Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Sounds obvious, right? Telerivet allows you to conduct a mobile phone survey of them—or anyone—with a mobile phone through SMS (no internet or smartphones needed.) If your survey audience has access to the internet, SurveyGizmo helps you design surveys and collect and analyze feedback online. Try the free version.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Does your message sound—to you—like an endless loop of “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”? If so, my journey back to joy—albeit a bit differently shaped than before—may give you a map to adapt for your own needs. Are you dreading yet another fourth quarter filled with many opportunities—but also too much to do? Stop feeling guilty.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

The internet connection may hold up a bit better this time around but I don’t want to risk it, so I’m going to do the same as the last session and just type up the notes in real time and post as soon as the session is over. Takeaways: 1.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

That sounds great. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Digital Divide nptech Local impact map digital inclusion success stories tssuccessstories'

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Data Collecting and Mapping. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project , buyout data is displayed on a map of the city so that city officials and housing organizations can identify and respond to buyout trends.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

That sounds great. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. Digital Divide nptech Local impact map digital inclusion success stories' How do you plan on doing that?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The evolution of technology has, however, made it easy to rapidly put credible solutions in place, and, in many cases, this internet strategist is here to tell you that you just need to dispense with the rigor and go for it. Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Start by choosing teams and assigning both teams to find images either on the internet or within the virtual classroom. . While a virtual scape room space might not sound so appealing, think again! You can set up a virtual escape room by mapping out the room, and creating your very own version of the game “Clue.” .

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Start by choosing teams and assigning both teams to find images either on the internet or within the virtual classroom. . While a virtual scape room space might not sound so appealing, think again! You can set up a virtual escape room by mapping out the room, and creating your very own version of the game “Clue.” .

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2016

Faceless people still hiding behind a pseudonym have been relegated to the corners of the Internet and given the title "troll." Your aunt and cousin and brother and nephew, these are the people who make up most of the Internet. Why did he relegate himself to one geographic area on the map?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Wikimedia Commons has a database of more than 24 million freely usable media files that include images, sounds, and videos. I like this resource for maps, flags, and people photos. Internet Archive is somewhat similar to DPLA. For more about the Internet Archive, read my blog post. Many of them are public domain.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

But with the ever-changing properties and tools on the Internet, that door has evolved into countless spaces, conversations, and opportunities that can seem tough to tackle. Base your plans on sound knowledge about who and where your users are, and what they're doing online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

This sounds like a great opportunity for corporate culture shock. Restricting computer/internet use is driven by a management and/or IT assumption that the diverse, dynamic nature of computing is either a distraction or a problem. The opportunity to try something new is an opportunity to waste time or resources.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

We all want to inspire new people to talk to about our organization, and we know that the internet is a great place to start those conversations, but all too often I see organizations having that exact “conversation” with people online. PLEASE (yes, that’s the sound of me begging) don’t do this.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Friday, April 29, 2011 Research Friday: The Office or the Impact? Ashcraft, Ph.D.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

One Million Giraffes is pretty much what it sounds like--a project to collect artistic renderings of one million giraffes. As Ola explains : We were discussing the internet and how amazing it is, when I said: "There really are no limits anymore. It's called One Million Giraffes. The constraints are clear and arbitrary.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sounds low, right? They also give you slick graphs, reports, heat maps , and other cool stuff. Interactive Online Fundraising Web Design fundraising tips internet usability' I’ve seen similar results in my testing. Again, usability testing isn’t an academic exercise. gift cards in hand. Stay tuned!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

isn't as negative as it sounds. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Sounds like it could be part of a future wiki carnival.?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. A colleague recently called me to discuss an idea for a low-tech recommendation engine in which visitors could mark places on paper museum maps that might be of interest to other visitors like them.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 Obviously this is only one part of the equation, but this sure sounds like a must read report. Im Rebecca Leaman, and its my pleasure to join the Wild Apricot blog team in exploring how to use the internet and web 2.0 both electronic and print.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The big advent of freelancing, since the Internet, is that instead of snail-mailing my story ideas to editors, I would email them. And that's like the great thing that the Internet brought me was email! We could literally take a map and then say, "OK, here are the 10 communities. graphic, or a map.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

After the Internet became more than an online super highway crowded with signposts, we moved into a much more fast-paced and interesting period: the digital paradigm. From another perspective, there’s the side of our data that translates into APIs, maps, and info graphics. Show how much money is being raised!

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2013

It is a great example of using maps for storytelling. To lighten the mood, maybe you''d like to enter the Internet Cat Video Festival ? We knew there would be many great hacks to come, and the power of face recognition sounds pretty useful for all of us working directly with our community. It''s a real thing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Now, three hundred bucks a year doesn't sound like a lot of money, right? It sounds pretty cheap to you and me. 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.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What do you sound like out in the world? It’s really easy to plop a data point out there from you pulled from spreadsheet, but craft those stories and they’ll go way further, literally as people share them across the internet. . ” That doesn’t sound very kind, right? And then what’s your voice?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2016

Many times, all of the resources and information out there start to sound a bit like an echo chamber, with the same topics (millennials) and news (Facebook’s donation strategy du jour) repeating itself over and over on every corner of the internet. Sound absurd? What story is your data telling you?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

I hate to sound like a broken record, but understanding how to turn data into intelligence is going to be a key skill in the next ten years. You'd get a much better understanding if you got the client location information data from your grantees and mapped it against that same local and federal data. Open source is collaboration.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. It works in areas with slow internet. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. So this is massive. So this is. So we have Canada.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

It is inevitable that we say something that sounds a bit too "had to be there", or includes components to the agenda that aren''t fully explained to a new attendee. The Internet, Always You''ve broken it every time. We don''t always succeed. We hear this feedback and will continue to work on improvements.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It sounds cooler anyway. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. Do you need to map out some other steps in the process? Really cool thing is she’s got like an 83%. Rachel: Yeah, you can say win rate.

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