Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

I really like reaching out and getting questions answered. But, being on those networks has taken it’s toll on me. Although it likely won’t be on too many up-to-the-minute news items (like the recent Ning Thing) because I’ll be paying less attention to those goings on, and more attention to other, deeper things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She also just signed a book deal with the tentative title: How to be a Social Capitalist: winning with the currency of online communities. My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. More coverage on Google's Open API.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

Nonprofit association NTEN , consultants Common Knowledge and social networking software providers ThePort conducted a joint study of nonprofit organization and their use of and attitudes towards social networking tools. The survey asked about two types of social networking presences a nonprofit organization could have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I asked this question of Manny Hernandez, founder of ( TuDiabetes.com in English and EsTuDiabetes.com in Spanish). Manny answered my question with a fantastic post titled " How To Create Social Change Without Forming a 501-c3 " to run as a guest post on this blog. Could this be a new type of nonprofit or not?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

What makes TechSoup's forums work is that each forum has multiple people monitoring it and making sure that no question or inquiry goes unanswered. I became a forum moderator a few months ago, and ever since, my inbox is perpetually full of messages like, "Can someone handle this question about Symantec licensing?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 Many nonprofits are grappling with questions about where to find reliable information about the merits of different tools for a given objective. Other questions were about museum attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our earlier attempts at getting a Wikipedia page up were focused on a page about TuDiabetes, the diabetes social network we run in English. Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

tab also answers the following questions asap: CNN Coverage of Gustav. Gustav08 on Ning. Andy Carvin of NPR's Social Media guru, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee. The widget's resources. Gustav Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." What is Openness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What do we mean by “community&# – question asked to the participants: people. for a while, people meant ‘facebook’ although that’s a social network of people you already know. – If you use something like Ning does that platform share a part of the liability? shared interest. moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Organizational Network Analysis). The illustration above comes from a book by Rob Cross called " Driving Results Through Social Networks " which is about how to leverage informal networks within your organization or cross-organizational teams. Tags: network effectiveness policy. . Source: Rob Cross, What is ONA?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Be proactive.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" needs to have a large following and active presence on online social networks.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. USAID should develop an online social networking community for young adults interested in international development. Vote for this Idea]. Vote for this Idea].

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