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Disable “friends can check me into places.&#. Source: Facebook Blog Post. Earlier this week, Facebook added “where&# to the list of personal information members share with the world. MORE
As part of the webinar, I created nine slides designed to walk attendees step-by-step through the basics of how Facebook Places might be used during a fundraising event. Facebook Places for Complete Idiots. Tags: Facebook Tips Facebook Places foursquare free download MORE
Here are a few places you might not have thought to check: Encourage current volunteers to recruit. The post 3 New Places To Recruit Volunteers appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. MORE
This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. MORE
7 Places To Watch Videos On Vine, Even If You Don't Have The App | Fast Company : 7 Places To Watch Videos On Vine, Even If You Don't Have The App By Christina Chaey | February 1, 2013 Thanks to Vine, there are more websites than ever that let you watch videos of strangers MORE
Facebook recently added a feature called Places. Tags: Facebook facebook gps geolocation places gps pen It is a geo-location application similar to Gowalla and Foursquare in that it allows you to share where you are with your friends via social media. MORE
This is the third installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. I was excited to read The Great Good Place and see how we could do more of this. Then, as I read further, I realized that we might have some of this third place stuff already going on. MORE
So when they announced Place Pins at the end of November, of course the first thing I thought was “this could be cool for an association’s annual conference.” It’s super easy to create a place board; adding the places, a little less so. MORE
Each year, thousands of people who really care about the future of volunteer service convene in one place - to learn from, share with and get inspired by one another- to work together to increase the number of volunteers in the world and the impact of the work they do. It's finally here! MORE
——————————– You’re probably aware that Facebook released a location-based tagging feature a couple of weeks ago called “Places&# that works similarly to FourSquare or Gowalla. What makes Facebook Places different. MORE
If you haven’t downloaded it already, grab a copy of the “Facebook Places Guide for Businesses&# [and Nonprofits] from Facebook. It’s perfect if you’re trying to get a basic grasp on how to use Facebook Places for your organization. MORE
Six years ago, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation set out on an ambitious quest. They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. MORE
book club will be starting in two weeks to read and discuss The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. Oldenburg is the individual to whom the term "third place" is attributed, and this well-researched 1989 book put him on the map. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place MORE
To help make that task easier, Mobile Commons is excited to offer our text message polling place locator. With this simple tool, hundreds and thousands of Americans can find their polling place instantly, making it easier than ever for them to cast their ballots. MORE
This is the fourth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Even from the beginnings of the Internet, one of the largely unacknowledged uses very much resembled the type of third place interactions Oldenberg talks about in The Great Good Place. MORE
This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. But now, after a careful read of Ray Oldenburg’s book in which he defines and describes third places, I am uncertain of whether it is possible for museums and libraries to be such venues. MORE
It was a sunny SxSW Saturday last week where people came together for Zoetica Media 's brunch and brainstorm session -- with one nonprofit in mind: Safe Place. And Narissa Johnson, Safe Place's communications director, observed some interesting results from the conversations. MORE
One way of doing this is to create a ‘ skunkworks ’ --a real place and time carved out of the day to experiment – where people can get comfortable being creative. This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. MORE
In discovering her identity, independence and values, she struggles to fully grow within the restrictions put in place by her father. This is a real story from a young woman who came into Safe Place. I had the pleasure and honor to serve my second Public Allies term at UMOM New Day Centers as the Safe Place outreach and education assistant. Tumbleweed programs, including Safe Place, luckily transitioned under UMOM once Tumbleweed filed for bankruptcy. MORE
501 Mission Place, an online community for nonprofit leaders, was born as a conversation between close friends. Seeking to answer these questions, we have revamped what 501 Mission Place provides (and added a fresh coat of paint in the process). Success Stories 501 mission place MORE
Prospecting starts by analyzing data within your own fundraising system. Here is a way to get started by pulling lists with certain criteria. Analytics Data Mining & Modeling Identifying Prospects CRM data mining prospecting MORE
What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? What if there were regular gatherings where nonprofit techies could come together to drink, laugh, and network with their peers? Well, there are! MORE
Together, the NTEN community puts technology to work so members can further their mission and make the world a better place.&#. Just heard that my favorite association of all time, the Nonprofit Technology Network ( NTEN ), is having a SUMMER SALE on their membership dues. MORE
