Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. I have years of blog content and resource collections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. I think I can write something up.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow.

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JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Visit the original post here. What It Means.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street.

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JULY 26, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. 6 Jill C 09.17.08

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Being able to engage them through social media is the goal!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits. Blogging for Nonprofits (Shirley Sexton).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1 According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, in 2010 average weekday sales were down by almost 9 percent from 2009. Today, people get their news in a variety of ways such as blogs, online versions of newspapers, social media, etc. Here’s why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

There's an interesting conversation happening in the UK at a seminar on May 20, 2009 to explore digital inclusion for social capital, building on a paper written by Will Davies on The Social Value of Digital Networks in Deprived Communities. What are successful examples of outreach?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with FourSquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. are examples of the causes. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. Essentially, nonprofits have been advertising Facebook to untold millions for free helping it become the powerhouse that it is today – the largest, most active social networking website on the Web. &# on Facebook. Not even good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) If you have an email list captured by one application, a donor list captured by another, a social network in another, and you give them all equal “weight,&# then you’re asking for trouble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples.

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APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

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. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

Network for Good and TrueSense Marketing recently went mining through $381 million in donations through our platform. First, the data set for this study is limited to donations powered by the Network for Good platform. For example, the loyalty factor for donors acquired through generic giving pages is 66.7% We looked at: 3.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

5. Can you comment on the value of using Facebook for community building, social networking, and true peope-to-people giving? In April, 2009, we celebrated reaching 200 million users and we designated 16 nonprofits to receive the proceeds from virtual gifts. I wonder about how much Facebook really knows about us?

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JANUARY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" For example: “5 Things You Can Do To Break Your Bottled Water Habit.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Convio is hosting a free webinar with Emily Riley , Senior Analyst from JupiterResearch, and social media blogger Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. The free webinar - going live at 2pm EST, Wednesday, 17 December.( read more )

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I and social media but have not thought it through in relation to my organisation. For more: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit: Dealing with Resistance. Why Should Your Nonprofit Embrace Social Media (Or Not)? Social Networks for Fundraising. Dealing with Resistance.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Develop a Social Media Guideline for Your Organization. Know the Risks.

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JUNE 5, 2009

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APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. After all, I was ancient.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Don’t give me their email, but connect me to them through the social network. Can anyone help me.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Here’s an example in the channel page: 24 Hours for Darfur Channel Here’s an example on the standard video page: 24 Hours for Darfur standard view If you are a 501(c)3 it’s a no-brainer to sign up. Don’t give me their email, but connect me to them through the social network. Can anyone help me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence. What questions are you asking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

I've been preparing for a Leadership Conference with TCG (Theatre Communications Group, the service organizations for theatre companies) on strategic social media. So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  Foursquare is a location-based social network. 

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