Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

The article includes a link to a google map where you can look at the economic impact in each state. Allison suggests in her post that there is definitely a business model problem. With unemployment and cutback, for many a trip to the art museum can appear to be a luxury.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

My Ocean , is a niche social network of more than 9000 divers and this guest post by Darren Barefoot describes some powerful outcomes for ocean conservation by bringing together several strategies: niche social network, crowdsourced data mapping, and deep engagement. For decades, scuba divers have been cleaning waterways. million divers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale. Which ‘models’ work under which conditions, in which industries or places?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Global Energy Observatory ?

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

One of the many ways Vanessa was often able to help is showing her nonprofit how to craft a working cash flow model. (In The MOST important finance tool for a nonprofit is its Cash Flow Model. The business model of many nonprofits puts them at risk of running out of cash every year. The Cash Flow Model is the ED’s friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It isn’t a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem. Systems are non-linear, complex, and dynamic. But on the other hand, traditional evaluation models are: Focused on model testing. Based on a logic model. Refine a model or make definitive judgment. Follow a fixed plan.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Growth in big data and its related needs/problems has fueled growth in the discipline of data science. Data science incorporates techniques and theories from a variety of disciplines including mathematics, statistics, computer science, data engineering, and system modeling. Data science – [DAY-tuh SAHY-uhns], nouns.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Because they share, they can solve classroom problems together and support each other in their classwork. I don't want to get into a long diatribe about why we don't share in the nonprofit sector; lots of great posts already accurately define the problem. Imagine if we did that in the nonprofit sector. She shared her data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

The framework is based on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, mapped to an organization’s hierarchy of needs: • Level 1: Functioning Factor – Do people have what they need to do their job? Establish norms around compassionate behavior and modeled by SLT. Staff meetings that have some time to share accomplishments, not just problems.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Building on last year’s session, we were pleased that this year we had the opportunity to introduce the “crowdsourcing” experiment to collectively solve our nonprofit technology problems." " The Identity Spectrum – Identity Woman – I love this spectrum map of the various kinds of online identity!

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But the more I heard them explain it, the more I started thinking about how the current design “table” is a big problem in and of itself. . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. But At What Cost?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. I hope this discussion helps other social enterprises examine and develop their own frameworks. copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digitally networked age? A theory of change lays out the results and preconditions on a visual map that lays out the pathway for social change. Perhaps using a Theory of Change model can help with alignment beyond tactics or financial results. How It Works.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Before they officially launched the competition, the TechSoup Europe team members mapped out Warsaw technology-for-good communities and groups — some they had already worked with and some they hadn't. The platform was installed on the Warsaw City Council servers. Second Place: Curtain up! What's Next for Apps4Warsaw.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets. Burlington, VT Day of Civic Hacking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. Modeling the Network Mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space. The point is that we learn best by teaching what we have learned and interacting with others to share ideas and work through problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Seemingly, the same model should apply to nonprofits. Collecting stories from people who aren’t direct participants in your programming is a great way to understand the problems the broader community experiences, and the solutions they do (or don’t) appreciate. – Guest Post by Alison Carlman. Sounds obvious, right?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. So we used a mapping and communications workshop to layout a Theory of Impact and sequencing strategy to help them secure their first major core funder. Mike Radke agreed to share this post about the work. They felt stuck.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

People see where a Pokémon is hidden on a map and have to travel to the location to find it. This form of AR will soon be ubiquitous and has tons of applications–especially for mapping. Augmented reality, for all its computer-generated glory, can make a problem or solution tangible. People went crazy collecting Pokémon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The problem is our information consumption — we’re indulging too much at the buffet called the web. I’m a huge fan of Harold Jarche’s “ Seek, Sense, Share ” model. He kindly put together two mind maps with links to tools that are free and easy to get started with. The Practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Quite the opposite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. Having this network map on the wall during the whole training, let us as the trainers acknowledge the expertise and knowledge in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Content Curation Primer.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

But [data] are also creating a host of new problems. movements related to government data; linked data or semantic web efforts in the Web standards community; the newspaper industry's approach to evolving digital platforms and new commercial models related thereto; the push for electronic health records; and elsewhere.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. Connecting People to Vital Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She offers a frameworks output, outake, outcome - looks sort of like a logic model to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Some intuitively know and use the new model.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. Vivek Kundra, Chief Technical Officer, for the District of Columbia, discussed the District’s radical transformation a model of the to the digital public sphere model. It also allowed the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. I’ve also done this with groups of organizations who have collectively created their network maps on the wall. Begin Connections. Then the group draws the connections.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Nonprofits MUST find new ways of funding their missions. Kayla, I couldn't agree more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Not only do organizations need data collection systems, but also systems for observation, learning, reflection, and action or as the report describes “ systems that help us identify and solve problems proactively instead of always reacting.” Cultural Indicators.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2018

There’s no doubt that we’ve created a problem in the social impact marketing space – lists. Many trends are driving big data in healthcare – evolving payment models, emerging healthcare technologies, and care delivery improvements – to name a few. Personalization is key as consumerism plays a larger role in healthcare.

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