Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. org, a Networked Nonprofit. org person is Bill McKibben , who is president, co-founder, and primary messenger for the organization.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

million technology products to 183,000 social benefit organizations in 40 countries across the world. Sure, the numbers are impressive, but even more impressive is the impact those technology product donations have made. See and hear how technology is transforming communities by viewing accompanying photos and videos.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2012

million technology products to 183,000 social benefit organizations in 40 countries across the world. Sure, the numbers are impressive, but even more impressive is the impact those technology product donations have made. See and hear how technology is transforming communities by viewing accompanying photos and videos.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The Blue Hair Technology Group in Johns Creek, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta), is educating senior citizens to use new technologies like tablet computers and Facebook so they can keep in touch. Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Some of the responses highlighted the need to understand what was currently working for the listserv conversations and what would be a valuable hook to move people to the forums, and especially who within the community (not the org) may be the most influential in a successful migration. Hope to have you join us next time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The most popular snark was this photo of Mark Zuckerberg. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Dislike of Facebook isn’t enough to move people.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Flickr Photo: Luc Legay You use social networks at work, right? We'll release the results at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco. It's okay to admit it. In fact, we want you to tell us all about it in a survey about social network use by nonprofits that we're running with Common Knowledge and ThePort. >

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Blue Hair Technology Group in Johns Creek, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta), is educating senior citizens to use new technologies like tablet computers and Facebook so they can keep in touch. Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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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. for the last five years or so). for the last five years or so). An incredible listening tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2008

Photo by Kalabird (Michaela Hackner). a checklist helping orgs understand when they should not devote resources to Web 2.0. So does that mean that our org should not be investing time and energy in social media tools? Do you ever need to walk the line between cutting edge social media and Old Skool in your org?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We therefore want charities and libraries to make maximum use of our articles, blog pieces, how-tos, tech-for-good news, and other nonprofit technology information. From our point of view, sharing our content helps TechSoup achieve its mission: making technology information available to every charity and library that needs it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

Up to you & the culture of your org- maybe add initials. I think you do need basic social media guidelines for your org. Look to other orgs for examples. Think about and decide who will have ownership of your orgs official social media outposts. to help with your orgs early efforts. Have the convo early.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2009

so with that in mind, we've been trying new things, posting more frequently, and attempting to provide daily bytes of technology information that resonates with nonprofits, social benefit organizations, libraries, nptech consultants, and accidental techies alike. Photo: goldlionpics. We know we can do better (Yes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Photo and Bio. Mention the donor in emails year-round relating to the program they supported.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). technologies are only as good as the people (and activists) behind them. That way you can meet the activist "where they're at" willcoley @ kanter I'm interested in how orgs can use offline content dev among their constituents.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

They also included a photo and "My dream title" (examples: banana queen, marathon master, didjeridooer). Org charts, like maps, aren't given the attention they should be, especially in large institutions. Org charts are not just about putting people in their place. I was captivated. Consider, for example, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And I'm really excited that so many organizations are getting the technology they need from TechSoup. In my work for TechSoup, I'm guilty of being a bit heads-down and not taking note of what other nonprofits are doing, since my position doesn't require direct interaction with our member orgs. Photo: i a mcdonnell.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

One of the reasons why I learned to do photo and video was because media outlets weren't showing up to the actions that I was organizing. I don’t trust technology to work when I need it to. We chatted with digital strategist Yash Mori for insights on creating video for nonprofits, campaigns, and advocacy organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

" (Allan's blog isn't the only nonprofit technology blog to mix the themes of nonprofit technology and spirituality - take for example here and here.). That is, until he emailed the above photo to accompany this interview with him (see below). His blog is a valuable source in the nonprofit technology blogosphere!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Documents can be faxed to (415) 633-9444, emailed to qualification techsoup org or mailed to TechSoup Client Services at 435 Brannan Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107. Photo: jyoseph. Updating the email address, phone or fax numbers will not change the qualification status of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The panel is titled " Pimp My Non Profit - Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology." Yet many have overcome the odds and made a splash online and offline by using the latest Web technologies - for pennies on the dollar. I'm speaking at SXSW. " Ed Schipul , the session designer, came up with the title.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

That's the question the Nonprofit Technology Conference session, "The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach," tried to answer. National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 see photo of Quintus Jett here ) Ethos Roundtable now has a blog where you can find summaries and links to resources from meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. Tags: wearemedia training materials technology training. Experiment with StumbleUpon. Finish plan, get more expertise to help with implementation.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

I’m an evangelist for technology, and there are likely dozens of ways to leverage technology to market, promote, register attendees, and raise funds for an event. Encourage your staff and volunteers to actively participate, and work in suggestions to follow, mention, like, re-tweet, take and share photos, or comment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

The Guide is built with free, open-source technology so that it is easy for artisans to use with their own systems. For more information about the Fair Trade Wage Guide, contact Holly Harbour, World of Good Development Organization's Co-Founder and Executive Director at holly AT worldofgood DOT org." fair+trade artisan craft

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

I am wondering about the role of an evangelist or what Networked for Good report calls super activist, an individual who acts on behalf of an org, business, or other entity. The technology here will better allow nonprofits to form relationships with constituents, independent of the social network on which the initial relationship is created.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

I must say, I was thrilled to see such a huge, powerful technology coming to not only support but evangelize their myriad programs offered at no cost to nonprofit organizations. To give the audience an idea of what ads can be used for, Google shared just a few tactics adwords could help any given org do including: Solicit donors.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

What does technology in action look like? In September, we asked nonprofits and libraries to show us exactly how technology activates their organization and helps fulfill their mission. Each entry was more compelling than the next, showing us that nonprofits are putting technology in action in incredibly different ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. Unfortunately, the journalists on the field are still using pen and paper technology which explains why there are not a lot of videos about Guimaras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. org as my workish blog. Weblogs and the Nonprofit Sector.

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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) Thanks for sharing your 10 Best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “ Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.” But both of the peer learning designs are for nonprofit practitioners who have fully embraced online networks and comfortable using them technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

org Actions " We're coordinating a distributed day of events for 24 October 2009 , uniting the world around a common call to action--and we're asking you to help. org model enables any individual or organization around the world to create and promote events ("actions") - with a call to action for a fair global climate treaty.

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