Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

This will provide 140,000 meals for children in Austin. With thousands of social industry folks coming together for South by Southwest 2009 (SXSW ‘09) in Austin, we're hoping to get 1,000 people to take the pledge, so we can make sure the Tyson semi-trailer will arrive in Austin during the SXSW ’09 interactive festival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

When I left SXSW, I used Foursquare to check into the Austin Airport. Matt called the planes in and out of Austin to SXSW the "nerd birds" because so many people fly in to SXSW that the planes are filled with geeks. This is exactly what happened. I tweeted about this several months ago). What was it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

” That panel marked the beginning of my friendship and collaboration with KD Paine which lead to our book, which is going to be entertaining and practical look at how to measure all things networked nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

David Neff mentioned that the Austin, TX Social Media Club was doing a TweetUp Blood Drive. Today, many people in Austin, Texas saw firsthand what Twitter can do with a few dedicated people and a great idea. Photo by Summer TX. The idea came from Mike Chapman who was celebrating a birthday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. 2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. The final program is selected through a combination of an open submission and voting process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In 2009, the Austin American Statesman recognized David as one of the top 25 Social Media People in the state of Texas. He currently lives in Austin, TX. C-Tools was the first PDA software tool for the prevention of cancer developed by the American Cancer Society, and SharingHope.TV

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

I'll be attending SXSW in Austin, TX the week after next. Mashable Party Monday, March 16, 9:30pm-12:30am Six Lounge, 117 W 4th, Austin, TX 7870 There will also be an effort to help raise awareness of childhood hunger issue during SXSW, so stay tuned. I am participating in several panels and events at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. Can you share some stories about a few of your recent fundraising with social media projects to help nonprofits in Austin, TX? Tell me about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

If you find yourself in Austin, TX for SXSW on March 13th, please join us for the workshop. I’ve found that it lights up different parts of my brain and helps think more creatively than starring at a screen or typing. If you want to give a whirl, here is a greater set: One Zentangle A Day by Beckah Krahula. Zentangle Pens and Pencils.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The winners will be announced at the 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin in March. Voting is now open , so I encourage you to go and see what’s there and vote and share – and of course, shadow and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You will have to get yourself to Austin on March 13th and find a place to stay. We will provide a Gold Pass to SxSW and you will be the guest of honor at our launch party and will get, in essence, a free consulting session with Zoetica’s founders. In return, you will walk away with a rich education and a plan to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I also kept thinking about the inspiring social media infused fund raising that Connie Reece , David Neff , and Mike Chapman (through the local Austin Social Media Club and 501 Tech Club ) have been doing for the Austin Foodbank. If I lose ten pounds, the Austin Foodbank will receive a donation. So, here's what else I did: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Rob has raised over $200,000 for his own social good crowdfunding projects, and his work has been recognized by the Mayor of Austin and featured in the NYTimes, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, and WSJ. Rob Wu is the CEO of CauseVox, a crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising platform for nonprofits and social good projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

at the 2 008 Crossroads Conference for Nonprofit Excellence in Austin. I wrote about some specific instructional techniques you can use here and here. "Social Media: Getting the Word Out in the New Information Age??? The panel featured case studies from David Neff , Heidi Adams.and Connie Reece. David Neff has more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

When this is published, I'm be flying down to Austin, Texas for the Legal Services TIG conference to do a session on ROI and Nonprofit Technology and a workshop on Social Media. | View | Upload your own. The ROI presentation is not focused on Social Media but will most definitely inform the panel at NTC. Notes for the ROI session are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

I had the opportunity to watch him work first hand as he gave pizza for some of Austin's homeless outside the bars where other SXSW attenders were having a good time at parties. He doesn't give up. Community Builder: Mark never pitches his cause when he first meets you. He doesn't pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

This comments for food concept was first implemented very successfully by the Austin Social Media Club during August's Hunger Awareness Month HAM Tweetup. It only takes a minute to leave a comment indicating you've read the post and it can do so much. Read more here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

.   Check out what  the Austin area social media activists are doing to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in their local community.  I'm loosing weight to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank in Austin.    For my part, I'm loaning $25 to Prom Pha l, a Cambodian woman, via Kiva. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

I had coffee with Gene Austin at NTC and he told me that the study is available for free but you have to register first to get your copy. So, the reminder and more data about ways to connect and cultivate your middle and major donors online is a good one. Kami Huyse has a write up of the study, summarizing some of the key findings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2008

Earlier this week, I attended SXSW in Austin, Texas and met many interesting people and connected with old friends, including BlogHer colleagues CE's Queen of Spain , Liz Perry , and Virginia DeBolt. I met several women who told me they were considering entering the nonprofit sector and had questions about how to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Lots of think about on the plane ride down to Austin. He goes on to describe a new tool that will debut at SXSW Klout. The service will eventually provide a foundation to compare source URLs ranked within the service over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The early adopters tend to come from large national organizations, those with larger budgets/capacity in regions, small agile/activist nonprofits, and probably more concentrated in metro areas where there is an active social media/tech community - San Francisco, Austin, Boston, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

at tek republik in Austin, Texas. We are in Austin Texas so I will be feeding them Mexican food as well as design specs and pizza. Silona is organizing a Code-A-Thon that will lock up 100 programmers for 48 hours to see what kind of open source software can be written for non-profits. It's taking place on October 13th at 6:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

Kimbia, an Austin, Tex.-based Rather than dismissing these campaigns as too risky, foundations and nonprofits should take lessons from this fiasco, look at groups that ended up doing well, invest more wisely in technology, and plan more effectively for the unexpected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

" Still, as Max Gladwell notes in the comments, "It's only getting started," and points to his " Ten Ways To Use Social Media to Change The World."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2015

People can pair up and connect with other people as needed. I loved the walk we took – down to the River in Austin. As a leader, you don’t act as a tour guide – you just lead the way on the route. It was refreshing. One idea that I learned during morning session came from Gina Schmeling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Austin Hill, founder, was kind enough to send me a box of Akoha decks. I sent a coffee gift card to Alex Steed to help ower his Millennials Changing America project. He is currently 60% towards his goal - so I also donated a small amount. Then I realized, wow, I could play one of my Akoha mission cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

That's a screencast (with time speed increased) of what is I think -- is a twitter group coming from SXSW Festival , a major new media/emerging technology event happening in Austin, TX. While there are some good reasons why you wouldn't want to use this tool, seems there's a lot of twitter experimentation going on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. How do I measure thee, let me count the ways, etc). THIS is Iron Chef ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

especially Dennis Yu, Chad King and Austin Stierler — who took us under their wing and agreed to host us for free. Credits for our launch We want to acknowledge some of the people who got us to the launch pad: Esteban Panzeri , the brilliant Argentinian developer and tech god who built most of the site based on some sketchy wireframes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

at least thre that I know of Pam Mandel , Duncan Riley and Dave Delaney ) Tyson Foods and the Austin Social Media Club organized a HAM TweetUp to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank. One metric for me in measuring success, was I able to inspire other people to take action? (at

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

This past year alone she has been a presenter at NTEN's NTC (in San Francisco) , Blackbaud User Conference in Charleston , SxSw in Austin , the list goes on. This is rather amusing as she is in such demand to speak at so many conferences regarding the Social Networking program at NWF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process.

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