Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( In a vacuum, it can be marginal. He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Photo by D'Arcy Norman. In 2007, I was a "leader" in a program called " Shadow the Leader " where I had an opportunity to reflect with colleagues and peers on the challenges and learnings from leading a tagging community. Everytime I connect with colleagues at Cpsquared, it is an opportunity for reflection.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. MySpace is reflection of the society in which we live. Think about that for a minute. MySpace is not dangerous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. 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. After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Round up of New Year's Reflections, Best Ofs, and Predictions for 2008. 2. Predictions for 2009 If you don't feel in a reflective mood, then get out your crystal ball and predict the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. The Dashboard is a reflection of those areas we consider to be vital to the museum's mission. Many of us have a love and hate relationship with nonprofit dashboards.

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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. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. 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. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. What is your thought and reflection process for insight harvesting?

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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. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. This particular photo campaign had many technical glitches and ultimately the number of submissions was less than impressive.

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MARCH 28, 2008

In a 2007 survey of over 5,000 Board Café readers, 52% said "most boards do a so-so job." A few tips that I particularly liked were: • Find 15 minutes on the agenda of each board meeting to either reflect upon a big picture trend or to learn about an issue that affects the work of the nonprofit. Photo by me. nonprofit board

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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). The United Nations has chosen the theme of, "Women and Men United to End Violence Against Women and Girls," for this year's International Women's Day.

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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. Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. So, the resulting report should be fascinating.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Greer recently returned from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi. You can read some of her reflections on the Women at the World Social Forum blog. "I Photo Credit: Photo of Olivia Greer and Women Center Stage logo via Olivia Greer. To join the Culture Project mailing list, click here. art activism women

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

18 Oct 2007 facebook » Convio Open – Why the Convio Facebook Application blows away Causes [.] 19 Oct 2007 Non-Profit Tech Blog » Convio Facebook App not recommended for use right now [.] 19 Oct 2007 Michael Hoffman Allan, you are mostly wrong. Your cavalier approach on SLAs reflects that difference.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I''ve seen people''s concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. The Museum 2.0 and then what?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Blogging helped me develop my ideas, engage in reflective practice, and pursue a growing passion for visitor participation in museums (and it's funny to look back and realize the first lines of my book came from one of the very first posts ). By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. 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

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I've seen people's concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this. The Museum 2.0 and then what?

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JULY 1, 2011

It really reflects what we're trying to do here to transform our institution into as relevant, dynamic, and successful an organization as possible. She came to Santa Cruz County in 2007, not for the sake of the MAH, but because she and her husband decided to leave Washington, D.C., where she worked at the International Spy Museum. "We

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This ratio and the statement of functional expenses has become a barometer for a very important group of readers of the financial statements, and as such, we need to reflect this in the chart of accounts of a nonprofit organization to which SFAS #117 applies (and this is a large group of nonprofit organizations). Photo: GenBug.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Metric: Click thrus.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. As an adult, my profile shows my username, photo, city, state, and country. For kids, the profile only shows username, photo, and country (and most people use "sprites"--Scratch characters--for their photos). most views) but in recency.

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MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. You can read other posts about this project by clicking Tech Virtual in the "Past Posts By Topic" sidebar on the right.)

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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 We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. Geotagging Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

On September 7, 2006, Scott Harrison launched charity: water by throwing a birthday party, charging people $20 to attend, sending 100% of the money to build wells in a refugee camp in Uganda and then proving the work by sending photos and GPS coordinates to every guests. How do you report, reflect, and revise what you’re doing?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Women Who Light the Dark by photojournalist Paola Gianturco (powerHouse books, September 2007) begins with a profile of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe. Each new GCN member receives a journal for poetry, art and reflection. Betty and 6 tenth grade students co-founded the Girl Child Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Photo by Borman818. In 2009, the organization launched the United State Spay Day Photo Contest in 2009 as one part of their overall effort that included broadcast media and other social media outreach efforts as well as offline event. A great example of how well this multi-channel approach works is the Humane Society’s Spay Day.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

It launched in October of 2007 with a very simple and understandable idea: to produce a global map of pieces of art made with stones on beaches. Visitors to the website can't even comment on the photos or mark them as favorites. Today, a look at one of the projects I believe does this best--the World Beach Project.

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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. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

Photo from article by Adam Reuters, Reuters Second Life Bureau and used with permission. Then I happen to notice another article on Adam's blog - about an announcement that US Congress will make its Second Life site available to the public Friday, January 5, 2007. Virtual representation of the reflecting pool at the National Mall.

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