Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1. My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2013

"We simply don’t have the money to produce big videos every year," shares Tyler McClelland of Trickle Up , a nonprofit organization that empowers women to break the cycle of poverty by starting sustainable livelihoods of their own. So they did what a lot of nonprofits do: create a short pitch deck.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2012

Nonprofit marketing tactics have become siloed with different disciplines strategizing and executing programs autonomously. Nonprofits have become less effective communicators across the board. Consider the current nonprofit blogosphere over focus on social media. Perhaps they listen to music or the radio in the background.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. You could even make a film or documentary about the core purpose of your organization as a nonprofit. It’s possible to add live entertainment to your fundraising events, and it doesn’t have to be just music.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2019

This research is a goldmine for fundraisers and other nonprofit leaders seeking to hone their craft and improve their ability to bring together good people and good causes. . How can nonprofit leaders harness this tendency for good? The post Using Social Science to Strengthen Your Fundraising appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Virtual events are here to stay, and for nonprofits that means more opportunities to fundraise without breaking the bank and a sweat. Cost Effective – Decor, gift bags, marketing, music, catering, venue…and the list goes on. Event Inspiration From the Fun Files. Ready to start planning your own virtual fundraising event?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

Given the In difficult times, nonprofits provide life-changing support to people affected by financial hardship. substantial impact of nonprofit activity, many companies and people want to give back to their organization but don’t have the means to do so. The big question is, how much can your nonprofit spend on fundraising?

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Assigning tasks and sharing resources in advance means no more wasted time rifling through paper documents or computer files on the fly. The consent agenda can be approved with one motion and vote, rather than filing motions on each individual agenda item. . budget preparation. prepare data. and review documents. About the Author.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. These uncertainties may be why many nonprofits still hesitate to adopt podcasting as a part of their new media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! The case originated in Spain where a man there filed a complaint arguing that Google's search results infringed on his privacy. The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. In fact, that is far from the case.) Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I had never heard of it. It was a magical hour.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

You can also add music by uploading your own track or selecting one of the free songs in Spark Video. Once you've finished the video, save the video to your camera roll as an MP4 file and upload it to Instagram. She enjoys helping nonprofits stand out on social media through powerful multimedia stories. Publish and Share.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. Debian comes to the rescue. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new blog! All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. That’s all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I am an avid Wiki user. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

We talked to Jeanette about her tips for what kind of impact a social media influencer and influencer-driven campaigns can make for your nonprofit. Social Factor has four reasons why your nonprofit needs a social media ambassador and it ties into Jeanette’s three categories for influencers. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. But, that was 4 years ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? Or given up? It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. I think they are the only skype extra that has been certified by Skype for Mac. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2005

given the amount of time it has taken me to just master the basics of vlogging, let alone integrate into my work flow) I think that of all the nonprofit organizations, arts organizations could probably do a spectacular job of vlogging - especially the Walker. (I think I might know the answer to that one. Download walkerproject_0001.wmv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

via Johanna Bates, nonprofit technology geek extraordinaire who works for Community Partners send me this update about a project that her husband, Colin Mitchell, just helped launch. He works for this non-profit that supports independent, non-corporate audio and video file sharing (among other things).

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

The record album business was broken by the cassette tape, which was then undone by the CD, then digital music files changed everything, and something else is sure to come along. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. Kiva breaks it. Room to Read breaks it. GlobalGiving breaks it.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. Engaging small and rural nonprofits to participate, and. If you were unable to join us last month, we hope that you’ll join us next year at bbcon 2020 in Seattle. The end result?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

Friends and family know I work with a lot of nonprofits. Yet, ironically, no tornados appeared, and while the wind was wicked – it was the perfect night for the music of her new album. This might have gone better if they had had more emails on file and could have implemented rapid-response.) Author: Jennifer Darrouzet.

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