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 realize that I should get my hands on it to understand it better - so I can manage my staff better. That's not where I began my learning journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2012

On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. Indeed, my great, great grandfather Thomas Stehle came to this country as a gunsmith in the 1840s, so I understand how deeply rooted guns are for many people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Each blog post is given a score from 1 to 10, representing how interesting and relevant people have found your content. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? My answer: yes and no. The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5 What can or cannot be reproduced?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

We know that people would much rather look at pictures of cute dogs than think about downers like climate change. And, of course, otters aren’t the only marine animals that people love – there’s mariachi whales. was invented because people want to share cute pictures of their cats. Cute Dog Photos! So, grist-.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I just spent two amazing days at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 , a cross disciplinary crowd of people who work on social good in the areas of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. As a premier provider of digital services , they deliver a steady flow of work to people around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2010

But that hasn't deterred dedicated and passionate folks, younger people, in the nonprofit technology field to take to the social web and ask their friends for help. I had the pleasure of meeting her back in 2008 at the Making Media Connections Conference in Chicago where I delivered the keynote. She isn't some random person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated. This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. Private, personalized messages, not mass emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008. People have a natural tendency to fear relinquishing control and that can be a barrier for some people who could otherwise benefit a lot from working under a fiscal sponsor.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

With almost 100 people in the room, I started the session asking folks to shout out the first two words that came to mind when they thought about social media. As expected, I heard two themes – words that describe the power and benefits of social media and those that articulate very real concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Stephen Blyth, a nonprofit capacity builder who I met when I keynoted Connecting Up in 2008, hosted my trip to NZ and arranged for this workshop to take place on Makaurau Marae which is the land of Maori. Effective training is not about stuffing content down people’s throats, but giving them an opportunity to digest it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 The regional cost of living has climbed so high that 30 percent of local residents—roughly 800,000 people—rely on some form of public or private assistance to get by. billion to $4.8

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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. This would help ensure we are more demand driven–only spending precious time on the things people want.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do. The call to action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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JUNE 27, 2007

com - a free site where people can create and share ringtones about the 2008 election. com is first free site that lets people easily create and share ringtones about the upcoming 2008 elections. Jo Lee from CitizenSpeak emailed me to let me know that CitizenSpeak has a new sibling called RingTones08.com RingTones08.com

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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. This kind of mico-funding approach remains alive and well today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

She discovered people hold two mental headsets around failure – “Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset.” This leads me to a question, “Why don’t more people who work for nonprofits embrace this “learning from failure” or growth mindset – especially when using technology? What did we learn from the experience?

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JUNE 22, 2009

She also announced that the Huffington Post has a new living section which feature the stories of people volunteering, raising money for causes they care about, and other inspirational stories. Some key themes were focus on relationships and how to encourage other people to volunteer or give way to their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Last year, this campaign had hundreds of people sharing their love for hundreds of moms, and nearly $20,000 USD was raised to build a home for the TwitterKids of Tanzania and their classmates who attend Mama Lucy Kamptoni’s school in Arusha, Tanzania. I’d like to point two really good social media practices for this campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

This is the first time I ran it for people all from the same organization, with a limited amount of time, and mix of experience. It was from April, 2008! In the last few months , Twitter become popular with old people. At that time, the audience skewed younger. International Youth Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Luckily, I had a lot of smart and generous people in my network who took the time to help me understand the topic. 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. A couple years ago, I made a screencast about Google Analytics for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

In October, 2007, using Twitter - and with Chris Brogan's help (and 81 other people) we sent a young Cambodian woman to college in 24 hours. Last August, 2008, 250 wired geeks at Gnomdex used Twitter to raise college tuition for a young Cambodian woman in 90 minutes ! I'm not sure, but at least one of the first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

KaTREEna Plantometer Every Human Has Rights 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference The Niapele Project $40 for 40 Years of Fair Housing. I've heard some people describe widgets as suitcases. Alas, travel schedule prevented me from hearing it live, but Peter posted his slides and examples. Here's the links to examples he mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. It’s the same sort of discomfort that some people feel about approaching the task of listening for learning using the social web. It is harder to convince people who aren’t already social media users to use it in their personal lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

So, I was delighted to get an opportunity to test some new icebreaker at the evening event that was intended to get people to know each other in the room and connect online. I asked folks if they were on Twitter or Facebook, most people raised their hands. I asked folks to raise their hands if they had a smart phone, most did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

This started in 2008, and as Kathy notes, “We didn’t know what we would learn, or how it would change our own work and our work with grantees. They are especially interested in knowing what how people interpret and getting actionable suggestions. This will be very valuable information to the field.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2008

But many other people across America won't have that luxury. According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Later today, our family will sit down for a lovely Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. How many people call you to ask for help in analyzing why a relationship is not working versus working. Our first instinct is to give people information. They discovered that people were annoyed by the wizard. Direct the Rider. Next comes the feeling.

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MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and share opportunities to give or volunteer for social causes using social networking strategies. Your contribution to Social Actions will make it easy for people all over the world to leverage their social graphs for good causes and hopefully make the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2008

Congratulations to Marnie Webb for winning the 2008 NTEN Award at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans. Oh, I also got a people's choice award (popular vote) The person you turn to most for trusted advice (for nonprofit technology issues). As the winner of last year's award I got to introduce her. The same results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 errors , which will smooth out as more people play with it and give them feedback. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues.

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APRIL 29, 2008

It is about how these young people are using all of their widgets and gadgets for causes. Leave your comment before May 9th, 2008 at midnight EST 3.) Here's more about what's in the paper and what isn't. You can grab the paper from this cool Sprout Widget.). Anyway, I'm giving away a copy of Ben's book. Here's how it will work.

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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. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector.

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