Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

Each panel allotted ample time for Q/A from the audience which consisted of nonprofit techies and bloggers. The question reminded of a screencast I created back in 2007 for NTEN and Salesforce Foundation that covered Google Adwords campaigns).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

I nominated the Sharing Foundation for the following reasons: In July/August 2007, I launched my third fundraising campaign to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit and the Sharing Foundation. In October, 2007, using Twitter - and with Chris Brogan's help (and 81 other people) we sent a young Cambodian woman to college in 24 hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. All are captured here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. So I thought how a couple of bloggers came together to fight hunger. A few Bay Area bloggers documented their experiences of living on $21 a week (a typical Food Stamp allotment).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. My Cambodian friend, Mongkol , a blogger that I met five years ago when he came to the US to do his graduate studies, wrote us a note to hand to our taxi driver.

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AUGUST 19, 2007

August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. BlogDay is focused on getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. You are suppose to notify the bloggers, write a brief description of their blogs, and tag your post with BlogDay2007. On that day, you write a post recommending 5 blogs to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson. You may remember the very popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 which used transportation themes. Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 I was delighted to discover the above remix of Wesch's video, "The Machine is Us/ing Us Dance Remix" via Elsua who helped me get to the Cambodian bloggers conference back in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

One of my most memorable Skype calls was when I had forgot to turn switch off SKYPE during a presentation to health care nonprofits about social media in 2007. He was interested in my work used to say, “My daughter the blogger.” He was an early adopter of SKYPE. ” He wanted to learn how to blog.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Inviting bloggers to Davos is a good thing as it means those not attending in person can participate in the discussion and it makes the whole thing a bit more informal. Davos 2007.??? Is there a polite way to interrupt a blogger to say hello, or even try and talk? At this rate, we???ll I noticed this first at TED. last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

On October 1, 2007, Sarah Bunting announced that it was time to do it again. The DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge is an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of public schools in need. More than a hundred bloggers have joined and the competition is heating up, but it???s And then back to work. And then out for a drink.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Here's how it works: Every month through May 2007, Hamburger Helper will choose one 501(c)(4) organization for a monetary grant of up to $15,000. It's interesting that they are targeting bloggers as part of their publicity strategy. All of the application information can be found here.

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JULY 16, 2007

Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. round-the-clock updates , credited to BRAD STONE and MATT RICHTEL, New York Times article, April 30, 2007 What's your best phrase to describe twitter? Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends. Possibilities are endless!"

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MAY 6, 2007

Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). " She has is supporting a campaign to Free Monem , a blogger arrested by Egyptians security forces on April 15th. By taking action! exponentially!

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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. On Facebook and other social networks, we connect to information through our friends.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. An explosion of EDF bloggers. Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. In fact, just last month, I took it to India. Three months later, what do we have to show for it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started blogging in 2003 about nonprofits and social media and started second blog about Cambodia, “Cambodia for Kids” after the arrival of my daughter, Sara and discovering that there was a vibrant community of bloggers in Cambodia. It was terrific to see Tharum who was one of the first Cambodia bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

this is an interesting way to pitch a story -- use of a screencapture from a blogger who is sitting in the audience and pitch them in front of the group.). 59 percent of respondents reported that social media performance in 2007 met or exceeded their marketing objectives. He also mentioned that I had not blogged it.) unknown.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She started her blog this year in May, 2007 because it was an opportunity for self-expression. She is also a terrific live blogger! I am grateful for her detailed notes from the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. I took a look at some of the "A-List" bloggers with large followings who are still using Feedburner, so wondering whether Chris's post is predicting the future or not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

And, of course, I just had to give enough so I could get the cool new 2007 campaign t-shirt. Of course, I also have photos of other kids and bloggers in Cambodia wearing them - as well as friends. I can't wait to add it to the series of photos of I have of my kids wearing CC t-shirts.

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APRIL 9, 2008

Here's the policy for online persona from Easter Seals: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy SECTION III PART I-9 Approved by board: July 14, 2007. Guidelines for Easter Seals Bloggers. Update: I remembered! It was Easter Seals. The Internet Public Discourse policy applies to Easter Seals headquarters and to Affiliates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. NTC 2007 Pipe. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Google Blog Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Now " The Giving Carnival " over at the Tactical Philthanthropy Blog provides a roundup of several bloggers opinions. Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Live Blogging Conferences. So, the resulting report should be fascinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Social Media Game In 2007, David Wilcox and I presented a workshop at LASA using this game he created. The press release describes it as: A free service allowing bloggers and individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the Web. Now there is an easy way to track it.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. I took a look at some of the "A-List" bloggers with large followings who are still using Feedburner, so wondering whether Chris's post is predicting the future or not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 See below). Details are here.

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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. How can PledgeBank help me and other bloggers change the world? At its most basic, PledgeBank is a positive peer pressure tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

What about blogger outreach? Charlene Li has a great graphic on measuring blogging impact from her 2007 report, and I can't say it any better than the Q&A that concludes this blog post that announced the report : Q: Is there a standard ROI for blogs? Just as there isn’t a standard ROI for a Web site, there’s no standard for a blog.

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JUNE 23, 2007

Just as blogging is now becoming mainstream, but was ahead of the curve three or four years ago (and several Bloggers , are now seen as influencials (and members of the Press (sorta) - if they have a wide enough audience). I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. Priscilla has a set of simple guidelines for the bloggers. If you don't have a blog, but want to engage. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? You can leave your email address and url. Do you moderate comments or not?

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