Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. There is major emphasis on what is possible when ingenuity, 11K gb internet connections and collaborative teams intersect. Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. He has seen it all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Over the last decade the discussion around nonprofit technology ( #nptech ) has primarily been social media, mobile technology, and online fundraising, however as the internet enters its next phase, nonprofits need to better understand some of the more complicated concepts that will shape the internet and its use in the decades to come.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

We''re a [global movement]([link] with chapters in 20 countries. Busia, Kenya: Beyond Today’s Internet Experiencing: Smart Future Conference Kenya. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Join them every month for a dose of community invigoration! Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Thursday, March 26, 2015.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. In this case.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago. The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. You can just make up the tags on the fly, and do a global replace later as you refine your tagging terms.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Were quite interested in traveling the globe to find good relationships that also help us become better global internet fundraisers. Were excited about the potential of global campaigning which makes perfect sense since the Internet is a truly global medium. I could go on and on but those are some key ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System. BRIDGE is an acronym for Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities. Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Paul Farestveit A trained historian with a degree in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, Paul Farestveit has spent the majority of his career working for STA Travel, a global student travel company that operates large businesses in Europe, the United States, and Australia. His specialty: user testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Looking at using some of the free tools on the internet? Availability from any computer with an Internet connection (i.e. Fundraising presentations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. Hyper connectivity among employees has the potential to increase security risks due to lost hardware, software, internet transfer of files, etc. They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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