Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. And you shared them!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . The workshop was organized by colleague, Tatyana Kanzavelli. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

The power of social media in a global context is two-fold: There’s huge potential with these news tools for real movement building, bringing organizations, campaigns and people together behind a movement and not just one brand or one call to action. What examples do you have to share? FourSquare. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. He has organized clusters of tools around different concepts of use that a social media professional might need.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

Background: CTX services over 8,000 charity and community organizations in the UK and wants to nurture that network of organizations by providing more than just software and services, but also opportunities to build community. Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Driven by the learner.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

How do they rate your organization and other service organizations in town? So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. See, for example, the music education charity Little Kids Rock, as it appears on each of the "Star Alliance" sites: GuideStar (see left hand column).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Drill down to see the details.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Because of TechSoup Europe's involvement in other app challenges, such as Restart Romania and Community Boost_r , the organization has experience in this work. For example, real-time data might track a public bus and show the time it arrives at a particular stop. aggregates and filters Warsaw cultural events.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories. Examples of Social Media. There were many, many examples cited in the discussion. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link].

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. connecting organizations for shared knowledge, partnerships and coalitions. How is social media being deployed to connect the Green Movement? changing individual motions into a unified movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog. Netsquared.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. So how can your organization tap into these tools and trends? Don't let your data fall victim!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Develop a focused pilot that maps projects and activities at a sub-national level, for one country, using open standards. Provide examples to help persuade decision-makers at donor organizations and elsewhere to release data. Provide examples to help persuade decision-makers at donor organizations and elsewhere to release data.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And for good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. It becomes part of your organization's culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

But for now, Listening and feedback loops are important skills for nonprofit leaders and for organizations to get better results. A recent study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) finds that 99 percent of nonprofit organizations collect feedback from the people they seek to help. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

Some example include: How do I get more members? Start with a Modeling Workshop and invite subject matter experts from your organization who interact with your members (e.g. For example, if you weight event attendance at 30. For example, if someone donated in 2020 and hasn’t since, that donation has decayed in importance.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

These development organizations each publish their information, assessments and data on their own web sites. For example, if you want to find the most relevant information on successful ?girls? One approach to aggregate this information is to do it by brute force, to manually collect and post this info on a web site property ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The guide is an excellent road map for designing and planning an evaluation of your overall communications plan. For social media, you need to set your objectives based on a clear understanding of how social media changes the feedback loop between your organization and stakeholders. I particularly like the worksheet.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

A prime example of what APIs can achieve with relative ease is optimizing content for web visitors based on location. Companies like MaxMind and IP2Location update their databases regularly so you don’t need to figure out the mapping of IPs. HelpAttack.com is a prime example of building on top of Twitter and other APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. A couple things I discovered by following participants' ant trails: The Bay Versus the Bay: This was an excellent example of how social media strategy can support behavior change or action.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And for good reason.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. And for good reason.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. So how can your organization tap into these tools and trends? Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. on our own servers or desktops.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. As a concrete example, consider the library. What's the string in your organization? What's missing for these visitors who attend, enjoy, and don't (or sporadically) return? Let me explain.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. 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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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. on our own servers or desktops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. It’s free but you can purchase additional data for reasonable amounts (for example you can get Klout Scores ).

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

One of the most compelling examples are the Crisis Camps that the community of developers and web geeks are leading around the world. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. I'm hoping that Haiti has helped bridge this gap.

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