Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

Photo by Neatonjr. "      Other ideas include a special Museum badge. After some more research, I did uncover an experiment from the Kansas Repertory Theatre with FourSquare and the coveted Swarm badge. " I like the idea of leveraging a networked effect of the swarm badge.  

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

For instance, the location-based mobile platform foursquare incentivizes individuals to share their locations with others by offering points for check-ins and badges, sometimes even discounts for their efforts. Implementing a badge system or leveling-up can reward them for their contributions. Motivating volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

It’s a social bookmarking tool that comes with annotated notes, tags and links so you can save, organize and discover new content. They use Foursquare to create partner badges. When people check in X number of times, they receive a badge from the application. Snapchat is an instant messaging app for photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). Add the Free Monem quote randomizer badge to your blog's sidebar. Post it on your blog: [link] =-017xCZEXFU&eurl=. Yeah, we think it's pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

If there is “professional vetted information available,” why not the insights of customers or volunteers, leading to innovations such as GreatNonprofits or Keystone’s constituent response work. Above photo credit: Olof S by CC Attribution 2.0 Tags: guest blogging philanthropy.

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