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MAY 5, 2009

This year we saw a record turnout with more than 100 volunteers assisting about 60 Bay-Area organizations. Because we try to match volunteer skills with organizations on a one-on-one basis, sometimes a volunteer's organization does not show up or we have to assign two volunteers to work with one organizations.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Unfortunately, if you work in digital strategy and social media, monitoring social is a daily task and as a result a bad mood has become an occupational hazard. Animal welfare organizations and zoos went wild. Recently, my social media feeds have been anxiety producing, if not downright depressing. What to do? 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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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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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 14, 2010

We know that video can connect people to the work you do every day in a ways simple text just can’t match. 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. Holy smokes!

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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 social media worked best for promoting Give to the Max Day. We have a lot of work left to do.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

She is working two jobs, one is at the Bamboo Indochine store at the airport. 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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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 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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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Coordinate efforts, take joint action, and dis­seminate information about what works. How do traditional non-profit organizations link up to movements that are sparked by a moment in time and the conditions preceding it? What if a funder is also an activist deeply connected to the movement work? Engage in advocacy campaigns.

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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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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. What role will social media and connectedness play in your quest to improve your professional work? Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

And, because those of work in the social good sector know that giving is to become a habit or part of culture, it can’t be transactional. I also saw several appeals from organizations where the ask was not to support their organization, but the specific call – that is truly abundance and it is beautiful.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Look to attract crossover audiences who don’t only follow other organizations like you. Your audience isn’t only using social media during the 9am – 5pm work day. A social media post can affirm that other parts of your organization are working – that people are seeing your advertisements or internalizing your mission.

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MAY 31, 2012

.” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. ” Does this signal that working in networks been become normal in the nonprofit sector?

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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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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? Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment.

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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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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. 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.

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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 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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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marnie says that nonprofits should own the impact and not the to dos, but I asked her but who will actually do the work? She says it is a mix between doing and curating, but the we’ve got to change the “I’ll do it&# as the default organizational behavior. What was the objective? All in one day.

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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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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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DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. Today, TechCrunch wrote about a new mobile application called CauseWorld Here's how it works: CauseWorld app users earn “karma points” when they walk into stores and check in with their cell phone. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on.

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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. And as such, we don’t work any harder or longer than other nonprofits. We try to work differently.

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JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Ever since I’ve kept in touch with her over Twitter. Zawadi has launched her own consulting firm and works with African nonprofits and social change activists on their social media and crowd funding campaigns. We did a little coaching.

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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. We will pick the winner based on who we would most like to work with given the entries. Less of an agency and more of a change agent.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. We’re really excited about working with TechiesGiveBack and are looking forward to hearing from potential sponsors. We decided to create an organization to facilitate those activities." Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter?

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APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. He works with organizational leaders to expand their sense of what is possible online and to innovate and succeed.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. After the nonprofit Ignite Panel at Blackbaud’s conference I got a few minutes to talk to Claire about her work at Twitter and how non-profits can use the information network for good. You’ll hear from the below folks in this hour long session …. Check out the video.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Using a futuristic body parts metaphor I might add) As part of this, we have to face the question of the degree of openness that a nonprofit organization will embrace. But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations. Wait a minute! Isn’t that scandalous?

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JUNE 9, 2010

Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations. 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. 9) Sharing Your Organization’s Story. 6) Training. 7) Fundraising. 8) Advocacy.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Given that there are more than 43.3 Why important?

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