Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That’s why I always tell my clients to put their plans, policies, and procedures in writing. Identify a key value that governs your behavior or life. Put a photo of your kid, grandkid or beloved pet on your desk. And it’s why I’m a huge fan of whiteboards and written brainstorming meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Tammi Marcoullier, Lead Strategist at the GSA’s Center for Excellence in Digital Government Engagement & Outreach. And we took away some ideas that we thought many nonprofits and government agencies should consider. Federal Government has made digital communications a priority. Government.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

Photo by Beth. In order to scale, nonprofits will need to develop a social media policy as well as operational guidelines. And let's take that a step further, why not use social media as part of the governing process. . How can boards effectively incorporate the use of the social networks and social media to govern?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. Can we post their photos on Facebook or our Web Site?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

to the general public and to policy makers. As I noted in the previous post, it's a major part of UK and Scottish government strategy to invest in and expand the social enterprise sector. As I noted in the previous post, it's a major part of UK and Scottish government strategy to invest in and expand the social enterprise sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. In recent years, there have been great strides in government transparency, due in large part to the activities of the Sunlight Foundation to pry open the hidden vaults of government data. It’s never been more true than it is today.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2015

The premise of how-old.net is simple: have the website analyze a photo, either a stock photo or your own, and it'll return gender and perceived age. Who Owns My Photos? Microsoft, in turn, quickly clarified that it won't store or use your photos. The site also raises a number of privacy concerns. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Insights on Government Funding. Since government is a major funder of rural programs, it's useful to know that a clear trend in government funding is interagency collaborations. More government grants are looking for collaborations among multiple organizations that are able to address an issue from different angles.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The profile picture in the upper left of the Page is cropped and scaled perfectly to fit that space and includes a photo of the same representative health care consumers from the parent site. Wall: This is where the government publishes updates for its fans. Comment Policy: This tab makes it clear what users should expect.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2011

It is the United States' first comprehensive policy that addresses the proper handling of used or discarded electronics devices. The policy is designed to increase industrial capacity in electronics recycling, refurbishment, and remanufacturing to increase the number of US-based green jobs and the safe handling of discarded electronics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Bombshelltoe is a nuclear policy writer. She uses Instagram as a way to tell the stories about nuclear policy both historically and in the present context through art in order to spark meaningful conversations. She is able to translate hard to understand dense policy into stunning visuals that make you think.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? We would all likely agree that it's a shame: our government should be transparent. Participatory. Collaborative. Transparent.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. .

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JUNE 27, 2013

Many nonprofit campaigners were not surprised to learn that the government monitors average citizens'' private emails and their presence on social networks. If Facebook’s privacy policies can confuse someone like Randi, then they''re surely confusing to the general public. This has been widely suspected for years.

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MAY 6, 2021

In the early 2000s, Google gained broader traction and then took off to become what it is today as it became accessible to people beyond government and businesses. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . Thankfully, they changed the name to Google. BackRubbing doesn’t work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

In their study, the authors found that the definition of the digital divide "problem" had important consequences for what people thought was an appropriate solution: Defining the issue in terms of access to technology makes people more likely to think government organizations and corporations should address the problem.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

Photo: The Public Record. Americans for Prosperity has plunked down over a million dollars to air ads comparing net neutrality to a big government takeover of the Internet. The Public Policy Communicators of New York City have a great write up of last week's meeting on this topic. Now the fun starts: the public debate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Organizations with government grants or who are involved in healthcare are especially liable for organizational data going all over the place. TechSoup itself has adopted a tiered user policy. Perhaps the most controversial thing about such policies are the amount of ownership that an organization takes over personal devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The photo is of the Pacific Ocean at Monterey taken by a Flickr user, Amayu. (No, it wasn't a presentation about Google Wave!). Yesterday I wrote about social media and governance describing some ideas about how social media might be valuabe as part of the governance process. The first step, of course, is education.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. If organizations are a part of the solution, a part of the process, what does that role really look like? But, alone, the organization can’t make the change.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Michele Jolin , Senior Advisor for Social Innovation for the Domestic Policy Council at The White House was the panel moderator. Barriers to entry: The government prescribes a lot of requirements (i.e. Barriers to entry: The government prescribes a lot of requirements (i.e. Top photo: Michele Jolin and Steve Goldsmith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Flickr Photo by Eqqman. I asked about a SM policy when I started a new position in a nonprofit institution about seven months ago. Still no policy, seven months later. My offer to help kickstart, research and join the social networking policy development process at work (from a fundraiser perspective) was also rebuffed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

government to close the real prison and the other to encourage public discourse. Visitors to Web site can eliminate one pixel from a photo of Guant??namo government???s government to close the real prison. namo by signing a pledge protesting the U.S. s detention center. This project is part of AIUSA???s

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. It's essential that they hear from us. billion for broadband stimulus.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

"One person can take a photo. Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook, noted Facebook's involvement after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, as well as after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, explaining how the platform is educating the public and letting them know how they can help. Now they have the tools.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. government initiative that aims to bring accessible broadband access to residents of low-income housing throughout the U.S. The privacy concerns are huge, though. Nearly half of them were in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Photo and Bio. Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). After a campaign, event, or awesome thing you did, send clips and art and photos from behind the scenes and at the event or completion of a campaign. Community impact or commemorative wall.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2007

Too often the work of social change feels separate from government. Photo Credit: Van Jones with permission from the Ella Baker Center. in Lansing, MI. The Select Committee held a special hearing, entitled: "Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Green Collar Jobs." Van Jones green economy

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MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Seriously though, why does “perplexity” in AI text matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? What is the balance of government, private, and earned income? They have a comment policy on their blog. Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. Try sharing blog posts about a recent volunteer opportunity, sharing photos of your volunteers, or giving star volunteers a social media shout out. Do so frequently.

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