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DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. After all, data is only as good as it is actionable! My notes: People are using social media for social interaction and leaving what Eugene Eric Kim called "ant trails." Who liked each other, who didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation. Your People Are Talking. What we’ll show you is how to build on your engagement opportunities and take action. Social Listening In Action. Are You Listening?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Pitchfalls are the common mistakes people stumble into when making a pitch. Creepy, awkward conversations encourage people to beeline for the bar, not to learn more about your mission. That’s why I wrote Pitchfalls: why bad pitches happen to good people. Your appeal needs to stand out and inspire people to take action.

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APRIL 22, 2010

The week is a signature event created by the Points of Light Institute , to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation. Do Something Focused more on teen activism and engagement with causes, their site offers Virtual Volunteer opportunities so you can take action without leaving your couch!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

You can follow the story at www.fatcyclist.com , or you can just go join the people making it happen by donating here or here. By this time (12/11/2009 2:23 pm pst) he's raised over $135K. Create a challenge or competition that inspires people to compete. It's only been 8 days ! 5 Takeaways. what else can we learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Mozilla is reaching out to geeks far and wide to give a helping hand to nonprofit organizations and people all over the world to experience the joy of using the Web! Here's an update from Mike Everett-Lane on the Social Actions blog about how the nonprofit tech community is supporting the event. Here's some ways to participate: 1.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Sl’ack-Ti-vism.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. It isn’t a horrible alien thing that punishes people and makes judgments. Before Action Review/ After Action Review. His thinking about developmental evaluation resonated with me: Evaluation needs to be relevant and meaningful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Taking action for social change without lifting a finger.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Redesign and recharge your blog.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. Focus 24 hour event with broadcasts and all local partners participating to raise awareness (a sort of Blog Action Day on steroids).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

With the goal of generating an unexpected outpouring of positive feedback, the “ Love, The Climate ” campaign encourages people to thank those who are making a difference, and show those who haven't yet seen the light how much more love they'll receive when they change their minds. Check out the announcement video here. Need some inspiration?

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AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. billion users, who are very engaged, take actions based on recommendations from friends,” he added. Co-Disruptor: Ink to the People. More than 1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog. Gallaga cites a specific example of giving money to DonorsChoose.org, a company that connects students and teachers to people who would like to donate. He was able to see the real people helped. Interesting twist on "impact."

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JULY 23, 2009

The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Not just important or famous people, either. Are you connected to lots of different kinds of people who can complete different tasks?

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow. Since the promoted post was a video and had a strong call to action (today is the day to donate) we feel it was a great use of promoted posts. In the end, credit goes to the thousands of people who care about Minnesota and showed some love on Give to the Max Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

But it can be time-consuming to pick through a wide range of slideshows to find those that are up-to-date, actionable, and appropriate to nonprofits. Social Media for Non Profits - Tapping into the motivations of The People to change the world around us (Ed Schipul). Here's a hand-picked selection of presentations to get you started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

There are always people who are new to your network and may not know this yet. Will you be a free agent fundraising and make 2009 be the Year of Living Givingly? There are also some systemic ways to address this, certainly the work that social actions is doing. Thanks to Lamarguerite for this important reminder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). After a while, Twitter became my "home away from home." To me, this was humbling honesty and amazing transparency. Everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. However, she did point out that there is actually a connection between Einstein and Social Media: Social media is like a FIELD / SPACE where people 'meet'.

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AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Gear and software for people with disabilities is usually provided through charity or from medical supply companies. Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. With snacks!

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JULY 15, 2009

Although at core: People coming together in the real-world are key to fueling how we organize for change. Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. Then check out. Green Drinks.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly Effect, posted on the FB thread , As Malcolm suggested lowering the bar, making it easier for people to participate, is one mechanism at hand. She Jillian York’s critique. But there are other mechanisms at work too.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Having benefited from the generous advice and expertise of many others, we’re honored to share our experience from The Encore Fellowships Network as the “Action” case study in the Winter 2013 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Wisdom About Networks From Encore Network – A Guest Post by Leslye Louie and Lyle Hurst.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This year is our 5th anniversary and we’re funding a drilling rig for our partner in Ethiopia that can provide access to clean and safe drinking water to 40,000 people a year. In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. The 2011 September Campaign. Tell me about this year’s campaign?

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MAY 12, 2009

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing.

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JANUARY 25, 2009

Does the future of online fundraising lie in mobile social networks that have an easy built-in payment system for in-the-moment charitable giving of very small amounts by thousands and thousands of people? Focus 24 hour event with broadcasts and all local partners participating to raise awareness (a sort of Blog Action Day on steriods).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. Social networks like Twitter connect us with people online who share our interests or passions about making the world a better place.

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JULY 17, 2009

I'm hoping that in 2009, we can overcome cultural, funding, and leadership barriers to create a non-profit sector that charts its own course toward open standards, open data and collaborative innovation. Where they become difficult to achieve is at the level of organizational culture, grant-making priorities, and leadership.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. 2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. Successful versions of this approach tie a human emotion to the click action - blame, thankfulness, etc.

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