Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

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. I've consolidated down to 8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs, and added new examples. What "ways" am I missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Gartner also found that of the nearly 200 million PCs that were retired by corporations and institutions in 2007, fewer than half found their way into the secondary PC market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A photo of meeting Jayne Cravens face-to-face after following her work for ten plus years online. Just received word that Jayne is off to Afghanistan at the end of February 2007, to serve as Communication and Reporting Advisor for the United Nation's National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP), part of UNDP. receive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Seth Godin - Flip the Funnel concept -- get our supporters to leverage their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The immigration rallies were a perfect example of this. For instance, in L.A.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. This is the most novel sharing tool I've seen on any social network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. Previously, On NMC….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Rather than go on, instead, I want to give some examples and highlight the cool factor of how mobile can add some out-of-the-box type thinking to an overall health and/or social marketing-related initiative. Personal PSAs are those shared via mobile and social networks, in addition to being user-generated.). *.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example. So widget makers have put things like video and photos on MySpace for a while. First a little background. But what if I want to put an ad in my video?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? A good example is witness.org/spring2010. Currently WITNESS’ e-newsletter helps raise the most online dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Photo by Borman818. But I'm a member of the Social Media Advisory Board for SmartBrief, Inc , a terrific daily summary of social media insights and they asked me to do a roundup post for this week. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Photo by Funkyah. I have the honor of collaborating with fellow Zoetica founder, Kami Huyse , on our Society for New Communications Research Fellowship research on the concept of Lethal Generosity - a way that for-profits can leverage social media for social change outcomes. Photo by Martin Heigan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The leader, for example, of a religious movement. For example, this idea of using poetry, as the girls are in Zimbabwe, would probably not work in other cultures that don't have that predisposition towards poetry. Muslim women; for example, tell me about birth control methods that they are using. They are making progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Here's an example from Doctors Without Borders. Example Wikieducator ). White Label Social Networking Sites - Too Much?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” Instead what happened was the coach’s daughter donated a framed photo of the whole team. How did this project get started?

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