Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

Tech Recycling Day. The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. While this may not be tech-focused, it’s still a great way to give back to the DC community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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MARCH 18, 2011

Tech Recycling Day This volunteer service opportunity was intended to provide the homeless with job opportunities and an income through electronics recycling. While this may not be tech-focused, it's still a great way to give back to the DC community. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

easyLearning's courses are web-based, so you can access them from any computer with a web browser and internet access. This means you can use Internet Explorer or Firefox to access them, but not Safari. If your nonprofit is upgrading to Office 2010, these courses would be a perfect way to learn what's new in 2010.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

My colleague Amy wrote in a Stanford Social Innovation Review column , "The debate around social media and the Internet in general as a leveling force is still heated from all sides. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that's really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

Nonprofit Social Media Empowerment Guide. NpTech Social Media Empowerment Guide. Empowered MEdia MEdia Empowered Empowered by Media SMEG (social media empowerment guide). MEdia EmpoWErement. NpTech Guide to Grassroots on the internet. NTEN Tech Handbook. Nonprofits and Social Media Tool Kit. Make Your Media.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

in the developing world where access to the Internet may not be very. landlines to focus on developing the use of mobiles and the mobile Internet. Though the list above includes mobile Internet-related services, some of the. It must be noted that according to the ITU , Internet user penetration has reached approximately 9.6%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The panel included two winners of the NTC/NTEN Life Time Achievement Award – NetHope’s Ed Granger-Happ and TechSoup Global’s Daniel Ben-Horin. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

“15% of the UK population hasn’t experienced the Internet even once.” “It’s not about technology, it’s finally about who uses it and how.” ” Ken. Banks of Kiwanja on the tendency of social media people to get. preoccupied with technology. development in Africa. On the core.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

It is a fundamental shift in how people use the Internet for social good. The overall message should be one of empowerment, not control and restriction. Research how other nonprofits with missions and programs similar to yours are using social media, and then let the executive staff clearly know that your nonprofit is falling behind.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Because more and more homeless and low-income people are accessing the Internet from mobile devices, the developers behind Link-SF identified a need for a mobile-optimized website for finding social services and local resources in San Francisco. This app was the winner of a Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and Capital One hackathon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 Ever wonder if there's a higher good you could be serving with your tech skills? Are you eating well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. tech into their giving practices. Fanton: I've been reading recently about newspapers and articles that aren't entirely positive. Can you talk about security and pornography issues? Linden: You mentioned pornography.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. She shares her thoughts and experience of Internet usage for social change on her blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Empowerment – as you help them with a problem, teach them about the problem, and ways to troubleshoot (or possibly solve) the problem themselves in the future. Second, Empowerment.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But first, some context: Let's start with a volatile mix of Syrian refugees, border conflicts paired with complicated politics , protests, Internet censorship, and a youth unemployment rate of 20 percent. We've got some exciting news.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

That empowerment means setting clear boundaries. Tags: Running Your Organization Social Networking Staff Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 He goes on to explain that the IFRC code of conduct is actually more restrictive than the social media policy.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Wearable and Mobile Tech: What it Means for Nonprofits. From apps to beacons, drones, and mobile ad targeting, this session will review new possibilities mobile tech is creating for nonprofits and how you can make smart investments in mobile. Building persity, Accountability, and Empowerment into Your Organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I spent one day with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they hosted an event for the Technology Partner Network (I’m one of a couple of hundred of tech advisors in the network). It was interesting to hear the latest about the Gates Foundation and their tech directions. Enough said! Bookshare was there with two offers.

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