Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The cute animal theory has not gone unnoticed by nonprofits, even those that are not animal welfare organizations, zoos or aquariums are sharing content featuring cute animals on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Specific measurable objectives included: Increase page likes to 12,000 by 12/31/2011 (achieved on 12/1/11).

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2012

But this doesn’t happen by magic – people donate money to your organization because they feel a connection to your organization and the issues you work on. So how did you do in 2011? Utilize the Google Adwords grants. As a 501C3 you can get between $10K and $40K worth of free Google Adwords.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. By using this feature, Convio clients will be able to do things like, for example, use the API to display a list of your organization's upcoming events on your website. Oh, memories.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. Already that morning, keynotes had give some powerful adoption statistics. Geoff Livingston gave an overview of mobile trends , mentioning that the adoption rate of mobile phones and tablets are higher than Twitter now and mobile is now part of our lives.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Cloud data security and privacy challenges were cited by 27% of respondents as a significant barrier to cloud adoption. Nearly all the major cloud vendor companies like Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon have been hit by hacker attacks that have caused service disruptions. How Big Is the Cloud Data Security Problem?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in the United States from me, this time. In July 2011, TechSoup.org conducted a survey of nonprofits on their current use of cloud services, their plans for adopting cloud services, their expectations on costs, and their barriers to cloud adoption.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. Windows 8 adopters can also try out the Viewer for Khan Academy desktop app, which lets you watch Khan Academy videos on your desktop.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

sample of organizations. September, 2011. According to our survey results: Organizations are using apps : 69% of respondents reported they are currently using apps in their library or nonprofit. they had to say: The apps organizations are using are a lot of the big-name apps like. Twitter, Facebook, and Google Apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Also, in some places of the world there is lower adoption rates of social — for example in very rural areas of the developing world – where this data would not be useful for informing a funding strategy. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.” Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org is a data-informed organization that uses a ladder of engagement not only to guide its content and social media integration strategy, but uses measurement at each rung of the ladder to ensure that they are getting results. Say Giller, “Our whole team reviews Google Analytics, like sipping fine wine.” Source: grist.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

For most organizations, the heart and soul of communications is the email list. Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. One of the first pieces of any change to communications and technology strategy in an organization is explaining the need for change. Google Gmail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Add Google Wallet to the list. Chapter 1 :: The Importance of Selecting the Right Donate Now Vendor. Chapter 1 :: Network for Good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Add Google Wallet to the list. Chapter 1 :: The Importance of Selecting the Right Donate Now Vendor. Chapter 1 :: Network for Good.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

From B Corps to companies with robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, for-profit organizations are increasingly motivated to align with relevant causes and social good programs. Now the top-selling brand of organic and fair trade body care in the U.S., Register Now for the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Add Google Wallet to the list. Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Technology in the analog period was usually defined only as hardware or software, it looked like desktop computers and a server room, and it got as much attention from the organization as a whole as the employee handbook. Analog Tactics. We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated. Analog Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Note from Beth: Last week during the Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation , someone asked me “What’s Next?” ” Tomorrow, the Lean Start Up is sponsoring a free web cast called, “ Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-driven Organizations.”

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We tweet, checkin, google, blog, instagram, post status updates, yelp and a host of other things from our handheld devices. Many of them track us automatically: Nike Plus tracks my run, Mint.com tracks my finances and spending patterns, and TripIt neatly organizes my travel plans. By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. She is one of our great online community organizers. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Amy Sample Ward. " Beth Kanter. The progression with social media will be steady.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

The primary organizing principle behind all the practices that our team implements is a democratic and horizontal management structure. Two outside organizations that help to track this and provide best practices are B Corporation, (whose online assessment is available in full for free) and WorldBlu (providing 10 Principles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. For the more senior social entrepreneurs, we can travel because we have leaders and teams that are usually better than we are at running the organizations we head and/or have founded. Not sure whether to celebrate or mourn this milestone.

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