Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Last year, I attended the Games for Change Conference and lived blogged it. here's my blog posts ) So, I'm delighted to post this announcement for this year's Games for Change - and guess what? We have two days of exciting panels and speakers planned, including keynotes by Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

It’s a guessing game at this point who the social network giants will partner with. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone. Of all the digital payment services, Google Wallet is the digital payment system to watch in 2014. 3) Live Reporting During TV Events.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Fundraisers think of this as individuals gaming the system. It’s also important to note that the average annual payout ratio for DAFs has been over 20% each year since it started being tracked in 2007. But Stein cautions that people can also misuse other types of donations to nonprofit organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. Our official launch of text communication will be done at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game on November 27 th. At the beginning of the game, Lisa Niemi Swayze will be there to do a “puck-drop.” YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492. gid=104492.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Note from Beth: I've been tracking the games for change space for a few years, although not very deeply. In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. I am super excited to tell you about GamesThatGive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

There are some great apps and games, some really good for really cheap (or free.) But the apps, and the app store (where to get apps) have been the cause of crashes, iPhone lockup requiring multiple restorations (which, luckily, are relatively painless.) But getting them onto the iPhone, or getting them to work, is sometimes a pain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The social media game can be found here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Social media is a numbers game. Mobile lists are hard to build and most new subscribers come from pitches in e-Newsletters. Pitches in Tweets and Status Updates help too. Online Donations. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Peter has defined the vision, strategy, and culture of 829 Studios since its founding in 2007. Don’t miss out on this one-stop-shop to up your nonprofit game. I will show you just how to introduce these awesome new ideas in a way that will have anyone in your organization excited to implement them!” See you there!

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

The very first game post I ever wrote was about incorporating game mechanics into museum experiences. Amy is the Creative Director of Shufflebrain, a game design firm that has unique expertise in identifying and exploiting behavioral human predilections to make games and game-like experiences compelling in everyday contexts.

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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. EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! . Lots of great ideas.

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See3

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It shows that it’s not just nonprofits who are getting into the online video game, but also government. It’s spent roughly $350 million a year in 2007 and 2008.) That would boost the office’s budget above $400 million. (It’s What will they spend the money on?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

The first was at the NCTI: National Center for Technology Innovation » 2007 NCTI Technology Innovators Conference, where I had a blast keynoting. is an online role playing game, called Reachout Central. I've seen two social simulator projects in the last couple of months, and they are both worth exploring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Mary Joyce used a remix of the Social Media Game that I created with David Wilcox back in 2007 and has subsequently been used by many other nonprofit technology trainers. It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. Social media in many ways is a numbers game. I just didn’t see how a Facebook Group could ever compare to a MySpace profile in terms of power and ROI (Return on Investment). It was then that I had to make an important decision.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying Leopard November 1, 2007 As many of you know, Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS, 10.5 , shipped just a few days ago. The only thing that will be left is games.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. My printer setup (Brother laser printer) was easier on Linux than on the mac Here are the bad things: The games available on Linux leave much to be desired Getting proprietary codecs to play (MP3, WMA, etc.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0

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Judi Sohn

JULY 30, 2011

At Fight Colorectal Cancer, we switched from web host email to Google Apps in 2007 and we haven’t looked back. They changed the rules mid-game, slipping the change quietly under the door hoping no one noticed. I’ve been struggling whether to write this post or file it under “don’t bite the hand that feeds you.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. Communications Network Social Media Game presentation View more presentations from newstips. I'll be curious to find out what they discover as I'll be doing a two-hour version of the game the week after next at PopTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. I used Thiagi’s reflection game, Thirty-Five. Opening Exercise. Reflection and Takeaways. Learning More. You’ll find those blog posts here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. The 16 year old intern, though, is totally game, so maybe it is just about time. [2]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I keep a little tech support blog on Mayfirst[0] and I’m always game to answer questions like.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

19 Sep 2007 Michael Hoffman Tim, you are right. 19 Sep 2007 Barbara Hoffman This message resonated with me last week in synagogue for Yom Kippur. 25 Sep 2007 See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Vote in the Peace Primary [.] Yes, you do good work. Yes, I care about these issues. OK, you got me. I will donate.

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NetWits

JANUARY 29, 2009

As discussed in the 2007 Target Analytics DonorCentrics Report, the average online donor gives more initially and has a higher lifetime value than a conventional donor. Is your organization implementing a well-thought out strategy in each of these areas, merely checking the box, or not even in the game yet?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. The project could have been an exercise in guilt and public humiliation, but instead, it felt like a game. But Richard and Judith make their beach excursions into a game, competing to see who can find the most interesting treasures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

to be held Friday, June 1, 2007, from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm at the Photronics Center at Boston, University. My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites. I have the honor of leading a workshop for documentary filmmakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises. The Environmental Defense Fund has used the game for an internal training for 300 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I was asked to facilitate a small group in a participatory session called “ Digital Forum ,” designed for peer sharing by Marco Kuntz and Mike Johnson. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2021

Founded in 1980, the Pan-Mass Challenge has contributed nearly $800 million to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and since 2007, 100% of rider raised funds directly benefit cancer research and treatment.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For the unfamiliar, Desert Bus is a Sega CD game that involves driving a bus from Tucson to Las Vegas, in fantastically exciting real-time. Since 2007, Desert Bus for Hope has raised nearly $500,000 for Child's Play , a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 60 hospitals worldwide.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

Prior to that, he was the assistant director of the Online Leadership Program at Global Kids, where he spearheaded innovative education projects using virtual worlds, games, and social media, targeting at-risk youth.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

» Friday Nov 09 2007 A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising Friday, November 9, 2007 at 02:38PM | by James OMalley Its November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to cash in on some of the Yuletide cheer of the giving season. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

We’re also experimenting with the introduction of game mechanics. 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. Prior to the Aquarium, he worked for The Walt Disney Company creating games that bridged the online and theme park experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Virtual Worlds and Video Games Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games -- and replaces it with opinion with his "playable editorial cartoons." Need a chuckle?

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See3

MAY 21, 2007

I remember when I started in March last year and I thought I was really late to the game. Mary-Louise [link] [link] 23 May 2007 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. He’s an inspiration.

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