Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2014

To do so effectively, you’ll need a staff person whose sole purpose is tweet, post, share, blog, photograph, record, and interview during the event. Conduct video interviews with speakers and attendees and host the videos on YouTube or Instagram. This person can’t simultaneously serve as the event planner or volunteer coordinator.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Here’s how your generous tax-deductible contribution can go directly to work, helping those students to succeed: $50 purchases the tools a student needs for the course. 400 purchases a laptop so students can study at home. Donate this. 160 ensures one student can complete the A+ certification. Donate this. Donate this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Photo Credit: Mini Laptop Club Thanks to Sibley for sending me this fascinating article about "the laptop club"--a group of second and third graders in an afterschool program who designed their own (non-functional) laptops using construction paper, pencils, and a lot of imagination.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You can use interviews with those your organization has helped, your staff members, and your volunteers to determine your main characters. Lastly, you must ensure that viewing your nonprofit’s website is an equally enjoyable experience for smartphone users and laptop/desktop users alike. Mobile-friendly formatting.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Interviews have suggested that SMEs think that word of mouth is a more important way to establish their business’ reputation. Creating a stylish, modern website is easy with our intuitive tools, and does require any knowledge of fancy stuff like coding – or any prior knowledge at all! They think word of mouth is more important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

” His work is focused on this question: What if there were a way to use the internet – and all our web-connected phones and tablets and laptops and games consoles – to foster rather than erode our attention spans, and to replace that sense of edgy distractedness with calm? ” (Note: I created a list.ly Or a combination?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. Sure, there are tools out there, Google Translate and the like, but they are not yet robust enough to replace human interpreters and translators.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

TechSoup has some tools that may come in handy. TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian went out and conducted a video interview last spring using one of the donated Dell phones. Having Wi-Fi on a cell phone means it can connect to any wireless network just like a laptop computer. " May well be. Storytelling with Mobile Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. The plenary sessions were a gift and were focused on answering the question how we can inspire with these tools. My notes are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

How: 6 Tools and Tips. I think I made up the term " social instructional design " which is how you integrate social media tools into your workshop AND how you plan for engagement during delivery. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. What: The art of social instructional design. Know of any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. Maura interviewed me for a story on Women and Blogging over the summer. Well, she did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Participants made name badges using selecting tool names for their first and last name. They had to create name that represented a tool they already knew and one they wanted to learn more about. Then we did several rounds of speed dating which allowed for a lot of peer to peer help on using tools. Make It Fun, Celebrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. Didn't have enough time to focus on applying the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Using monitoring tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

My Laptop Stickers. our goal is to help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies using socmed tools, so look for anecdotes, engagement, some more traditional number crunching (like evaluating FB insights). KD Paine , the Queen of Social Media Measurement, said it. As np we should concentrate on executing our mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools. You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. May be created and consumed using mobile technology and distributed using other social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Tools and How They're Used. Philthanthropy. Goodness2.0 ?

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." For more on the topic, read this interview from the Six Degrees of Seperation. Freecharity.org.uk

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. Each of your key points should rely primarily on ONE of these tools in order to be clear and cohesive. Eileen on sound bites: “If you are watching an interview on TV and some brilliant sound bite rolls off the person’s tongue, chances are very high that did not happen by accident.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. The tool was a live streaming platform called Ustream.tv Kari came to my house a half hour before the interview went live.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. Each of your key points should rely primarily on ONE of these tools in order to be clear and cohesive. Eileen on sound bites: “If you are watching an interview on TV and some brilliant sound bite rolls off the person’s tongue, chances are very high that did not happen by accident.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This could be sessions with your CEO and board, interviews with your field workers/program staff and any initiatives where you have the potential to share information with your donors. For those who have an exercise bike at home, you can also encourage them to, set up their laptop or mobile camera and cycle together.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Wouldn’t it be great if we could tweet through our tool, whatever? And so it’s sort of unmanaged, sort of unmanaged because people, we trust our teams, we trust our peers, and we trust that they’re going to figure out what systems, or tools, or apps they need to get their work done. Everybody needs an email tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social I'd like to know how you convinced your executive directors/senior staff to go for it?

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Forum One

APRIL 5, 2010

As scare stories of " what you put on the web will haunt you forever and completely mess up your next job interview, you crazy kids" crested and waned in popularity, I began to notice another trend in how web professionals were using these social media tools, especially a core few.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program. We've just launched Miradi. Not Benetech!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. OrganicMania or Lynn Miller who I met through Twitter and later interviewed me for this blog post about a year ago. Google social search.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you think a web overhaul might make sense for your organization, make sure you have the right tools on hand to start making improvements yourself—namely, a strong website builder and nonprofit-specific web development support. Darien Nature Center’s site has a unique goal—to inspire visitors to close their laptops and come out for a visit!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

We called upon our personal networks of trusted San Francisco-based editors to come in and read onsite during the weekend (with everyone working on their own laptops using the CMS). The Internet is obviously a key tool for organizing. The CMS tabulated how many times each submission was read.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses.

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