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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The unfortunate fact of blogging is writing good blog posts is more than just the words. If you want to use blogging for your personal learning you need to be effective at engaging and having conversations with readers. Heading 3 works the best with my blog themes. #3 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year. Stories provide the examples and the context for what nonprofits are doing. NonprofitMarketingGuide.com is the home base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

Full of specific examples of challenges and solutions from fields as diverse as nonprofits, school boards, healthcare, and the corporate world, When Everyone Leads , offers a proven, actionable approach for any company, organization, or community to navigate through its most pressing challenges. That’s why we wrote this book.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Full of specific examples of challenges and solutions from fields as diverse as nonprofits, school boards, healthcare, and the corporate world, When Everyone Leads , offers a proven, actionable approach for any company, organization, or community to navigate through its most pressing challenges. That’s why we wrote this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest. Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.) We’ll circle back with more blog posts as this network of network practitioners emerges, to share what we’re learning with the field.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation. And that is for a different post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. What are some inspiring examples about how people have used pledgebank to raise money or make change? those might be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. Jim Spadaccini from Ideum Blog noted that dashboards are not new, in fact, there's a book about Dashboard Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Already, some of our advocacy work is progressing in large part because of savvy use of social media (see our blog about chemicals and toxics ). And two more new blogs are on the way.

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MAY 25, 2007

So for example, you can look up a bill, see which groups supported it and which groups opposed it, then see which of those groups gave money to which politicians and then connect the dots to how those politicians voted. The other item that got me thinking politics today was the most recent column from David Pogue.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. Question #2: what are some of the best examples you’ve seen? Both important. Why are they great?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

I knew some of the participants on the thread, well-known bloggers, authors, librarians, educators, and thinkers. This conversation thread was rich, witty, and thoughtful. The site is also becoming popular with technology insiders in Silicon Valley. Take for example this thread about launching a start up at SXSW.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

This year's summit featured a special livestream conversation with Angela Fernandez, Esq., This year's summit featured a special livestream conversation with Angela Fernandez, Esq., You can watch the archived version of the conversation here , and I highly encourage anybody, whether you work in the nonprofit sector or not, do so.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? Some are huge.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. There was a study published earlier this month by Neilson Research about the astronomical growth of social networks from Dec 2007 to Dec 2008. It could be doing something as simple as providing a blog about topics of value to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: I’ve been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. We launched a mobile site , in 2007 aimed at feature phones, and we’re developing an Android version of the app for release in 2011. The Pocket Guides are a great resource and conversation starters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The speakers included an amazing morning key note by Arianna Huffington, luncheon talk by Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg, and an all-star closing discussion panel. (I live tweeted and blogged the event) One of the best quotes of the day came from Arianna Huffington who said, "To be generous, practice generosity."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Forget brochure-speak — this is a world of conversations. Betsy Harman, on Beth's Blog. It's up to you to go looking for the conversations you want to have. This is not about dollars raised, for example, as a direct measurement of the time you invest in having these conversations. So, how are people using Facebook?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To improve your online engagement metrics and boost conversions, you’ll need to roll out fresh and creative engagement tactics. For example, you might: Share blog post links and teasers on your social media pages. Bring supporters into the conversation. Social media polls. Online contests or challenges.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

blog, and it got me thinking about how and why I first started doing this. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." blog in November of 2006, about halfway through my work on Operation Spy. The blog started with a conference experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Rumor has it that David Krumlauf was taking great notes, so I'm hoping he'll blog them or fill in some gaps here. . Some of you may remember the flap about Ranger Rick from 2007). Red Cross Fan Page is a great example. It is useful to have a group for more intimate conversations, where a page is more public You can have both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three She started her blog this year in May, 2007 because it was an opportunity for self-expression. Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. Why did you start to blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

pdf) starts the conversation and attempt to address a method to quantify influence. s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s There's a lot to digest here. In Edelman???s someone like me???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. I've always wondered whether or not when someone makes a gazillion dollars on one of my photos or my blog posts, will I be sorry? Nancy White picked up on it and blogged it. It gets your work out there.

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JULY 26, 2007

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JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

“Its reassuring that despite the economic downturn most of the metrics they looked at, including average gift size, were flat or up compared to 2007,” said Robert Weiner, who provides technology consulting to nonprofit organizations. “Of course, things got a lot worse in the fourth quarter, so these trends might not hold up.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. You can do something to help donor give with their head - for example Donors Choose. More Flickr Photos here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans. I've written about this as it relates to blogging quite a bit.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Main | Online Video: An Interview Revealing Best Practices and Trends » Tuesday Sep 11 2007 Overbrook Foundation Reports Grantees Dont Know Web 2.0 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 04:46PM | by James OMalley To date, grantees generally avoid the Web 2.0 60) Search « Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season?

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