Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. Naturally, my colleagues and I have taken the lead in establishing our organizational presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning and posting to our blog. These two differing cultures recently came to head over social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

His online communities are the most tech-savvy of the independent diabetes communities : Hernandez built it on social networking platform Ning, the company at which he worked before starting these online communities and his nonprofit. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15 Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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JANUARY 8, 2009

social network on Ning) and promptly received a welcome message encouraging me to get involved. A friendly, informal, and light-hearted tone helps people get comfortable and points out specific actions users can take. You've joined GovLoop - an exciting new social network community connecting the government community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) It's moved. Philthanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

ve created an online social network called Stop Cyberbullying using a free tool called Ning. ll also use the site to aggregate a stream of what people are doing in support of Stop Cyberbullying Day, assuming people accept my challenge to take action on Friday. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

[link] Design Logoworks [link] 99designs [link] Flickr photos with Creative Commons Licenses (free): [link] iStockPhoto: [link] Online Donations Network for Good [link] ChipIn [link] PayPal https://www.paypal-portal.com/charity/ E-newsletters Feedblitz [link] Emma [link] Constant Contact [link] Donations and mailing lists Democracy in Action [link] (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Social Networking. The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Mobile Phones. Virtual Worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

for a while, people meant ‘facebook’ although that’s a social network of people you already know. What Twitter isn’t… Twitter isn’t a message board, or a social network of people you already know… So, is it a community? Who will keep your community safe…and vibrant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Speakers ranged from Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via Skype), to online ethnographer danah boyd , consultants from the Obama and McCain ’08 campaigns (and the Obama Whitehouse), academics and thoughtleaders such as Mark Pesce and Clay Shirky , and techno-celebrities such as Craig Newmark ( Craigslist ) and Gina Bianchini ( Ning ).

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