Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. { at 9:46 am Web 2.0 2 admin 10.02.07

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. From their website: On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Marshall to discuss the report and the insights RWW discovered through the process of aggregating and distilling so much information from experts and Web users. Probably middle of 2008. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web? That’s just one idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure. You get summaries and then it takes you to the source. Organization.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen. The organization is also experimenting with supplementing on-site reporters with remote map coordinators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

re at the unproven starting point, the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider the distributed web (OpenSocial) into their 2008 web strategy planning. OpenSocial will let me aggregate all of my friend data across networks to a data store, and I can then get a better idea of what???s

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen. The organization is also experimenting with supplementing on-site reporters with remote map coordinators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I've been experimenting with online fundraising in an age of social media since 2006. I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008. So this is a group of social media power users and pr professionals who have some experience with nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. As Geoff points out: What???s s the secret sauce? Not buying into social media/Facebook hype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. I want to create presentation formats of this materials as well as experiment with e-books. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. It was refreshing to see a wide array of projects and presentations that put sharing authority at the center of the visitor experience. public site coming soon) Frankie was able to create compelling maps and graphs of many interesting aspects of these collections in aggregate.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Nonprofit organizations would get far better results from improving their own online giving experience. The Right Giving Experience Yes, I would love to see how Jonathan Ive and his Apple design team would re-create the online giving experience in an app. The aggregator itself could be an app for the Apple platform.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. and aggregates them. Tools you can Use.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. The upcoming donations API will allow organizations to deliver a completely customized donation experience. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I spent a lot of research time learning how designers in related fields solve the problems we had developing Operation Spy: how screenwriters craft plot twists, how game designers build instructions into the game, how theme park designers deliver consistent, high-impact multi-sensory experiences. The fastest growing demographics are over 35.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. As long as you don’t use the same key to activate multiple Windows copies in a single short period of time (read: post the key on Usenet), my experience is that activation has been pretty nonintrusive. I like it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). The ScratchR team intentionally wanted to avoid a massive popularity contest, so they promote activity on the site, not aggregate growth of views, loves, or downloads. The last three reflect the interests of the users--and not in quantity (i.e. usercontent.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. In the Meantime, Give Twubs a Try: Twubs is a 5 years old hashtag platform that aggregates tweets, photos, and videos, and recently debuted a free, Twitter API-compliant chat tool. Have you hosted a Tweet Chat before?

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My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. How many of us had the experience at some point during the pandemonium, as my daughter says, that folks were like, “Oh, I’m just home resting. You want that ability to have different opinions, and backgrounds, and lived experiences. Oh, my gosh.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. In the Meantime, Give Twubs a Try: Twubs is a 5 years old hashtag platform that aggregates tweets, photos, and videos, and recently debuted a free, Twitter API-compliant chat tool. Have you hosted a Tweet Chat before?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. What can learn from the experience of other organizations? Experiment.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Facebook, LinkedIn) Blogs offer a human voice, newsworthy information and experiences, and a forum for feedback -- and empower supporters to engage with and share ideas around your stories and news. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. And as a kicker to have a spot for aggregated info. So we tried a little experiment. link] com/2008/07/02/tweetup-blood- drive/.

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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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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

nonprofits in 2008. The argument was that those for whom the Depression and World War II and its aftermath were formative experiences were the backbone of direct mail fundraising, and that they were dying off, never to be matched by their juniors. And in the aggregate, sending action takers online mail is good for the bottom line.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. The goal of a wiki is to aggregate content of interest. Woody had seeded the site with about 12 demos from his own museum, but the wiki never took off.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The convergence of mobile, social, data, and wearable technologies means a lot of data about our preferences will be generated and that means we will have a more customized experience. It also means that privacy issues -- when there is a person on the other end of aggregated data are going to be much more of an issue."

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Really good communications still centers on creating a need or fulfilling a psychological/social/emotional need and this is what makes for a fulfilling user experience. In the social networking land scape - webmasters cannot protect you from the way tags aggregate other elements onto pages which your organization may appear.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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