Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I discovered the WWW Virtual Library in 1993 when there were only 200 servers on the Internet. What that meant was that the Library pointed to my dance links on the Arts Wire server. It also enabled the WWW Virtual Library to scale in terms of server capacity and allow for a distributed network of volunteer librarians.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2010

In addition, they are leveraging their synergies to enhance their product pipeline in the near future, bring the best features from cloud-based and on-premise implementations (some of which we hope to see available for qualified nonprofits and libraries at TechSoup.). Tags: Security Server Applications Software Web 2.0 Photo: chotda.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2010

Paying $20 for a license of Office Pro versus paying $400 is an enormous benefit to the nonprofit, library, and social benefit sectors. Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Event Grants for Technology International Services Software. And that's keeping it simple.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2009

We screened highlights from the more than 100 video, image, and GoldMail submissions and celebrated the great work nonprofits and libraries are doing to tell their unique and important stories. Fourth Place: 30 Ways to Create Peace by Legacy International/Global Youth Village awarded a Goldmail Synergy account.

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NTEN

MAY 14, 2010

Tag your own news with "ntenmember" or "nptech" to help us find your awesomeonline, or contact Annaliesewith your updates.) Deborah Elizabeth Finn updated her nonprofit technology bookshelf and shared her recommendations for what should be included in anyone's nptech library. What's Your Nonprofit's Superpower?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2009

Qualified nonprofits and libraries in the US can receive significant discounts on these online course offerings: The International Commission on Workforce Development (ICWFD) offers online or downloadable courses to help you enhance your software, information technology, business, or management skills.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2009

We thought the innovative work created by the winners and runners up was so inspirational, that they should be shared more broadly and could perhaps be a muse for other nonprofits and libraries. They are an international nonprofit dedicated to conserving the natural heritage of the Mt.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This book represents several months' worth of research and numerous people's expertise, and we think it'll be a helpful resource for nonprofits and public libraries. That's a huge plus for a lot of reasons: if something happens to your internal drive, you can still boot from the external drive. No such luck.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community. The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. Tags: friendfeed guest blogging. for the last five years or so). If yes, how is it going?

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Forum One

JULY 19, 2010

Forum One has built collaboration communities for a wide array of populations, including library groups and research scientists (dispersed international groups where language and cultural differences are huge issues) as well as commercial consortia (regional groups that are already well-connected). How "sharesy" are they?

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

For many nonprofits, events that were expected to bring in fundraising dollars have been cancelled and internal processes have undergone drastic changes to adhere to social distancing guidelines – all while staff, volunteers, and clients are grappling with the difficulties of the “new normal”. . COIVD-19 Nonprofit Resource Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. I try to do it monthly, but maybe your organization add this to your intern's work tasks. Tagging photos. Tagging a person. Tags: facebook metrics. Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. It isn't the most thrilling activity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Not only about the potential concerns and how to respond, but how the organization or its internal culture can embrace social media. Tags: policy. There are examples (see below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Library of Congress. For example, our team partnered with the ViewFinders International Film Festival for Youth and started an animation camp that allowed young people to create films about mental health problems. Tags: Books. The array of social media can appear to be very complex.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Leading internal workshops with Te Papa (Nov 25), the Powerhouse Museum (Dec 8-9) the State Library of Queensland (Dec 10-11), and the Auckland War Memorial Museum (Dec 15). Tags: Quick Hits professional development. Click on a city name to learn more about how to register and attend. Hiking in the Wakatipu area Nov 28-Dec 6.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

Internal communications - strategies, intranet, etc. For instance, in legal aid orgs, programs are collaborating with courts and libraries to build self help centers using document assembly software. Categorize/tagging sessions or content for organization size or type. Tags: 10NTC community NPTech NTEN.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Hold an annual fundraising event with readings and signings by local writers to benefit a literacy program at a school, nonprofit or library, or to give a grant to an aspiring local writer. Tags: askbritt.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. There are projects from Vietnam to Australia to the Netherlands to the US, from libraries, museums, science centers, zoos, state parks, and art centers. Want to buy a book ?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In 1969, the Tax Reform Act gave us Section 501(c)3 in the Internal Revenue Service Code, which said that every charity in the U.S. Just look at campaigns like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge or the #BlackLivesMatter tag, both of which started online and transformed into giant social movements.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers). That's an internal barrier--something about ourselves and the way our teams approach new ideas. Do you need research?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Internal support, like for accounting or HR. Plus, the resources section on their website has a library full of information to help your nonprofit succeed. Their full range of tools and services include: Electronic document capture, tagging, and filing systems. Able to address multiple audiences both internally and externally.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today's web management tools will let you treat your data, charts, and graphs just like any other content -- so you should be tagging and classifying them. Then, your "data library" can be sorted, searched, and filtered just like your publication library. Tags: NPTech data NTEN Newsletter kurt voelker.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Imagine your intern runs up with a first draft of an article for the site, what are the chances it is perfect and requires no edits? Blank slate generative AIs (chatbots that don’t have context on your organization/data) are like over-confident interns. And remember, always check any facts because this intern didn’t.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Interplast , an international humanitarian organization that provides free reconstructive surgery in developing countries asks their surgical volunteer staff to upload posts to the blog from their worksite. Perhaps your staff makes a lot of international trips. Tags: blog nonprofit. Are there any you could add to your blogroll?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The internal team is led by a non-curator. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. follow up here ) A pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr , the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0 They kept the interface simple. Launched in Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. and externally (with all of your fine readers!). .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. More museums should be building these programming skills in internal teams that grow expertise from project to project.

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Media Cause

JULY 1, 2021

The realization has been bothering me, and after doing some research and hoping to shift this internally, I found quickly that I wasn’t the only one having trouble sourcing or applying images of the queer community in a casual, authentic way. . Getty actually has a pretty decent library if you know what you’re looking for.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. It almost seems quaint to imagine that until very recently, library books listed names of actual people who had actually read the book.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Assessment tools like the Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills report can help you couch both your goals and evaluation in contexts that are well-understood by funders and executives alike. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 There are several good resources on evaluating participation. Sixth, you need other people to help you.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

And while the contract negotiations sounded hellish, the internal support for the game was surprisingly easy to come by. As librarian Aaron Schmidt once commented, libraries are also ideal places for ARGs. Tags: storytelling Museums Engaging in 2.0 Staff responded positively to "what if?" Projects usercontent game.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

When it comes to authoring original eLearning courses for your association’s members, there are generally two paths forward: Purchase course authoring software and tackle the project internally. These include: A built-in library of eLearning assets. Further, you can categorize and tag elements to reuse them across courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

Our TOC is (1) that making issue education fun can dramatically increase public engagement on a topic and (2) that framing issues in terms of what people can do about it will make more people internalize that “the problem is us” and encourage them to take action rather than just admiring the problem. What was your judging process?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

You may make paper copies for internal circulation. The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. I started promoting the Public Library of Science to the readers of Nonprofit Online News as far back as December of 2002.

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