Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. And here's a Web2.0

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. " Nesson put the onus on his Jamaican partners to focus the group on a project, a key concept in capacity building. " Oh no. I thought to myself.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct. But the real story is much more complicated. I absolutely agree with your call for more openness.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. The GPL has been critical to the open-source movement - the next most popular open-source license accounts for only 6% of FOSS projects. 3) many open-source projects are international in effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Case Foundation blog also has a section called " Tech4Good " TechSoup blog posts about an online tool and forum discussion about green policies. According to the NTEN Blog , Blackbaud , a provider of services designed for nonprofits, has launched Blackbaud Labs , a sandbox for projects in the pipeline. Using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Once you have a policy around who will respond, you will get down to commenting and engaging in conversation. Google Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. Eugene related this to working with international networks, "There is a chance to screw up in the projects, but you can't go in with that mindset. Everyone is people.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? He grew up in Tennessee, got a history degree from Harvard, worked in Manhattan for the Edison Project, then bought a home in Toronto where he rests and plays with his wife and their two sons ages 11 and 7. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. There is a write-up of the project here. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later. Step 1: Discuss Tagging Policy. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. sharpie.???

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