Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. NpTech Community. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. " Findhabeas.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Below is a list of resources, including the tools my Grandmother is already using, that can help you to teach a retired friend or relative how to get the most out of the internet. . The site is aimed at baby boomers who want to explore their passions, keep in touch with friends and connect with interesting people. Getting Started.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Throughout the week, NTC attendee volunteers will be heading off site to give back. If you are signed up for the NTC, but not for the Day of Service, head over to the Day of Service site and sign up for a project. Read more and sign up on the Day of Service site.

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NTEN

AUGUST 18, 2009

Here's how ( from the Mozilla blog ): Choose from a list of service opportunities: Search our partner sites ( Idealist & betterplace.org ) for a volunteer opportunity near you or anywhere around the world! Our site is now available in Spanish , Italian , French and German as well! So, why not put it to use?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Over the next three hours, I absorbed the things my instructor was teaching, but I also found myself reflecting on a bunch of things he wasn't trying to teach at all – unless he's really good at Jedi mind tricks ! As class kicked off, the instructor began introducing himself and how he came to be teaching the class. ever since.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology. They move with you from one site to the next and maybe in the case of Myspace, back again. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know. Diversify your news sources.

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APRIL 25, 2009

Flickr Photosharing Bootcamp , Sunday, April 26: Micheala is teaching a session on Flickr and related tools. But We Don't Want Ugly) , April 28: Sophie is on a panel that explains how to design beautiful, easy-to-use sites. Technorati tags: 09ntc , nptech. Science Fair Booth , Sunday, April 26 3-8 p.m.: We Want Usability!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

I'm not weird, I noticed it yesterday when I was teaching some of the lab volunteers at a ctc to use delicious. I haven't needed to drink any pink stuff. as I struggle to not only master using the tool efficiently but make meaning out of the randomn, misc., and messy information I'm aggregating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. They do this with compelling imagery, a simple form and the ability to get to their main web site. Facebook is an outpost, but your main web site should provide people with added value and ways to connect with your organization. Stand up 2 Cancer. Awesome, I know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

I am setting up a blog team for a few blogs of Clogger ( [link] ), which is an umbrella site. Technorati Tags: nptech I need creative ideas to promote blogging in Cambodia. I hope they can email me about new idea. Phnom Penh Network. Siem Reap Network. YCC Network. For a map of the Cambodian Blogosphere, check out the Global s Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

SlideShare is a social networking site that lets you share Powerpoint presentations. I set up a nptech group there and have been tagging slide shows I've discovered that might be useful others with the nptech tag. I invited folks to join the nptech group. Which brings me to the reason why I love SlideShare.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. Sponsor may, but is under no obligation to, post the winning stories on the Challenge web site (or to otherwise use the stories and/or creative works). Interested?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. Sponsor may, but is under no obligation to, post the winning stories on the Challenge web site (or to otherwise use the stories and/or creative works). That sounds great.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The NetSquared regional ambassadors will also be on-site sharing the joy of being a NetSquared organizer and participating in the fun. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. They're going to try and recruit you. :-).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. On the web site, users enter their name and e-mail address, and that data is immediately written on a virtual care package of health-care supplies that will be sent to a needy community overseas. www.networkforgood.org. www.techsoup.org.

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APRIL 24, 2012

So, let’s recount the needs and constraints: Need to track progress, overseas, at every site where we work Need to do so while growing from 4 to 16 countries (on 2 continents) Need to do so from US headquarters office Need to depend on local, in-country employees We believed that technology could help us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

Here's the description of the project purpose from the site: The KhmerOS project was born from our dream for the state of computer technology in Cambodia in three years. Technorati Tags: nptech In preparation for tommorrow's iLaw , I reviewed some cyberstrategy for third world countries links I've collected.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

While you should be wary of anybody promising to teach you how to make people laugh, some of the advice itself can be pretty funny. You've also got your step-by-step guides, from buttons to headers to sites templates. You might also consider taking some advice from a 67-year-old blogger. Humor helps, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. NpTech 101: How I read 2,000 Articles in 30 Days by Chas Grundy. Do search at site for the first time. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. (tags: listening socialmedia ). Your brand or tagline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. " His introduction made me feel better and now I can learn and teach this tool too. He mentions his slides - so I asked if they were published on his site.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Remember, content is still king. Nice blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc. But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information. I hope to focus more on teaching and learning and intersecting with nonprofits and social media. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Evernote is a different way to bookmark sites than, say, Delicious. I still often prefer to take notes on paper in a meeting, but when on my own, Evernote is a great place to organize research: visit a site, grab some information, annotate it, and there you have it when you need to write something.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2006

Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg wrote a cute little book a while back ago that tries to teach problem solving. Charles Kozeriok has a web site devoted to PC repair that empasizes mental state in technical troubleshooting. Tags: nptech , troubleshooting I realize we are talking about two kinds of problems here.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 2, 2007

Problem solving, how to get better at it, and how to teach it, remains a concern with me. A few weeks later, the web site started periodically loosing its connection to the database. So one of my approaches is to investigate the most transparent of the problems, and see if that leads to a general solution. No real results came of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. I set them up with a nice looking site, ancillary services like a traffic monitor, email-subscribe service, RSS feeds and explanation, syndicated headlines from elsewhere, etc. How did you discover the nptech tag ? How have you been using the nptech?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 3, 2007

Take a look at this site - you'll see his approach goes way beyond drilling users on what button to click when. It's easy to teach someone how to issue an invoice. Here are some of the things we learned: 1. Information Systems training needs to focus more on organizational policy and business practices than on technology.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How did they do it? But we learned fast!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How did they do it? But we learned fast!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They hire that web developer to put a new site together. Then in months, or years, they want to add some new pages, or a new section to their site, and a widget on the side. I have a few suggestions: 1) Assumptions: First, assume the person/people who develop your site might not be around in a year or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

In 1998, I was teaching web strategy workshops in which I described a number of strategies for failure on the web. The main correction that I offered was for nonprofits to adopt a news page format, with reverse chronological entries linking to deeper content on site and elsewhere online. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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