Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Ushahidi , winner of the 2008 NetSquared Challenge first attracted widespread attention for their work aggregating and mapping real-time reports from victims and relief workers in the violent aftermath of the 2007 Presidential election (see Ushahidi's legacy page for an archived version of this amazing tool).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Wonder if smashups are eligible?) The Nonprofit Blog reviews InStedd.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. How can we do that? Be sure to visit the site and press "Play" on the map.

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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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season.

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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. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008. One way I'm going to do this is to focus on reorganizing them into these thematic areas.

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