Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I just spent two amazing days at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 , a cross disciplinary crowd of people who work on social good in the areas of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. As a premier provider of digital services , they deliver a steady flow of work to people around the world.

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JUNE 10, 2009

The Giving USA Foundation’s annual report on charitable giving said that gifts were down in 2008, but not by much, 2%. For example, get-out-the-vote work was counted and was way up because of the historic election last year. For example, get-out-the-vote work was counted and was way up because of the historic election last year.

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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. at 12:33 pm I think digital sharecropping works better as an analogy than as an actual analytical insight. When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. { at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. Let’s see if we can get to work. Hopefully it’ll work. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. Well, good afternoon, everybody. You want to get rid of all that burnout if we can. Thanks for being 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. Real-time information delivery has changed the way that organization works in radical ways.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. Separately, MedBiquitous’s Learning Experience Working Group has completed a draft of its first profile, Virtual Patients, and has started work on its second profile, titled Human Patient Simulators, Mannequins and Task Trainers.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. Connect2Compete as Aggregator of Local Digital Inclusion Projects. It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. 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.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I am willing to bet just about anyone that has worked in the nonprofit sector for a notable amount of time has benefited from the work of Idealist.org. Idealist.org doesn't just aggregate existing information and resources, they also produce new content and research for those working in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf The result of the work might be the “Platinum low cost housing project” and the “Gold job creations” project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. New(to me) Blogs Good Works Grapvine covers social media and strategies for Non-Profits. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

This is work in progress. I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? | View | Upload your own. What data matters most?

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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 working to build a digital public map of the Kibera community for the residents and organizations working there.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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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 working to build a digital public map of the Kibera community for the residents and organizations working there.

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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. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. What was the role of the nonprofit, charity:water, in working with Twestival? They all work in PR, but Ben is the founder of Brightone , a company that works with charities.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.

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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. We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't. And if you???re

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

I first saw Scratch a few years ago, when I had friends working at the Media Lab, and at the time it seemed like a neat way for kids who were unfamiliar with programming to jump in and start designing their own interactive stories and games. In this post, a look at the intentional design choices that make ScratchR work. Does it work?

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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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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

As an aggregator of postings based on followers and search terms, Twitter has become an Internet magnet. Whenever the temptation to publish externally comes along, it is probably because syndication, distribution and/or aggregation is included. March 3, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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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. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. 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 have a confession.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

and even some 3.0 ) tools in their work. Serve as an information resource to community beyond grantees – grantees arent the only ones who could use a little networking – you can aggregate and share community data, information about funding and learning opportunities, and mapping tools like the Google Earth Outreach Program.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

and even some 3.0 ) tools in their work. Serve as an information resource to community beyond grantees – grantees arent the only ones who could use a little networking – you can aggregate and share community data, information about funding and learning opportunities, and mapping tools like the Google Earth Outreach Program.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The report was released on December 8, 2008 (with an interim report published earlier this year in July). It refers to an aggregated communications dashboard , essentially a tool for managing the volume of incoming corresponence while preserving the ability to read and respond individually to messages.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Beth Kanter is a nonprofit rock star and I’ve had the good fortune of being her editor for a book chapter , a supporter of her work, and she’s always been receptive to my thoughts and the occasional guest post on her blog. I can hear a lot of techie people pointing out that you can build apps that work on multiple platforms.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. The fastest growing demographics are over 35. This isn’t just a change in youth culture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.)

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JULY 2, 2009

Are you interested in trends relating to specific topics your nonprofit works on such as health care reform or human rights? link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. January 27, 2010 | Denver SEO Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Picassa) Two examples of the above tools working for nonprofits include a remarkable Twitter success story from Free The Kids and the creative use of social sharing in Pathfinder's Girl2Woman. If you delete something, tell your fans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You're testing different social media tactics and learning what works. 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.

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