Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

What is Web 2.0 by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. He selected some definitions from the Internet. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. User generated content - Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Cotonou, Benin: Nous Allons Parler de Toutes les Maniere de Web à Utiliser PR Lutter Contre VIH. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. Europe and the UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Before that, we’d heard stories of people carrying dog-eared copies of an old – outdated – paper pocket guide. We also designed the app so it doesn’t rely on an internet connection, since that romantic little spot by the beach might have lousy reception. The Seafood Watch app has been downloaded by more than 480,000 people.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? The e-mail is updated with a new story each month to keep the content and news fresh.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

For instance, this past year Google released a web-based Device Manager that allows you to locate, ring at full volume, and wipe data from an Android device. Green Technology. Another cloud story that has caught my attention this year are the welcome escalations of free cloud storage. Big Data and the Internet of Things.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. The processing power of our mobile phones roughly doubles every 18 months as does storage capacity, as do Internet speeds with the advent of faster 4G and 4G LTE mobile networks.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's one of the great untold stories of nonprofit enterprise. It's the story of one person, founder Yvette Marrin, working with a disabled little girl and achieving major breakthroughs using a computer. national web site for Assistive Technology. The Largest Minority in the World. Touch the Future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." And organizations need to shift their view on how to use technology/the internet to accomplish things (and especially do more than just raise money).

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Kids around the country received an early and much-needed gift this December in the form of — you guessed it — broccoli and green beans. It’s a great example of how web technology and online tools are changing the game for childhood health advocates across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . What's nice is that allows you save paper and be a little bit green, although you do need a couple of key paper handouts (instructions/cards). Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Finally, for your website to be compatible with the growing number of devices that it is likely to be viewed on in the coming decades – personal computers, smartphones, Smart TVs and appliances, and internet-connected mirrors and car dashboards, ensure that your website utilizes responsive design. On Mobile: 8) Use a social sharing app.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about. The Care2 News Network allows users to submit news stories and vote for content that should be featured more prominently.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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MARCH 29, 2010

What : This meeting is for for people at orgs who have been using social media for several years and will be a forum to exchange advanced level tips and stories, as well as share what’s worked and what hasn’t. Open Data Storytelling: Learn how to best tell your organization’s story. Local Community Organizers (#localco).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Since I live in Sikoro, much of this is conducted with an INFERNALLY slow internet connection on a computer with a French keyboard running off of a bus battery. mali health NGO empowerment

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NOVEMBER 17, 2007

He started out as a poet, started messing around on the internet with digital media, and launched into a series of highly unusual interactive projects. I’m really fascinated by the viral web. This is what I'm trying to do with dispersed fiction: to hide it all over the web. I grew up in Oklahoma.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. There's more going on as well in sustainable green IT. And sometimes the easiest way to tell your organization’s story is, well, by actually telling it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Perhaps I can do some justice to the future in the way that most parties unfold: by telling a few stories. The Dartmouth Green. One was seeing two coeds standing on either side of the road at the Dartmouth Green talking on a cell phone to each other as I walked by. For most of the world, the Internet is the cell phone.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell. Twitter and Facebook serve different functions, but two things should always be consistent: your ask and your story. bonus: she includes video and slides}.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? So our response to that challenge is really to reach out through grassroots groups, through the media and through the Internet to try and spread the word in a more grassroots approach. PR: Check out our web site.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Of course as the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. Utterli bc often our volunteers only have a phone and no computer or internet access.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

If you’re unsure about your web design expertise, rest assured that your own experience browsing professional websites has likely already helped you form a solid foundational understanding. While some advice might require help from a professional web developer, many of the tips in this guide can be applied yourself. Let’s get started!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Whether for a campaign, an appeal, or an organization's main web presence, I think 2014 will see organizations focus their online content on specific actions or messages, pulling back from the clutter or information overload." IoT is the trend in which non-human things are more and more connected through the Internet to each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I also learned more about crowdmap , a hosted version of the Ushahidi code – in other words you don’t have to install it on your own web server. Encourage our audience to share their stories, not just tell people what we do. (Even in unintended and surprising ways ). The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We also work with some socially responsible businesses like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters; we are working with Annie's Organic right now, and so a broad mix of people who are trying to make the world a better place. Britt: That is one of your best known success stories. What's a lesser known success story?

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