ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When leaders are not deliberate about building shared mental models, people end up having different ideas of what things mean—such as feedback, imperfection, or mistakes—what is valued, and how to behave at work. Modeling learning : Leaders often engage in learning behaviors but do so in private when others aren’t watching.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

Recent events have been disruptive on a global scale. The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Co-creative systems rely upon shared input for decision-making.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Companies that operate globally will need to approach social justice as it relates to the needs of their employees and communities around the world. Blackbaud is a global company. Leadership must model the kind of behavior that they seek in others and for their organization. Want to see what this looks like in action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

This week I was lucky enough to do a Happy Healthy Nonprofit mini-workshop at the Global Giving office, an organization that I have known and worked for the past ten years. Global Giving’s office uses an open office layout to maximize collaboration and connections between staff and projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Globally, nonprofits store their data inside software applications and platforms, small and large. Many of these factors are beyond nonprofits’ ability and the global impact economy to influence. This doesn’t serve nonprofits at scale, given all the potential platform ecosystems nonprofits could use globally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! We could serve many more with a comparable international model. Diplomatic leaders leaders gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

First up is Colleen Dilenschneider, the Chief Market Engagement Officer for IMPACTS, a global leader in predictive market intelligence and related technologies, and the publisher of one of our team’s favorite websites, Know Your Own Bone , which shares data and analysis about how cultural audiences think and behave.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

The global COVID-19 pandemic didn’t slow the momentum one bit. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 Around 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food production, while the U.S. Kick Start Your Movement With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. percent gets recycled.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Brian Solis , Global Innovation Evangelist and Digital Anthropologist, calls this Generation Novel, or Gen N. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? Do you have necessary facilitating internal systems, policies and procedures and controls? And now we have global social upheaval layered on top.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

The dual shocks of COVID-19 and an oil price war have roiled global markets. Uncertainty is likely to continue as the dual shocks on the global economy are increasing the probability of recession. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? We have to look at the financial markets.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

After facilitating Salesforce’s first investment in Classy and a lasting partnership between the two companies, I became a Board Member and advisor to Classy in 2014. A: I began my career working at the nonprofit that runs Fair Trade, a global movement that makes sustainable development goals a reality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. spread globally, as I described in a post on the significance of this landmark treaty.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2020

But, as the stay at home orders that were in place at the onset of this global pandemic are being lifted, social distancing orders remain in place for the foreseeable future. Just as many businesses are shifting to a remote work model, events can be moved online with great results. What Does This Mean for Event Professionals?

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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. What are the different models? TechSoup Global Summit: Notes from Plenary Session. How and when to catalyze networks? When don’t networks work?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started. An journey like this opens doors to new partnerships, relationships, and networks in a unique way.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Stripe Best for: Nonprofits looking to easily accept global payments and access instant payouts if needed. Small nonprofit with fewer transactions: A pay-as-you-go or flat-rate model works best for these organizations. Look for a mobile-friendly payment processor that facilitates simple transactions on both mobile and desktop devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As 4 Think global, write local Don’t forget op-eds and letters to the editor! While topics might be global, news is local,” explained Chan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Within just 10 days of folding, Foldit players helped decipher the structure of an AIDs-causing virus and produced an accurate 3D model of the enzyme, a problem that had eluded scientists and supercomputers for more than 10 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? He has seen it all. Food for a week cost another $80.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2020

But, as the stay at home orders that were in place at the onset of this global pandemic are being lifted, social distancing orders remain in place for the foreseeable future. Just as many businesses are shifting to a remote work model, events can be moved online with great results. What Does This Mean for Event Professionals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The model works well because it helps organization identify incremental improvements and build their capacity. What’s needed for improvement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Set Next Steps at Meetings: Marnie Webb at TechSoup Global says they also use a weekly meeting to report on efforts and make the next set of decisions. Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I My answer: Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The model balances content, learning design, and participants. I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). The ideas, tips, and tricks are grounded in adult learning theory, but the book is very practical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day on Monday. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” ” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

This year, market research predicts that digital’s share of total advertising spend will near 50% globally, and soon digital ad spending will surpass traditional mediums. Additionally, digital marketing is often a preferred type of advertising because organizations are able to be precise on deciding where their dollars are spent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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