Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Much of the my reflections and noodling on this idea has been around how existing nonprofits balance these two approaches. We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. In December, 2007, this post from the Chronicle of Philanthropy Blog, expanding on a post by Jeff Brooks, creative director at Merkle Direct, on his Donor Power Blog asked: Do most nonprofit organizations do enough to share key information with the public?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in. I started meeting people through the blog--both those I interviewed and early readers who commented. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me.

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DECEMBER 8, 2006

So in summer 2007, we will have 30 volunteers from Boulder , from different social groups, use the technologies and we will evaluate. So the value of the mechanisms is to let people find and reflect on what natural heritage is—how it can be defined, represented, and shared. Tags: interview usercontent.

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MARCH 4, 2009

One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). You can find UN-related events on WomenWatch. 100% of the royalties from Celebrating Women go to the International Museum of Women.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. They don't fit our expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. NTC 2007 Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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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. I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. Integration is the hot button topic, as noted by Holly Ross in her " Integration is King " post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. How do you report, reflect, and revise what you’re doing? charity: water is a nimble and fast moving organization and our approach to measurement reflects this. How does charity:water do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. Yesterday, I interviewed Jake Brewer who is the Internet Manager at the Energy Action Coalition about how they use metrics to generate insights about their YouTube Channel. “We I've written about this as it relates to blogging quite a bit.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen.

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

Dreams is his personal story, while Audacity is more of a reflection on American politics and culture. My friend, Ilyse Hogue , introduced me to Anna this summer, and I had the privilege of interviewing her for my podcast. I hope to finish The Audacity of Hope by the early 2007, and to read The Omnivore's Dilemma next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Mike Seyfang responded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Unfortunately, I had to cancel and asked Scott Henderson if he'd do on my behalf. I met Scott online over a conversation in the comments when I wrote some reflections about David Armano's personal fundraising campaign back in January. Twitter found that out in 2007.)

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. Last week at the TechSoup Global Summit , I had an opportunity to meet Annie Leonard and do a quick interview about their lessons learned working as a networked. 5) Networks make us all smarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Geotagging Photos.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

A way for me to call up a hero and ask, "can I interview you?" I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. Blogging is precious because it is an opportunity to reflect in writing. At the start, the blog was an experiment. A way for me to learn out loud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. Today I Cried resigns ! Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery.

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APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. I had the opportunity to interview her on March 6th for the Big Vision Podcast, and have included an edited transcript of the interview below.

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