Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people. By applying this approach to program development or strategy, your nonprofit can get more impactful results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Partnerships with technology companies are driving AI4Good, providing their expertise, toolkits, and resources to work with nonprofits to integrate the use of AI. This includes Google , Microsoft , SalesForce , Intel , IBM , and many other companies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

In practice, impact investing means partnering with and funding nonprofit organizations to effect social change in areas that are aligned with the strategic priorities and overall mission and vision of the organization. I had to become a part of this! 3 Reasons You're About to Be As Excited About Outcomes Measurement As I Am.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing? Be Helpful.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Nonprofits and social good organizations rely on volunteerism, making volunteers are one of the most important assets that an organization has. How nonprofits can leverage volunteers as one of their most valuable assets. Why the sector needs a standard taxonomy to manage and measure volunteerism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

In our survey, we ask that participants identify their missions based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities classification system. But having realistic benchmarks can help you quantify your general knowledge. Mission Focus. Let's run the same scenario on mission focus.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field. " International Digital Youth Work Events, 20th-23rd Sep – What can you share?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

After connecting with grantmakers, nonprofits, corporations, partners and independent consultants—more than 5,000 interactions over a two year span—we learned that one of the biggest hurdles in solving this need for the industry was the lack of a common lexicon.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

So I split my time, and the result was a whole lot of knowledge, connections and inspiration, particularly focused around this expanded ecosystem of good Blackbaud is serving – individuals, nonprofits, funders and corporates. The ability to drive true change is dependent on both sides of the equation (funder and nonprofit) working in harmony.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? Does your IT staff have both the time and the expertise to tackle your website projects? Consider this in hiring decisions, and in future budgeting.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

We’ll also start Phase 3 which will improve our registration process and implement a site-wide navigation, taxonomy, and design. As you know, we're a nonprofit, and we're thrilled to have these critical improvements made possible with support from Microsoft and the Hearst Foundation. We plan to complete Phase 3 in June of 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

This helped us develop our Outcomes taxonomy , that will ultimately address the lack of data on philanthropic activities that Karolina noted. These observations are helping us to expand the Outcomes taxonomy to equip grantmaking institutions with a new set of tools and terms to quantify and qualify their impact towards furthering the SDGs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofit nptech ). If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks. View more presentations or upload your own. How do you create a tag?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As nonprofits, what are our responsibilities to our communities? How can nonprofits create change online? By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. You can read all the details here. ]. Screw that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Darin serves as an ambassador for the foundation within the charitable community – managing the foundation’s relationships and grants with associations, advocacy organizations, and research institutions with interests in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector as a whole.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

In practice, impact investing means partnering with and funding nonprofit organizations to effect social change in areas that are aligned with the strategic priorities and overall mission and vision of the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

I just noticed a session at the Nonprofit Software Developers Summit that is probably happening right now. and Tehcnorati to designate technical resources that may be useful to nonprofits. It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Here's the description: Join Beth Kanter who has been teaching nonprofit technology workshops for over 15 years, both offline and online.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Social good organizations (nonprofits, foundations, education institutions, etc.) Nonprofits are going to become more reliant on enablers like AI and quantum modeling, which will drive everything from financial models to marketing campaigns to donor engagement.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

After all, the nonprofit association for people working at the intersections of tech and social change should have a website to match that mission and vision. Have a taxonomy horror story? After thinking and talking about it for a long time, this year we at NTEN are finally beginning a website overhaul and re-launch in earnest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

There's lot of rich learning here that can certainly enrich our work in the nonprofit sector, although some translation is required. It isn't quite a taxonomy, but it does layout the tags according to key aspects of the project. So, my lens is focused how does one translate lessons learned from edtech sector to nptech sector?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. The follow up question is something like, how I can find nonprofit blogs on xyz topic or what blogs would you recommend. Of course, I have crazy ideas about a zagats guide to nonprofit blogs, a collaborative effort built on a wiki or elsewhere. Has anyone developed that?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

It's Michelle Murrain's nptech blog, subtitled " Conscious, minimalist, neo-luddite perspectives on nonprofit technology. " So, now the question - should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Zen and the Art of Non-Profit Technology. Would this help: 1) gain donors? 2) communicate the message?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

" He shared a visual diagram of his taxonomy of MA nonprofits that did with analyzing Form 990 information and google. Eventually he reconciled with Zeus. So philanthropy is an education about human development."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Tell me a little about your professional background, particularly the work you do with nonprofits? To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". The tools. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. Salesforce1 for Nonprofits just just launched.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Alistair suggested a taxonomy. Later, I hope to circle back and look at the tools in context with actual Twitter use by a nonprofit (anyone have any great stories?) I'd love some nonprofit examples. So, one thing led to another and we starting batting around some ideas , along with my very smart colleague, Rachel Weidinger.

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