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. Stated another way, organize and simplify. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. What tools do you think will be the best and easiest for nonprofits to use in 2009? File Sharing. User Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. As an excerpt in your e-newsletter, and clicking through to read the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The nonprofit Generations of Hope is competing in the top category, for the $250,000 prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Kyla thinks everyone has a chance at a prize. “An

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Finally, as a conservation organization, we’re always looking at ways to reduce our use of paper. When and why did you implement your first Seafood Watch App? What were some of the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

If you've been thinking of launching or expanding your organization in social media, Slideshare is a good starting point for information and advice. Twitter.org: What, why, who and how for Nonprofit Organizations using Twitter (Amy Sample Ward). Upgrading Your E-Newsletter (CanadaHelps.org).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media.

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