Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. MoveableType. Squarespace. Prepare to Change Directions.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2014

Vancouver, BC: The End of Slacktivism: How to Understand, Facilitate & Deepen Online Engagement. Cambridge, MA: Wordpress: Beyond the Basics. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of local members. Tuesday, August 5, 2014. New Orleans, LA: August Meetup: Topic TBD. Naples, FL. TUNE-UP TUESDAYS. NFN4GOOD TECHCLUB.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2014

Vancouver, Canada: The End of Slacktivism: How to Understand, Facilitate & Deepen Online Engagement. Cambridge, MA: Wordpress: Beyond the Basics. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Bagels and Bytes: Bagels & Bytes - Allegheny. Portland, OR: Summer social and thousand-member extravaganza! Thursday, August 7, 2014.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 What are APIs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

On the blogging side, while the main event page is on WordPress, Geoff will be using a posterous blog for updates about the conference and to publish early chapters of #crisisdata white paper. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. The key here is that collaboration between nonprofit needs and application developers that's for all applications not just Facebook. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

An interactive map app was also collaboratively created by the community as a social experiment to facilitate user experience. Using Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Facebook, and WordPress, she cross-promoted The Nutcracker by offering special seats to contest winners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. At See3, we think this is like the launch of Drupal or WordPress – two content management systems that. My main takeaway was that nonprofits need to think differently about content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Wordpress or some other CMS might be better suited for a collaborative website project, or Google Apps or Zoho for simple collaboration. A facilitator may also be useful. In addition to specific software, there were some general tips and considerations discussed: Wikis are good for creating a knowledge base or encyclopedia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Many platforms, including Drupal and WordPress have responsive design themes available. Quinn mentioned a few interesting examples of how nonprofits can use mobile to facilitate conversations with their constituents, including: Engaging volunteers and conducting surveys. Creating a simple mobile app.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Karl: A “website redesign” has been brewing for at least the last 2 years, but it finally got the kick it needed when Jessica and I attended the AUDC (Avectra Users and Developers Conference) in March and saw some demos of how our CRM (Avectra’s netFORUM) could smoothly integrate with a CMS like Wordpress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! A more complex knowledge sharing platform might include: the ability for users to upload documents, links, or just pose a question. commenting on any item. rating items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

" Anyway, his blog was one of the first edtech blogs I started to follow and he emailed me recently to let me know he has a new domain and wordpress blog. been facilitated by this blog. Wagner writes the Educational Technology and Life Blog - his tagline "Context-embedded, Inquiry-driven, and Socially-negotiated Learning."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Competitions, Awards, and Recognition. Ending Global Slavery is part of an Ashoka initiative Changemakers.net. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. The Third C: Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

.  We had social media experts and gurus in the room - in addition to fellow workshop leaders Chris Heuer, Kristie Wells, and Roxanne Darling, we had folks like Todd Cochrane (father of podcasting) Lorelle the Wordpress Guru, Neenz the evangelist from All Top , Colin Devore who is a total expert in social media from Viddler. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. One of them told us that there was a special plugin for wordpress that display the blog in style sheet that is readable on cell/mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . What do you do to facilitate it? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Nonprofits looking for just membership management might find the platform overly complex for their needs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Several developers at the Net Tuesday meeting also recommended the FLS plug-in for Drupal and WordPress." As a rehab teacher, it seems to be what I teach most of the time these days, since there are so many apps that facilitate independent living." " - from Tom Dekker via email. Next Steps?

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sharing stories about your volunteers, beneficiaries, staff members, and other stakeholders can introduce potential new supporters to what your mission is all about and facilitate a positive connection with your nonprofit. Connect data and statistics to real impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “ Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.” Is your nonprofit facilitating online professional learning? BuddyPress – Works with WordPress but requires customization for some online groups.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 11, 2024

Facilitate fundraising on your website with a simple donation process. Cornershop Creative recommends using WordPress because it’s compatible with Avada, a website builder with mobile-friendly themes. For example, you may add a call to action on your homepage that invites visitors to “Donate today!” Simplify your donation process.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 15, 2023

The partnership resulted in a unique new WordPress website integrated with their Luminate CRM and TeamRaiser suites. Training is an essential part of the implementation process and can be facilitated by your consultant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Adding a new printer is facilitated by a few different things hplip, cups, ghostscript, and gutenprint/gimpprint. Wireless worked for me straight after install. DVD’s worked for me as well (though Windows doesn’t play DVD’s right after install). You will need all of them because of the varying ways in which printers operate.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

He also told me, "I find my bliss in being a facilitator and supporter. She has been with the Naples Free-Net since 1998 and organized the NFN4Good nonprofits support and education program to teach WordPress, CiviCRM, and other open-source software. When you get to meet him (and I trust you will), you wouldn't know it.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Agencies are using IdeaScale to facilitate two-way feedback with citizens. While IdeaScale does offer log-in alternatives such as using AOL, Google, WordPress, or Yahoo, this usability issue will affect many citizens electing to post ideas to multiple agencies. To date, over 700 ideas have been submitted !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

What would it be like if we could help nonprofits with the following: Asking whether technology implementations in their organization in the past have really facilitated their mission? How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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