Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2014

I’ve committed to walking 10-20,000 steps per day and even earned my 1,000 miles badge. Over the past year, I have been using a fitbit to help me incorporate more activity in my life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2010

One of Foursquare’s first badges was the “ gym rat “–awarded to users who check into a gym at least 10 times in 30 days. Some people throw parties just to attract 50+ people to unlock the swarm badge or visit the same place again and again to become its mayor. What do your check-ins, tips, to-dos, badges, etc. say about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The Boy Scouts and Merit Badges. After wasting way too much time browsing Boy Scout badges, I put together the above slide show introduction. Is there a merit badge that needs to be on the list so your nonprofit can be prepared for social media? (tags: boyscouts socialmedia ). " So, what came to mind?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge. I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

Over the last 25 years, we’ve shifted from leisure time as status to busy and stressed out as a badge of honor. Research has even found that people who work at nonprofits tend to put in longer hours –some call them “hero hours”—than others, with higher rates of burnout and turnover , possibly because they’re driven by a higher purpose.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

For Washington Trail Association volunteers like Chris O’Brien, donning an orange hard hat out on the trail is a badge of honour. Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits – Guest Post. Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

And of course my conference badge. A really useful item I found tucked in my conference bag was the conference "Facebook," a booklet about the size of a business card that had photos, titles, and sessions for the speakers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I noticed that you had a badge to Share Our Strength on your blog. Words of wisdom about blogging? Know why you’re blogging and be real. There’s nothing uglier than a blogger with a sense of entitlement. Why is this cause important to you? The fact that 1 in 4 children in the U.S. the UNITED STATES !!!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

As Shelley says, " as people explore our area, the Brooklyn Museum staff help them along in their journey pointing out the joys of pancakes at Tom’s Restaurant or the killer wine selection at Abigail’s." Other ideas include a special Museum badge. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Money raised will be used to cover expenses such as: Assistance to victims and their families Grief counseling Memorials Communication expenses Comfort expenses You can also spread the word about the memorial fund by adding the charity badge at right to your website, blog or social networking page; all you have to do is click on "copy" and (..)

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JANUARY 11, 2007

This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from the Beth 5.0 - Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest group pool. Make your own badge here. flick r.com. This has got to be best birthday ever. check out the birthday cards. and I got a birthday blog!!! Check it out !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2006

The Sharing Foundation has the opportunity to receive matching dollars from Yahoo via the Network For Good Charity Badge program. is offering a $50,000 matching grant for the nonprofit which gets the largest number of donations before the end of the year using its new "charity badges." Here's how it works: Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

The Sharing Foundation has the opportunity to receive matching dollars from Yahoo via the Network For Good Charity Badge program. is offering a $50,000 matching grant for the nonprofit which gets the largest number of donations before the end of the year using its new "charity badges." So, why not help us today!

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Just as you should not hold up your working excessive hours or forgoing your sleep a badge of honor and perseverance, do not put credence in the notion that “never taking a vacation” is admirable in any way. If you can not honor your need for respite and replenishment, nobody else will.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

David and his family provided housing for her and then he reached out to his network for donations using ChipIn badge to collect the donations. David has discovered the power of social media for social good and raised over $8,000 through his network to help Daniela a recently divorced wife and mother and victim of physical abuse.

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MAY 6, 2007

Add the Free Monem quote randomizer badge to your blog's sidebar. Activist tech guru Astrubal has created a sidebar badge which cycles through a stream of Monem's blog quotes (?? Global s Advocacy Director Sami Ben Gharbia has created a video which powerfully explains the reasons for the detention of Monem and demands his freedom.

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MARCH 28, 2007

A badge that grabs all the publically tagged photos with "onecampaign" I need this for a screenshot for a presentation at NTC about widgets. flick r.com. More Flickr photos tagged with onecampaign. What point do you think I'm trying make? Comments?

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JANUARY 18, 2008

David Geilhufe was really proud of his barcamp badge. Photo by Hurley Vision. I've known David Geilhufe since the dude ranch in Montana Ebase days in 2002. It was sort of barcamp-like retreat in wilds of Montana not to far from Yellow Stone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When you get your results, you get a badge and a write up. You take a myer-briggs like chimp personality test to find out how much you have in common with the three chimpanzees of Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch, an animal sanctuary operated by The Fund for Animals in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

Thank you so much to Erin and YouthNoise for the t-shirts and the badges!

