Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. If your nonprofit has yet to start a blog or already blogs but struggles with ideas for fresh content, then hopefully the 11 blog content ideas listed below will help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Blog: hsus.typepad.com. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We’ve done so many things in social media that flopped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Yesterday, Allison Fine and I, along with colleagues Danielle Bridiga and Marc Sirkin gave a Care 2 Webinar on the Networked Nonprofit. Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. The above visual is a social network. Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Blog: blog.nature.org. Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? Organization: The Nature Conservancy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

Originally posted by me on the NetSquared blog. NetSquared currently has 3 open Challenges, calling for innovators and change makers around the world to submit ideas for Web and mobile-based technologies for social change. Tags: challenge interview net2 challenges clay shirky innovation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Title: Social Media Manager. Blog: pancan.org/blog. Who maintains your social media campaigns? I am a full-time employee of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and as the Social Media Manager I manage all the social networking efforts for the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Blog: www.wildlifepromise.org. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Right now our organization gets more than 20% of the traffic from the surplus of social media sites we are on. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book Organization: National Wildlife Federation.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Do you get some of your best blog ideas when you’re away from your computer? Try audio blogging: Speak your piece, grab a quick interview, or capture the vibes of a live event with your mobile phone - then quickly post the audio online to share with your organization's members and supporters.( read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog. Dupe: I love our blog – I has surprisingly become one of the strongest presence on our website. We also have an External Affairs Visita Volunteer who manages our blog space. Jumo: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. How much staff time did it take to incorporate the social media tools?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Show notes My Juicy Blogging e-course starts tomorrow, February 2nd. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , its landing page , or on the player above.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

We [ myself , @MeganSoffe r , and @PIRDave from OnGood ] streamed an interview and a short 20-minute session, but with creativity and time for planning, Periscope streaming as a storytelling tool is untapped and a future fundraising success story yet to be told. Have a two-person team for streaming interviews, site visits, and events.

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NetWits

JANUARY 14, 2011

Jeremiah Owyang, an industry analyst with digital strategy consulting firm Altimeter Group , interviewed 140 enterprise-class social strategists for a report on the “ Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist ”. What department is your social media program in? What’s your 2011 social media budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). ” Which Social Networks Are Growing Fastest Worldwide? Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit? – eMarketer -.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

Check out our blog picks of the week. And feel free to tell us your favorite blog posts from this past week in the comments section. Tracy Sestili over at Social Strand Media has a helpful post on how nonprofits can use Facebook and not just to talk about themselves. It’s a social network so have some fun with it (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The speakers included an amazing morning key note by Arianna Huffington, luncheon talk by Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg, and an all-star closing discussion panel. (I live tweeted and blogged the event) One of the best quotes of the day came from Arianna Huffington who said, "To be generous, practice generosity."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Target community for best return on social media efforts – My recent interview with the Nonprofit Business Advisor is out! Free blogs.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

We read a lot of blogs over here at Care2's Frogloop. Beth Kanter who shares tips for the content creation impaired, Tinu Abayomi-Paul who discusses why Storify is great to curate social content, and YouTube who is launching Next Cause. Interview someone who has done interesting work that relates to the topics you blog about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. LauraatNing was listening and just pinged me to point me over to this blog post about nonprofits that are using Ning with their donors and supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

Like slot machines, people check their emails and social networks repeatedly because they have a Ludic Loop embedded. The 60 Minutes piece include an interview with Larry Rosen , an expert in the psychology of technology, author, and research psychologist who studies multitasking, social networking, and other topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: I was just reading an interview with The Nature Conservancy's Jonathon Coleman on Treehugger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Social not -working???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? I've been interviewing colleagues via socnets to find out. I do the tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. And, she interviewed me for Oh My News ! BTW, light blogging today and tommorrow as the schools are off! So, stay tuned. So, stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. Eric recently emailed me to tell that he has put down his video camera down and is trying his hand(rather mouth)at some Larry King-style podcast interviews.

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NetWits

MARCH 7, 2011

There are a ton of great activities, networking opportunities and sessions focused on the non-profit space this year – one of which Blackbaud will be moderating. It should be a great conversation between (check out the panelists below) social networking providers and their non-profit users.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). The Case Study.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2007

Over on the Stop Cyberbullying Social Network Site, David Weinberg suggested a no bullies pledge , a sort of creative commons licensing for acceptable conduct. Here's an interview with Kathy Sierra with the local TV station. Here's an interview with Kathy Sierra with the local TV station. (more here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

While we've used traditional research methods, including a survey of 720 Challenge Participants and interviews, we are facilitating “Conversational Case Studies” that explore best practices in integrating social media with fundraising campaigns by the America’s Giving Challenge (AGC) winners. What techniques are you using?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I first started reading “Cog Dog Blog&# by Alan Levine since his first post in 2003, &# I Blog Therefore I Am.&# Although he was blogging about how to integrate social media into education and the classroom, his ideas have always been transferable to nonprofits. Alyce you will be missed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Some highlights included workshops in Santa Barbara , a mini-workshop on content curation at Scoop.it’s headquarters, workshops for Gates Foundation staff , and a presentation at convening hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Advancing Social Media Measurement. My Theme for the Year: Learning. My Three Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 We recruited people based on the Forrester online social activity categories and interviewed them about their online participation. The site is called Museum 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? The Cute Dog Theory.

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