Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

One of the coolest meetings was with Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, who headed our local community college here in California before getting the appointment. She and her senior policy adviser, Hal Plotkin, are huge fans of Open Educational Resources (OERs), having been involved in starting that movement in community colleges.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The only way, in my view, to bring those you aren’t connected or participating online into the conversations, especially those on digital inclusion, to help shape policies and changes for creating one web that really does serve everyone. with local networks working to create online spaces to bring more people online.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The 30 participating organizations in the report are members of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a group of independent, nonprofits with a shared commitment to responsible budget and tax policies. Joining the conversation is incredibly important if these organizations expect to change policy and change minds. What do you think?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

A new employee at a local foundation educates herself on the agencies they are funding by visiting their social network sites. Tags: dee albritton Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media. A few days later you get a call: they created a social network page about the day. On one site, she clicks on an employee.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 26, 2023

Plus, applying for the program means you’ll receive access to free analytics tools like Google Analytics and Google Tag manager to track ad performance. On the other hand, if your website doesn’t comply with Google’s website policy , you’ll need to spend time bringing it up to code before filling out your Google Grant application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices. The idea is that biking to work is not only is good for the environment but can also help local economies. Among other changes, it requires encouraging employers to have more bike friendly policies. Source: grist.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. " Tags: roundup bookmarks broadband casestudies evaluation list postalicious report research resources volunteering.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Searching for “blood&# lets you find groups working on blood donation efforts and local programs - could be great, connected, passionate advocates to connect with! What about legislative or policy concerns? the titles of bills, policies or other political items affecting your organization. Google Alerts. Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Lesson #3: Local vs Global. The final focus area is on the local vs global impact of social media. People don’t see ‘big picture’ but relate locally&# (@ kristianakocis ). Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. Examples of Social Media. link] is a climate change wiki. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

My co-presenter was the talented Bryce Skolfield , Director of Communications and Public Policy at the Children's Council of San Francisco. Bryce shared a great analogy about the importance of a social media policy. "If One of their policy initiatives is called " think families, think a brighter future for California."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

"we20 meetings will create people plans, policy plans, business plans and other plans on local, national and global issues. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. Facebook | we20 - the best reason to get your friends together this year - Do you know about the we20 project? A great example of organizing on the social web. "we20

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

60) Search « Nuts and Bolts of Online Advertising | Main | Webinar: How Online Marketing Can Be Your Nonprofits Fundraising Stimulus Plan » Friday Feb 20 2009 Tapping Small and Local Donors on Twitter: A Girls Inc. Could that concept be translated to help a local nonprofit? As the director of development of Girls Inc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2009

The talk was hosted by the Caltech Y, as well as by the local chapter of NetImpact and the alumni association, as part of their Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS). I was particularly fond of the talk series, where important policy makers and leaders would come to Caltech and talk to 15 or 20 people at the Y and drink Mountain Chablis!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies. " Check it out! Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. Why limit yourself?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

New laws and policies will help, but any movement toward greater cultural and racial understanding and communication must be supported by our country’s cultural and educational infrastructure. Is there equity and diversity in your policy and practice regarding staff, volunteers, and Board members? Things must change.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC. There really are a lot of amazing people working on web technology, strategy and policy in the DC area. Technorati Tag: TCamp09. Tags: Events Technology Communication Collaboration Strategy. Twitter feed and Flickr pictures.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 26, 2009

Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action. But I am completely open to any and all, whether organization or individual, ready to help me make our local communities and the global community as great as possible.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind. From the late 1800s up until 1920, the U.S. entered the Progressive Era. Go big, or go home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

that already exists on our website or are media stories from local media outlets on our social media channels like Facebook. Social media is just another avenue to tell our story and get the word out about what we do and educate the public (both locally and nationally). Does your hospital have a social media policy? Yes, we do.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Let's Get Local: Using Social Media in State and Local Campaigns , Ted Fickes. Social media policy: cartoon-blogging , Rob Cottingham. And just for fun, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged 12ntc ! How technology for nonprofits is like Alcatraz Island , James Howe. Nonprofits and Innovation at NTC12 , Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

They are tasked with the important work of research, creating our policy agenda and providing strategy for legislative campaigns. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group. Unfortunately, we were reprimanded for not being “on message” with our policy agenda.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Accountants will perform pro bono services, helping not-for-profits create good fiscal policies and systems. And the goodie bag will contain a key chain, a pen from a local bank, and (if you are lucky) an obscure lipstick color. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. Its volunteer work, right? an obscure font.

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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. Tags: social media. So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. Here's an example.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The site will help public health professionals, community leaders, policy makers, and consumers discover how healthy their county is compared to other counties and to uncover strategies to reduce disparities and improve community health. Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. For more information, visit www.forumone.com.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

Tag your own news with " nten membe r" or " nptech " to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Some of us here at NTEN are pretty interested in geo-tagging. employee policies regarding tech -- anything from hardware to social. Members are in bold. more tech-savvy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

This video is from a local site in Louisville , part of the Annie E. The "live tweeting" use the had tag #netfunders and I was not the only person in the room contributing tweeting from the convening. policy outcomes, innovative products, etc) How do you know? This video is from a local site in Louisville, part of the Annie E.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I found out about how big a deal Glasspockets is when I attended a local Foundation Technology Affinity Group (TAG) meeting of Northern California foundation techies who kept talking about Glasspockets projects like the hGrant Online Reporting Project , and the Transparency Talk blog. Governance Policies & Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

Here's what they're recommending: One account per local United Way is recommended. They also have some specific examples about how to present the branding for the United Way on Twitter and have incorporated Twitter into their social media policy guidelines. (See Tags: twitter. Multiple organization accounts create confusion.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Consider this: would you stop shopping at your local grocery store because the grocery chain's credit card processor accidentally gave your credit card number (along with 100 million others) to a group of savvy criminals? Are your employees/volunteers aware of your policies and practices regarding donor information? " you may ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

The Red Cross used slideshare to share its social media policy and get feedback. (6) Here’s a slideshow that summarizes research interviews of donors from a local humane society. Tags: Presenting Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design slideshare webinar. 6) Training. And, a missing child alert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I also discovered that I could use listening to build collaborative connections to other organizations via the social web, both locally and nationally. Tags: Books. I no longer felt alone.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

We’ll also hear from policy makers and activists working to change laws and unleash capital for social enterprises. Tags: social entrepreneurs Summit Social Enterprise Alliance SEA09 social enterprise Social innovation. The top performing asset class for the last year was social investing in opportunity finance.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The event attracted a breadth of experience, including congressional staffers, public policy specialists, advocacy practitioners, software vendors, and professional service providers. Tags: Events Government Transparency Strategy. The open format encouraged the constructive sharing of varying (and sometimes opposing) perspectives.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Imagine telling your clients about important changes to a policy RIGHT NOW. The most important place for you to participate is at your local government level. A lot of local governments have started to consider providing a third option: a high speed fiber cable to every home or high speed wireless service.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other. Waffle Shop (Pittsburgh, PA).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We need to utilize these tools, to the best of our abilities, to engage and inform the public, because no matter how much federal, state and local officials do, we will only be successful if the public is brought in as part of the team." Tags: american red cross Data NPTech NTEN wendy harman.

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