Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
I found out that there is a hierarchy of remote islands. There are the big main islands, which are reasonably remote, like Pohnpei or Weno on Chuuk (my next stop). These islands have international air service like the Island Hopper I talked about in an earlier post. Then, there are the islands you can get to by small boat that are less than two hours from the mainland.
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 16, 2008
I have a birthday coming up and over the weekend I received an email from Causes, the social change application in Facebook. Here’s what it said: Happy (Almost) Birthday! Thanks to Facebook, in two weeks all of your friends will see that it’s your birthday. Instead of just writing on your wall, or giving you something you don’t need, what if they had a chance to help a cause you believe in?
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Monday (the day before the election) I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. My focus: is the economy changing the way you work, or the way you think about your work? In what ways? If you’d like to submit a post, do so by Saturday midnight. Go to BlogCarnival.com to submit your post using the form there or send an email to npc.carnival AT yahoo DOT com with your name, your blog's name and the URL of the post (not your blog homepage).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 1, 2008
Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Download it here. I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions.
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Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 21, 2008
Last year, social bookmarking site Reddit partnered up to raise over $3,000 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org), a non-profit selected by the website’s users to benefit from the fund-raising drive. This year, they’re trying something different — raising volunteers instead of cash. It's partly an acknowledgement that many people have few funds to spare, and partly a nod to the wealth of high-tech talent found among Reddit users.
NTEN
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation. As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. If ignored, however, it can lead to tears of anguish and people punching their computers. I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presen
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See3
NOVEMBER 2, 2008
We’ve talked about the power of the Girl Effect video , which uses only typography and classical piano to make its point. It’s a very compelling piece, and has received a lot of attention exactly for its freshness and innovation. Well, Starbucks released a new ad during Saturday Night Live this past weekend that’s shockingly similar.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 21, 2008
Earlier this week I (Michaela Hackner) was in Austin, TX attending the Convio 2008 Summit , a national conference focused on the use of the Convio's constituent relations management tool. Attendees primarily consisted of nonprofit organizations seeking to grow their donor base while also continuing to engage their existing audience. In normal economic times, this is not an easy task.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JULY 13, 2008
There's been a lot of excitement in the last year about social networking in general, and about Facebook in particular. And a lot of talk about the value of social networking for non-profits. But is there really a return on investment for non-profit participation on these sites? Here's a success story. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a 501(c)3 organization that works in the U.S. and over 30 other countries to protect ecologically important lands and waters.
Care2
FEBRUARY 3, 2008
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 18, 2008
Setting up as a nonprofit is not easy. Starting a for-profit in California took me one or two weeks, and I think it's still that fast. But, setting up a nonprofit and getting 501(c)(3) status can take a year or more and cost ten or twenty thousand dollars (unless you get pro bono legal help). Many folks doing starting up nonprofit work might be better off finding a fiscal sponsor.
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
NOVEMBER 20, 2008
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 11, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 4, 2008
Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. I'm paraphrasing. The other day a commenter asked me if I could write something that offered some practical how to listening tips as well as applying it. Since I'm going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, I'm going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools.
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NTEN
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer, SocialFish, LLC. Social media is all the buzz these days. For associations and non-profits are wondering how to get in the game -- or how to figure out whether they should -- listening is the place to start. While it's relatively easy to dabble in social media, listening is the critical component in developing a social media strategy that is right for both your audience and your objectives.
Steve Bridger
AUGUST 28, 2008
I was honoured to do some work with Amnesty UK last year. Hat tip to Marc van Gurp and his brilliant Osocio blog for pointing me to this tour de force.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter. If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context. Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. It's not easy, and many of you are taking innovative, exciting approaches to it. But not enough of you. Only 80% of Twitter success is showing up, and I've been frustrated by the lack of creativity applied to the other 20%.
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Forum One
OCTOBER 24, 2008
I love maps - love reading them, analyzing them, staring at them - anything. I can spend tons of time doing this. When Google Earth came out I played with it for hours - [ahem] not on company time, of course - and when Google Maps interfaces started coming out, I wanted one. Alas, I had not the technical skill to create a mash-up with the Google Maps API.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
APRIL 11, 2008
Living as I do right in the heart of D.C., things like this happen: I had lunch the other day with a friend who is very knowledgeable about the hacker world within in the so-called "intelligence community". This is a world where it's common to get your secret clearance before you are old enough to buy a beer. And a sizable crew of these young folks are deployed to monitor - and participate in on behalf of the agency - all sorts of social media activity.
Care2
OCTOBER 13, 2008
Nonprofits take note: Google Analytics software application has shattered previous barriers to analyzing and optimizing websites. No longer do you have to spend thousands of dollars a year to track how visitors interact with your website. If that sounds too promotional, as if Google paid me to say it (they didn't), well, sorry, but it's true. And it's relevant.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 5, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do you keep up? August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 27, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. This week, I asked the question: What is the biggest mistake a nonprofit can make with their website.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 22, 2008
I've seen first hand how you can leverage your Twitter network to raise money for a good cause really fast. There are at least three micro fundraising campaigns that have launched in the last week. It's time update the history of fundraising on Twitter post I wrote that last month after the Tweetsgiving campaign raised $10,000 in 48 hours. Community learning also happens fast.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 29, 2008
E-Metrics: Followers, Friends, and Fans - Expanding Your Online Community View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: blogging nptech ). Marshall Kirkpatrick has a great post over at Read/Write Web about keeping momentum. In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study. So, in that spirit, I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI. My main point is that you just think of ROI as math
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 22, 2008
Screencapture of photo by Brian Westbrook. 90 minutes! Today I presented at Gnomedex 8.0. (My slides are here ). I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ? Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
I've been thinking a lot about the concept of social productivity as it relates to using social media and chewing on a post that Chris Brogan wrote a few days ago called " You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter." I keep thinking there has to be a sweet spot between social productivity and personal productivity. Marnie Webb left a comment about this in a nonprofit context.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
When I was a kid, Lucy the Elephant , was in a state of disrepair. A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. How? Bake sales organized by my third grade teacher, Josephine Harron or was known as "Cupcake." I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 11, 2008
I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. I've been a participant in design discussions about wiki projects, but never the main architect. I have a project coming up where I'm thinking through a collaborative design for say - curriculum development, a repository for existing instructional materials,and to leverage knowledge from a group of practitioners online (aka SME) to add to the curriculum/knowledge sharin
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