Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. An incredible listening tool. for the last five years or so). One of those venues is Twitter.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Earlier this year, President Obama announced a bold initiative to expand access to technology jobs in the United States. Additionally, there are more open jobs today in America — and the majority of them are in information technology. " Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

In actuality, hackathons are events where ideas are hatched and technology needs are met — making them excellent opportunities for nonprofits, charities, and libraries! meets LinkedIn for students. NetSquared can help! The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. utilize technology to develop solutions to social challenges. technological solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Are students just checking their email and tuning out or does the laptop help them think? could it be that students who use laptops in class are bored with the lecture, and THAT's why they do poorly? could it be that students who use laptops in class are bored with the lecture, and THAT's why they do poorly? non-profit blogs???

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Over the next four years, innovative organizations will use technology to transfer to individuals the reins on everything from program work and evaluation to fundraising and communications. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

The trainer sharing with students, the consultant sharing with clients, beyond face interaction. Community of Practice: The people might already know each other and be collaborating on a topic of professional interest in other ways and have added the use of tagging to their tool box. Throwing seeds out? Emily's post ). TechSoup Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

I think a lot of activists know that there are all kinds of social web tools available to them, but they aren't sure how to find them, or use them, and are intimidated by the technology. Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. Don't feel like you have to use these tools, email is still very powerful!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Which technologies support the work? Know where your community is and what tools they want to use, and either use those or build them together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. Share your tips, tactics, tools, and techniques for effectively curating to serve your audience. of great technology and access to crowd wisdom. topic, with all of us sharing the tools, methods, and ideas we have. This tool includes.

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