Here are five places to consider: In the sidebar - Add a capture form to the sidebar of every single page inside the site (don’t worry about the homepage). Did you know what on average, email lists for nonprofits are shrinking ? MORE
Thursday, September 9, 2010 Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? One way will be to ensure our crisis management plans are in place. Most important, be sure you have a plan in place for a crisis that negatively impacts the general public. MORE
Okay, I know some of you reading this probably won a “best place to work” award, and are quite proud of it. If it weren’t aligned, they wouldn’t be so happy, and you wouldn’t be a “best place to work.”. They want to be a best place to work too, and why would we blame them? MORE
In other words, get a somewhat solid volunteer plan in place right away. The post Starting a Nonprofit: Have a Volunteer Plan in Place appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. MORE
Facebook who now has over 500 million users, launched Facebook Places a geo-location service that will now compete with location apps like FourSquare. In a nutshell, Facebook Places uses check-ins and allows you to see where your friends are and share your location. MORE
It’s called “Places&# and as you’ll see in the video below, Facebook seeks to encourage serendipitous meetings between Facebook friends at the places they hang out. How can my nonprofit use Places? Places is a location-based check-in app for mobile devices. MORE
If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started. There’s no secret trick to instantly improving digital engagement for nonprofits. MORE
If you are a leader of work-from-home employees, share the book, There''s No Place Like Working From Home , with them. About 42 million people -- roughly one-third of the U.S. workforce -- work from home at least one or two days a week. MORE
Danny Alpert. Executive Director, Executive Producer. Kindling Group and See3 Communications. Mark’s work -- crisscrossing the country to tell the stories of homeless men and women -- relies on mobile technology. MORE
UPDATE :: After you verify your business/nonprofit, you are asked to merge your Official Page with your Places Page. At this point, most nonprofits will only be able to “Add&# themselves to Facebook Places. If you want to add your nonprofit to Facebook Places, you have to Allow. MORE
Before you attempt to create a program from scratch, evaluate what you have already in place. If you work at a nonprofit, you know what it feels like to have too much on your plate. You are eager to be as effective as possible, but you can’t do it all by yourself. MORE
Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. MORE
New site rallies volunteer troops to help make Dallas a better place - CultureMap Dallas : Imagine a website that helps both nonprofits and volunteers equally, one that allows people to explore opportunities by cause, agency or date and gives organizations a place to submit information, find volunteers passionate about their particular cause and, perhaps most important, track the effectiveness of their postings. MORE
Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, awhile back completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies. MORE
Last week, we heard from Ivan Boothe about a concern with merging Facebook pages with Facebook Places. He agreed to write a guest post. Guest Post: Don’t Merge Your Nonprofit Facebook Page With Places Page by Ivan Boothe. MORE
The Mobileys honor entrepreneurs who inspire and make a difference through mobile innovation - we''re nearing first place for an award, which would mean $10k for us to continue helping volunteers! But, we can''t do it without you! Read more below, and please vote for us at [link MORE
If your state allows for early voting, you can find the proper place to cast your ballot by texting EarlyMC to 97779. Once you reply, you will receive both the location and the hours of operation for your polling place. MORE
This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Both of us latched onto the popular notion of "third places," applying it to LAMs, and were surprised to learn how narrowly Ray Oldenburg defined the term in his original work. MORE
You have a great donation page that places a focus on monthly giving, your Friends of the Fight Program. Texas Watch is a nonpartisan citizen advocacy group founded in 1998. They just celebrated over 20 years of advocating for Texas families. MORE
His initial draft was very close to what we ultimately have in place now and that was due to his critical listening, lots of conversations and questions, and both of us engaging in the public input phase to really understand the users’ side of the experience. I’m so excited to say that the redesign for the website is ready to be unveiled! MORE
Make The Web a Better Place with Better Content | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : n our quest to consume more and more content, we’ve developed quite an appetite. Perhaps now more than ever, it’s actually more difficult to carve out a little corner of the social web and plant a flag because there’s simply so much stuff being produced en masse each and every day. Facebook. Twitter. Medium. Instagram. Every status update and blog post adds to the p MORE
Place Related Topics NCE Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Facebook recently added a feature called Places. Tags: Facebook facebook gps geolocation places gps pen It is a geo-location application similar to Gowalla and Foursquare in that it allows you to share where you are with your friends via social media.
