the projector. What worked? What didn't?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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MAY 11, 2011

A laptop and camera equipped smart-phones are a must, but also consider bringing hand-held video cameras (Flip or the Kodak Zi8 series are great options) and a mobile hotspot like a Verizon MiFi device with you so you're sure you have web access from the road. Hardware - Be sure your road-trippers have the right gear with them on the road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. The example to illustrate these points is from a panel I designed for the NTC08 on ROI and Social Media and including Wendy Harman from the Red Cross. Staff Interviews. Clients Interviews. Staff Surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Refunds for Good is designed help you do that and celebrity Martin Sheen tells you why. For more on the topic, read this interview from the Six Degrees of Seperation. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. You've got to love their logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. Gavin Clabaugh 's annual PotLatch Program (a regular giveaway of gently used hardware and gadgets) has come and gone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. Check out Steve Dembo's Geek Toys that'll give you Geekbumps which includes the Give One Get One XO Laptop Campaign (hurry offer ends on November 30th) and a Chumby (hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

His team includes writers, designers, and web producers. I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. Tell me a little bit about you I???m m a product of the Great Lakes and have a degree in technical writing from Michigan Technological University.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Almost all of us here are set up with the laptop screen and the main monitor. IS: I can add to that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

And before you know it, it’s kind of messy in there because we’ve needed to force a system to do something that it wasn’t designed to do in the first place. Do you have a laptop that will work for you to do heavy technology tasks? So you may have one more or all of these symptoms. Does that help? Steven: Yeah.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Effective nonprofit web design matters more than ever before. This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Mobile-responsive design. Streamlined navigation. High-quality visuals.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

We called upon our personal networks of trusted San Francisco-based editors to come in and read onsite during the weekend (with everyone working on their own laptops using the CMS). Tags: storytelling design Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent. The CMS tabulated how many times each submission was read.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. We design the home page and the website for the ACLU.

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