Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2008

If you think that virtual worlds means Second Life, there are many others. I just discovered this introduction on YouTube and thought I'd share it here. One thing I learned is that WhyVille is a virtual world that will run on low bandwidth (dial-up) and lower end computers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Today my 11 year old keyboard died. Full body view here ) I'm devastated. If you look closely, you'll see the coffee stains. And, my panic button. The letters had worn off. Most importantly - I can't type as fast (I do like 100 words a minute on it).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Note from Beth: Over five years ago , I connected with Sam Mayfield, an independent media maker, through my blog. In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

I've never been to South by Southwest Interactive Festival or SXSW. Only read about it online wishing I could attend. I wasn't as lucky as Amy Gahran who won the free pass to attend at BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I attended a local unconference for nonprofits about two years ago with the intention of learning how I, as a blogger, could help local nonprofits… you & your blog were mentioned several times. I went home and immediately included your blog on my Google Reader, but somehow only just now got to clicking on your FB page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Jay Dedman is going to lead a video blogging workshop in New Orleans as part of the line up for the NTEN's NTC Day of Service 2008. As readers of this blog know, videoblogging is an effective way for nonprofits to build awareness of their organization???s It was so popular they had to do it at another venue).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2011

I first encountered Shawn back in 2008 during the annual Blog Action Day. Shawn has gotten quite a bit of press in hometown newspapers in Toronto. Today, I got a called from a reporter from a newspaper who wanted to know how I first connected with Shawn. That year, the focus was on global poverty. Here’s the post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I just got back from doing a plenary session at the Arts Summit organized by the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations. It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State. I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples. One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In early 2009, the Compete Blog posted its media trends for 2008, suggesting that publisher media continue to integrate social media. . Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 . Do you have an example of how Twitter can be used to distributed "trusted" information about an important policy issue?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. He’s the managing editor of the White Courtesy Telephone blog. Getting It Right at the GEO Conference in Seattle – Guest post by Albert Ruesga.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. This is serendipity – not pure randomness, but orchestrated.

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MAY 8, 2013

I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, “ Take Me To The Social Web.” While I’m in transit, I’ve arranged for some exciting guest posts and I will, of course, be blogging and sharing what I learn about NGOs, Networked Nonprofits, and Measurement in that corner of the world.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 million, depending on the size of its budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So, your blog? The results when we posted a TuDiabetes page on Wikipedia in 2008 were disastrous. It helps to get a copy of a book like Wikipedia: The Missing Manual , but you don’t need it as much these days as you used to back in 2008 when it first came out. All content must be verifiable. Don’t kill the messenger!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Hope you’ll consider a vote for our session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. August, 2008 Using Twitter and other channels, I raised $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex. They used twitter to drive comments to the blog - each comment would generated 100 pound donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

It was also a nod to the &# Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism &# which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O’Reilly’s E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel of Wired Blog). Ethan points out that the Web was invented so physicists could share research papers, but Web2.0

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

P.S. This is officially my second blog post ever. 3, 2008. ** Unstill Waters: The Fluid Role of Networks in Social Movements. We are in an exciting moment and we can’t afford not to be asking these questions. It’s getting a little easier (I think). * “Building Organizations in a Movement Moment,” Beth Zemsky and Dave Mann.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Alan Levine, AKA cogdog blog, is running a marathon to help support a cause he cares about - juvenile diabetes. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest (details to be announced in early 2008), I caught this post. Last year, Alan won the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest and I donated 50 bucks to his cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2008

So when their PR agency asked me to blog about this event, it got high on my random acts of kindness list. J oin Cisco for a fascinating 60-minute video Webcast that reveals how wikis, blogs, social networking, and other Web 2.0 The good folks at Cisco supported the NTEN/NTC Day of Service in New Orleans ( read about it).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Lela talked about how and why sound founded this enterprise in 2008 and their programs that are disrupting poverty. These are fodder for future blog posts – so stay tuned. Samasource connects poor women and youth to training and employment in the digital economy. ” Next up was Dave Evans, Chief Futurist at Cisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Though the numbers aren't in, it must be likely be higher in 2008 as this article by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times points out. Blog Action Campaigns where a regroup of bloggers write about a particular issue have been a good way to draw attention to an issue. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

June 11-12th we will both be speaking at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. Britt will be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. So, it was a welcomed an opportunity to see Britt again earlier this week. in Chicago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Manny answered my question with a fantastic post titled " How To Create Social Change Without Forming a 501-c3 " to run as a guest post on this blog. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008. It's filled with good advice on this topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2008

Congratulations to Marnie Webb for winning the 2008 NTEN Award at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans. Here's what I said: In 2001, I tried to start blogging. I set up a blog, wrote two posts and stopped. In 2005, I attended a session at the NTC by this year's winner called "So, you wanna blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Back in November when Open Social was announced, we had a round of discussions in the NpTech space that summarized on my blog. For now, here's the basics culled from the press release, official blog posts, and blog commentary. s also a Blogger blog for OpenSocial. a public benefit???) and not for Google???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

This post was originally published on the Fast Company Blog and is being republished her with permission. According to Katie Couric who recorded a special clip from the set of CBS Evening News for BlogHer 2008 (as seen above), 36 million women write or read blogs each week. Read more of Cheryl Contee's Fission Strategy blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools. The project, which will last for 3 months, will run from May to July 2008. The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. As a member of the planning committee, I became even more geeked out about this intimate, interactive learning opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We see examples in the ongoing success of Kickstarter , in the record number of small donations President Barack Obama collected during his 2008 campaign and, humorously, in the manner Stephen Colbert has solicited funds for his satiric Super Pac. This kind of mico-funding approach remains alive and well today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2012

On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. Indeed, my great, great grandfather Thomas Stehle came to this country as a gunsmith in the 1840s, so I understand how deeply rooted guns are for many people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The speakers included an amazing morning key note by Arianna Huffington, luncheon talk by Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg, and an all-star closing discussion panel. (I live tweeted and blogged the event) One of the best quotes of the day came from Arianna Huffington who said, "To be generous, practice generosity." The Challenge raised $1.8

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