Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. I learned a lot. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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JULY 7, 2010

In my research of nonprofits using mobile technology, it’s clear that mobile technology has been slow to catch on in the nonprofit sector compared to the business and higher education sectors. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Since its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Declaration has become a universal standard for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. We identified important opportunities for developing a substantive, quantitative-based sexual violence research agenda. and the European Union.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.). adoption for nonprofits). link] (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, JDRF). link] (online organizing, grassroots, web 2.0 link] (consultant to nonprofits; board development, communications, web 2.0 link] (mgmt. link] (nonprofit consultant, grantwriter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. I was standing on the "adopt for practical reasons" side of the line. Penguin Days. What are the best practices?

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

And on the issue of whether foundations will actually accept input from crowds, I think there are areas where the input is needed, and can be highly constructive, making adoption non-controversial. Use blogs and interactive features to collect input on research and writing in-progress. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2014

I am not what most would refer to as an "early adopter" of technology. This Lifehacker article gives a helpful rundown of key features of some of the more popular password managers that surfaced in my research: KeePass, LastPass, 1Password, RoboForm, SplashID. You want proprietary or open source software.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

If data were published in standard formats and schemas, open source projects could arise to interact with the data and give a standard set of tools to developers with great ideas to create new and useful applications. Much of this could be done on a shoestring, compared to large IT initiatives. Demonstration Projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

All part of the Twitter cycle of adoption ! Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. More from the Convio Summit this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. 28998-researchers-reveal-chicken-came-first- egg. http ://www.noula.ht/index. http ://topnews.co.uk/28998-researchers-reveal-chicken-came-first-

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." or more like web 1.0?) " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur. Thats because to-date, the major constituent relationship management databases didnt have open platform APIs. But widgets are just the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. He talked about his first personal fundraising campaign - for cancer research in his mother's memory. The corporate sector have adopted it. " from a study by two Australian researchers. was about access and Web 2.0

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

LMS Implementation Image Source Implementing an LMS involves various stages, from planning and selection to deployment and adoption. Learners were able to complete training at their own convenience, increasing the efficiency of the training process while improving student adoption. How Long Does It Take to Implement an LMS?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, its a great place to be. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to connect a small number of mainframe computers so they could share research information in different states. News flash.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. As part of the assessment, we researched the challenges faced by organizations working on the ground in Darfur and how different groups operate in the face of the risks. We've just launched Miradi.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Such empowerment reduces scheduling conflicts, boosts LMS adoption, shortens training time, and enhances engagement—all of which lead to improved performance and productivity. open-source, custom, SaaS) based on identified goals and outcomes. Here are the top ways: 1.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Such empowerment reduces scheduling conflicts, boosts LMS adoption, shortens training time, and enhances engagement—all of which lead to improved performance and productivity. open-source, custom, SaaS) based on identified goals and outcomes. Here are the top ways: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc. A nonprofit itself, the site is 100% fee-free and each story posted is independently researched and verified. 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A nonprofit itself, the site is 100% fee-free and each story posted is independently researched and verified. Based in the U.K., Square :: squareup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools. " Britt Bravo is surprised that video is the most adopted tool and wonders whether it would be the same for smaller organizations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ideally, this would include any necessary training to ensure it’s adopted. I think the risk of these kinds of efforts is always with respect to adoption, and I’m hopeful that this tool will indeed end up in the right hands. SZ : What is something you hope others take away from this work and what your cohort released?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Research has found, for instance, that rideshare drivers of color systematically receive lower reviews and tips. 22 Nationwide, Uber adopted a complex new “full fare” algorithm in 2021 that many drivers claim makes it increasingly difficult to track rider fares or understand what they will earn on a given ride.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Barclays Bank analyst Ben Reitzes forecasts a 6 percent year-over-year decline in the sales of PCs due to increasing adoption of tablet computers and smartphones. Forrester Research's Chris Mines has been talking about the Smart Computing Revolution. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013. for some time now.

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