Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. Website: www.nature.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Flickr photo by Panacheart. In her article Unstill Waters: The Fluid Role of Networks in Social Movements , Robin Katcher describes the several of the roles that networks can play in social movements : Building linkages and connection with a broader movement. Guest post by Mary Manuel. How do networks evolve into movements?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Teaser: Flickr photo: niallkennedy. Blog Content: Flickr photo: niallkennedy. So, starting next year, your very own Annaliese Hoehling will put her academic background to use and take on a newly created role here at NTEN, Publications Director. 2010 has been a good year for NTEN. Also cat videos. We love those, too.).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2009

She was much more on Facebook marketing message, but of course that's her role at FB. Posted the best 30 or so on Flickr : got some great ones of Steve Wright of the Salesforce Foundation. Lots of enthusiastic FB users in the audience helped make her points. I took a lot of pictures, but not that many turned out.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Flickr photo: niallkennedy. So, starting next year, your very own Annaliese Hoehling will put her academic background to use and take on a newly created role here at NTEN, Publications Director. 2010 has been a good year for NTEN. We're not joking when we say we couldn't have done it without you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. This sent me to flickr to search by the tag steward to see if there was visual and found the above, plus some religious references from google. I'm headed to the UK in January for the Lasa conference and will be presenting with David Wilcox.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, the roles of email and e-newsletters are constantly evolving and even though the number one activity on mobile phones is email, that could change in the future. Flickr Sets can be customized using HTML to add “Subscribe!&# Group text messaging could become the new email of the Mobile Web.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

These five assumptions always help me remember the role and responsibilities a successful community manager needs to best serve and engage a community. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ]. When it comes to managing or building communities, online or on the ground, the work can seem overwhelming and sometimes even never-ending.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

Being a nonprofit techie can be lonely work, since our role requires that we be change agents in our organizations as we help them discover the future! Image adapted from Happiness is an ice cream cone as big as my head , creative commons licensed on Flickr. Change-agenting is exhausting (and rewarding!) Event NetSquared tsevent'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Roles become murky. Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. An actual emergency is not given proper urgency.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. In fact, "business processes" are a key element behind a recent theme rumbling through both the for-profit and now, somewhat, nonprofit sectors: " The Changing Role of the CIO ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Those meetings led to content assignments, so everyone was contributing based on their role in the organization and the unique perspective they could bring to mission-driven content. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. The topics that emerging nonprofit leaders need include understanding their own strengths (leading self), recognizing how they lead and manage others (leading others), and being confident of their role within an organization (influencing organizational change).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Flickr Photo by Tiffany.Ann.M. And because so many diverse perspectives were represented, we were all enriched by the insights that can only happen at the intersections of cross-subsector, cross-functional role gatherings. Guest post by Scott Bechtler-Levin. How fitting, for a conference on networks. Scott Bechtler-Levin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2016

Flickr photo by Mallix. We take time to figure out the donors’ role in the campaign and how we can celebrate them as the hero. But as an agency that does branding (or what we call “brandraising”), we also ask whether that hook fits into the larger narrative that is the organization’s brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. In my role at Good360 , I grapple with the significant and diverse needs of thousands of charities who struggle to survive in a challenging economic environment. Guest post by Cindy Hallberlin. If you work for a company interested in joining the campaign, visit A Billion + Change.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. Give each bucket a role and goal so that they know how and when to help. Some people can take on multiple roles if they’re high up on the engagement ladder. Donors – People that will contribute to your campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Your role is to give them a word limit, a general topic, and a deadline, and to solicit photos. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Recognize the role of technology across all our work. Image credit: Flickr opensourceway. Funding projects instead of just a specific product ensures that organizations or teams can fail quickly and softly while working towards something better, can invest in research and evaluation, and engage the community not just market to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Flickr Image – ImageGroup. The traditional role of HR Directors has been to manage the “people” side of an organization — recruiting, hiring, developing, and retaining talent that would keep an organization up and running. We teamed up with Beth Kanter to explore this more deeply.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Beth explains that much of her attraction to Pinterest is due to her visual learning style and role as a content curator. If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. If you're a church, synagogue, or other religious organization: Credit to Flickr user: evilpeacock 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. But as the authors write, networks comprise people who are in relationship with each other, and it is the critical role of relationships that often gets marginalized in the focus on networks. Collective impact, funder-supported grantee networks, and cross-sector collaborations are all part of this trend.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Flickr Photo: karola riegler photography I've been a woman in the tech field for ten years now. (OK, Women Who Tech , Fast Company and countless others are celebrating the role of women in this field and helping us to find our voices. . OK, I've been a woman for 34 years, but in the tech field for ten).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. President and CEO, Rita Soronen describes the role of storytelling in their organization. A five-picture Flickr slideshow.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people.

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NTEN

JANUARY 23, 2012

Flickr photo: andercismo The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. We got songs, poems, and so many stories about the role NTEN plays in helping the community meet their missions. If we come to a conclusion we feel good about, we'll share that too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

Camfed has over 13,000 images on Flickr. For example, in the villages of rural Africa where Camfed works, local community members play an essential role in helping girls succeed in school. As Pinterest is a sharing platform, using the most attractive images in our arsenal was essential to my strategy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

flickr photo: woodleywonderworks November is member appreciation month, and we set today aside specifically to thank our amazing NTEN members, and to help them celebrate each other. I can't believe I get to play even a tiny role in the amazing things you accomplish. Or, send a shout out on our Facebook wall.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Image two: Polar vortex courtesy of Elvir via Flickr Creative Commons.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

then I think we can really start a conversation about the role of technology in libraries and resources. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ). and we replace “institutions&# (boring!) with “libraries&# (see, I was getting to it!) Who’s with me?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Your role is to give them a word limit, a general theme, and a deadline, and to solicit photos. 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

OCTOBER 13, 2006

I came across a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics that argues for the essential role of play in the healthy mental, physical, and social/emotional development of a child referred to in a recent editorial in the Boston Globe titled "The Hidden Power of Play" and elsewhere. The above example came from Museumr.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Flickr photo: Logan was his name-o It's been just a few hours since one of the largest recorded earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit off the coast of Japan. The photos and video coming out of the region are awe inspiring and scary. Our hearts go out to the people of Japan. Data emerged as the most important asset to any disaster response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. After just one year, social media is playing a front-and-center role within the organization. It was a fantastic laboratory to explore the power of peer learning and the right mix. We’ll be talking about how to report social media results to stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Opportunity Design is the process of understanding the required skills and experience for a given volunteer role. VCs are often asked to play the lead role in welcoming, training, and doing in-take for new volunteers. Opportunity Design. Orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum).

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