Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used [.]

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2. Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies. Nonprofit Governance Index 2012: CEO Survey of BoardSource Members. 3 October 2012. Sources: 1.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

So … when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted by Congress in 2002, there just wasn’t much history to help nonprofits understand its impact – on them. Source: Adapted from Nezhina and Brudney, 2010. The Effects of Adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Nonprofit Organizations. 22, Number 3, Spring 2012. Vermeer, T.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Eventually, nonprofit and for-profit sectors in the United States began to adopt some of the concepts from the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship movement (Defourny et al., Banks were not lending.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Ten Inspiring Nonprofits (2012) on Instagram by Mashable. As of September, 2015 , Instagram had 400 Million users.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2012

Based on the rock solid fundraising performance by Convio clients, I’m hopeful of what’s to come in 2012. Overall, Convio clients raised 17 percent more online in the last three months of 2011 than in 2010. ” How will you carry-over your year-end momentum into 2012?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. — a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. A session at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, recounted on the TechSoup blog, offers advice on using storytelling for fundraising. Only one year later, much has changed.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5. Oh, and what will happen come January when you close the 2011 walk and open 2012?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. Tablet adoption is very brisk. We’re working from restaurants, cafes, hotels, our cars, planes, the beach, and classically from home.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2012

Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. This time I collected all of the nonprofit emails that I was sent between December 15, 2011 and January 1, 2012. Adoption Fees for ALL Adult Animals Underwritten by an Animal Angel! So Different, Yet So Similar. URGENT-Just a few hours left!

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Some sources are indicating that more people will own smartphones than traditional cellphones by 2012. Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. As Gary Vaynerchuk put it the other day , you need a mobile strategy by 2012. 2000 - 2010. could embed the video]. iPhone/iPad.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. SMS text-to-give in the United States experienced a major spike following the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 but has never achieved inflated expectations.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

And that in 2012, sales of smartphones are poised to outpace sales of PCs. I was not an early adopter of a mobile device. I carried an old-fashioned flip phone for so long that some of my friends at the Convio Summit 2010 made fun of me. Is your organization ready? And I've never looked back.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

The 2013 NTEN Award Winner Maddie Grant is a classic Gen-X early adopter of technology and lover of "shiny new toys". So thank you for being a vital part of the NTEN community. As we celebrate the NTEN award winner, we celebrate all of you. We''re big fans of Maddie and our community agrees! 13ntc Community nten awards'

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. But that’s a blog post for another day.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

[Editorial note: the following article first appeared in the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , a free quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders.] Each organization plays a unique role in the sector, contributing our own solutions to the complex problem of helping nonprofits adopt and use technology to create more social change.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on. And the first time that happened was in 2010, which is kind of a fun story. They learned to use them in high school.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on. And the first time that happened was in 2010, which is kind of a fun story. They learned to use them in high school.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012. A Capital Conundrum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Since becoming widely adopted just a couple years ago, social media has supercharged social action, cause marketing, and social entrepreneurship. In 2012, location-based apps and technologies will play a central role in how campaigns are organized, managed, and ultimately won. The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.).

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