Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

" I have to caution people that when I share the results of my experiments and learnings - that it is a culmination of 6 plus years of daily exploration of Web 2.0. I tell folks that my recent experiences are like playing a Paganini Violin piece. So, we rented a 1/10 size cello and started on some lessons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Then in June 2008 I launched the @ NonprofitOrgs profile on Twitter. Five Lessons Learned. 1) Your organization’s social media campaigner should be passionate about the Internet, social media, and flexible, and most importantly willing to experiment with new tools. 2) Being an early adopter helps increase your numbers.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

72% of those surveyed said they were just starting out or have only a few months experience. Time put in per week increases as overall experience in social media increases: median 2 hours/week for folks just starting out. The key findings: . That means you and your staff may be just as "experienced" as these folks!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Growing up, I took ballet lessons, played flute, attended concerts, learned how to draw, painted with water colors and oil paints, wrote poetry and short stories, learned how to spin wool and weave fabrics, sew, theater improv. Learn more about the women being honored and create your heartspace for your mom here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment. Thanks Teresa Crawford For Helping Us Swim Upstream. Don't Let $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation Slip Away! Why Is Pharoth Wearing A Foo Camp T-Shirt? Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. You're Never Too Old To Change the World.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) PostgreSQL is also cross-platform, with binaries available for Linux and Win32 from Postgresql.org , and Mac OS via Darwin Ports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

In 2008, I had my first opportunity to speak on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit " with Ed Schipul as the moderator. So, it is with a great pleasure that Michaela shares some of her experience and takeaways from this year's SXSW. We had to replace one of the speakers and I recommended Michaela. It re-energizes and inspires.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Stories come out experimenting, helping people find their voices or the confidence or the desire to take an action, volunteer their time, or raise money for a cause they care about. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

For example, in the case of the YouTube meetup at the Ontario Science Centre in 2008, Kevin Von Appen commented that "I'm still wrestling with how the interactions of participants - mainly drinking, dancing, gossiping and shooting video of same squares up with our mission to engage people directly with science and technology."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. 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. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In 2008, Convio pioneered a new program called Convio Go!™ Do you need help getting your leadership or board on board to make the move to a more robust online fundraising program? Organizations of all sizes can get into the game, you just need a playbook. You can’t afford to wait any longer!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. It also means that I can't stubbornly soldier on with a lesson plan if it is bombing.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. Habitat for Humanity of Omaha has built 993 homes for families since 1984, and has doubled in size twice since Bob Lynn joined the team in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It's a relationship driven by their experiences with their bank, their airline or travel site, and yes, Google, Apple, YouTube and eBay. . Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A To get your invitation visit [link].).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I've been experimenting with online fundraising in an age of social media since 2006. This event combines the lessons learned from previous fundraising activities on Twitter: A local, face-to-face component based on the popular "Tweet Ups" or " Net2Tuesday " meetups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. It's been a great experience so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Social Media Nonprofit Poetry Slam When: Saturday, March 14th from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Room 18BCD Description: Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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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. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I want to create presentation formats of this materials as well as experiment with e-books. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008. Will continue to do free agent fundraising for the Sharing Foundation and sharing my lessons learned. This will go hand in hand with the training work I do.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. Six months in, the Museum committed to creating a highly interactive, separate ticket "you be the spy" experience (now open and named Operation Spy). The blog started with a conference experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

She then asked us to talk in pairs about our experience with online networking and asked people to share. Personal experience, to connect to younger groups. Breakout Session 1 Jenny Kapp, Community Connections Australia - Get ConnectED: Weaving A New Social Web for People with Disabilities. Need time and patience.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In honor of C3's 5 year anniversary this month, I present to my fellow techies in young nonprofits my 5 simple lessons learned from 5 years of operating in the cloud: 1. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Didn't happen.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In honor of C3's 5 year anniversary this month, I present to my fellow techies in young nonprofits my 5 simple lessons learned from 5 years of operating in the cloud: 1. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Didn't happen.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

Now, on to the lessons thus far. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Which leads, finally, to the experience of designing exhibits in Second Life. Now, a month tired-er, I still want to invite you. and to share a few observations and learnings thus far.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

Some still haven’t applied the lessons learned to their organizations. People Does your staff have experience with prior emergency situations? The Chronicle has a very good breakdown of what organizations raised and what has been spent so far. What has your nonprofit done since January 12, 2010?

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

» Monday May 07 2007 Sunny the Seal Melts Hearts on MySpace Monday, May 7, 2007 at 04:34PM | by Hatef Yamini Carie Lewis of the Humane Society recently shared with us some lessons learned about branding and list recruitment from their unique MySpace campaign against clubbing baby seals. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. Through inspiring keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakouts, hands-on lessons, and tons of networking, you will learn how the INBOUND experience, and especially our content, is truly remarkable. General / #fcny / @FastCompany. 2016 MNN Annual Conference.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. How many of us had the experience at some point during the pandemonium, as my daughter says, that folks were like, “Oh, I’m just home resting. You want that ability to have different opinions, and backgrounds, and lived experiences. Oh, my gosh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Building an Everyone a Changemaker™ world is a very different mission from simply looking for the world’s elite social entrepreneurs, it involves using the stories and examples of these entrepreneurs to inspire people to action, sharing lessons learned across our networks and opening up the innovation process to more people.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Facebook, LinkedIn) Blogs offer a human voice, newsworthy information and experiences, and a forum for feedback -- and empower supporters to engage with and share ideas around your stories and news.

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