Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. She made great points about what they had in place the day before the earthquake in Haiti struck: Robust listening program where staff skims and responds. Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. The place to look for lots of ideas and advice is MobileActive. Or be bailout for our nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. I for one lost one year, but made a ton of connections and got great advice/input on what was then just a rough idea. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The second round of the contest opened on January 15th and the pre-contest promotion on January 14th on the contest fan page was met with a chorus of "Vote for Haiti." Chase had, in face, already donated to the relief efforts, although the link to the corporate press release was not posted on the Fan Page all until two days later.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Half the Sky , which discusses sex trafficking, forced prostitution and gender-based violence is a tough read, and we all agreed that discussing it together really helped to process the information. Finally, as I mentioned in my post, How Did You Decide to Help Haiti for the Rest of 2010? Are you part of a social action book club?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

I bet I would have repeated my coworker’s advice in a tweet: “Get word to your parents if you can. My boss gave maternal advice. I felt starved for information like I’ve NEVER felt since. Suddenly, it was odd to see a single update that wasn’t related to Haiti. Tell them where you are.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

They do microenterprise grants, not loans; but we worked with some folks that had been given grants and used those successfully, and basically worked with our friend Moses, who listed the seven businesses in the very beginning, put them online, and helped post the information about them. So, fast-forward a whole year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

This article summarizes new research from Forrester detailing "The Seven Tenets of the Information Workplace." There was lots of advice plus pointers to blogger relations guide, like this one from e-politics and a word of a soon-to-be-released guide from free range studios. advice and writes a great blog too.

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