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OCTOBER 25, 2010

We are sharing our research in the early stages to help identify other case studies we should profile and to get feedback on our working hypothesis. on November 5, 2010. For nonprofits and causes, having the right corporate partner can leverage the impact of the social change work. Komen for the Cure and ultimately $4.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Last week, I was noodling around with the idea of professional learning in a connected age : How professionals learn using social networking tools to improve their effectiveness at work. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Two different green campaigns were launched this week with different objectives and strategies. What's different about the tone of this campaign is that it using happiness, love, and optimism as the core drivers. Two different green campaigns were launched this week with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I’ll be heading to the Independent Sector ’s Annual Conference “ Forging a Stronger Future Together ” in Atlanta October 20-22 with over 500 leaders from from across the nonprofit and philanthropic community. Darell Hammond, co-founder and CEO of KaBOOM!

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MARCH 18, 2013

.” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated. If so what are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Coordinate efforts, take joint action, and dis­seminate information about what works. Things are emerging in different places, mirroring what is happening elsewhere. What if a funder is also an activist deeply connected to the movement work? by Robin Katcher, Management Assistance Group Summer 2010 Nonprofit Quarterly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

The 3rd annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit will take place on September 15, 2010 from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT , with over 800 women from across the US and abroad in the non-profit, political and business world and featuring an incredible lineup of thought provoking panels featuring technology change makers. I have two comp tickets to give away.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company. When considering a launch party for Zoetica at SxSW interactive, we wanted it to be different from the party atmosphere that pervades the culture of the conference.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. The Wisdom 2.0 I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. It’s thousands of individuals committed to putting GiveMN’s tools to work for Minnesota and transform the way Minnesotans experience giving. We try to work differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

her work appears on CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and the’s the author of a forthcoming white paper from the ZeroDivide Foundation about opportunities to use mobile to help serve and empower people in poor/marginalized US communities. Larry has been working with nonprofits for 28 years. Inbound links must work from mobile devices!

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? What is your objective? Who is the target audience? How will you measure success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation. Let’s look at the different ways they use slideshare. (1) Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations. I don’t have be a networked silo! (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In true “Ignite” style, each presenter had five minutes to present 20 slides about their nonprofit programs, initiatives and the ways they’ve seen nonprofits from around the world use social media to make a difference. Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. Matthew Mahan , vice president of impact at Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What will be different about nonprofits? The point is that there are different levels of transparency for nonprofits and it is knowing where that line is and how transparency can make the organization more effective. Of course, they also send their operational staff into the field to work with their partners and keep them accountable.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. What works?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting. MomsRising Health Reform Blog Carnival – September 2010. What Worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

After witnessing micro-lending programs on three different continents, I came to the conclusion that in most cases the poor don’t need loans, they need jobs. You can plug into conversations on lots of different platforms and channels; on Facebook, blogs, Twitter, and, of course, by email. I’ve been thinking about conversation lately.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010. How It Works: We will donate $Z to Room To Read (up to a whopping $10,000) based on the following formula: Z = (Number of people on list below that retweet) x $0.01

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

They raise funds and awareness in the United States for the lifesaving work that more than 6,000 staffers of Geneva-based UNHCR undertake for refugees around the world, 24/7. million refugees worldwide, this is pretty important work… and did I mention lifesaving? Given that there are more than 43.3 Why important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  Here's how it works: Here's a Foursquare Flashmob deal (you don't have to be a Foursquare user to participate in the group discount, but if you are, it adds to the fun!): created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water explains clearly on their homepage the three things that make them different from other nonprofits: their 100% model, their emphasis on proving where donations go with GPS tracking and their collaborations with local partners in the countries to which they bring clean water. How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Maybe in 2010 well both switch! It sat in the box for three weeks during the holiday rush and December work deadlines. Did I really want to subject myself to changing my work habits when I'm under pressure to get things done? Identify what software won't work on the 64 bit system and find alternatives (esp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was working in financial services and my role was in the Managing Director’s office, which enabled me to gain an overview of running a large organisation. Non-profits that we work with are across India, in big cities, smaller towns, even villages. Please can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your career prior to GuideStar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity have lunch with Libby Leffler who works on strategic partnerships at Facebook with nonprofits. If you work in nonprofits and social media, you are likely to be seeing a lot of more of Libby as she will is doing a lot more speaking about Facebook and Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Note from Beth: My colleague, John Weeks, is an expat nonprofit techie living and working in Cambodia. I spent every day for a full year, and I gave away $10 to 365 different projects that I thought were making a difference, somewhere in the world. I’ve been working in the humanitarian world for 15 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week I was in Pittsburgh for 2010 GEO National Conference, " Unleashing Philanthropy's Potential: Smarter Grantmaking for Better Results." This format is different from the traditional conference model of panels and speeches because participants get an opportunity to have a conversation about the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Engagement in the network provides a bigger benefit than to the individual member, the networks can work on finding solutions to big social issues. A social impact network is different than a coalition or alliance – where the agenda and actions are controlled. LSF’s Lessons Learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Note from Beth: I’m working on the sequel to the Networked Nonprofit – it is a book about using measurement to prove and improve results with the Measurement Goddess KD Paine. (Her recent book, Measuring What Matters , is a must read.). Source: Altimeter. Optimization for Mobile Platforms. Next Steps.

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MAY 10, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve been working in the nonprofit technology sector since 1990 and there was an old saying, “It isn’t a matter if the technology fail, it is a matter when and what your Plan B is.” But this past Give Local America Day, technology did not work. ” We always had some sort of back up plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Since then, over 10,000 individual fundraisers have raised more than $11 million – including over $1 million for Central African Republic as part of the 2010 September Campaign to bring clean water to all of the Bayaka people. In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. Thanks Jordan S for working with us on this! I dusted off my weak Excel skills to determine that we had 173 different people use the #nmc2009 tag, and then did a count and sort to look at the frequency. I resisted using the title of “report card”. Tweet, tweet, tweet… Sweet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. It is everyone together that makes the difference. Plans for 2010 Twestival are already in the works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

conference in 2010. Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. Here's a summary of the different viewpoints in the nonprofit sector about it.

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MAY 24, 2012

I work as a trainer and capacity builder for nonprofits and technology and more lately social media and networked approaches. It was very inspiring here from Giselle Bhati who will graduate this year and work for the Marriott Hotels. Part of Akilah’s program is that students start social businesses to give back to their communities.

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APRIL 21, 2010

What I love about this project is that it is giving a different lens and context to think about social media for social good. Lethal Generosity: The Context and Coinage Kami and I have been working on fine-tuning a definition for lethal generosity. I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111).

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