Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" " Here are my lessons: 1. It isn't about broadcasting your message or lecturing. What are your four lessons learned about nonprofits and social media?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. Since I have returned from Asia I have cut my consumption of broadcast news by 95%. It made me realize I was being completely manipulated by American media. Watch this technology closely!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? Putting the Public Back in Public Media Think NPR and PBS are just broadcasters? My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Now, before sharing some of those numbers – here’s a quick lesson to help set some context. Think about your own network on Facebook or the people who follow you on Twitter. Tags: facebook guest blogging social media. And, how can organizations get and maintain individuals into their "Dunbar circles?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. run a Twitter feed. Start a blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Her work has appeared in FundraisingRaising Success magazine, CSAE’s Association Agenda , CharityVillage , and the Wild Apricot nonprofit technology blog. Follow her on twitter @soha. Often we hear that they are inspired to start taking music lessons, or to use music listening as a way of exploring and expressing their feelings.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Use of Convios multi-lingual tools helped CI reach out to both English and Spanish speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. As Lucy Bernholz noted, this might be one more example that fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. Tre, who writes a blog called Thought by thought has several detailed posts analyzing the campaign here and here.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). Tools you can Use. Washington Post.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 2 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 18th, 2011 Day 2 of NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) in Washington, DC is when things really kick into high gear.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The Lessons Learned : What were some of the lessons you learned from the campaign?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The Lessons Learned : What were some of the lessons you learned from the campaign?

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

As always with this series, the hope is that communications professionals will keep the lessons of how coverage of the issue of voting rights shifted in 2020 in mind when charting a course for the future, especially as 2022 midterms fast approach. Community stories trickled up to national attention. Big names drove big coverage .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? Opinions about Twitter are divided. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective.

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M+R

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As part of our 2021 Mediamarks Labs series , we’re taking a close look at the trends in last year’s coverage of food insecurity, with the hope that communications professionals will keep the lessons of how coverage of this issue shifted in 2020 in mind when charting a course for the future. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I went to learn from thought-leaders focused on social media and its impact on politics, in the hopes that many of the lessons would be relevant for nonprofits, foundations, grassroots activists, and for our emerging networks practice at the Monitor Institute. Everyone who has Twitter now has a global distribution network.”

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