Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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APRIL 8, 2011

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Technology for Communities project. The Technology for Communities project was started off by Nancy, John, and Etienne. On The Digital Habits: Stewarding Technology Communities blog , Nancy, John, and Etienne have compiled a Action Notebook with detailed worksheets to help you make decisions about selecting tools in the context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

To learn more and stay in the loop with Data Analysts for Social Good, you can join the LinkedIn group and subscribe to the listserv. Julia Smith is Community Development Manager at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network and Program Manager for the Communities of Impact (COI) , funded by Microsoft and currently in its pilot year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2008

Reading our volunteer email listserv this morning, I came across lyrics to a song about our volunteer community. This is always a cause for celebration by our team, recognizing the incredible amount of work involved in bringing each book to our Bookshare.org members by our volunteers and collection development staff.

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MAY 20, 2013

Things work best when the two sides are well aligned, and technology is an important area where we can do that. Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2006

via an email from Dirk Slater posted to Rider-News listserv. comes TechCamp for Organizers brought to you by Progressive Technology Project. Looks like a tad more structured than barcamp

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2006

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term).

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Which tool is best for your group will depend on your goals, your members level of engagement, and the group’s comfort level with social technologies. If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Nonprofit Technology. Technology. I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up. Social Change. Social Enterprise. The work in progress is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

I stopped for yet another a latte on the way home, checked my treo and discovered this email from Ryan at PicNet about the big news in the Nonprofit Technology World -- Convio Buys GetActive. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday. The listserves are hopping with this news. GetActive???s

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APRIL 17, 2024

We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half the tools and devices that infiltrate our lives—and with producing, updating, and controlling these devices. Check out the Blackbaud Community to get started connecting with other data-focused friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Successful communities on Facebook offer an attitude of openness, transparency and enthusiasm - not a technology platform for advertising. Well, she just posted something and it rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

To celebrate, rather than eat cake, I’m fundraising for the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN). Back in the old days, there was a very small community of peer that I could ask questions and learn from — we had a listserv! Today is my birthday! I have worked in the nonprofit sector for 35 years.

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APRIL 25, 2012

Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Some are free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Here some thoughts from the NTEN blog about ways to use twitter for your organization, although some nonprofit technology experts do not find twitter useful professionally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ??? Eric mentioned in his email: The results were quite interesting, with a number of common characteristics emerging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator. I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. It's the wisdom of a Technology Steward. The discussion thread goes something like this.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. TechSoup Global's Jim Lynch presenting to a briefing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. Our latest opportunity was on February 13 2013. We have participated in a U.S.

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JULY 14, 2021

But, with a virtual conference, you will have virtual technology to consider. An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. Steps For Setting Up Your Virtual Conference. Finding the correct fit can feel overwhelming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. To challenge my set ways of doing traditional Internet research (are ya laughing now Gavin?),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

My colleague, John Kenyon , who is a brilliant and talented nonprofit technology trainer just came back from trip to Australia. John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. s ( www.cisa.asn.au ) nonprofit technology conference and to present a series of workshops for nonprofit leaders about technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Last night, I dropped into the lecture/presentation by Jeff Barr, Amazon Technology Evangelist, in the open-air auditorium on Information Island. I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

an amazing woman (and mother of two) who works in the nonprofit technology space - for all her work managing the project and making it a huge success. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. But a big congratulations goes to Jo Lee. -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Ultimately I'd like to see more blogs around the UK that chart Technology Crusaders use and evangelism about ICT. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology. Using New Technology to Enhance Grantmaker Practices " Lots of links to examples of foundation's using Web2.0 Speaking of CAMT, there's post on their blog about a giveaway by Members Only Software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools. Ever wondered what people who work in nonprofit technology around the world are thinking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

without becoming slaves to technology. Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

That's an important distinction because one key to learning how to use technology is constant and dynamic learning learning from doing doing from learning Now some new labels for of us who are working together to create noncommercial public Arts Web spaces in a globally networked digital environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. " AVIF is a virtual organization that uses free and low-cost Internet technologies like VOIP to manage its programs and development work from the UK. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund). Trade not Aid !"

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