Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. Steve overheard this about another faceted celebrity in the NpTech world, "I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when." " Findhabeas. " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. a11y accessibility Benetech Labs Bookshare born accessible human rights impact Martus Mobile Martus nptech President''s Update socent social enterprise' While the majority of our members are U.S.

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MAY 25, 2010

See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. It only enters one social media contest a year. What about you, small organizations?

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JANUARY 19, 2012

" A couple of years ago, my colleagues and I were spending over 150 hours a month on the phone trying to reach high school students in our program. Of those 6 minutes, less than a minute was actually spent talking to the student. The average call would take approximately 6 minutes.

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MAY 19, 2010

You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. Not only is the student learning about analytics and giving back to the organization, but the organization is learning from the student as well. And you should.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field.

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MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. Follow Shub @shubsengupta.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

The movie also includes a mostly true scene featuring Zuckerberg’s anger-fueled all-night coding and hacking session at Harvard which produced Facemash , a site allowing viewers to vote on the attractiveness of female students which yielded 22,000 votes in one day, demonstrating the incredible coding abilities of then 20-year-old Zuckerberg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment. Fourth, Solution.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

While I was on sabbatical at Tuck/Dartmouth in the spring of 2008, I wrote about the things I learned from students and colleagues. For one generation, it's a conversation like any other conversation; it may even be the dominant form of conversation for today's students. The Dartmouth Green. For another generation it's a convenience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , blogher They may post on other topics throughout the week as well.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. As I suspected, privacy and security remain a very hot topic in NPTech and in the general tech zeitgeist. so more students will have good access to the Internet. This will help fulfill a goal President Obama set last summer for 99 percent of students in U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While on my site visit, Bogii did a presentation to a group of mining students (who are also hunters) to pre-test her poster and share her latest campaign updates. Tags: Mobile NPTech NTEN Program. Since this transition, Brooke has enjoyed working on social marketing campaigns in Mongolia, Thailand, and Laos PDR.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

We already know that Facebook is crushing it and that schools have an incredible opportunity to use the platform to deepen relationships with families, students and alumni. There's a high likelihood that you're not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2008

NpTech Punk. In short, edupunk is student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced, and underwritten by a progressive political stance. Leslie Madsen Brooks has introduced me to a new term called "EduPunk" that is spreading quickly in the edutech blogosphere and beyond.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We need your help to get The Stride Center students interview ready! Volunteers will be interviewing Stride Center students, spending time questioning and offering feedback. Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques! April 3, 2012) : A huge part of landing your new job is winning the interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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AUGUST 11, 2011

We want students to engage in learning because the learning itself was motivating to the student. As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. So, my lens is focused how does one translate lessons learned from edtech sector to nptech sector? Let look at the tagging standards for the project.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Here are some examples: William Reynolds of the University of Virginia is going to teach his student council how to use social media to better communicate with students. Tags: mozilla mozilla service week NPTech Volunteers. First up is an “ Internet Health Check” with easy steps on how to keep people safe on the Web.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. (And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes. up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.). Controlled serendipity. Primary Pad. "Alright, who. inserted 'Bobby is a doody head' into my essay on climate change?"

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Primary Pad is like Google Docs for elementary school students. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. (And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.). Controlled serendipity. "Alright, who inserted 'Bobby is a doody head' into my essay on climate change?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. Find my profile of Jason here including his list of NPTech heroes and where he gets his info. I also want to mark the passing of one of my NPTech heroes.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Sure, we report a lot of things -- how many people we fed, how many students attend our classes -- but we rarely use data to talk about what matters: Are we ending hunger? Are our students learning? . Tags: NPTech NTEN data visualization 09NTC. Here's the thing, guys: we don't use data as well as we could.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. It is written, edited and produced by students and other volunteers in the valley. A few tests going on here and here NpTech Blog Search The nonprofit techhelp blog creates a customized search of nptech blogs here. Newly Discovered NpTech Blogs. Click To Play.

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JUNE 17, 2009

The Student Conservation Association : @the_sca. Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN twitter. Greenpeace : @greenpeace , @greenpeaceUSA. The Nature Conservance : @nature_org. Natureal Resources Defense Council : @NRDC. National Wildlife Federation : @NWF (Danielle Brigida's org). The Wilderness Society : @wilderness. Nice work, y'all!

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JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) We taught our NetCorps students skills such as running meetings, performing needs assessments, project management, etc. Many of our students ended up staying in the sector after they graduated. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

How do you get students to write concisely, boil ideas down to their essence. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. WOW2 hosts immediately made the connection to micro blogging or micro media making.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

for engaging college students, faculty, and nonprofits, to involve them in helping develop, implement, and evaluate Research Matchmaker. Tags: 10NTC beth kanter dos NPTech. Group #040 - AIS for Health, Inc. Augmenting and Integrating Systems). Gail Heaberg | [link]. Consult Details: 1. Cheryl Daugherty | www.phcdc.com.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Our blog provides ideas and advice to small non-profits — charitable organizations, professional and business associations, social and recreational clubs, student and alumni organizations, churches, online activists, communities, and many others.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Shirky observes that his female students tend to miss out on career opportunities because they rarely promote themselves like "arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks", as his male students seem far better able to do. Last year, Clay Shirky wrote a now-infamous blog post called " A Rant About Women ".

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JULY 17, 2012

Where : Student Center, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. We've put together an agenda that includes sessions for both nonprofit staff and leadership - and we encourage you to bring more than one person from your organization, for a broader learning experience. Cost : Free!

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