Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects. The new Miradi 3 release offers a powerful work planning interface that lets users forecast expenses, develop budgets, and export project data to donor reports. with new changes based on feedback from our users.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. From TechSoup Global Labs: NetSquared. Meet this year's crop of NetSquared featured projects and Change the Web finalists. Alex reports that PopTech is selecting this year's class of Social Innovation Fellows. The wait is over.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2009

Here's the latest buzz from every corner of TechSoup Global. Kevin reports on the potential security risks of URL-shortening services. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Tags: Web 2.0 From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Chris observes St. technologies.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2009

Becky recommends an Idealware report on open-source content-management systems. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Chris reports on LibraryThing's flash-mob cataloging events. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Kami hosts a webinar on how to host a webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. Getting ready to cook dinner -- go on horizon project and send a note to expert judges to check in with their teams. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2009

Carmina reports on the rate of adoption of broadband technologies in Chile. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Tags: Web 2.0 TechSoup.org and Adobe announce the 2009 Show Your Impact challenge. Brenda discusses the Lexington Public Library's innovative uses of technology.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2009

From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Chris reports that TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative is now open to public libraries. Tags: Web 2.0 Robert warns of the Downadup worm, a potentially devastating new piece of malware. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Created in November of 2012, GivingTuesday is a global movement to inspire generosity around the world. One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in. It’s that time of year to start your 2023 GivingTuesday prep!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Get this: the funding decisions on their new clean water projects are made by peer project leaders. So, your effort to address the needs of your community through a new water or sanitation project is going to be evaluated by a group of people who have been through doing the same thing in their communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

"This is a data visualisation project, curating young people’s views on issues that matter, visualising the findings, and then setting the data free for you to do the same." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. :: Vinspired Voicebox :: Our robot - I'm excited to see the Voicebox in action!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I found out about how big a deal Glasspockets is when I attended a local Foundation Technology Affinity Group (TAG) meeting of Northern California foundation techies who kept talking about Glasspockets projects like the hGrant Online Reporting Project , and the Transparency Talk blog. hGrant: Real Time Grant Reporting.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Social media used to engage local supporters to act globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! Check out the introduction video for more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Mashable reports, “Jumo was designed to let users find, follow and support the causes important to them, and with 3,500 organizations on board at launch, would-be philanthropists should be able to find and follow something of interest upon joining. Here’s the screen shot for the TechSoup Global page on Jumo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

And, if your nonprofit does not have a video camera to create content, sign up to get a free one from the Flip Video Camcorder Giveaway , in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Facebook | we20 - the best reason to get your friends together this year - Do you know about the we20 project? "we20 meetings will create people plans, policy plans, business plans and other plans on local, national and global issues. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. A great example of organizing on the social web. "we20

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

World leaders are meeting in Copenhagen in December to draft the next major global climate treaty – and organizations, communities, and people from every corner of the planet are stepping up to make sure this treaty gets our planet back on a sustainable path. Tags: events 4change chat climatechange twitter. Stay on topic!

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. nonprofit organization is invited to post their technology project on the website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It summaries what was mentioned in the White House’s recently released Smart Disclosure And Consumer Decision Making report.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

This is a great example of providing a real, authentic voice to a global issue. TakingItGlobal is an online community for youth interested in global issues that provides tools and resources for members to enagage and collaborate on issues they care about. But how do you wish the platform would work? Happy Earth Day everyone!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. The only bread crumbs to find were some business reports about Advanta declaring bankruptcy, like this one , that don’t even mention ideablob.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Philanthropy News Digest reports that the Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF) has announced a new initiative with several prominent charities like the American Red Cross, the U.S. The new project is called the Mobile Giving Alliance. Of course, the upside is a step toward universal Internet access – if this project succeeds.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Examples: National Phrenology Network: asking people to report blooming data in their area. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. possibly related classroom projects???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: These aren't Craigslist projects: they are me acting as an individual, and/or the Craigslist Foundation. I also want to mention Consumer Reports. Q: What’s your advice to them on going local vs. national vs. global? A: Think globally, act locally is the cliche, but there's a lot to it. Q: Any final comments?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Well, webinars can cover any topic you want — from training your board of directors on how to be great advocates for your mission, to hosting an online press conference about a new report for media contacts, to learning the ins and outs of an important piece of legislation that's important to your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. Tags: socap09.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. Does this mean the project itself is redone, or are you assuming a series of similar projects in the early stages? Simple and relatively low cost is good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. Frogloop has a brief report from this week's Internet Advocacy Roundtable. You might find more if you monitor this tag: 2007cof or also look in the foundation's IT departments. Global Action Network blog. What's next? " from Deborah Finn.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Get your data out of your reports. It's important that these remain a part of the overall report, but the graphs and charts themselves should be discoverable on your site on their own, as well. Make it easy to find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?"

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