Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Information Coping Skills: Turn off the damn computer and go for a walk. Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You? Vote for All These Awesome Nonprofit Panels At SXSW.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

tools or looking to share your social media successes and lessons learned, please stop by and add your voice to the conversation: [link]. TechSoup.org is a trusted technology resource that offers a variety of information and services for the nonprofit sector. billion in IT expenses as of September 2008. Have any questions?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 7 With the large number of nonprofits that offer similar services, individual donors are striving to make more informed decisions before investing their charitable dollars. Given this trend, individual donors may soon demand information on a nonprofit’s outcomes before investing in it.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

I first heard Penelope Burk speak at the International Conference of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals in 2008. It was an opportunity for our hospital and foundation president and CEOs to provide information, answer questions from our attendees and for the first time in several weeks – lend a voice of hope.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

3) keep stakeholders informed? And it only makes sense if the connections that can be made, the communication channels opened, the voice heard is worth that investment. So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Would this help: 1) gain donors?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

For them, it’s about having reliable and fast Internet access; accessing health care services via mobile in rural areas; voicing views online without fear of persecution, not having useful services blocked by Internet service providers (ISPs), not being exposed to cyberbullying, or fearing to become a victim of online fraud.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I hope next year at this time, all six on this list will still be going strong and accompanied by a chorus of new voices. If you need a good reason to read her blog, sit down for an afternoon with this incredible talk she gave in 2008 at an arts marketing summit and prepare to be blown away. Asking Audiences.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind the @wellstoneaction profile, took some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few questions. Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. www.MHPonline.org April 22, 2009 | Rick Bernardo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. In 2008, I had my first opportunity to speak on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit " with Ed Schipul as the moderator.

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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. And how will this impact the way we build relationships and find information?

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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. That’s where I first discovered and connected with the Global Voices Community around my interests in Cambodia. (I’m Dancing on Different Sides of the Adoption Curve. I’m now an advisor ).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With a tangible call to action, ColorOfChange recruited more than 285,000 members during the course of the campaign -- gathering together the rightfully angry tweeters and bloggers into one cohesive voice -- and managed to convince nearly 300 advertisers to stop supporting the show. Movement Building and Elections. Additional Resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

They keep me company, and they keep me they informed. I recommend you listen to his December 22, 2008 show where he created a montage of his favorite quotes from guests. Voices on Genocide Prevention by the U.S. I listen to podcasts while I cook, garden, walk, commute, and travel. Listen/subscribe on iTunes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Organized crime, Mr. Carlin, says is selling our information and making some very serious money. Same with social networking, you should expect that your private information may end up somewhere you didn’t intend. And for good reason.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

but pack in a tremendous amount of information. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. So, why shouldn't our information, data, actions, and search happen in real time as well?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

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. This note-taking software helps users capture, organize, and share information across an organization. This amazing success would not have been possible without TechSoup.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

to information exchange. NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. to agreements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. He mentioned that "digital natives" get their information from their peers. With so much information coming out, how we can get our message out and heard? You need to get past the information overload and information clutter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

I learn a lot from the flow of information out of Twitter. Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. Statistics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. But blogs are all about authenticity, transparency and the voice of a real person. How do you handle a blog with multiple voices? Figuring out what niche information need your blog can fill.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

I learn a lot from the flow of information out of Twitter. Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. Statistics.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Information for bloggers. Information about the campaign and how to get involved.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). Vi is unquestionably an expert on Seattle's Chinatown and on the building we were touring, but she repeatedly shared information she'd learned from visitors.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

A good site gives users the information that they need quickly and efficiently. You’ll find it’s not hard after spending a little time away from it to cut down unnecessary text and still convey the relevant information. Having external voice to share with kitchen sinkers about managing the web is invaluable. (I

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Information on a label and a short video clip informs the buyer about the history behind objects including a tulip, fishing boat, licorice and tea towel.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Read the full case study here.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Try first asking people to voice their support by signing an email petition. One of the beauties of online fundraising is how it makes it easier to gather valuable information about your supporters and customize their treatments based on this information. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. The secondary goal is to provide better free, or fair information to people in these countries. Hopefully sometime in 2008 we will be able to establish that office. She was also awarded their annual Ida B.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Earlier this year, a group of informal science researchers, led by Rick Bonney of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, published an extremely useful report on public participation in science research (PPSR). How do we define and talk about these different kinds of participation? Fortunately, science has a (partial) answer.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. Maybe you just target your board members to keep them informed, etc.; use the show notes well, point back to the blog, more information, etc. Check out their postcasts: Corey: 501c3cast.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Developers of the ECHO project are exploring new ways to use web technology to bring native voices into museum exhibits and research. By submitting Freedom of Information Requests he was able to get listings of several major UK museum collections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. All in all, it was a exciting evening.

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