Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon by Diana Scimone. 9. Get professional help when you need it. 5. Don’t assume people know what you’ve been working on 24/7.

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NetWits

APRIL 26, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. The Nomensa report offers a great example from Cancer Research UK : 2) Offer the opportunity to “join the club”.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." Download the December 2009 version of this list here. NonProfit 2.0

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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 hope to learn the art of sentence combining. I have a confession.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, it is equally, if not more important to reflect on the things we’ve learned, and what we’re grateful for. Personally, I’ve learned a lot from seeing how Salesforce employees give back to their communities. Our employees use it to connect with their purpose, and help lift the communities around them.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

We were thrilled that so many people wanted to learn more about them, but also surprised at how many were already using them at their nonprofits. 14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. Share what you’ve learned in the comments below!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Once you have a good understanding of your expenses, consider the following 8 ways cutting costs could help: 1. Example: Energy/Utility. in 2009 to equip organizations with the skills and tools needed to become successful and sustainable. Learn more, visit [link]. Need more help with your budget?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2009

The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCVA), a nonprofit that serves to promote online security awareness and education, just launched their new initiative at the RSA 2009 conference. We sometimes forget the fact that many of us learn about computers, networks, and security as adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). In Education. In Philanthropy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Chrome September 4, 2008 The hiatus is over with a short entry about Google Chrome , the new browser from Google that I learned about on the twitterverse while I was stopped at one rest stop or another.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” There are ample opportunities for nonprofits to help inform, shape, and create stories for the media. million in 2009 to $687.6 Shirkey also said, “Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Helpful guide tone vs colorful and wordy. learning loops. Fast forward to 2009, Wendy led a process internally to create a social media guidelines and operational handbook. Step 2: make learning in public less stressful, worst case scenarios and contingency plans. Step 3: Reflection – where the greatest learning is.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality? Receive monthly updates.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions. Just like in 2008 when I had an “aha moment” about APIs, in June 2009 I had an “aha moment” about Linked Open Data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

percent in 2009. For example, donations to food banks in 40 cities increased by 2.2 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. We have to apply lessons learned from the GFC. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The 13 winners were selected from 60 finalists drawn from 1,702 nonprofit taglines submitted to the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards competition. A great tagline can help people find you, too! 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. A great example of how word play works in a tagline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ). That’s the secret! … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We both had a front row seat at start of the Web Industry (back then we called it “New Media”), helping to shape how people use new digital technologies. Aliza and I ran into each other again in 2009 at the first Wisdom 2.0 We’re combining forces to learn about how nonprofits are mastering self-care. Mindful Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. And they are also different from large scale social movements where large numbers of people become aligned around a cause — take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as an example.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

60) Search « The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1 » Sunday Feb 01 2009 Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 08:56PM | by Allyson Kapin What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

But first, a great example of Web 1.0 There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. Thank you again for your help. Be Helpful. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. 4 admin 08.05.09

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

At Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), we use data to help us understand and communicate the financial reality facing nonprofit practitioners on the ground. In 2009, we conducted a broad financial overview of 70 domestic violence (DV) service providers, which was followed by a comparative financial analysis of 18 organizations in 2010.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports regularly on the employment situation for people with disabilities, there is strong evidence that it has gotten disproportionately worse for workers with disabilities since 2009. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Note from Beth:   I'm always excited to see inspiring examples of personal fundraising and the dollars raised have come a long way since my first experiment in 2006, a testament to how much more connected we are and the rise of popularity of this technique.  What can Nonprofits can learn from this? 5 Takeaways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

November 28, 2006 Well, both in the process of learning about all of the very cool web 2.0 And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.) Anyone going to help clean up? It’s a mess out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. Set realistic expectations and objectives for pilots, focus on learning and engagement. A significant outreach campaign to raise awareness of the nonprofit community and the local event.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. Instead, they are examples of what it looks like when we double down on our focus to make change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. It generated some valuable insights from donors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

I’ve considered myself pretty successful at both helping clients navigate the tough waters of web development projects, as well as accomplishing web projects for them. The clients should not have expected to get slick 2009 functionality for a mid 5-figure budget. And walked away if they insisted. It’s that simple.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. For example, one can access statistics on giving by metropolitan area, by the political persuasion of various geographic areas, by faith, by wealth indicators, etc. over 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

Rather than spend time telling you what they said and why it’s important – thanks to modern-day technology, you can learn directly from them on your train ride home (you are using mass transit, right!?) – I thought I’d talk a bit about what I have learned through transitions in my career. Take, for example, morale.

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