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APRIL 23, 2014

It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. As of March, 2014 Instagram has 200 million users. Cheat Sheets and Tutorial To Coach Your Nonprofit CEO.

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APRIL 20, 2010

That's my colleague David Neff who co-founded an organization called Lights. a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to encouraging other nonprofit and cause-driven organizations to use film and video to tell their stories. David wants to know if your organization has a film that promotes a cause and a winner.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

NPR is apologizing for a miss-post or what every social media who manages an organization’s social media presences dreads – posting something on the brand’s social media account that was intended for your personal account. Animal welfare organizations and zoos went wild. The response?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Yesterday afternoon during the ForakerGroup 2010 Nonprofit Leadership Summit, I experienced my first Alaskan earthquake (4.9). I was scared – the floor swayed and I felt like I was on boat. happening in their organizations. Earthquake. How do we deal with negative feedback? How do we deal with conflict?

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Writing and Blogging: I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004 and on this updated wordpress blog since 2010. Organizational resilience is about your organization’s work culture, specifically creating a positive one which includes being supportive, kind, and emphasizing meaningful work. That’s a long time.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 and Catherine T. million, depending on the size of its budget.

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APRIL 6, 2012

This prize will be given annually to an organization that leverages networks. Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff, was the recipient. Winning Best Small Organization is “ Protect Our Defenders ”, a gripping account of sexual assault in the military. Several individuals in the nonprofit technology community were recognized.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

The conference highlights include honoring General Colin and Alma Powell with the 2010 John W. 2. To capture summaries of the 2010 conference to show the richness of the content as a means to promote the event for 2011. On October 21, from 3:30-6:00, I’ll be leading a Networked Nonprofit workshop at the conference.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Last year I covered Give to the Max Day and the impressive results. This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. percent of respondents said their organization benefitted overall from Give to the Max Day. Social media strategy payoff.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. In a 24-hour period, nearly 4,000 Minnesota nonprofit organizations benefited through donations, matching grants and prizes. In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

And, if you’re thinking your organization can’t afford to send you to the conference, there are scholarships available for nonprofits folks. The following year, I organized an Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam where panelists delivered their presentations as poems. In 2010, did a crowdsourced session on crowdsourcing.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

The Red Cross is hosting the Emergency Social Data Summit today Thursday, August 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ET). This is a hybrid event which means you don’t have to be in Washington, DC to participate. You can participate remotely. This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ).

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. The photo above is Leng Sopharath. Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. She graduated from college and is married.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

So how can we put the interest in video to work for our organizations, specifically your year-end fundraising? In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. This personalization technique can be used to insert the donor’s name, asking them by name to step up an increase their gift in 2010.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment. But many smaller organizations don’t. Is mobile on your organization’s radar for 2011? Are larger gift amounts soon to follow?

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. How Abundance Can Connect Arts Organizations With Audiences by Marc van Bree.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do traditional non-profit organizations link up to movements that are sparked by a moment in time and the conditions preceding it? It’s getting a little easier (I think). * “Building Organizations in a Movement Moment,” Beth Zemsky and Dave Mann. Social Policy: Organizing for Social and Economic Justice , vol.28,

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Internal social media coordination, organization and planning.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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JULY 25, 2013

Prior to founding Cloud for Good , I worked for a nonprofit organization that loved to collect information. When I joined the organization as a director of resource development, I inherited the organization’s most valued treasure, an Excel spreadsheet with all the donors and foundations we had contacted in the past seven years.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

While my in-box filled up with many GivingTuesday requests from nonprofits that I support, I was struck by the creativity of how each organization incorporated giving Tuesday into fundraising or donor recognition campaigns. Global Giving did a creative campaign to encourage people to share why they give. kanter *Thank you* Beth!

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

On November 16, 2010, Minnesotans will take part in Give to the Max Day. We’ve partnered with TheUpTake.org , a nonprofit, online video news gathering organization, which will broadcast live coverage of Give to the Max Day using Livestream.com. Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts.

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JULY 4, 2012

I was going to write something patriotic about social media, but I got an email from Mari Tikkanen with story about her recent experience working with maternal/reproductive health organizations and human rights NGOs in Nigeria for the MacArthur Foundation.

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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.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. I wonder though, how much this could be designed to help the organizations build their network of supporters for longer relationships. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections. 50 Nonprofit Organizations on Instagram That You Should Follow Right Now (2015) by Kerri Karvestsi.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. Did get one party hosted by Carwoo and organized by Renee Blodgett who I met a BlogHer in 2005.

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JUNE 13, 2011

These are simply a guidelines to help think through what to measure – or what metrics that will help your organization demonstrate progress towards an objective. . The document includes examples from different industries, including nonprofit organizations and for advocacy campaigns.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations. This ranges from online discussion of the issue to hosting an Emergency Social Data Summit – or #crisisdata on Twitter on Thursday August 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C.,

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Look to attract crossover audiences who don’t only follow other organizations like you. A social media post can affirm that other parts of your organization are working – that people are seeing your advertisements or internalizing your mission. Then share them with your organization’s leadership. Read your social media stories.

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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 This gets rid of the squirrels.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Recently, I bumped into Patricia Martin who just completed a fascinating report on Millennials online engagement with arts organizations and we had a conversation about this topic and the findings from her report. By Patricia Martin, 2010. Scaling Social Change Through Social Media by Guest Post Patricia Martin.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

As it says on our home page , we want to help mindful organizations affect social change – both charities and companies. The deadline is this Sunday February 28, 2010, 12 midnight PST. When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company.

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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. It was organized by Ed Schipul. But free agents are smashing headfirst into nonprofit fortresses—organizations with high walls and wide moats that work very hard to keep insiders in and outsiders out.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. We decided to create an organization to facilitate those activities." Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter? FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay.

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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. As a nonprofit organization ourselves, we have our share of fundraising asks out there. So what gives in Minnesota? Relationships with funders.

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