Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Gustav Wiki. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Presentation by Laura Lee Dooley a metrics and social media geek for a nonprofit. Nonprofitorgs on Twitter is an aggregator of nonprofits on Twitter and is following over 2,000 nonprofits. Social Actions Check out their action twitter packs by issue area. Social Actions feels strongly that Twitter can save the world !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design. Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. You can updates through RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I blogged about the content last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. For example, Socialedge compiled a list of Twitter users in the social entrepreneurship sector that included a list of hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. That can make it difficult to navigate.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. . The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. I explained how technology and social media are playing a leading role in innovation in the aid sector and helping to bring relief to earthquake victims in Haiti. Some of the highlights include: An English/Creole translation iPhone app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. " prompted some discussion. Social Housing explores social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

" They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated. Here's what I like about it: There is excellent documentation on how to use the tags in the wiki and the screencast.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Here's a few highlights: Social Media and Climate Change : #4Change, the Twitter-based chat, recently tweet-chatted about social media in the climate movement. Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. " Web 2.0, Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Here's the focus: Okay, so Chris prefers to say he's not an expert, but that he advises people on social media use. That doesn't change the fact that he's smart and savvy on the social media front. " asking readers to share their stories about how they got started in social media, first steps, and advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. NTC is just days away!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. It's a great way to focus discussion, to communicate with constituents so you can be responsive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page , I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki. It’s particularly useful for aggregating hashtags from events or trainings. The sources include Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

On January 31st, the social web erupted with status updates, images, and more in response to the Associated Press report that the Susan G. A core group of the organizers are fluent with a variety of social media platforms including Twitter, Pinterest (a fun opportunity to take it out for a social change spin, thought Beth!)

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OCTOBER 2, 2008

You will effectively have a departmental journal of work going on, discoveries made, major events that deserve to be discussed and memorialized. Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. Whereas blogs are a good reporting mechanism, wikis are a better collaborative tool. I like Wik.is

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

He points to John Deere’s magazine, the Furrow , which debuted in the 1930s as one of the first stellar examples. The post goes onto discuss barriers (acceptance, talent, and technology) and challenges (the capacity to create compelling content) and how to move past these. 50 Social Media Content Ideas from Convio.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. It's like following blog comments.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. Locker Project : " Locker Project allows you to archive and curate your own social media content across many channels" - from Evonne on the TechSoup Forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Today I Cried resigns ! of Internet visits.

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