Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I grew up in a small beach town on the South Jersey Shore where I spent summers swimming and building sand castles. A deep appreciation for the ocean and beach is in my DNA. My father (photographed above) was a life guard, swimmer, and one of the first to take up surfing in the early 1960’s on our beach. So, I always had a fondness for surfing.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference will take place on March 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC. Part of what makes the NTC unique is how they involve the community in every aspect of conference planning. Community voting on the 400+ session proposals has begun and will run through September 30th. So, I spent some time reading through the proposals and bookmarked the ones I voted for.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Story. Last week, my adventure in Alaska started with a meeting with representatives from community foundations around the state of Alaska hosted by the Alaska Community Foundation. That’s where I met Joe Page from the Jessica Stevens Foundation who told the amazing about the Talkeetna Bachelor Society. The Talkeetna Bachelor Society is a program of the Denali Arts Council, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Allison Fine and I have been thrilled with the reception that our book, The Networked Nonprofit , has received. I’m very grateful for support and more so for the conversations and thoughtful blog posts you have shared. I wanted to share a few recent posts that I’ve enjoyed and a couple of upcoming book events. If You Want An Answer, Ask Everyone by Jane Wales, Huffington Post, provides an overview of crowdsourcing in philanthropy and quotes from the chapter in our book on crowdsou

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

My colleague, Clay Lord, Theatre Bay Area told me about a bet that the communications manager is having with the director of development. Here’s the bet : THE BET: I must use the It’s Not the Size of the Gift platform to raise $1,937 by 5pm EST Friday, October 1st, and I can only promote it over social media networks. (Why $1,937, you ask? Well, that’s the exact number of Facebook fans we have at the very moment I am typing this call to action.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. He tries to make the point: “Social change has been happening before the creation of Twitter four years ago&# but disappoints.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

On Sunday, I attended the book launch for the Dragonfly Effect , a book about quick, powerful ways to use social media for social change by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith. This book party was different, not because it had kids activities or the fun photo booth (see above), but because it also had a table from Be The Match to encourage people to sign up for the bone marrow registry.

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