Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

For three days in New York City we experimented with new types of social media integration with Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS for short, which runs the AmeriCorps programs) and the Points of Light Foundation 's National Conference on Volunteerism and Service.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2007

First '$100 Laptops' Sold to Uruguay - Switched: Gadgets, Tech, Digital Stuff for the Rest of Us: "he tiny green and white, $100 XO notebook has been in development by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation for years, but the device, intended to bring computing to children around the world, has only now received its first official order.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#. I presented an overview of the Networked Nonprofit framework and shared three stories of networked nonprofits , including The Story of Stuff , Surfrider Foundation , and Pratham Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. If you have a new Bon Jovi t-shirt, there's nothing we can do to help you. It currently has fully-searchable information on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages, right down to the ships' captains. The last cat-related video site you'll ever need. Okay, fine, here's one more.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2009

Last week, I was fortunate enough to present a session on social media with Marnie Webb of TechSoup Global, Laura Norvig of ETR Associates, Matt Sharp from the Packard Foundation, and Matt Dunne at Google. Tags: ncvs NPTech NTEN video. I think it's fair to say that we rocked! The most complicated thing about it was the scheduling.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. I can’t thank the Salesforce Foundation enough for making us feel so welcome. Tuesday night, the Foundation hosted a nonprofit networking event at the Starlight Room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Instead, we bring over supplies for the Sharing Foundation , mostly in-kind donations of clothing, medicine, or other items that can't be easily acquired or are cheaper in the US. Since I could not visit Cambodia without carrying over some items for the Sharing Foundation, I had a third checked piece of luggage, a portable crib for orphanage.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You are funded to do this by a US foundation. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. These efforts have met with mixed success. Mobile phones. Wikis/Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Tags: network effectiveness. One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? That way you can meet the activist "where they're at" willcoley @ kanter I'm interested in how orgs can use offline content dev among their constituents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Britt Bravo recently attended Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp and pointed us to the Boot Camp Wiki. So, some patterns I'm seeing on how this is being done. and I knew where I could find it.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

This prompted @jasonricci (CIO at the Energy Foundation ) to reply: IT shouldn't have to "articulate" anything. Get another year out of laptops/software, etc. Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN. You need to articulate how IT relates to mission, over and over again. See Chapter One of our book.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Red House@Your House offered an opportunity for young people to get involved. With this component, CC encouraged people to volunteer to host a party at their own homes or at a nearby restaurant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. Where's the conference tag? Paul Lamb might.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Tags: blog nonprofit. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The sessions used an hour long talk show format with Case Foundation's Kari Dunn Saratovsky as the host. She booted up her laptop, plugged into my Internet connection, and set up her Webcam. And the Winners Are The Case Foundation was also raffling off a Flip Camera and $250 donation to a nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It probably won’t be until 2015 or later that tablets reach the point where they can replace a laptop or desktop completely – office application use is still too stunted by the small screens and keyboard issues – but more and more people will have them. She is a Fellow at the New American Foundation. John Merritt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. ve laid the foundation, we can get a huge response from these networks for our campaigns. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. The offline wikipedia, Moulin. It's called Moulin.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that just 3 percent of all data is currently tagged and ready for manipulation, and only one sixth of this - 0.5% - is used for analysis.

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