Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news?

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. We believe China and the IOC should be held accountable to the promises they made during Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympics."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. It looks very promising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I’m a writer – currently working on a novel that explores the dangers of too much science/technology, especially in the realm of extreme religious fundamentalism. I don’t work with nonprofits currently; however I do have a project that I’m working on that will eventually (ideally) turn into one.

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JUNE 24, 2014

That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well. I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { I haven’t been posting near as much as I’d like, mostly because I’ve been rather busy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. You might also consider taking some advice from a 67-year-old blogger. Write for the Web. First, you need to understand how people read on the web. Hint: they don't.) Then, if you haven't already, jump on the Cluetrain : be open, honest, and direct.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. The Rapleaf Business blog also has some great advice on incorporating user generated content instead of working from scratch. This month, all of the links are courtesy of We Are Media. Add your voice to the discussion today! Share Your Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

I just got back from BlogHer , the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. 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. The original can be found here.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org Part of working in the social impact space means thinking about the big picture, the long-term goals, and the multi-year strategy. org and others. Find more pictures and stories from #101010 and 350.org

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

That said, these best practices will be a work in progress and updated regularly. They own YouTube (third most trafficked website globally) and Blogger (the fifth most trafficked)… and Picassa, Picnik, Orkut, Gmail, Chrome, etc. To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 15, 2008

December 2008. October 2008. 2007 Best Podcaster: Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change. Call Them Equal Opportunity Bloggers,” by Jessica Guynn. May 14, 2008. March 5, 2008. Britt Bravo - Having Fun & Doing Good,” by Anna Gordon on Women Who Work Out Loud. Maverick 101” by E.B. The Monthly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If you can invest only 5 hours a week, then you will get the return on investment (ROI) from 5 hours of work. That includes the time necessary to research and write material and to secure images, videos, and graphics, as well the time necessary to manage and edit guest bloggers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

In 2008, Tim was named an Ashoka Fellow. 14 (Berkeley, CA): Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers (Bring a friend!: 6 (Virtual): Juicy Blogging E-Course: The Art & Play of Blogging October 27 (Berkeley, CA) : Blogging for Writers: Build an Audience for Your Work Tweet.

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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. I was quickly affirmed in that there are more questions than answers in this work. What do members give to get?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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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. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations. So I thought how a couple of bloggers came together to fight hunger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

T he fourth guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Sample Ward. Amy is a blogger and trainer focused on supporting and educating organizations and changemakers in the use of evolving technologies that cultivate and engage communities. I like to find ways either in real-time, or after a project, to share.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Understandably, it has come to be somewhat different than I designed it back then, but it still feels good that something that I worked hard on is still serving people. I sat for hours (or days) at a time in front of my screen without contact with the folks I was doing the work for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

2008 will be a great year. Link to other bloggers. Read why this young wired Cambodian American, Nhuong Son feels the Sharing Foundation's work is so important that he is helping me fundraise on the social web. If you are a blogger and want to participate in this blogger's campaign, you can sign up here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. Holly Ross. Michelle Murrain. Jordan Viator.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. Six months later, and despite being delayed again by work, a new template for GBK, and eventually several additional green sites, is almost done. 60) Search « Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December. It's your choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds. Full disclosure: I did some work for Green for Al l to help spread the word about The Green Collar Economy to other bloggers when it came out.

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APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. Elana Wolowitz (EW): I'm pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. What inspired you to join?

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Its time to stop coming up with excuses, according to BoardSource’s CEO Anne Wallestead , our guest blogger this week, and start making your board healthy. I work long days and don’t always have time to exercise.” Whatever she suggested, I had a reason why it just wouldn’t work. Thanks for your wisdom and advice Anne!

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

See3 has been working for months with NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation to conceive, develop, and produce their latest youth-oriented initiative: free.will.power. You can see what some bloggers are already saying here , here , and here. We even re-skinned their MySpace page to reflect the microsite creative!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. s also a Blogger blog for OpenSocial. OpenSocial is creating a common API that works on multiple websites. and not for Google???s

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MARCH 24, 2015

This week’s guest blogger Anne Wallestead, Executive Director of Boardsource, shares all the details on where we are and how to change where we are going. . Leading with Intent found that boards do well at functions related to compliance and oversight, but face challenges with their strategic and external work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

We met face-t0-face at a social media event in 2008, but that was the only time I had interacted her face-to-face. Since then, I’ve followed her work on Twitter and feel like I know here better than the one-time meeting we’ve had. I’m now an advisor ). But she wasn’t able to find examples.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

October 15th is Blog Action Day , an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day. Working through our churches, campuses and other organizations, we engage more people in advocacy. Host your own Dollar A Day screening!

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