Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

. * It always begins with strategy - Nancy White, of Full Circle Associates , reminds us how important strategy will always be. In her spare time, Nancy also moderates online facilitation , another long running Internet discussion list and maintains an excellent wiki , chock full of invaluable resources.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Applying gamification concepts to associations and nonprofits. Our topic, and one that brought out a lot of interesting concepts, was focused around what associations could learn from game designers. Another use of game-thinking for associations and nonprofits is visually encouraging your members to complete a project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To meet people where they already are, we created a Facebook group and wiki site to share information. Donors appreciated having foundations making it easier for them to participate by handling the administrative tasks associated with giving.

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JUNE 8, 2012

Visit nonprofitgames.org to see our wiki of resources including everything featured in this blog post, Causebuilding Games extensive slidedeck, and professional connecting points. (JD, Gallagher (President/CEO, Entertainment Software Association). Scratch and Game Salad are DIY game tools available for creating games with kids. (JD).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2007

A few weeks ago I discovered the Nonprofit Management Wiki facilitated by Rosetta Thurman who calls herself a "nonprofit geek." " The wiki includes an excellent resource list and schedule of nonprofit management professional development opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Where To Find Resources and Case Studies The WeAreMedia Wiki has several excellent collections of Twitter how-tos, case studies, and other resources for nonprofits. American Heart Association and American Stroke Organization Both organizations have been actively using to scan and connect with stroke care givers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. These include CanadaHelps, Npower Michigan , and Michigan Nonprofit Association. I also share my Slideshare content in my other social streams. 6) Training. 7) Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

It wasn't in my wiki and so I just added. Blogs, wikis, photo-sharing and other forms of online dialogue (unless posted by authorized Easter Seals personnel) are individual interactions, not corporate communications. If your post has to do with your work or subjects associated with Easter Seals, use a disclaimer such as this: ???The

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. She also said that she uses wikis. You can also be a follower of other people's tweets. It's a super useful tool for tapping the collective wisdom of your network. Pretty cool, huh? Thanks Twitter pals!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tools To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . The social graph is for people what hyperlinks are for web pages - that is, for organizing, filtering, and association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. Paul Webster from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action a partner with the ICT Hub pinged me about his blog. All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Komen , The American Heart Association. Social Movement (Wiki). Recent initiatives such as Charity:Water , 12for12k and Twestival have wowed us with their ability to create powerful movements using social media and the internet as their driving force. Lance Armstrong Foundation , Susan G. Social Movements 2.0 by Vanessa.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. Certified Association Executive. Dear Association Leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

But there are other participants, like Michael Wesolowski who joined the wiki and messaged me in Facebook telling me he had joined the project with the hope that some of the community's expertise would rub off on him. Michelle is one of many great minds sharing their knowledge in the WeAreMedia project. His organization has a Cause and Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules. to Change The World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Step 9: Wiki Wiki. I'm nervous. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. on Wild Apricot Blog Social Media Planning and Evaluation for NGOs on Full Circle Associates Social Media Strategy--The Planning Stage on Chris Brogan How to Develop a Social Media Plan for Your Business in 5 Steps on Mashable Cross-posted from BlogHer.com. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

s Social Media Desk, Independence Year Foundation, The Center for Community Change, Student PIRGs, PBS, Video the Vote, Election Suppression Wiki, Women Donors Network, and Demos.    In addition, Current TV will be using the #votereport information as part of their special election coverage throughout the day.

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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. Allocating sufficient time to the tasks associated with blogging is something we all have to take seriously, though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

The features inside of groups include discussion board, file archive, wiki, events, a map, and a number typical features to support online collaborations. It was first developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren and their associates during the 1970s in a series of publications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

My interest in online interaction is very recent; last year I asked what a blog and a wiki was. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. t have a clue."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

it’s important for them to clearly convey their association, so that visitors who check out that content know that they are (virtually) in the museum as they do so. That way, the wiki becomes both the handbook and a growing catalog of projects. They aren’t going to be confused about what institution created and distributed the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . I've gotten into the habit of asking if there will be confidential information shared and what is or isn't bloggable.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

What seem to be the burning needs of the advocacy groups, service organizations, think tanks, and associations we work with? Early in January we will be turning one trial user loose on our new Wiki Help. I think Wikis are going to prove to be a key component of inter-organizational collaboration in the coming years.

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JULY 15, 2008

3) How to Go Viral Eddie Kurtz, the communications associate at Brave New Films , discussed how to make video go viral. He also said that showing a human face to a cause is incredibly powerful because it brings people, who would not have necessarily cared, to the nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2007

was launched on November 2, 2006, after a rousing experience at ASTC when the words "wiki" and "2.0" Well, folks, we've reached that point. were tossed around more often than free pens and chocolate.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I ran a workshop on "going analog" at the conference in which we explored ways that physical museums can be more like wikis, fantasy baseball services, social networks, and more. None are attending AAM (the American Association of Museums). Consider the IMA’s radical transparency online. Four of them were at Museums and the Web.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

For membership organizations and associations, is your CRM able to effectively track and collect member data and actions they take on the site? Are their journeys throughout the pages on your site optimized in order to make it easy for them to take the actions you want them to take? Member behavior.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). This wiki document is a collaborative picture of how museums are affected by the future described in the IFTF game forecasts, and how they are helping society to cope. Museums and Society 2019.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 6 Thomas Taylor 01.16.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Through our Partnership with the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, many nonprofits have access to rates as low as $.06 Some organizations who were not already members of NCNA have even joined their State Associations in order to gain access to these rates. 06 per person per minute for audio conferencing and $.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

An organization becomes strongly associated with a topic not just in people's minds but in search engines and that translates to more attention. There I'm thinking of things like wikis, social networking applications that allow you to eavesdrop on what your friends are doing (this is how I think of subscribing to a colleague's del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. Let's take a look at the "Official Definition" from the Web Analytics Association , an association of web analytic professionals. A: Definition It was not too long ago that no one understood what that term meant.

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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. Komen Foundation had decided to de-fund breast health screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates. Long-time supporters of both Komen and Planned Parenthood jumped into action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2009

You'll also know where and how to find follow up information and other nonprofit practitioners via the WeAreMedia wiki. Well, back to work on developing the materials from the incredible knowledge and expertise shared on the wiki. . Register Now! Or, if you're registering 2 participants at the same time: Team Registration!

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