Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. In Jordan, we did the Debka, a Lebanese dance. Group Photo with Certificates. Showcase Panel. Quiet Reflection: Socoot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami Al-Karmi , Founder and CEO of Shabakat , Al Ordon (JordanNet) and is serving as the E-Mediat Strategic Adviser for the Jordan In-Country Team shared some lessons about working as networked ngo. Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. Why do we need it?

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APRIL 11, 2013

One of the participants, Michelle Chaplin, will share the preliminary results during this panel at the NTC this week, but the survey will remain open through the end of April. Though this is not an official NTEN survey, we hope you will share your experiences and insights with the CoI. Thanks so much for your help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Lisa Gansky’s presentation on The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing (learn more at [link] ) and the joint presentation from Bill Traynor and Audrey Jordan about Lawrence CommunityWorks, a project in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is rebuilding a profoundly shredded civic infrastructure. Audrey Jordan, a loaned exec of Annie E.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. nonprofit film festival submission opening. festival is now open to submissions. Nation's First Cause-Driven Film Festival Now Open to Submissions Nonprofits and filmmaking community welcome to submit films for consideration. Think it could win awards? All entries are free. On March 27, Lights.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

We opened our scholarship campaign yesterday to a fantastic show of support. Jordan Viator. As usual, the generosity of the NTEN community shines through! We've only got until February 17 to meet our goal: raising $10,000 to send another 50 folks to the #10NTC ! A GIANT thank you to: Catherine Algeri. Hannah Kane. Kerri Karvetski.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

We opened our scholarship campaign yesterday to a fantastic show of support. Jordan Viator. As usual, the generosity of the NTEN community shines through! We've only got until February 17 to meet our goal: raising $10,000 to send another 50 folks to the #10NTC ! A GIANT thank you to: Catherine Algeri. Hannah Kane. Kerri Karvetski.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) And it will be quite some time before there’s any competition in the MPower Open services provision arena, since it’s been a closed app up until now.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Rem Hoffmann, Exponent Partners , and Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Tags: cloud computing Newsletter NPTech NTEN rem hoffmann rob jordan. Everyone has come across the term "cloud computing", but what exactly does it mean? What relevance does it have to a nonprofit organization like yours? What makes the cloud different?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. A new way of leadership and managing is needed, called "Open Leadership".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East.

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MAY 28, 2010

This week, for example, NTEN members like Johanna Bates , Peter Campbell , Dean Matsueda , David Geilhufe , and many more debated the topic of privacy issues on social networks (a la Facebook recently) and whether that would drive more nonprofits to customized open source options for their communities. > DC 501 Tech Club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For example,we agreed that we could quote those who are tweeting and have open accounts, but our tweets would not attribute quotes. In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Jordan Viator. Laura Lee Dooley. is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Michelle Murrain. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Deborah Finn.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. Submissions will be open through the end of day next Tuesday, December 22, and like it says on the page, it’s as easy as 1 – 2 – 3 to get involved: Nominate your hero. Everyone nominated will be entered to win one of 50 free NTEN memberships , compliments of Convio!

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. My answer: more real-time applications like video streaming and live blogging to allow for true real-time coverage and engagement, in addition to platforms continuing to open up and naturally become more "socially enabled".

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JULY 28, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. No, I didn’t welcome a new member to my family, but I made a donation to OMB Watch (a Convio client doing amazing work to promote open government, accountability, and citizen participation) as part of their “ Adopt a Wonk ” campaign. Guest post by Emily Goodstein, Account Manager at Convio.

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APRIL 15, 2008

April 15, 2008 | Jordan V Copyright © 2008, Care2.com A quick video of Vinay discussing the findings of this study i sposted in our blog at [link] Well also be posting another, follow-up interview later this week. All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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MARCH 28, 2008

April 15, 2008 | Jordan V Copyright © 2008, Care2.com A quick video of Vinay discussing the findings of this study i sposted in our blog at [link] Well also be posting another, follow-up interview later this week. All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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MARCH 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Opening the kimono" and seeing the ins and outs of wireframing for web information architecture is something many of us never actually get to see.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. Opens Submissions for Nonprofit Film Festival with Pre-screening in Austin, Texas and Lights.Camera.Help. The Nonprofit Film Festival. In leading up to this announcement, I’ve covered this new film festival (and now nonprofit!) – see Lights. is already helping to make a positive impact.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Think of it this way: would you entrust all your savings in a financial firm that just opened, doesn't even have stationery, and whose employees have no experience in investing money? Do not open any attachments to these emails even if they claim to contain pictures from Haiti.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. They are very scrutinizing of donations - Smallest cohort and shrinking - Less open to new appeals. If you currently work in a nonprofit organization, or the corporate world for that matter, you've no doubt had a conversation in the past year about "generational differences" today. So what does this all mean?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Issues Dynamic, Inc. to 5:00 p.m.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. In code We Trust: Open Government Awesomeness panel Friday March 12 2:00 PM - "In Code We Trust" is the new motto for Government in the 21st century. Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments.

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AUGUST 28, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. My good friend Jordan did a write up about it on Convio's blog. Ours was right before the opening remarks and I think attendance suffered because of it. Here were the social components of the conference: Community page on the website. Here were the elements of the page: 1. Tweetup widget from TWTvite 2.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. If you’ve been paying attention to the news in the past week , you’ve most likely heard about the new changes making their way into Facebook to make sharing interests across the web easier. And the nonprofit community is an exceptional example of a group that thrives from people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

that makes Bookshare possible) and open licensing terms, so that people who the market will fail to address get the benefits of our incredibly rich and expanding knowledge base. Queen Rania of Jordan, Klaus Schwab of the WEF The other session I really liked was the one on education.

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MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. BAM, time to tell the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

Jeremiah Owyang from The Altimeter Group along with John Lovett and Eric Peterson both of the Web Analytics Demystified firm have published an open research report that advocates for a standardized framework of the following business objectives and use of metrics to measure them. Jordan Viator had a guest post by the authors. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Thanks Jordan S for working with us on this! I got a really nice surprise when Jordan from Pathable contacted me this week and asked if we’d be interested in them doing an analysis of the twitter activity like they had done previously for WordCamp. And there was another bonus we found later, see the twitter section. Hell yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Alan Jordan posted the following : A constituency session comment re-iterated a line shared with me a long time ago from a concert hall manager in Concord, NH who passed away from cancer a few years back: the official moniker for 501(c)3s is not “non-profit,” but “not for profit.” Read the e-book for particular examples.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

MT @atikaCNN Filming Syrian refugees crossing into Jordan safely – thanks @and_harper , @refugees + Jordan military pic.twitter.com/xMRJHR3xen. — With expanding global Internet access and social media and mobile usage penetration, it paves the way for open projects that encourage citizen digital engagement and action.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out. Giving Evokes Gratitude.

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