Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I didn’t do a complete unplug, as we’re so dependent on the Internet for information in navigate our daily lives, which is a huge change since I first got online in 1993. And, now with those beautiful sunsets behind me, I look ahead to 2015. I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years. You've probably heard the statistics. So what does that mean for your organization? Director of Idealware. Sending broadcast SMS messages. Support services and programs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

1] Scheme is an obscure programming language that most Computer Science students learn, but almost no one else does, and almost no one produces production code in scheme. { I’ll describe what you’ll give up with these tools (if anything) compared to their popular proprietary counterparts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet Campaign — February 10 to March 25. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School Students. Upcoming Events. Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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NTEN

AUGUST 18, 2009

Here are some examples: William Reynolds of the University of Virginia is going to teach his student council how to use social media to better communicate with students. on how the Internet can benefit people of different age groups, different career paths and different levels of technical knowledge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

They describe a process where 99% of the people involved get close to nothing for their efforts, the authors gives away right and the publishers just get to sit on their pot’ogold of academic knowlege and get student to pay inflated prices to use these works in school.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an educator (and a social media neophyte), I was dismayed that – despite the scant five students in class – the instructor never asked us to introduce ourselves and discuss why we were there. He used phrases like "the issue of the Internet" and "computerization" that made it sound like he thought these were merely passing fads.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. You've got to love their logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. If you don't know how to post a video on the Internet, Freevlog can show you how). Be sure to search for your favorite nonprofits' names, especially on YouTube, you may be surprised to find that they have a channel. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Figure out what your need is, set a bounty on it as a deliverable, and then witness how the Internet responds. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

While I was on sabbatical at Tuck/Dartmouth in the spring of 2008, I wrote about the things I learned from students and colleagues. For one generation, it's a conversation like any other conversation; it may even be the dominant form of conversation for today's students. For most of the world, the Internet is the cell phone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment. Fourth, Solution.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Calvin Osborne, an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), underscored the urgency in improving broadband -- essentially fast Internet access -- to keep the US from lagging behind other nations. Tags: NPTech NTEN. FM , a community radio station serving the Kansas City area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

So is the Internet. Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness. Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

And somewhere on the internet this information is quietly collecting. Daum Communication , a leading internet services provider in Korea offers a map service with a streetview option, much like Google Maps does in the States. In the ancient times, pharaohs had scribes that shadowed them, recording what they said.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are millions of blogs online, from those hosted by highly influential media personalities to high school students communicating with their friends. Tools such as Technorati and Google Trends can measure how messages are moving across the Internet as a single whole. Defining the Network. Diagram 4. Tracking Messages.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control. Don’t blame it on the internet. This post highlights the success of NTEN’s campaign to re-engage the 24,000 subscribers who had not opened an email from them in the past year. Know your objectives.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

It is also can be expensive for participants from outside the US, but WomenWhoTech and their sponsors offset the long distance charges and one participant got access to use a faster Internet connection. I work as a trainer and capacity builder for nonprofits and technology and more lately social media and networked approaches.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The Internet and the Web are changing every institution and impacting every aspect of life. OneWebDay organizers will call attention to efforts that work to ensure that anyone who wants it has access to the Internet and the skills they need to engage, powerfully. Happy OneWebDay!

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