Care2

APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. Elana Wolowitz (EW): I'm pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. What inspired you to join?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

Odds are a year from now pitches to subscribe or join “Mobile Action Networks&# will be commonly seen in Facebook Status Updates, Tweets, blogs posts, homepages, and e-newsletter subject lines. At least I hope so. It was a only few weeks ago that I received my first text message from a nonprofit that linked to a mobile website.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. To Sandberg these are signals that email will die.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

years, Peter has been working extremely hard to build Social Actions from scratch. The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and share opportunities to give or volunteer for social causes using social networking strategies. For the last 2.5 Over the past year he has moved his idea forward in a powerful reality.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Interviewed Janessa Goldbeck of the Genocide Intervention Network. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. My resolutions were to: 1. Watched Darfur Now.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Hear from Peter Deitz about the Social Actions API! read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

It's more than that - it as an API. (It looks very similar conceptually to the pioneering work from Social Actions.) Stories come out experimenting, helping people find their voices or the confidence or the desire to take an action, volunteer their time, or raise money for a cause they care about. It also has widgets.

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The first from Philanthropy Action , has the depressing title, " Social Networking and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's the Use? " The survey is based on responses from about 200 mid-sized nonprofits (defined as having revenues between $1 and $5 million annually) between July 2008 and March 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Meet the patrons - benefits and risks of social networking in fundraising. For more on what's happening with different giving platforms, see Social Actions 9/12/08 roundup and Lucy Bernholz's philathanthropy predictions for Nov/Dec 2008. - can we by-pass charitable bureaucracy? second wave philanthropy???

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See3

OCTOBER 20, 2008

October 15th is Blog Action Day , an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day. This year’s topic was poverty so See3 decided to host a screening of the Dollar A Day film series released by GlobalDevelopmentMatters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’m involved in the evangelism action group. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&#

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

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!" Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki? Contribute your ideas here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising. I chronicled some of these back in 2008. The numbers speak for themselves. But he had help from another free agent, Corey Griffen , a management consultant who organized the fundraiser. Fundraising'

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

All this innovation birthed a new type of website – one that’s not driven by a specific non-profit, but is focused on individual people and their online networks. By tying in with Facebook from the start they’ve harnessed the relational power of the most prolific social network built to date. 4) Razoo – [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. Others I think about: CiviCRM had 4.8%, Organizer’s Database at 3%, Salesforce was at 2.6%, Democracy in Action at 0.6% 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. That said, for the most part, except for CitySoft and vTiger, people seemed very satisfied with these tools.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

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!" Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki? Contribute your ideas here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

One of the reasons I think the issue of genocide in Darfur, and in other places, hasn't reached the mainstream consciousness, is that it is hard to find actions that make concerned citizens feel like they are having an impact. I just have to do what I can. The week provides a number of ways for you to do what you can. What can you do?

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Care2

JULY 17, 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 also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened).

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Care2

JULY 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!" You can also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I know a lot of people get revenue from ads, and I sorta feel bad promoting AdBlock, but the truth is, I never click on ads, so no one ever gets any revenue from my actions anyway. I love it. It’s nice to have clean, ad, free pages, and especially without the distracting moving ads. Plus, pages load faster without ads.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

with local networks working to create online spaces to bring more people online. Invite your friends, neighbors, parents, and others to give you feedback (even if they don’t know what the words you use mean) about what they would benefit from that maybe you and your network hasn’t considered yet. Creating for All.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2011

He will talk about his work — and the whole notion of free agents working with NGOs as highlighted in our book, The Networked Nonprofit. I first encountered Shawn back in 2008 during the annual Blog Action Day. That year, the focus was on global poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard. How Do Social Networks Incorporate the Ladder of Engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. (You What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It supports up to 20 wireless connections and has 16 GB of storage, so it can work as a backup network drive. Image: BRCK in action ( Ushahidi ). Find out more about this here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. Or even a social network strategy? And there are, for sure, some interesting case studies.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The first from Philanthropy Action , has the depressing title, " Social Networking and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's the Use? " The survey is based on responses from about 200 mid-sized nonprofits (defined as having revenues between $1 and $5 million annually) between July 2008 and March 2009. Tools Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ). Today’s nonprofit donors, volunteers, and fans are living a complex world, have busy lives and probably receive more messages and information than they can deal with. (Don’t

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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 also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. 2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. What was your strategy?

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