Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

While the tech sector pours in tens of billions in a race for dominance and future profits, how should nonprofits and philanthropists be thinking about our role? Before we get completely swept up, let’s not forget the previous technology hype cycles that have come and gone. has likely put it near the peak of the hype cycle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

cc "BY" license Photo by Cosmic Spanner What we're witnessing with the hype and anti-hype or schmype swirling around Web2.0 "Technology Trigger" The first phase of a Hype Cycle is the "technology trigger" or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The long awaited brand pages on Google + are here. I put a post out on Google + asking what nonprofits had set up pages and was able to identify 88 from all the responses and placed them in a open circle here. What’s your nonprofit’s approach to setting up a brand page of Google +? Jump now or wait?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. It may not make sense for your nonprofit to get mobile . Maybe I'm jaded. Technology Trigger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

I’ve been an early adopter of online platforms since 1992. Before I can provide guidance to a nonprofit on a new platform, I need to get in play with it. Given the accelerated pace and competition, will the trough of disillusionment come sooner versus later? I usually try to set up a small learning project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

No surprise that Principle #1: Avoid being seduced by Shiny Object Syndrome generated great insights. My colleague Geoff Livingston says that “Shiny Object Syndrome&# makes nonprofits and individuals to adopt the latest cool social tool based on peer pressure, buzz, or a strange desire to be one of the first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again. What challenges do you see facing nonprofits to use social networking sites? Are the challenges identified by Owyang real for nonprofits?

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