Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. So, have been updating arts 2.0 I've also been trying to wrap my brain around whether or not Foursquare has value for nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! I’m happy to share my thoughts, feedback, ideas, and “expertise&# and love to help others learn something that they can then do on their own (without me next time). Do you think you can change the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? Sure, some very savvy organizations will do well if they have to develop only two (or one) app for social networks. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

I've been preparing for a Leadership Conference with TCG (Theatre Communications Group, the service organizations for theatre companies) on strategic social media.   I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. several midwives used Ushahidi to self-organize and help pregnant women cope with being unable to make it to the hospital to deliver. These folks do astonishing work.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Giving your audience options can increase their involvement in your organization. Having an online event registration and payment solution in place helps with more than managing the details, it also helps you accept donations from people who could not attend. Make it fun and easy. Make your fundraising event unusual or fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Osborn, an advertising executive, invented the latter process of “organized ideation” in the 1930’s and popularized the technique in several books he authored called “ Your Creative Power ” and “ Applied Imagination.” What is Brainstorming? . ” The question can’t be too general or too narrow.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. During this process, we not only learned a thing or two about data, we also deeply internalized the importance of data portability for organizations. Makes your organization more valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& He got us together on the phone to discuss and design the panel in a month in advance, reviewed slides, help get us organized on-site and gave us some great last minute tips in the green room.& Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).&

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools. The lesson here, I think, is that CRM, even for large organizations, is changing rapidly, and the days are numbered where systems that are expensive, proprietary, and closed rule. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. One tactic is going online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

How do your supporters (and potential supporters) view your organization? What are they saying about your organization? How is the conversation around your organization, issue area, or program changing? Who in the organization will do the listening? Here's a neat tool to help you design your profile.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. While the idea of giving away a non-profit model itself isn’t new, KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media. replace old name on the text in the wiki (need some help!). in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to use social media to change the world. wiki name ( done ).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

Many find the the social media space a little overwhelming as it is clear the landscape changes on a daily basis and is filled with strange terms, for example what is astroturfing and what exactly is a mashup - does it have anything to do with mash potatoes ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Be Helpful. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

" It sparked a debate - that the technology, in of itself, doesn't create the change, but may help facilitate it. It was created to celebrate the launch of a new Twitter mashup that makes it super easy to share actions with your friends: (it also works with Facebook!): [link]. What do we measure? What's missing from this list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Like science labs, nonprofit organizations produce public-facing content under the guidance of authoritative experts. Science has an answer. What does this have to do with nonprofits and social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. The adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day. projects in organizations. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. The organizations that prize PID and reduce the silos between tech and marketing stand to benefit the most. An organization that owns its data and manages it correctly owns its distribution channels. During his 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. will partially determine how quickly the relationship moves to the next phase.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. Be Helpful. Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Virtualization helps reduce the number of servers used, decreasing power consumption. If you're a small nonprofit, you won't see a ton of cost savings, but it will add up for larger organizations. Network administration and help desk tasks are going to be a LOT easier. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

What relevance does it have to a nonprofit organization like yours? Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Cloud computing benefits nonprofit organizations of any size; small, medium or large organizations all have access to the same technology in the cloud.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! If you collect and analyze data over time, it can tell you where you're headed, tomorrow -- and that can help you make better business decisions. . Really, it's something we all MUST do, because it will help us serve our stakeholders better. I would marry a good data visualization. We're Fine.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2009

In a post on his blog, Logic + Emotion , David Armano mentions that 60 to 65% of people are visual thinkers , meaning that they do their “thinking through visual processing using the part of the brain that is emotional and creative to organize information in an intuitive and simultaneous way.”

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

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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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. We can help you with that. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Better The World in booth 46.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. The Real House Wives of Social Media You've heard the buzz around how nonprofit organizations and corporations are using social media for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

It creates a gift economy and that help you build your network. Or, I get gasps of horror from some colleagues who more concerned about how to "lock up" their content with "all rights" reserved and hire IP lawyers to help them police and protect their work so no one "steals it." The cover is from a remix mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Roxanne Darling presenting Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop.   This group can help.  More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. We can help you with that. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Better The World in booth 46.

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