Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

Long time readers of this blog will remember Leng Sopharath who I sponsored for college with early experiments in fundraising on Twitter and creating case studies of social fundraising. Through the Sharing Foundation’s college sponsorship program and our support, Leng was able to go the University to study accounting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Along with the new brand are new Twitter (@ childfund ), Facebook , blogging and YouTube efforts. To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund. The organization has served children since 1938 and helps 15.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. If you find Twitter boring, perhaps you are following wrong people. She’s written a book about this, “ The Social Learning Handbook.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware platforms that are being developed. What do you think?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

If you’d like to discuss it, chip in over at Facebook , or via Twitter using the hashtag #tiptheculture. Patricia Martin is an independent researcher and author of the book Renaissance Generation: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What it Means to Your Business , F + W Publishing, 2007. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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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. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Details here. Not at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. Some participants acknowledged that they "Twitter resisters." Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. On Twitter, it is retweets. Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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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. We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

One of my most memorable Skype calls was when I had forgot to turn switch off SKYPE during a presentation to health care nonprofits about social media in 2007. He was an early adopter of SKYPE. Participants, who were in the 60s and 70s were protesting they were “too old,” when my Dad’s SKYPE profile showed up on the screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Inspired by the Twitter feed that Nate Ritter set up to aggregate news during the San Diego Fires in the Fall of 2007, Joe Solomon (aka EngageJoe) set up GustavFeed on Twitter. Claire Johnson from the Red Cross points us to the Red Cross Online Newsroom and is also giving updates on Twitter @redcross.

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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 ). That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? My problem has been retrieval. Communication. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2008

This was a response from a Twitter follower, Hans de Kraker who pointed me to this blog post (in Dutch). What is a Museum without YouTube? sounds like a riddle. I couldn't think of a punch line can, you? Looks like reviewed the YouTube channels for museums. I like Moma's Channel. Interesting commentary by viewers too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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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. It marks the first time I'm incorporating Twitter in a presentation. I have the honor of leading a workshop for documentary filmmakers. at the Making Media Now: Filmmaking in Transition Conference. You can still register.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Were there conversations taking place between Twitter users that extended the learning or were people mostly parallel online note taking? Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. What if the default was to share your organization's dashboard openly with everyone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008. You can request a NedSpace tour via Twitter @neddotcom or phone 503-502-0185 This is a modest request and who knows if it will work. NedSpace is located at 920 SW Third (between Taylor & Salmon) Portland, Oregon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. One of the benefits of being a nonprofit is the support you get from people: whether it's financial or emotional - something as simple as retweet of your message on Twitter. I wasn't familiar with the concept of a fiscal sponsor at that point (Heck!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2008

I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

In 2007, we revamped the event so that volunteers no longer left the conference for the day and did two-hour strategy consults in the morning. Now that Twitter is being used by so many people in the nonprofit technology space, we were able to follow the progress of the wireless installation through special hashtag for the event. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. The big prediction in social media circles seems to focus on Twitter - and that it will go mainstream in 2009. I did a round up of social media predictions from the gurus, picking a few trends that had implications for nonprofits. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I follow Vicky Davis's blog, CoolCat Teacher Blog (one of my favorites, in fact her feed is in my "Circle of the Wise" folder) and she is also a twitter contact I follow. Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. hz07 horizonproject07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

In June of 2007, nearly over 35% of Facebook traffic came the 18-24 year old segment, compared to around 22% in June 2008. Twitter: My updates are unlocked. Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too. And that's the way I've operated. This is my "loosest" network. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

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. We want people to sign up to hear from us in any and all ways they would like and use those channels – email, Facebook, Twitter being the most popular channels. Is there an Android version?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. I tracked Chris down on Twitter ( @lighterfootstep ) and asked him if there were other free feed management tools available. No, but there are fee-based services. Here's the thread. He suggested MINT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

I shared with him some of the tools that I use for blogging, Twitter, and other social media tasks that would require downloading and installing (non-standard) software onto my desktop. She offered me a helpful list of tips and Outlook 2007 cheat sheets, the Foundation's email/calendar or productivity system.

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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

JULY 28, 2009

happen instead of links from your Twitter account. Dubbed a “local blogging guru” by the Washington Post, Geoff’s award-winning book “Now is Gone” was released in 2007 and has been cited by the Wall Street Journal as a valuable resource for social media. If we are successful, we’re being talked about, rather than talking.

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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

MARCH 29, 2009

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. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Frogloop Blog. I used a cli.gs

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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

JULY 23, 2009

What about Twitter? Twitter's pretty useful for a lot of aspects. You can then save those searches as RSS feeds, or in the application you use for Twitter. Here's a great interview that I did with Elana Wolowitz from Wellstone Action on their use of Twitter. Causes: Help spread the word. Build an identity. That's not all!

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