SocialFish
JULY 29, 2011
Together, the NTEN community puts technology to work so members can further their mission and make the world a better place.&#. Just heard that my favorite association of all time, the Nonprofit Technology Network ( NTEN ), is having a SUMMER SALE on their membership dues.
SocialFish
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Okay, I know some of you reading this probably won a “best place to work” award, and are quite proud of it. If it weren’t aligned, they wouldn’t be so happy, and you wouldn’t be a “best place to work.”. They want to be a best place to work too, and why would we blame them?
TechImpact
OCTOBER 22, 2014
Here are a few places you might not have thought to check: Encourage current volunteers to recruit. The post 3 New Places To Recruit Volunteers appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.
VolunteerMark
OCTOBER 10, 2014
The Mobileys honor entrepreneurs who inspire and make a difference through mobile innovation - we''re nearing first place for an award, which would mean $10k for us to continue helping volunteers! But, we can''t do it without you! Read more below, and please vote for us at [link
SocialFish
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
So when they announced Place Pins at the end of November, of course the first thing I thought was “this could be cool for an association’s annual conference.” It’s super easy to create a place board; adding the places, a little less so.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 1, 2010
This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. But now, after a careful read of Ray Oldenburg’s book in which he defines and describes third places, I am uncertain of whether it is possible for museums and libraries to be such venues.
ASU Lodestar Center
MARCH 12, 2019
In discovering her identity, independence and values, she struggles to fully grow within the restrictions put in place by her father. This is a real story from a young woman who came into Safe Place. I had the pleasure and honor to serve my second Public Allies term at UMOM New Day Centers as the Safe Place outreach and education assistant. Tumbleweed programs, including Safe Place, luckily transitioned under UMOM once Tumbleweed filed for bankruptcy.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JULY 18, 2014
Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, awhile back completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies.
John Haydon
AUGUST 20, 2010
It’s called “Places&# and as you’ll see in the video below, Facebook seeks to encourage serendipitous meetings between Facebook friends at the places they hang out. How can my nonprofit use Places? Places is a location-based check-in app for mobile devices.
NonProfit Hub
MARCH 27, 2015
In other words, get a somewhat solid volunteer plan in place right away. The post Starting a Nonprofit: Have a Volunteer Plan in Place appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.
Frogloop
AUGUST 25, 2010
Facebook who now has over 500 million users, launched Facebook Places a geo-location service that will now compete with location apps like FourSquare. In a nutshell, Facebook Places uses check-ins and allows you to see where your friends are and share your location.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 22, 2010
This is the fourth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Even from the beginnings of the Internet, one of the largely unacknowledged uses very much resembled the type of third place interactions Oldenberg talks about in The Great Good Place.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 8, 2010
This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 20, 2010
Disable “friends can check me into places.&#. Source: Facebook Blog Post. Earlier this week, Facebook added “where&# to the list of personal information members share with the world.
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 4, 2010
His initial draft was very close to what we ultimately have in place now and that was due to his critical listening, lots of conversations and questions, and both of us engaging in the public input phase to really understand the users’ side of the experience. I’m so excited to say that the redesign for the website is ready to be unveiled!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Last week, we heard from Ivan Boothe about a concern with merging Facebook pages with Facebook Places. He agreed to write a guest post. Guest Post: Don’t Merge Your Nonprofit Facebook Page With Places Page by Ivan Boothe.
John Haydon
OCTOBER 22, 2010
As part of the webinar, I created nine slides designed to walk attendees step-by-step through the basics of how Facebook Places might be used during a fundraising event. Facebook Places for Complete Idiots. Tags: Facebook Tips Facebook Places foursquare free download
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 23, 2010
UPDATE :: After you verify your business/nonprofit, you are asked to merge your Official Page with your Places Page. At this point, most nonprofits will only be able to “Add&# themselves to Facebook Places. If you want to add your nonprofit to Facebook Places, you have to Allow.
AFP Blog
JUNE 13, 2014
New site rallies volunteer troops to help make Dallas a better place - CultureMap Dallas : Imagine a website that helps both nonprofits and volunteers equally, one that allows people to explore opportunities by cause, agency or date and gives organizations a place to submit information, find volunteers passionate about their particular cause and, perhaps most important, track the effectiveness of their postings.
The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Each year, thousands of people who really care about the future of volunteer service convene in one place - to learn from, share with and get inspired by one another- to work together to increase the number of volunteers in the world and the impact of the work they do. It's finally here!
