Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

They couldn’t solve the humanitarian crisis, but they could build a tool that could shine a light on human rights violations, bringing much-needed attention and support to developing emergencies. The tool was Ushahidi. Usahidi means “bearing witness” in Swahili.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The conference highlights include honoring General Colin and Alma Powell with the 2010 John W. Using social media at professional conferences to connect with peers in the room and online is simply a natural way of being for many NGEN nonprofit professionals. It’s the same for them at work, if the tools aren’t blocked.

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MAY 6, 2013

This is a continuation of my work with TBA over the past 3-4 years. The first year I experimented with a peer design that included face-to-face workshops, action learning projects, and monthly calls back in 2010 called ArtsLab. Now the networked capacity building begins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. They designed and created all of the amazing pages and tools on GiveMN. Do what you do best and network the rest.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Here is the breakdown of where our unique visits came from: We earned 202 new likes on our Facebook page on November 16, 2011 and increased our fans by 1,263 since Give to the Max Day 2010. Without their online technical expertise and amazing social and mobile sharing tools, we never could have made all this happen.

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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. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

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., He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The book is still an ideal tool for the hand-to-hand spreading of important ideas, though. For World Malaria Day in 2010, there were many ways that social media users could participate and support World Malaria Day while supporting Malaria No More. The race was part of the World Malaria Day in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. We’ve had a great time brainstorming new promotional ideas, creating new tools and new ways to market ourselves. Launched [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

.” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. He agreed to write this guest post on the topic. Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

On November 16, 2010, Minnesotans will take part in Give to the Max Day. They’ve created all of the innovative tools on GiveMN.org, including social media sharing tools that enable donors to instantly Tweet, Facebook or email their friends about donations they’ve made or nonprofits they support. Go Minnesota!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. NTEN set up an event area on Slideshare for the NTC 2010. Some events have set up branded channels, like the Bar Camp Channel. (5) 6) Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Janet shared an awesome tool kit for nonprofits. ). How networked nonprofits use twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

blog posts from Geoff Livingston and Valeria Maltoni about one popular influence measuring tool. KD Paine’s checklist, step 2, is to select a listening/monitoring tool, an important step in the measuremet process. As Kami Huyse points out, paid tools can be expensive, particularly for small nonprofits.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

Social media has always been a key communication tool for Give to the Max Day. Nevertheless, we believe that our efforts to help Minnesota nonprofits and schools become “Networked Nonprofits,” to nurture social media usage and provide tools for integrating social media, have been key to driving the amazing results we saw again this year.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Regardless of the tool we’re using, the team at MomsRising is committed to deepening and broadening the conversation around public policy issues that impact families in our country. Over the last six months, we have begun to use the “ blog carnival ” tool as a way to highlight content within the context of a specific policy campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together. Some tools mentioned: Landr.co : Good, inexpensive, easy to use tool for building simple mobile websites. Twilio: [link] Great tool for building interactive text messaging programs.- Why should you use it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In February 2010 I organised an event called Follow a Museum , this was prompted by the low number of followers which I felt most museums had on Twitter and simply aimed to boost those numbers. On December 8, 2010 , conductors from around the world will come together to engage with fans, first-timers and complete strangers.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Although an app may be a valuable tool, the website is probably a higher priority for most organizations. Aside from changing the color scheme to match the new book cover , I was ready to invest in “going mobile.” If this isn’t the case, visitors will leave the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. We’re dying to share tactics, tools and trip-ups from organizations who have ventured deep into mobile and lived to tell. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. What’s new? What works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This made think about focusing less on the tools, but more on the implications for nonprofits. This post describes several projects that represent the future of technology and education because they meld tools and needs. What will the social sector look like in 2010? The whole way nonprofits operate will change in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

He used social media (blogging/Twitter) and Blackbaud’s personal fundraising tools (Friends Asking Friends ) to pull off this incredible achievement. Without If those two criteria are met by the stated deadline, Trek Travel will donate one 2010 Paris Finishing Package to witness the finale of the Tour de France !! 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

The Blue Key site was only launched in December 2010, and its social/digital aspects were relatively new, so there was not a lot of data to base KPIs on. What tool did you use? There are several tools that do this, with RowFeeder and Hashtracking being two affordable ones. Why important? Click Image to see larger version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Using new media tools, we’re recruiting people around the world to build a grassroots movement to help raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma many cancer survivors face. The SXSW Interactive Festival. Bring your yoga mat!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Using new media tools, we’re recruiting people around the world to build a grassroots movement to help raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma many cancer survivors face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. A key driver of donations was Facebook, where users uploaded 2.4 million challenge videos. Co-Disruptor: Twitter. Disruptor: GoFundMe. Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive. We emailed this glossary document to attendees and also WhatsApp’d the PDF, bridging the language barrier between those putting out tech tools and those using those tools.

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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." The topics were drawn from learning and tools developed by a community of practice of network funders, launched by the Hawai'i Foundation and the Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is on my list for 2010, to take a deeper dive in filtering tools. Maybe I'm just behind on getting fluent on filtering tools and thus finding the duplication annoying. What filtering tools are you using to avoid information overload or "too much retweeting"? You can also add many RSS feeds at once via OPML.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Social Media Analytics Frameworks and Tools. The report also makes the point that there is currently no single tool that can capture and measure all aspects of social media. The report warns that organizations should not define their measurement strategy by the features and capabilities of the tools. cut and paste).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills! in 2011 to be involved in disaster training programs leading up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, called the “March to 1 Million” program. Now that’s social impact! We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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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. However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. Previously, On NMC….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

On Saturday, I was delighted to have an opportunity to attend and speak at the SexTech 2010 Conference. Sex::Tech 2010 Presentation View more presentations from Skild. It is always fun to do a panel when the majority of the audience is Gen Y and Gen X - and they are using tools like live streaming and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

Our goal is simple: we want to provide causes and nonprofits with the tools that they need to best utilize our platform. As we focus on the work that happens on Facebook, we know how important it is that we educate organizations on how to best use the tools that we make available.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2010, eager to address these changes, the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) launched a program called Pioneers in Justice , offering intense support to a cohort of Bay Area Gen X leaders who had recently become executive directors of legacy social justice organizations.

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