Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. Tags: Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. I'm very honored that @hardlynormal , a homeless activist, has donated. Tags: birthday twitter.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A list of 20 Insightful Nonprofit Technology and Social Media Stats was compiled by Tech Impact , featuring findings from TechSoup and Artez Interactive , to name just a few. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Forum One

MAY 1, 2009

While several of us were in San Francisco for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we helped install a wireless network in a local community center. Photo Gallery: Connections for San Francisco's Homeless. Tags: Events.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A list of 20 Insightful Nonprofit Technology and Social Media Stats was compiled by Tech Impact , featuring findings from TechSoup and Artez Interactive , to name just a few. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

Twenty years ago, I was building computer training labs in homeless shelters with no hardware budget. I developed a small refurbishing operation with a bunch of homeless guys who were much better at fixing things than I. Tags: GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? years “in business,” this is my personal challenge/resolution for 2009: I want to take the technology we already have and use it to help C3 focus our attention on our constituents and supporters as effectively as we focus on what we do to fight colorectal cancer. That’s my resolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. At this year's SXSW, I was invited to participate on a flash panel about women and technology conferences which ended up being about mentoring. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Then, Adobe or Symantec can say that they want their donations to only go to organizations that work with, say, youth or homelessness. Tags: Acquiring Technology Grants for Technology Grants for Technology Hardware Running Your Organization Software Tech Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). You may be familiar with the NTC ( Nonprofit Technology Conference ) hosted by NTEN. We host a strategy session where we pair up local nonprofits with nonprofit technology experts on a variety of topics - from online fundraising strategy to giving advice on databases. Tags: 09ntc.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2009

Speaking of Tech Club organizers, our Austin Tech Club rock star, David Neff , went homeless for 48 hours with the Austin Mobile Loaves and Fishes guide. Tags: nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. (BTW, NRDC was recently listed as a top Green Org to Follow on Twitter , so they must know what they're talking about ;).

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

Andrew , Bill , and I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival , where we spent nearly a week drinking from the proverbial technology innovation firehose. We attended numerous panels, connected with colleagues and friends on nonprofit technology and social good, and had skillets of queso in between.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2009

The good news is that the thoughtful, well-researched way you put technology strategies and tools to work is going to help your organization get beyond "weathering the storm", ensuring it thrives during this crisis. Tags: NPTech NTEN npecon. NTEN members: you're in the perfect position to make it happen. You can find me at:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. Peter did a strategy consult with a local organization. Deborah Finn's thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. What did I do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. Tags: Training Design. Clarifying exactly what we want to accomplish with social media and the audience. Sharing what I learned from my colleagues at the workshop with staff.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. A survey by Robert Half Technology of 1,400 CIOs of companies with 100 plus employees reflects that 54% now completely block social networking by employees. Tags: dee albritton Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. Increase your mission-focus with 501 Technology. Winwin Apps in booth 37.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

First, let's take a look at what can happen if we dive directly into the technology and overlook the actual needs of our community. Open source software reacts to rapidly changing technology. Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. Increase your mission-focus with 501 Technology. Winwin Apps in booth 37.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This small group organized the first Twestival to raise money for The Connection , an organization that helps homeless people by providing specialist services. Tony Scott ( @tonys ), a technology volunteer, has also been instrumental in the effort. Tags: social media micro-philthanthropy fundraising2.0 freeagent twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

To talk about the evolution of nonprofit technology we really need to pick a place to start, because the beginning could be anywhere. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology. Digital Tools. Digital Tactics.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The homeless community? Museums need to develop ways to track frequency of use, whether with technology or otherwise As David Gilman commented, "How can we be friends if I not only keep forgetting things about you, but never learn them to begin with?" Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Which community?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2009

Alan Graham, President of Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF), said it perfectly during his presentation at the AFP Austin luncheon today – there is no magic bullet, and there is no get rich quick method when using technology to raise funds for your nonprofit. Check out the video below to see what MLF is trying to accomplish and how.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2009

Alan Graham, President of Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF), said it perfectly during his presentation at the AFP Austin luncheon yesterday – there is no magic bullet, and there is no get rich quick method when using technology to raise funds for your nonprofit. Check out the video below to see what MLF is trying to accomplish and how.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

As technology has advanced, so have the variety of choices and channels available to us. For example, you might explain the story of your humane society this way: “Emma and Jennifer, our founders, noticed there was a great need for humane homeless pet care in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Install Google Tag Manager on your website.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

This community will be figuring out how to accomplish these ambitious goals to bring the new technologies to the sector. We'll be talking about new tools and technologies, best practices in adopting them, organizational development issues to adopt them, and infrastructural needs to support the transformation. It's been great.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

Tag them in captions and photos. On Twitter, you might connect the volunteers to the cause area: We cannot fix homelessness in a city with so little affordable housing, but we can provide a meal and referrals to medical, dental, and mental health services. But many of us do not use this wonder of technology.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

In science and technology centers, there are some “can’t”s that are alive and well in other museums. on kids' freedom--keeps science and technology museums from hard topics and edgy presentation styles. Why do homeless people smell bad?” Tags: exhibition design professional development. What's in your comfort zone?

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