Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Some say they’ll be testing, testing, and testing – throwing virtual pasta at the wall and see what sticks and how much time and effort it takes to throw that pasta. ” The early adopters have jumped in and pages are set up and waiting for some SMART objectives, content strategy, and tips on engagement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008. There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. Some nonprofits fit into this category, but most nonprofits that I work with don’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

The list of conferences cancelled is growing, with some now being delivered a virtual gatherings. It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Employers Are Stepping Up Their Efforts To Attract And Retain Talent Post-Pandemic. One of the top nonprofit job trends is that we can expect employers to equip employees to succeed remotely.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2009

Enter Gartner. According to Gartner (and they do consider themselves the authority here), Cloud computing is: A style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies. I'd like to respond to that with a healthy "Get Over It!",

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In the future one will see users changing their likings from mobile apps to virtual assistance, shopping in augmented reality will become a reality, the conjectures are big, dynamic and colossally exciting. A study by Gartner suggests that by 2020, 100 million customers will shop in augmented reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

Alexandra Samuel from Social Signals starts off 2007 with several announcements related to Second Life - the addition of a virtual worlds manager and an Open house in Second Life later on today. There is also a post titled " Seven Reasons Why You Should Consider Second Life.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

It has great discussion boards, hosts webinars, provides Gartner IT research, and organizes a big annual conference. After that I went back and got four copies of Windows 7 Professional that we’ll use to create virtual desktops. Loretta: We first got 20 Windows Remote Desktop Services User Cal licenses.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

For a couple of years now we've been seeing talk of Green IT, and as early as 2007 management consulting giants Gartner and McKinsey were addressing Green issues as a major issue facing IT managers. These include virtualizing your servers to use fewer boxes, and using your technology to minimze travel.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"As the use of virtual environments for business purposes grows, enterprises need to understand how employees are using avatars in ways that might affect the enterprise or the enterprise's reputation," said James Lundy , managing vice president at Gartner, Inc. " Is it a good use of funds?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 8, 2021

According to Gartner, 99% of cloud security failures and resulting data loss will be the customer’s fault through 2025. Presented at the Salesforce.org Virtual Partner Summit, the award recognizes firms who have demonstrated excellence in serving Salesforce not-for-profit customers, innovating and giving back. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

This morning I came across a blog by Adam Reuters summarizing the two other blog posts I pointed to the other day on the topic of " Gauging Second Life Hype Cycle" (BTW, according to the article, a spokeswoman for Gartner said that the firm has not officially assigned Second Life a position on its Hype Cycle, but is examining the issue.).

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