Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” .” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! Thanks for the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. bleeding edge tool, twitter. If you are reading this roundup, and you haven't registered for NTC in Washington, DC, go do it now and while you're at it, register for Penguin Day too. Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary. The more that nonprofits understand them as useful to them, and demand them from vendors that provide (or build) software, the better, as far as I’m concerned. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06 Thanks much for getting this going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I'm headed out to Palm Springs for PBS Development 2007. Also, the first time I've done a story created out of Twitter Tweets. Another attempt at the Meet Jane style. You can't really see it unless you hear the narrative and animation. I'll try to do a voice over at some point. I found this snippet this morning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

We have lists of nonprofit technology and nonprofit bloggers , we have the nptech tag , a NpTech Blogs Twitterfeed Twitter account , and several excellent lists on AllTop ( fundraising , nonprofit , social change , and social good ). You get summaries and then it takes you to the source. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s In Edelman???s someone like me???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 July 24, 2007. Pick one or two places, say Twitter and Facebook, and start talking about your issues and listening to the conversations that folks are having about your cause. Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Frogloop Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. We're hearing some early tweets about Netsquared on twitter. NetSquared Community. Momentum is building. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. Through Twitter, I became aware of your work with social causes. A tweetup is a meetup of friends on the microblogging service Twitter.) Connie Reece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

They now use this approach with other channels, like Twitter, for example. If I'm working with a team versus solo, I'll also share some summaries of the most important learnings. I do a " by the numbers " summary, I look patterns and trends in the comments or visuals, and look at what other nonprofits are doing in the space.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 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!" Katrin May 2, 2007 | Katrin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Happy texting! All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 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!" » Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? Great article!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 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!" » Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? Great article!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. Here's a few examples: Shireen Mitchell who I had never met face-to-face but who generously provided information about people of color and the social web via Twitter while I doing a workshop demo. That's rare in a conference setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Here’s a quick summary of the highlights I took away from our conversation: MomsRising is focused on “movement-building” and large scale systems change, not just building an organization. There are multiple technologies in their tool-kit. Increasingly they are looking at ways to use mobile technology (cell phones) for engagement.

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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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

The 2007 winner of the Nobel Peace prize, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just issued its fifth report on what the science tells us about how fast human created global warming is affecting the biosphere. Find a 48 page summary of the big report here. The Big UN Report on Climate Change.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

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!" May 27, 2009 | Mark Horoszowski Thanks for the great summary of our session, Heather!

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 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!" You can email your list with a summary of the newsletters contents with links to read the full newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

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. Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate.

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