Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. You can only really do this with a technically comfortable crowd, and the folks at the Public Conversations Project and TechFoundation hosted event fit the bill.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# I’ll have to look for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They share the latest, and best peer-reviewed science through Twitter conversations. 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 . They rely only on credible sources.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Besides, the sole mission of this blog is … well, a blog. :-) As far as NOSI is concerned, NOSI might indeed be one of those small minority of nonprofits where the web site metrics do in fact have some measure of relationship to our mission. So, my blog has three times as many monthly visitors than Allans (hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

a way to catalyze conversations among diverse people, mediated by their objects. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. The goal is promoting conversations. Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. We thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all we’d have to do is find examples of how boards online, opening up decision-making to outside influences.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Examples from Haiti. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

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. When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. What data matters most?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Their CEO writes a blog , as do exhibit developers working on an upcoming exhibition on Egypt. For example, we’re actively pursuing outreach opportunities and connections with the community, the local tech industry, universities. For example, a guy I met through Twitter asked me to meet in person.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. There was a study published earlier this month by Neilson Research about the astronomical growth of social networks from Dec 2007 to Dec 2008. It could be doing something as simple as providing a blog about topics of value to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. These are conversations that you want to have behind the firewall. of Wired Blog). Take for example Jonathon Colman who is the Internet Strategist for the Nature Conservancy or Wendy Harmon from the Red Cross both are dog lovers!

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MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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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. Recently, he has been blogging at Bright+3.

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JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. The power imbalance between foundations and nonprofits dampens the honest conversations that are so critical to any partnership. spanhidden.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. Between the hashtags, the Facebook groups, the online petitions, the blog posts, and the constant emails, there’s just an overwhelming amount of advocacy communication online today.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. Twitter still has a small user base compared to all those who are generally “online&# - compared to those with email, for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Certainly history can provide plenty of examples of this type of civil withering. We can also find examples in which uncertainty brings out the best in people. There are many blog posts on the theme of 10 Ways for Nonprofits to Cut Costs and The Nonprofit Hard Times Survival Guide. I'm not in denial. A recent post.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog posts from the past. Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. Experimonth started out as play.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. You can do something to help donor give with their head - for example Donors Choose. More Flickr Photos here.

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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. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

One interesting example of how community building in the open source world mirrors the methodologies of nonprofits is the "book sprint" phenomenon, where teams of volunteers gather (in person and remotely) to write user guides. Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend. Getting Prepared.

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

For example, between 2006 and 2007, online donations grew by 26% but between 2007 and 2008 online donations only grew by 14%. Dave Steadman Hamilton College March 26, 2009 | Dave Steadman Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Given the slow down, nonprofits should continue to track their own quarterly results and plan accordingly.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

For example, when we brainstormed for additional keywords for our women and poverty campaign, we added terms like “poverty level” and “poverty line” to our existing collection of keywords (“low income women,” “poverty in america,” etc.) and had a CTR was 2.17% and a conversion rate of 4.40%.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

However, in the day to day, I have only seen a couple of examples of really successful nonprofit campaigns in social networks that have converted to "value" as measured by our current paradigm of what is valuable to nonprofits. Looking forward to sharing your calculator (and the blog) with my clients within the sector.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

However, in the day to day, I have only seen a couple of examples of really successful nonprofit campaigns in social networks that have converted to "value" as measured by our current paradigm of what is valuable to nonprofits. Looking forward to sharing your calculator (and the blog) with my clients within the sector.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

blog, and it got me thinking about how and why I first started doing this. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." blog in November of 2006, about halfway through my work on Operation Spy. The blog started with a conference experience.

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