Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

Cindy, one of our volunteers, shared the following on our volunteer listserv (and she said it better than I could!): on both coasts; my guess is it will be 7 - 9 central, but you can check your local schedules. The show is this Sunday, from 8-10 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

I was curious how a large national network with local affiliates approaches a social media strategy in a networked way. He tracks content to share about local United Ways. So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. Iavor is primarily looking for content to tweet about.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. The GE Crotonville Center is the legendary example An easy "ask" for your local corporations is: can I get a donated seat in your classroom? Call your local school and sign 'em up! Plan with other local NGOs and create an informal board of IT advisors.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Here is a compilation of responses to the same question from the APRA's listserve, PRSPCT-L : "I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends. All of these approaches have their downsides, of course, but they don't encourage data loss. Others Who Agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. "We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. I know of a very active local organisation that uses 2 great opensource web2.0 All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. There was instant rapor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples. For one of the interviews, when they showed or mentioned something I wanted to incorporate into the screencast, I asked them to show it again while I recorded it locally on my desktop using Camtasia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. GetInvolved Blog shares a summary from the Sunlight Foundation and Berkman Center all day session called "Local Political Information in an Internet Era."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting). I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. Where do I find more information?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Or purchase gift items from a socially responsible retail store like Ten Thousand Islands that helps support local artisans and Fair Trade in developing countries. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !)

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And we’re going to see what kind of shortfalls there are from a state and local perspective in the coming years because of COVID, but hoping that some of the other federal funds that we’re receiving through ARPA can try to help stop the bleeding a little bit. And as I said, these are not necessarily all federal.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

A local fire has devastated 200 local homes. Hopefully a timely choice considering the recent discussion on the ASTC listserv about the differences (semantic? A Russian spy has been poisoned in London. Tuberculosis is traveling business class. Pluto just got demoted. What does your museum have to say about it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month. right here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Growing and Eating Local Foods. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. no need for local copies, CDs, flash drives, etc.). Ability to save local copies if desired. Can you find more? Recipe Swamp Group. Economic Impacts. Rotary Youth Exchange Program. Flickr Farm.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy. They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. All of these tools are cheap and easy to use.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Don’t worry if it’s not the exact amount; just get in the habit of sending a chunk of money to the state and federal (and possibly local) government a few times a year. Attend conferences. use Turbo Tax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. That said we are hoping to launch a trading company allowing all the orphanages and communities we reach in Kenya to sell their hand-made local crafts; bags, sandals, pumice, soapstone, plates, jewellery etc, to further their own futures. Trade not Aid

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. Many were local historical, but there are also Harley-Davidson dealerships, locksmiths, and candy stores with small window signs that say "AND MUSEUM."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

My first job in the United States after working in France was as an intern with the Center for Community Change on their immigration team helping to create a toolkit on fighting anti-immigrant local ordinances. I quickly became integrated into the team as an Organizer for state and local rights.

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