Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

As we have explained in other Beneblog and Bookshare blog posts, these are exciting times for everyone who has been working to meet the imperative to provide people with print disabilities equal access to published information. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur hopes to gain insight into how virtual worlds are used by young people, to introduce the foundation to an audience that may have little exposure to institutional philanthropy and to take part in and stimulate discussions about the real-world issues that it seeks to address. Can you talk about security and pornography issues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. For example, GreatNonprofits , encourages people to post reviews, photos, and videos about nonprofits. And there are some very good efforts to collect and value feedback on non-profits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

This is more of a transcript than a recap, more of what I hope can be a refresher or stimulator for follow up blogs than simply the whole story itself. engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ Both important.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. This is the fourth annual such event and is meant to organize pro-choice bloggers to write about choice, raise the profile of reproductive rights, and educate their readers about the issue. binds the members more tightly to the organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. To add images to your blog, create custom tabs on Facebook, and/or design an e-newsletter template, you need to know basic HTML code. Learn Basic HTML.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. good to highlight a few examples of its uses and briefly examine its. There are many examples of the benefits of the mobile in emerging and. It is an extraordinary example of one of these tools. Can you remember when a huge mobile. a device only seen on TV!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

You can explain complex issues like cap and trade in 140 characters. I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors. Policymakers do not pay attention to messaging that comes through social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track. Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities. The Session Design and Implementation. Here’s what we did: 1. Orienting the Group.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Monica Wahengbam.

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MAY 18, 2021

Empowerment & Encourage Success. The next important aspect of a successful remote workplace is empowerment. Empowerment isn’t just handing over the reins, what is it saying is I trust you to be the expert and I’m not going to get your way. A leader must give team members the ability to live out their expertise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

For example, if you are a food company, you would get someone like Jim Harris who is a board member of ICA. Bigger companies that have grown and are of scale like Numi and Extreme Pizza are great examples of success for us, but at that point, they can afford services. The public safety issue is huge. High crime.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Empowerment – as you help them with a problem, teach them about the problem, and ways to troubleshoot (or possibly solve) the problem themselves in the future. Second, Empowerment. Are they angry?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. The women are day after day documenting that healing process in their online journals, in their online blog. We call them journals, because blogging is a little intimidating to the women who are new to this.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This guide to data visualization and image selection is packed with strategies, tips, and concrete examples. " For example, World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign in China to encourage people to drive less. " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This guide to data visualization and image selection is packed with strategies, tips, and concrete examples. " For example, World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign in China to encourage people to drive less. " An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Can you give an example of, "This month the charity was this and those circles combined raised x amount?" The Somaly Mam organization focuses on rehabilitation for girls who are victims of sex trafficking, and that's a really, really tough issue, but really important. Britt Bravo: How many circles are there now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The articles recommend that you: 1) Limit your media consumption by setting some boundaries; 2) Focus on one or two issues close to your heart, there are too many to do all; 3) Make activism fun. For example “Even though I am feeling (Insert your emotion here) right now. It is used to disrupt stuck energy caused by negative emotions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. The leader, for example, of a religious movement. For example, this idea of using poetry, as the girls are in Zimbabwe, would probably not work in other cultures that don't have that predisposition towards poetry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. Ensuring kids with disabilities get equal opportunity is, fortunately, a bipartisan issue. The Marrakesh Treaty. Enough said!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. BB: You said that the advisers you have are always giving you the lay of the land to tell you what are the issues that are most pressing, or which areas need the most assistance.

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