Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

To be honest, I'm sort of scared, although the session last week with Laura Fitton (Pistachio) and her advice has helped reduce some stress. Any advice to calm my nerves? If you are one of my Facebook friends, can you help me about by poking me and taking a screen capture of the "Poke Beth?" " screen?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2008

In a recent post on Blogher, Virginia DeBolt mentions the list titled 100 Awesome Webmaster Blogs by and for Women by Jimmy Atkinson. BlogHer's leadership trio Lisa, Elisa, and Jory was in the number 1 spot. This list has included other BlogHers such as Anne Zelenka and myself. Have a plan; 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause? com has been helpful in a way that other social networks have not been.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

At blogher, I attended a workshop on video blogging lead by Ryanne Hodson and Zadi Diaz. Any advice? Practice does help. At that blogher video blogging workshop, I also asked what were the most common shooting mistakes that new video bloggers make and how to avoid them? Video Blogging Learning Journal.

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MAY 14, 2008

First I gave away money, then stuff, then advice, and then my giving became more intangible. It isn't difficult for me to care and want to help a cause, or an individual entrepreneur on Kiva , or a reader who emails me for advice. While out to lunch on my Day 29, I got one of those tea bags with a saying on the tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

What have you learned about personal fundraising that might be helpful to other bloghers? I asked Manny Hernandez, the founder of TuDaibetes, what advice he would offer Tanya. His advice was about online community building, helping set expectations, and also gave some specific tips: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

I can always use some help. I asked a few colleagues on Blogher and beyond and discovered a few excellent blogs and video blogs that offer advice and recipes for parents who want to make sure their kids are eating a healthy meal. They also partner with urban gardeners to help them grown healthier food. Need some ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Rebecca Corliss is Boston area social media activist and one of the leaders who helped raised over $20,000 for Jane Doe, Inc. Rebecca Leaman writes for the Wild Apricot Blog and offers strategy advice for small nonprofits. Nina Simon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The term "extra organizational activist" comes from Alison Fine's book Momentum and I first heard it back in September 2006 when I read the book and reviewed it over at Blogher. So, it may be less of an organizational attitude of "Help, my fundraising has been abducted by aliens." What were the adoption issues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

For BlogHer, I'm on a panel with Britt Bravo and I have to present the widget fundraising case study in ten minutes. So, I am thinking about some of the advice in that Nonprofit Times article on how to do this. Oftentimes it is our constituents or those we are trying to help who emerge as the most compelling heroes in our stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

" asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice. My first crowd sourced piece was getting people to help me proof read my pages -. If you were going to give advice to someone starting out, what would you tell them? You must go read the stories - they're wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. " She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. I use my blog to help work things out for myself. " Her advice for those that work for nonprofits and do not blog anonymously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

What practical advice would you offer a nonprofit just dipping their toes in the social media waters? You're identity still needs to be consistent, and practically, it helps you keep track and manage your online relationships. There are also social media apps that help you track keywords in the blogosphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. What's the most important thing for people in my generation who work with nonprofits to help support you? Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. " I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Cynthia is convinced surfing can help Hawaii's at-risk youth.    In partnership with Girls Court and The Surfrider Foundation's O'ahu Chapter , Derosier started The Spirit Sessions, a six-week program aimed to help at-risk teens redirect their lives in a positive way through surfing and other ocean-related activities.

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MAY 27, 2009

Breaking down what you want to do into small, manageable actions can help you move through your paralysis. Cross-posted from BlogHer. nonprofit social entrepreneur career advice Not breaking big dreams down into small actions. People can feel so overwhelmed by their big visions that they become paralyzed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

He gave lots of strategy advice and tips for each segment. Millie Garfield (who I've had the pleasure of meeting at BlogHer) and I had a great talk about our "virtual blogging" friends. Michelle Wolverton 's card says "How can I help you save hours in your day?" I met her through Jane. Well done Michelle!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. People became very fond of sunny and were motivated to do whatever they could to help. See Give and Take Blog post

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

When I first started out consulting, one of the first pieces of advice I got was that giving things away free is an avenue to getting business. I can't really quantify whether this has been the case for me - but between my natural inclinations, and that advice, I certainly got into the habit of doing it. Cross posted at Blogher

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Laura Allen is the co-founder 15SecondPitch , a company that help people to market themselves in 15 seconds on the phone, email, face-to-face, and on business cards. I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. Photo courtesy of Laura Allen. Blogs to read?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Rosetta Thurman is an emerging nonprofit leader of color sharing career advice, nonprofit management and other wisdom on her blog. Non-Profit Chas shares his experiences as he helps take a small non-profit organization to the next level.

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JUNE 19, 2009

We are focused on preparing individuals to eventually return to their home countries and to help rebuild, and that's human capacity building. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along. What advice do you have for them?

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MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? I think it is also important to recognize that we have a community to stay accountable to, and they’ll help us to be accountable to ourselves.

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APRIL 24, 2007

It basically links consumers, you and me, to third-world families, and through more direct trade helps those families get a fair price for their coffee, their tea, their bananas, whatever it is they produce. Helping families keep their kids in school, helping them farm in a sustainable manner. Everyone goes to the store.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

This week two fellow BlogHer Contributing Editors ( Virgina DeBolt and Elana Centor ), and BlogHer co-Founder ( Elisa Camahort Page ), and me had a virtual book club call to discuss Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Are you part of a social action book club?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: REPORT - Every little BIT helps. Yet, I have only to click over to Vicky Davis and I'm inspired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. Maybe that camera could help someone create some change? Just wondering what advice you'd give to the folks at Common Knowledge about using the camera to get the word out? While it is a perfectly wonderful camera, still working, I had not been using it as much lately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. What is your advice to nonprofits about integrating social media? The question. "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

What advice would you give to other bloggers who want to use their. Get their support and their help. Cross posted at BlogHer. And I feel honored to have connected people with resources to people with need. blogs to raise money for charity? Do your homework. Know the organizations you represent inside and out.

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JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. I mean, we work on campaigns that are helping to fight poverty, save the environment and promote voting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

My first job in the United States after working in France was as an intern with the Center for Community Change on their immigration team helping to create a toolkit on fighting anti-immigrant local ordinances. An organizer on our team, George Goehl, went to help the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition in anyway he could.

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MARCH 8, 2007

I looked on Craigslist to find a ride back home to California, where I grew up, and found a post for a woman with a CODEPINK truck who was offering her truck as a moving service to help fund her trip from California, and her activist work. Please let me know how I can help.” Cross-posted from BlogHer. Check it out.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I hope you'll take the time to read it, because they all have some great advice.

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