Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

There are various tools and techniques available to test your website for accessibility. Some tools are simply chrome extensions like Siteimprove and Lighthouse. The post Web Accessibility Lessons Learned from a Total Beginner appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Regardless of the tool we’re using, the team at MomsRising is committed to deepening and broadening the conversation around public policy issues that impact families in our country. Over the last six months, we have begun to use the “ blog carnival ” tool as a way to highlight content within the context of a specific policy campaign.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

Build internal trust first: A soccer lesson I wasn’t an amazing soccer player, but I did enjoy playing on soccer teams throughout my childhood. Create a safe space where all voices are valued and respected. I was always a midfielder, charged with passing the ball to my teammates and knowing where they were at any moment.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2019

.” How it does that presents quite a few lessons. Despite a long history filled with decades of analog advocacy, NPCA embraced one very important maxim: modern advocacy requires the right tools in order to be successful. On an EPA water protection rule, more than 14,200 advocates were able to submit comments via Regulations.gov.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? So, what are the biggest lessons for using social media in a global movement? There were three main lessons or focus areas that emerged in the discussion. Lesson #1: Voice. Lesson #2: Action.

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Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

From the civil rights leaders and Black Panther Party to the Black social change leaders of today , Black communities have wielded social innovation as a tool to design and determine their own futures, build collective power, and achieve liberation. . Black voices, Black spaces.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Wherever you are, and whatever the kind of community you are wrangling, there are some general lessons that I recommend. I hope you’ll share your lessons, too! You know more about the tools. Well, those are my five; but I have no doubt there are many more lessons and assumptions out there.

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Community Management Lesson NTEN 249

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Community engagement, a vital component of both collective and civic leadership, involves community members in decision-making and development initiatives, ensuring their voices are heard and respected, and fostering collaboration and collective action within communities.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Plus, learn how to use Storify to capture insights at your next event, discover low-cost tools for visual communications, and tips on how to build a compelling visual library. >>Enjoy, Also, meet Omar Vulpinari , the man behind some of the most provocative visual campaigns. >>Enjoy, and subscribe!

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Issue NTEN Advocacy Communication 99

Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

You can use Atomic Training to help your organization maximize its tech tools and software products. Quicken Deluxe takes the easy-to-use accounting tools of Quicken Starter Edition and adds additional features to plan financial strategy, build long-term savings plans, and visualize monthly and annual incomes and expenses.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy. When you can unleash the veritable biological orchestra working in the background of activating the emotionally rich tool of empathy , why wouldn’t you do this in your work of attracting, building, and maintaining donor relationships? The post Your Top-Secret Fundraising Tool?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. For an organization with more than 80 employees and volunteers, Bob also needed tools to help people work outside of the office. After: Dynamic Tools for Dynamic People.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

The hour usually flies by; the facilitator creates a Storify of the chat for our archives; and we take our lessons learned back to our respective workplaces. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 31, 2014

As we raise support for 2015, we wanted to share the impact of your donation from last year, from the voices of our scholarship recipients. Read my post for more on the lessons learned. NTEN bridges the gap for our organizations and serves in training and delivery of tools and strategies that are not always budgeted for in programs.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If your nonprofit, campaign, movement, or cause is considering developing an online grassroots organizing model or a custom online community tool to support your advocacy or organizing efforts, then we hope our story will help you avoid some pitfalls, and achieve ambitious online organizing goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

This Wednesday, April 15th, you can participate in a free online event and webinar from TechSoup, Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools. If this sounds familiar, you won’t want to miss TechSoup’s free online event and webinar: Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools. Have any questions?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

The hour usually flies by; the facilitator creates a Storify of the chat for our archives; and we take our lessons learned back to our respective workplaces. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. I am part of the planning team working on the monthly chat series behind #4Change.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2009

Use tools like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to push out very personalized messages, to encourage them to take an action. (The Show your true voice, be personable, create content that people relate to. My answer always goes back to the need to tie these tools their potential impact on an organization?s Be authentic.?

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Campaign Support Build Lesson 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

For nearly three decades, the “power and control wheel” ( [link] ) has been the standard tool within the DV victim services field to describe the most common tactics used to control and abuse victims. Lessons from survivors of domestic violence. How can the network expand to include the voices of the public sector?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

But what does this look like in practice, and how can talent professionals and managers more efficiently access, implement, and share quality leadership development tools and practices? Getting this right is a conversation that requires all voices at the table. We want to invite you to our virtual table.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos. Do you have any lessons learned or stories you can share with other social entrepreneurs? What else are you working on?

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Care2

JANUARY 10, 2012

Whether your organization is local or national, with the right tools and techniques, you can tap into the rising tide of advocacy and make your voice heard. From "Arab Spring" to rallies and movements bubbling up across the US, people around the world are organizing and demanding change. When: February 7-9, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

What is interesting about this campaign is how they have integrated the social voice of their organizational leader, Carolyn Miles. He agreed to an interview to share some of strategy., Though the tools may have changed, the basic human rights and need of children have not. This infographic is part of a multi-channel campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A powerful lesson hit home during a recent two-day training. Ironically, and what made that lesson so powerful, is that I wasn’t at the training program on social media to learn, but to conduct it with Ana-Marie Jones of CARD – Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster. Examine all the reasons it was such a success.

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Social Media Guide Strategy Media 96

NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

And if you’re hoping to set yourself and your organization up for success during challenging times like these, here are some lessons we learned from everything that went right when so much was going wrong. We had many new tools at our disposal that utilized better visuals, more interactivity, and agile design. Keep on asking.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

While our focus here was the conversion to a new tech solution , t hese same lessons can be applied to any change that requires training, whether it’s for a tech solution or no t. . What tools do you have? You might even discover some tools you didn’t know you had! The Four Stages of Learning . Pre-training research

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform. The climate change movement has shown a lot of focus on helping people effected by climate change (everyone) share their story, voice their concerns. We need to couple real voices, with real opportunities to take action and get involved. lessons learned from the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

He points to a question that many nonprofits are struggling with: Another key lesson was the big question of ???how tools to obtain better results.??? is still too far away from broad usage by presenting a tool relying solely on emails, which has enough capabilities. how to best combine all these web2.0 is all about.

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Reflection Bookmarking Aggregator Lesson 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What’s new?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 22, 2012

When Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy strongly voiced his support of traditional marriage, the company received heavy public criticism, along with a wave of support and record sales. Reflecting on the lessons learned from both organizations, it’s striking how similar situations have created such differing outcomes. Like this article?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

However, as I learned from spending two weeks in Asia this past December , the news sources you watch and consume can dramatically effect your consciousness and ultimately your social media voice. They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. It also means that I can't stubbornly soldier on with a lesson plan if it is bombing.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

We can see (and learn a valuable lesson about) the way current ecosystem of social media works in regards to transparency, data, and community. I don’t necessarily want to call for the communities on MySpace or on ideablob to call for the return of the tools. The more voices the better! Well, it means a lot.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2019

I think they have an important voice and perspective to be shared in this process, because the work of stewarding donors is the same as the work of stewarding investors. We only use these alternative funding tools for our growth funding, not to cover annual operating expenses, so we are willing and able to take more risks in that area.

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