Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But it is also a quiet time of year and a good time to catch up on reading. Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. It will help you understand when to use a pie chart versus a bar chart – but it goes beyond that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2012

Last month I did a Networked NGO training in Dubai for Pakistan NGOs where I experienced Internet censorship first hand. My colleague, Stephanie Rudat, who is working with me on the project, and I decided that the we needed to “ How To Get Past Internet Censorship ” review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. “The consumer Internet,” the author wrote, “can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies.”

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. An emergency campaign can help you raise the money you need to effectively deal with the problems at hand. Platforms like Amazon Smile , iGive.com, and ShopRaise help your donors passively donate to your organization every time they shop online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

My friend and colleague, June Holley , has written a much anticipated book, The Network Weaver Handbook. If you are interested in building networks or working as Networked Nonprofit, you need this book right now! A network weaver is someone who is aware of the networks around them and explicitly works to make them healthier.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social networking communities are migrant communities. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. Social networking communities are migrant communities. 2) Being an early adopter helps increase your numbers.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

With the introduction of culture to a digital environment, we saw interpersonal dynamics in a new light.orgCommunity , our professional development and networking organization, was thrilled to host two in-person events that brought people together to explore those themes and discuss significant issues that emerged from our post-pandemic experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s built on a neural network architecture known as a transformer, which enables it to handle complex natural language tasks effectively. Pre-trained on Vast Data: Prior to deployment, ChatGPT undergoes a pre-training phase using a massive dataset gathered from various sources on the internet. Bard is not perfect.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As personal computers, smartphones, and the Internet of Things evolve, so must your nonprofit. This webinar was presented on December 19 to more than 1,900 nonprofit staff worldwide and focused on what’s new and next in online communications and fundraising to help nonprofits prepare for the future and embrace being an early adopter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. At the dog park.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. So, when Pat Brandes from the Barr Foundation sent me this thought piece on building resilience of networks, it resonated on many different levels. They lost power, heat, and light.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

But with proper education, Internet users can fight back against these digital creeps. Organizations that work with seniors, non-native English speakers, youth, and other new Internet users are in a natural position to do this important digital inclusion work. " In other words, the Internet isn't a monolithic entity.

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APRIL 24, 2014

Software-defined networking. Software-defined networking (SDN) offers your network administrators a set of tools to virtualize your network’s infrastructure. It works by decoupling the two network systems that decides where traffic is sent, and the systems that forward traffic to a defined destination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Earlier this week, a mixed crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, start ups, nonprofits, social activists, and others came together for the inaugural conference on Catalyzing the Sharing Economy defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services. Think AirBNB and Uber, but it is much more than that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Note from Beth: Last June at the New York City book party for the Networked Nonprofit , Stephanie Strom, New York Times, moderated a discussion on the themes in the book. I invited Vince to write guest post about Net Neutrality and Networked Nonprofits. Net Neutrality for Networked Nonprofits: Guest Post by Vince Stehle.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

If the goal is to work more productively and cost-effectively, nonprofits using a laptop or netbook and their own personal Wi-Fi network for use wherever and whenever they need it, have more options. Monitor & update social networking sites. Mobile Internet keeps key mobile staff connected and productive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. Do you collect metrics to impress your boss or ones that truly help you improve?

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

If you haven’t yet started r ecr u i ti ng Gen Z members , it’s time to begin— b y 2030, Deloitte estimates Gen eration Z will make up over 20% of the workforce. Here are five more facts and tips to help your association start preparing for Gen eration Z. A crash course in Gen Z for associations. Gen Z prefers using their mobile devices.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. And for good reason: I love tools that help make quality content and storytelling something that all of us can create.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. It supports up to 20 wireless connections and has 16 GB of storage, so it can work as a backup network drive. Find out more about this here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Internet gets the boot October 31, 2007 Finally, I have real broadband. We moved last weekend to a town that has actual real cable high speed internet. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But borrowing the Internet? PCL is a nonprofit network of nine neighborhood libraries that provide free, accessible library services and serve as vibrant neighborhood hubs. “Access to library resources can be greatly expanded with mobile Internet devices. Internet Lending Project. How does that work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Use the Internet to spread your message. As a best practice, use a constituent relationship manager (CRM) such as those included in EveryAction’s guide to picking a nonprofit CRM to help organize and monitor your campaign’s success. Which goals helped you stay on track in past campaigns? Use the Internet to spread your message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar. Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

adults still don't have broadband Internet access at home. The June 2015 FCC proposal calls for an expansion of Lifeline to provide low-income households with a choice of subsidized phone service or broadband Internet access. digital divide than anything I can think of since the invention of the Internet. Citizens Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Taking an Internet or technology break is important, especially if you live a constantly connected lifestyle. (It It isn’t easy at first) Above all it helps you examine your relationship with technology and find balance. Tags: Mindfulness Networks Online Community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

While NGOs worldwide will need to meet the needs of a surging youth population, simultaneously NGOs will be called upon to help serve the world’s elderly citizens. 6) By 2018 more than half the world will have access to the Internet and by 2020 global internet users are expected to reach 4.2 Source: Sapient.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

At the time, it was a completely new concept whereas today our daily internet experience is one based on social commentary and feedback. For example, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network makes wise use of their sidebar by prominently featuring a call-to-follow on social networks and an e-newsletter opt-in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

By Kayla Matthews , writer at ProductivityTheory.com and journalist dedicated to helping others better their productivity. Over a few years, however, they can command massive followings willing to put down large sums to keep the games going and help out a good cause. Jude’s, Doctors Without Borders and Help Hope Live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

This morning Allison Fine and I got up extra early for a Bagels and Books Event for The Networked Nonprofit at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service here in NYC. Here’s one from the early 1990’s when nonprofits were first adopting email and other Internet tools. Opening up [.].

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Donation-based crowdfunding —vs general commercial crowdfunding—aims to collect revenue through the Internet for charitable reasons ( Choy and Schlagwein, 2016 ). Internet-based crowdfunding platforms allow the initiators to reach large numbers of people ( Gerber et al., This transparency helps build trust.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The importance of cybersecurity for nonprofits can’t be overstated, and your organization is not immune to the constantly evolving cyber threats that come with sharing information through the internet. Your nonprofit handles a lot of sensitive personal information from all the donations you receive and all the people you help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Note from Beth: Please j oin me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits need to work less as isolated institutions and more as networks. called “ Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale ,” by myself and Katherine Fulton.

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