Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

KRS1 would go on to become an expert at using music as a vehicle for social change (a whole other blog post), but early on it was all about telling his own story. Here are 5 quotes from the Boogie Down Productions classic " My Philosophy " that provide lessons in storytelling that all nonprofits can benefit from: "You're a philosopher?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. So, what are the biggest lessons for using social media in a global movement? There were three main lessons or focus areas that emerged in the discussion.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2010

Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog. European Foundation Week Session: Evaluating Foundation Activities: Lessons from Lavoro and Psiche - Organized by Fondazione Cariplo , 31st May 2010. Tags: Event. This week, several TechSoup Global staffers are participating in Foundation Week in Brussels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

As more kids are heading back to school, teachers and whole schools are embracing the challenge and teaching some important lessons about philanthropy. 6) Social Proofing the Call To Action: Another reason is the social proofing element or social validation , where friends tag their friends on social network.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2010

(This post was originally posted on the Beautiful World blog, here.). As part of a blog series leading up to the event, I was asked to share some thoughts on the event, especially for those coming along for the first time that may not know what to expect. Lesson: Listen! Lesson: Ask! Lesson: Socialize!

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Robert Weiner

JULY 29, 2009

NTEN's blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it. The chief lesson: good passwords are key to good security. . You can also look at TechSoup's Security Corner for more tips, articles, blog posts, and resources on securing your information. . . Tags: TechSoup.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Kids know they can expect two things from us: sports and God.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

As readers of this blog know, I often mention the idea of “movement building.&# We hope you’ll take this as an open invitation to jump right in with your own case studies, lessons or best practices and also comment if there are questions you hope others can address. Visit the Global Scale wiki to dive in today: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal. And we wanted it to be easy to do – write a blog post!

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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. Or following the twitter streams and blogs posts of people like Pistachio and Connie Reece. What would I do differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. Today I Cried blog announces that he will quit his job ! blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

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). " My favorite lesson? . "This " My favorite lesson? Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 19, 2010

It’s been a busy week so I just clicked through today and thought it was an excellent opportunity to start integrating more conversation starters into this blog (as suggested in the Blog Redesign thread). Tags: future issues conversation starter demographics digital natives research trends youth.

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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. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing. Let's take a look. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. for Educators.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 15, 2020

Maximise SEO through tags and titles. Use tags wisely, these are what Youtube uses to determine what your video is about and what other videos it’s related to. Use tags wisely, these are what Youtube uses to determine what your video is about and what other videos it’s related to. Sustainability. Why Twenti?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2009

This week was a bad week for online blogging services. First the blogging service JournalSpace , with hundreds of users, just, well, died, because they didn’t have a proper backup. They hosted a small percentage of the blogs out there (in comparison to, say, TypePad or Blogger.) Always have a disaster recovery plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These are some essential sources for information: social networks, blogs, interviews, surveys, polls, and in-depth interviews. It should be clear how these smaller goals and milestones add up to the bigger vision, but the lessons from these smaller tests may increase your chances of successfully arriving at the ultimate destination.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Lessons for Listening: Don’t be afraid! Tags: liveblogging 10ntc events lisetning techsoup. Conversations take place in both places separately and together. Multi-channel conversations. Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. Where are the conversations? Communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I figured it was worth writing on this blog about. I didn’t have a specific set of things I wanted to get out there in the world (save in the realm of what I can easily do by blogging) and I just joined because all of my nptech buddies joined. Tags: Technology Zen Web2.0 And, frankly I still don’t miss it.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

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). Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

#thankful4home: A Lesson in Project Based Learning & Gratitude guest post by Lisa Colton. Share your gratitude in Twitter or Facebook (or any other platform you wish), and tag it #thankful4home. Safety and security when you close the door behind you? Being with family? What does “home” mean to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Marc Sirkin and I have been trading emails about his nonprofit's use of tags. He responded to my question with a post over at his blog, npMarketing. Tagging can be used to develop a shared archive of resources for a pre-defined group of people (an organization's staff or community of practice. It's right here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

There is a panel on nonprofit and tagging taking place netsquared. Some of the questions: Why some people love discovery aspect of tagging and others don't? If you've gotten past this debate in your organization and are using tagging, what have you learned? How can you use tags to organize and find content? What is it?

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

Throughout the program, they continued to hold raffles and a silent auction was opened prior to the start of the program so guests could explore the offerings and tag items with alerts so bidders wouldn’t miss bidding on their favorite prizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Tag Poetry. Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. " What if you linked your tag words to something?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

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). Selma vets and young activists must share lessons. Dave was a fellow panelist. Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

It’s a good thing I did or this blog and my communities on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and now Foursquare would likely not exist. Five Lessons Learned. Tags: Uncategorized Social Media. Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. It was then that I had to make an important decision.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

You can always reach me on email or Twitter - or follow this blog and my Twitter stream for updates. Lessons in Community Management. Tags: conference sxsw events. This is my first time attending the huge event and I’m already quite overwhelmed by all the people and conversations converging around me. Let’s connect!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

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). This month's Net2 Think Tank asks you to share a lesson learned from online fundraising." My favorite rule: "Seek out apostles, not partners.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 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). " Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned! NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C.,

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Here are some additional resources geared specifically to the nonprofit application of social media: NTEN eNews article: Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from 2008 Elections. NTEN Blog article: The Three Dimensions of Social Media ROI. Tags: nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN online marketing SEM social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Originally posted by Zero Strategist on the 4Change blog. Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. I think that the previous blog post by Tom is a great lead into this month’s discussion and #4CHANGE chat topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Oakland Local is launching in partnership with 35 local nonprofit, neighborhood & community organizations: it combines postings of partner organizations’ news and information with blogging and with reported stories from a top quality news team. Tags: community otherblogs local news socialbysocial. Getting Local.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Jenifer writes for several national and local blogs including her own, 'the art of friendraising' and has trained hundreds in public relations and communications at various regional and national workshops and conferences. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications.

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