Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Photo by OxMour. It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Tags: mobile. Maybe I'm jaded. But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment. Slope of Enlightenment.

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JULY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Enter Gartner. Gartner also says that SaaS is a kind of Cloud computing, but it has its own definition: SaaS is an application owned, delivered and managed remotely.

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MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. That was the theme of a webinar I attended with the folks from Gartner called "Emergency IT Cost Cutting." IT is not a cost center.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

What may be just one fun photo of a staff member can destroy the professionalism of your office. Tags: dee albritton Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media. We think of social networking as a great way to get our message across, to raise funds, to communicate with our constituents. So, is your organization prepared?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Second Life 101 - some great photos. I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Here's the second problem: As Gartner put it in a webinar I attended, "managers want to dance with their data." I want to eat statistics for dinner. What about you?

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