Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Note from Beth: Last May, Mark Pescue published a provocative essay called the "Tower and the Clouds" which talked about the tension between working in traditional, hierarchical nonprofits and the "cloud" like behavior of working with social media. Could this be a new type of nonprofit or not? to partner around.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. On the one hand, Deborah Finn is an example of “strong tie,&# a respected colleague that I’ve known for over ten years in the nonprofit technology community. We were honored to do a luncheon discussion at the Berkman Center on the Networked Nonprofit.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

A couple years ago, I made a screencast about Google Analytics for Nonprofits. Over the years, I've been able to rub elbows with metrics geeks, even to pretend to be one at the 2008 E-Metrics Summit in DC. Sean Power is a metrics geek but one who understands what it is like to walk in nonprofit shoes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Social Impact Nonprofit Social Media Survey View more presentations from Weber Shandwick Social Impact. The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. One focuses on telling nonprofits not to bother with social media, the other provides some strategic ways to move forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Pimp My Nonprofit Panel at SXSW. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Vote for All These Awesome Nonprofit Panels At SXSW. Nonprofit Blogging Policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

About a year ago, I did a lot of research on a screencast about widgets for nonprofits and put together two wikis - Nonprofit Widgets (for a session at 2007 NTC Conference) and Fundraising Widget. KaTREEna Plantometer Every Human Has Rights 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference The Niapele Project $40 for 40 Years of Fair Housing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday. Nonprofits can no longer ignore these tools or they risk becoming irrelevant." My notes are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, “ Take Me To The Social Web.” Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post about Nonprofits and Instagram , asking if it was valuable for nonprofit marketing. On my post last week, Andy Sternberg , shared some thoughts about the value Instagram can provide brands, including nonprofits. This is a high level engagement task, to take a photo and tag it on Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2010

. The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is to nonprofit techies what SXSW is to social media professionals. I feel it is important to help encourage the next generation of nonprofit techies. I had the pleasure of meeting her back in 2008 at the Making Media Connections Conference in Chicago where I delivered the keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A big hat tip to Nedra Weinreich for a link to this study about nonprofit social media adoption: Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson at U Mass Dartmouth surveyed the 200 largest nonprofits and found that they are adopting social media. tools to pay attention to. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. It made me think about the question, "What if I could start all my social media and nonprofits work over from scratch? What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" What would I do differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2011

He will talk about his work — and the whole notion of free agents working with NGOs as highlighted in our book, The Networked Nonprofit. I first encountered Shawn back in 2008 during the annual Blog Action Day. That year, the focus was on global poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

This past week, Google announced that it would close Google Reader on July 1st. Nonprofit technology colleague Nancy Schwartz shared that link and it prompted a lot of angst for many who had grown dependent on this free software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Engagement is the first step in building the relationship between your nonprofits’s supporters and the organization. Today’s nonprofit donors, volunteers, and fans are living a complex world, have busy lives and probably receive more messages and information than they can deal with. Facebook Ladder of Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - Here's how. Other posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Getting the Big Picture: Intro to ICT Systems and Analysis (1/10/2008). Building the Foundation: Hardware, Software and Networks (1/17/2008). Mission Critical: Databases/Constituent Relationship Management (1/24/2008). Measure Twice and Cut Once: Technology Planning, Budgeting and Implementation (1/31/2008).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Last year, many more nonprofit panels made it onto the agenda and there was even a nonprofit lounge hosted by BeaconFire. . It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2007

The SXSW 2008 Panel initial results are in and the Pimp My Non Profit Panel made the list! I don't know Michaela face-to-face, but we know each other through our mutual connections in blogging, nonprofits, social media and Cambodia. Tunnel by Eschipul on Flickr. I'm stunned. Erin Denny , Senior Product Manager, YouthNoise Initiatives.

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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). Many of nonprofit Internet strategists are Dog lovers! Back in 2007, I noticed a pattern in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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. I started my current blog in 2008 just after I gave birth to my first daughter. How did you discover my FB page? Words of wisdom about blogging? Know why you’re blogging and be real.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. What was the role of the nonprofit, charity:water, in working with Twestival? In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

On Tuesday, March 25, 2008, I will be co-moderating with Flickr's Community Manager, Heather Champ, an online event over at TechSoup called Images of Social Change. The event will cover the benefits of creatively displaying your nonprofit organizations' work in images. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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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. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0 The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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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. Influencer marketing might be a new term for many nonprofits, but the concept isn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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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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MAY 5, 2008

Butterfly by Beth Kanter Social Butterfly writes about nonprofits and social change and social media. Academics and work aside, my passion is working with and on behalf of nonprofits. Why do you think it is important for nonprofits to embrace social media? What are a couple of your favorite social media or nonprofit blogs?

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MAY 4, 2011

Stacey’s been running this campaigns since 2008 that combine core human emotions – giving thanks or love. She has also built up a responsive core group of supporters. Nonprofit tech and social change bloggers are supporting the campaign with these inspiring posts. Carol Quinn: Your Mama.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

This year I’ve been focusing on data visualization and techniques for nonprofits – and working on my visual thinking skills without letting my basic drawing skills become a barrier. I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Lela talked about how and why sound founded this enterprise in 2008 and their programs that are disrupting poverty. He talk shared examples that are in his book, “ Age of Context ,” a must-read for those of us in the nonprofit tech sector and beyond. ” Next up was Dave Evans, Chief Futurist at Cisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey. How is your nonprofit engaging with babyboomers through social media or other channels?

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