Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2011

A couple years of ago, I noticed that many of my nonprofit technology colleagues who were early adopters of social media were also dog owners. I created a mini workshop called “ The Cute Dog Theory ,&# inspired by Ethan Zuckerman’s “ Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism &# which was the title of one of his talks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2007

Several months ago, Alan Levine (cogdog blog) put up a video in YouTube called " I didn't Know You Could Do That With YouTube " for a K-12 technology conference. I got very excited because the first thing I stumbled upon was a screencast on using the free capture tool camstudio which I just added to my screencasting primer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. I really miss making videos and screencasts. If your nonprofit is exploring the use of the video to tell its story, the technology has gotten so much easier and the cameras a lot less expensive. Tags: screencast vlog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

I'm going to continue to play and reflect and learn about technology tools and how they can be used to support nonprofits and to create instructional material. To really master the art of screencasting and to get my 1 hour to 1 minute video editing ratio lower. Keep things in draft a little longer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. The question reminded of a screencast I created back in 2007 for NTEN and Salesforce Foundation that covered Google Adwords campaigns). I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

Christine Martell has been teaching herself how to screencast and completed her first screencast. What's really impressive is that it made Screencast of the Week over at TechSmith , the makers of the software. This is an issue that I have struggled with as a technology trainer for the past 15 years.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

FundHub Live allows you to screencast your fundraising thermometer during events and show an activity feed that features your donors’ messages from their text donations. Handbid’s Text2Give follows their commitment to leveraging technology to make charitable giving more accessible and efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). You can create screencasts using both approaches. I think that is where the power of screencasting for nonprofits lies. Is there a way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

It may be one reason why I love the documentary approach to screencasting - an excuse to add to my book collection. In the screencast wiki, I have a list of books and articles I used for the research as well as links to more comprehensive lists. Technology cannot replace the need for talented professionals.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Eight leading experts in social media and nonprofit technology have joined forces to create Socialbrite.org, a hub that showcases social tools for social change. Lasica , a consultant and author of four books about emerging technologies. The Socialbrite site features dozens of videos, screencasts and slide presentations.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The only major negatives from that review have been alleviated by continued development and the advancement of technology. The main steps of the video published as a step-by-step handout (auto generated from Capture, their software sim / screencast tool). Everything is completely taken care of by a standard web browser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Michelle Murrain, Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Blog. Back to reading SalesForce for Dummies and editing of the SF Campaign Screencast. I second everything that in this blog post over at NTEN about Michelle Murrain !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

This episode is about using technology for good. " Being a highly visual person, I never mastered the art of podcasting because I got obsessed with screencasting. I really appreciate people like Britt Bravo and Corey P/501c3 Cast who are the podcasting rock starts of the nonprofit technology field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

I’ve created a couple spaces like this for: Listening and Screencasting. Debra Askanase has a terrific space for Facebook Landing Tabs. NTEN facilitated a wiki to create workshop curriculum for social media and nonprofits with more than 200 nonprofit technology practitioners as part of the WeAreMedia project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

About a year ago, I did a lot of research on a screencast about widgets for nonprofits and put together two wikis - Nonprofit Widgets (for a session at 2007 NTC Conference) and Fundraising Widget. KaTREEna Plantometer Every Human Has Rights 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference The Niapele Project $40 for 40 Years of Fair Housing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

As part of some research for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN, I gave a shout out to folks asking for examples. So, I was even more delighted to discover her blog and I suspect she will continue to share her learnings about using Google Analytics and other nonprofit technology topics!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A few days ago, I moderated two panels at Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on arts and technology. John Haydon recently pointed to his new screencast about Insights and Ted Fickes offered a shoutout on Twitter to Avinash Kaushik most recent blog post. Have you changed your spreadsheet? What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Screencasting Panel. Those of us that provide technology support for nonprofits get asked a few questions over and over (and over and over) again. Screencasts are a great new way to answer simple how-to's and record the answers to those frequently asked questions for posterity. A definition of screencasting, with real examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Jonathan set this up on Sunday night and within 24 hours we have 27 nonprofit technology techies in there - quite the conversation cafe at the moment. Get up to speed with FriendFeed (here's the quick what, how ) (See Andy Robert's Screencasts too). Ready to play? Here's how to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

And, I wonder how that can be facilitated by the Internet and Technology. via screencasts, something along the lines of the design of jingproject. Another way is a screencast. There are ways that technology allows us to look over each other's shoulder. It is informal knowledge transfer around using the tools.

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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. I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. My job was the network weaver.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2006

Last week while I busy trying to shoot a scene for an upcoming screencast, I forgot to turn off my SKYPE. And, of course, I got pinged while I was taping (darn, I had to reshoot the whole thing). But the person on the other end was Teresa Crawford and I hadn't talked to her in over a year. Listen to her podcast over at InterAction.

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JULY 12, 2011

All of the methods listed use the web or some form of computer technology in order to avoid the hassle of going to off-site training seminars or conferences. Idealware , a partner of TechSoup's recently posted an article addressing how to train staff in simpler, more cost-effective ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I made a movie about another interesting piece of technology that is on my desk called The Watt Stopper. Then when I heard that the WFP was using Camtasia Suite to edit, the video software I used for many years to create screencasts, I'm going to give Camtasia and FLIP HD video shots a try. And, all I can say is WOW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Successful communities on Facebook offer an attitude of openness, transparency and enthusiasm - not a technology platform for advertising. And she made the screencast below - great for visual learners. As the chart above details, people who join Facebook Pages fall into three different profiles.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. If you recall dear readers, I studied music in college and was on a career path to being a professional flutist until I got distracted with nonprofit management, technology, and a thousand other things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Interestingly, Francine’s advice is not any different than in the past and what I’ve used when doing a training for those who are concerned about privacy, but not technologically savvy. Be careful who you friend. Carefully explore your privacy settings and make sure you understand. Think twice about adding apps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Jason Zannon at DIA points to Commoncraft's brilliant " RSS in Plain English " Screencast. In Technology Support as Teaching , Michelle Murrain raises the question "Is providing technology support simply just an end in itself, or is it also a means to empower clients in appropriate technology use to further mission?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

One of the areas I wanted to dig deeper into was vlogging and screencasting. The short piece explores the push/pull between computers/technology and people. In fact, was able to carry on a brief vlog conversation with another participant from Holland! In fact, you can get some decent results using free software and a digital camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. Deborah Finn was a participant and shared some of her thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

That's a screencast (with time speed increased) of what is I think -- is a twitter group coming from SXSW Festival , a major new media/emerging technology event happening in Austin, TX. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets. The whole podcast is about 2-3 minutes and I will use that as a soundtrack for Act 2 in the screencast. s limitations in terms of technology and time when you select a particular widget. Create Free Polls. If you don't know what a widget is, here's an overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Let's looke at the general observations about change and adoption of new technologies: What I said was that corporations have a tendency to distrust new communication technologies when they appear. Corporate types resist the adoption of these technologies, and then, subsequently embrace them. " That has become dogma.

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