Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

Last year, I used Chris Brogan's "Three Words" to set some professional/personal goals for the year. The process is simple: Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. Then, try to think in even broader terms. Extrapolate on. Tags: generosity networked nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

I'm making my way back from vacation, slowly. I wanted to quickly share a new service called AppMakr that allows anyone - even me - to easily create an iPhone app - for less than $200. With just a few. Tags: mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2010

Photo by Pieter Musterd Anil Dash just made the same discovery that I made a couple a months ago about the impact of being added to the Twitter Suggested List. Being on Twitter's suggested user list makes no appreciable difference. Tags: metrics twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2010

Over the summer, I wrote a post called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0: How To Address Cause Fatigue and Scaling." As more and more nonprofits and individuals flock to social networks, creating acacophony of fundraising pitches and the subsequent cause fatigue, how can organizations scale? charity:water was one of the first to create it's own social network for fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

View California Coast Trip in a larger map This holiday rather than working, we decided to take a brief vacation and travel down the beautiful California coast. Only problem was by Christmas night we realized that we hadn't even opened. Tags: crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

It's my 53rd birthday on Monday and here's my birthday party plans. I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. What could be more fun? I've set a modest goal this year because small actions add up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

I'm moderating a panel at SXSWi called " Crowdsourcing Innovative Social Change." The panelists include Amy Sample Ward, Holly Ross, David Neff, and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Everywhere you turn, you're hearing about social media. Especially when it comes to fundraising. We know that social media is good for a lot more than raising money. We know that social media can be used to change the world.

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