NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

If you have a link to your Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Flickr, and YouTube, but not your email signup, your visitors may assume you don’t have a list to join. If I were you I’d go solve that problem before I did anything else. Include Links to Your Social Media Accounts. RSS as a Replacement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. You can control the fire by addressing it once and analyze why it is happening or determine and eliminate the root cause through problem solving. One approach is to harness your inner change maker, and lead a session with your staff on analyzing the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Helokee. Some of the greatest breakthroughs arrive when people who are outside the traditional structure take a look at a problem. At the Durfee Foundation, we bring together nonprofit leaders from different fields to work on intractable problems in the Los Angeles region. Seek outsider knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Solves problems and analyzes issues. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? The same 6 or 7 competencies (see chart above) were selected as most important for all levels. These skills are: Inspires and motivates others.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The problem was that the code was pure Microsoft: crap. Full of unnecessary tags and other junk that caused all sorts of problems. The problem with MarsEdit is its lack of a WYSIWYG or rich text editor. And I now only run Windows XP in VMWare Fusion when I absolutely have to. I have a love/hate relationship with MarsEdit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. This true interdependence – including funders in the mix – paves the way for the kind of deep collaboration and problem-solving that is necessary to tackle complicated community problems. The Civity Networks Project—Taking Relationships Seriously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. ” If the nonprofit sector abuses self-care in any of these ways, we are doing a disservice to ourselves and our organizations – and we won’t have the energy to solve the difficult problems that our organizations, networks, and field are trying to address with not enough resources.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

The intent of the event is to speed up efforts to address the African e-waste problem in a manner that protects the environment and workers' health, and also creates economic opportunity. A recent UN study finds that domestic consumption is the main contributor to Africa's growing e-waste problem.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. Because they share, they can solve classroom problems together and support each other in their classwork. I don't want to get into a long diatribe about why we don't share in the nonprofit sector; lots of great posts already accurately define the problem. Perla could have stopped there, but she didn't.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

flickr: blogtrepreneur. Add to the the cost for someone to investigate the problem, help fix it and set up all that new equipment including emails and websites, etc.- Nonprofits Act on #Cybersecurity . I know dozens of nonprofits whose systems have been hacked or networks compromised, costing them thousands of dollars.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 16, 2010

During the teleclass we'll discuss: How a Big Vision Circle can help you reach your creative career goals How to find people to join your circle The pros and cons of virtual vs. face-to-face Big Vision Circles How to facilitate your Circle Problem-solving (e.g. Flickr photo, Circle of Life uploaded by red twolips/magdalena.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

Flickr: Alexdecalvelo SXSW Interactive is offering 5 scholarships to attend the 2012 conference. The scholarships are open to anyone using new media channels to tackle community problems –including nonprofit leaders, grassroots organizers, individual citizens and civic-minded entrepreneurs.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! They are places where we learn and become something greater than we were.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: licolnian Direct mail has been, and still is, the cornerstone of nonprofit fundraising. But direct mail has one big problem: it's not so good for trees. Online fundraising, something I spend a large percentage of my work week thinking about, accounted for just 2% of total fundraising in 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). Still, understand that the content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2005

This photo was taken when Little Judy handed up her laptop to one of the presenters in Advanced Tools Session when there was a technical problem. advanced tools Originally uploaded by image415. Even though they gave her pieces of chocolate, it was an act of caring. I wonder if this would be one of Nancy White's indicators of a community ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold. While that in itself probably qualifies us as one of India's largest children's book publishers, when compared to the scale of the problem - over 300 million children in India - it is still a minuscule effort. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies. Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. Why limit yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Flickr Photo by Canolais. No problem. Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors Guest Post By Geri Stengel, Ventureneer. Note from Beth: We know that social media can bring in the small dollar donors, but what about larger gifts? This is a question that was answered in a study from 2009 and the answer is yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. Collective and collaborative problem-solving can get us farther faster. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. But where there is risk, there is great reward.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

flickr photo: Unlisted Sightings You know how a good relationship works, right? We, as nonprofit leaders, have problems to solve. Big problems. Data becomes useful only when it's applied to problem solving. What problems do you need to solve at your organization? Clearly a problem, right? Dates of gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. Randi Zuckerberg, in her LinkedIn post on being creative, mentions, “The ability to think on your toes, see things differently, notice something interesting where others see nothing, problem solve in new ways — these are all things that make a terrific employee, a great leader, and a successful entrepreneur.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2011

flickr: dnnya17 A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. What is the problem? Is there a way you can solve this problem right now, offline?

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Forum One

APRIL 25, 2009

It's always an inspiring time as you hear real stories of people using technology to help solve problems and change lives. Flickr Photosharing Bootcamp , Sunday, April 26: Micheala is teaching a session on Flickr and related tools. Whether attending or not, you can connect with on Twitter: Sophie Campagne: @sophieci.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

Hope that nobody finds serious problems with any of the above… Now on to the horror stories! Flickr / CC BY. Make sure the audit of financials is on track for completion. Do an annual report. Prepare a year-end report to the board and present it. Complete an IRS form 990. When my friends ask me what I'm doing this weekend.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

But, I felt like her conclusion was really that the way that DAISY solutions are implemented in Norway (and just about everyplace else today) are not universally designed, not that the DAISY standard itself was the problem. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. One effort to address this problem, in which I wish more funders would participate, is the Charting Impact initiative. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Use it to solve specific problems. Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. People want to know that you are listening. Don’t consider crowdsourcing a mere novelty.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues.

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NTEN

AUGUST 27, 2009

Flickr Photo: pete collins aka uniball The Houston YMCA runs a lot of youth basketball leagues, so they have a lot of volunteer coaches. Now, any normal organization would have had a meeting about the problem with the program staff, maybe some senior leadership. Coaches who needed advice all season long, not just at the training.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned). It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Oftentimes, fundraising difficulties are a symptom of a deeper underlying problem—such as poor program quality or a checked-out board—that must be addressed beforehand. Although fund development assistance can be beneficial in certain circumstances, it is not a panacea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day to help me think when I I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. When you walk solo, you have the benefit of working through some problems or helping you generate a creative solution. That means rethinking meetings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2008

It made me want to hunt down some creativity exercises you could use to inspire creative problem-solving and big visioning. What other resources and tools can you recommend to increase creativity and creative problem-solving ? Flickr Photo Credit: Brainstorms at INDEX: Views by Jacob Bøtter social entrepreneur ashoka creativity

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