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MAY 12, 2007

At the end of the month, they assembled the posts into a pdf book and then distributed the free download as badge. So they invited 30 experts on blogging to participate. Each expert contributed one post during the month. How cool is that? Here's a few that I found really useful: Ten Secrets of An Early Adopter by Chris Pirillo.

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MARCH 29, 2007

Scott McLeod created some badges and over at the site there's more discussion going on about what message should be on the badge. It's worth reading the discussions for the ideas being suggested as well as for the excellent resources being shared. I will draw on it for my post tommorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

putting a N2Y2 ChipIn or SixDegrees badges on your web site or blog 3. You can see the links for each fundraising platform and read Peter's post here: [link]. You can help the campaign by. donating, 2. Voting for the N2Y2 proposal on GiveMeaning. It needs 100 votes before GiveMeaning can start accepting donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2007

ve added the badge above to the sidebar so my readers can contribute with donations. I encourage you to support my efforts in raising awareness about these issues and the organizations that are working to resolve them by clicking on the donation badge." oils on canvas are $220.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

And, of course, you get badges for various activities. Like foursquare and gowalla, you open the application on your phone and see local businesses (instead of showing everything around you, CauseWorld only shows businesses that you can check into for karmas). Enter the store, check in, and get the karma points offered to you.

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MARCH 29, 2010

I've been dutifully "checking in" and have earned 10 mayorships (in FourSquare you are made the mayor of a location if you check more frequently than others), many badges, and reached a super user level. And while it is a cool new tool, there are important limitations to consider.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2006

I do a lot of video and photographs so I've added the flickr and video badges. The transcript is edited for clarity - see Torley comment. powered by ODEO. I enjoy widgets because they create visual interest. Also, I have the RSS widget that streams the headlines from my employer's blog onto my personal blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Gabriela says many nonprofit advocacy organizations tend to have an ethos of hiring passionate and ambitious young professionals and who wear their workaholic tendencies as a badge of honor. “It exploits the exuberance and optimism of youth, and in the age of social media with blended personal and professional lives, I can imagine it’s accelerating (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

I've set up a Network for Good charity badge where you can use your credit card, check, or PayPal to contribute. Several blog readers have suggested that I set up other ways to donate to the Sharing Foundation in addition to Facebook Causes. Thank you Celeste for the suggestion AND donation!) Can you think of a better use of $10 or more?

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AUGUST 4, 2007

I noticed that he was also using a ChipIn badge , so I contributed a little bit to his campaign -- from Africa to Cambodia and back again. It is amazing to that the I have donors from almost every corner of the globe supporting this campaign. One of my donors pointed me to this amazing blog by an inspiring young African Blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

Provided with this new feature are free badges to be placed on profiles, and registered nonprofits free job listings in order to find new members to join their teams. British rockstar James Blunt is already using LinkedIn to raise over $23,000 for Doctors Without Borders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2006

Simply click on the orange donate button on the charity badge located in the side bar or right below. This year we plan to make at least 1,250 uniform sets, including some for HIV children's group homes. We'd love your help. Is there a better $10 gift? If your campaign has the most individual donors, Yahoo will match what we raise.

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JANUARY 4, 2007

In both my campaigns, I let the fundraising widget/badge remain on my sidebar even after the campaign was over and we had made our goal. More out of laziness versus strategy. In both instances, there were additional contributions - or the "bounce." " So, don't take down your widget immediately!

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MARCH 25, 2008

The first $50,000 fundraising contest I won for the Sharing Foundation was the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest in 2007. (We The connection between these two items are two people, Mark Rovner and Katya Andresen. The Wired Wealthy. We raised $53,000, plus we got a $50,000 prize). Do you think the $53,000 came from $10 gifts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Back then, I made these requests “offline,&# but we had fallen short of our goal. At the same time, I heard about a new online donation tool called ChipIn and realized that fundraising badges like ChipIn gave me a tool to not only take my requests online, but also to seek out new donors who might support this worthwhile cause. It also (..)

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FEBRUARY 13, 2007

As many of you know, the Sharing Foundation won the Yahoo/Network for Good Charity Badge contest at the end of 2006. Hendrie passed around this photo of the 600 kids who now will be able to attend school because they have school uniforms. The blog campaign raised $49,000 which was matched by Yahoo.

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JULY 14, 2010

VCs could help volunteers share milestones and accomplishments with badges, banners, or widgets that can be shared with the volunteer’s personal network. Daily coordination with volunteers could be done through social media to bolster membership in the online communities and encourage interactions.

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