Museum 2.0
JUNE 15, 2010
This is the third installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. I was excited to read The Great Good Place and see how we could do more of this. Then, as I read further, I realized that we might have some of this third place stuff already going on.
John Haydon
OCTOBER 4, 2010
If you haven’t downloaded it already, grab a copy of the “Facebook Places Guide for Businesses&# [and Nonprofits] from Facebook. It’s perfect if you’re trying to get a basic grasp on how to use Facebook Places for your organization.
AFP Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
7 Places To Watch Videos On Vine, Even If You Don't Have The App | Fast Company : 7 Places To Watch Videos On Vine, Even If You Don't Have The App By Christina Chaey | February 1, 2013 Thanks to Vine, there are more websites than ever that let you watch videos of strangers
AFP Blog
JANUARY 15, 2014
Make The Web a Better Place with Better Content | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : n our quest to consume more and more content, we’ve developed quite an appetite. Perhaps now more than ever, it’s actually more difficult to carve out a little corner of the social web and plant a flag because there’s simply so much stuff being produced en masse each and every day. Facebook. Twitter. Medium. Instagram. Every status update and blog post adds to the p
Tech Soup Blog
JULY 31, 2015
What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? What if there were regular gatherings where nonprofit techies could come together to drink, laugh, and network with their peers? Well, there are!
John Haydon
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
——————————– You’re probably aware that Facebook released a location-based tagging feature a couple of weeks ago called “Places&# that works similarly to FourSquare or Gowalla. What makes Facebook Places different.
Mobile Commons
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
If your state allows for early voting, you can find the proper place to cast your ballot by texting EarlyMC to 97779. Once you reply, you will receive both the location and the hours of operation for your polling place.
The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Before you attempt to create a program from scratch, evaluate what you have already in place. If you work at a nonprofit, you know what it feels like to have too much on your plate. You are eager to be as effective as possible, but you can’t do it all by yourself.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2014
If you are a leader of work-from-home employees, share the book, There''s No Place Like Working From Home , with them. About 42 million people -- roughly one-third of the U.S. workforce -- work from home at least one or two days a week.
Museum 2.0
MAY 11, 2010
book club will be starting in two weeks to read and discuss The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. Oldenburg is the individual to whom the term "third place" is attributed, and this well-researched 1989 book put him on the map. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JANUARY 20, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 25, 2016
Six years ago, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation set out on an ambitious quest. They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010 Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? One way will be to ensure our crisis management plans are in place. Most important, be sure you have a plan in place for a crisis that negatively impacts the general public.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
One way of doing this is to create a ‘ skunkworks ’ --a real place and time carved out of the day to experiment – where people can get comfortable being creative. This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
NTEN
APRIL 22, 2013
Danny Alpert. Executive Director, Executive Producer. Kindling Group and See3 Communications. Mark’s work -- crisscrossing the country to tell the stories of homeless men and women -- relies on mobile technology.
Mobile Commons
OCTOBER 30, 2014
To help make that task easier, Mobile Commons is excited to offer our text message polling place locator. With this simple tool, hundreds and thousands of Americans can find their polling place instantly, making it easier than ever for them to cast their ballots.
Frogloop
MARCH 19, 2010
It was a sunny SxSW Saturday last week where people came together for Zoetica Media 's brunch and brainstorm session -- with one nonprofit in mind: Safe Place. And Narissa Johnson, Safe Place's communications director, observed some interesting results from the conversations.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 29, 2010
This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Both of us latched onto the popular notion of "third places," applying it to LAMs, and were surprised to learn how narrowly Ray Oldenburg defined the term in his original work.
The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started. There’s no secret trick to instantly improving digital engagement for nonprofits.
The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters
APRIL 5, 2019
You have a great donation page that places a focus on monthly giving, your Friends of the Fight Program. Texas Watch is a nonpartisan citizen advocacy group founded in 1998. They just celebrated over 20 years of advocating for Texas families.
John Haydon
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Here are five places to consider: In the sidebar - Add a capture form to the sidebar of every single page inside the site (don’t worry about the homepage). Did you know what on average, email lists for nonprofits are shrinking ?
John Haydon
OCTOBER 17, 2011
501 Mission Place, an online community for nonprofit leaders, was born as a conversation between close friends. Seeking to answer these questions, we have revamped what 501 Mission Place provides (and added a fresh coat of paint in the process). Success Stories 501 mission place
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