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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She’s advised literally hundreds of Packard Foundation-funded organizations around the world on social media strategy and what it means to be a networked nonprofit. She manages to make everyone feel like they have wisdom to bring to the table (or the wiki). Maybe you saw it (#thebetheffect was trending on Twitter).

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Also, in some places of the world there is lower adoption rates of social — for example in very rural areas of the developing world – where this data would not be useful for informing a funding strategy. Not Data Driven.”

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. I’ve lifted this from their website. . "To

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Make sure to read through the FAQ and look at last year's winners to get a sense of what they are willing to fund. How will these trends impact nptech?

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3 Answers for a Young Activist

Have Fun - Do Good

What promising and exciting trends in the social change space do you see developing in the next 5-10 years? Organizations like the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation are funding programs that, "couple the expansive power of personal transformation with the public work of repairing societal ills in the United States."

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. I've added a wiki to my Facebook profile.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc.

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