Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. She goes to ask whether or not online social networking should be of interest to nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). Heather Mansfield, Making It On MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Set a Time Frame, Track it and Talk about it: Make sure you activate the tracking system or install an external tracking system like site meter, bloglog, or Google Analytics. If you check out their blog, you will notice that the group has a presence on myspace, friendster, YouTube, and few other communities. MySpace hasn??t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Palo Alto's Facebook have exploded in popularity, drawing new users into the fold each day. But even as the phenomenon continues to swell, the effort to maintain an active social life on the Web is taking its toll. Some have grown tired of what once was novel.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

One of the best sites on digital activism advice is Mary Joyce's Digitactive - look through her archives to find her advice or email her. Q: What is the best way to acquire or create a widget for a Facebook or MySpace page? Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc. Beth : See [link].

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MARCH 16, 2007

The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). Pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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