Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon by Diana Scimone. 6. People love information.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

I’m really excited to [finally] announce that I’m going to be redesigning this blog/website. This website has been a great place for me to post ideas and share lessons learned, store content from presentations, and share resources. Right now, this blog could really be categorized as a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

“ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. Rather than dismissing these campaigns as too risky, foundations and nonprofits should take lessons from this fiasco, look at groups that ended up doing well, invest more wisely in technology, and plan more effectively for the unexpected.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The entire social sector learned a valuable lesson in 2020: even the most rigorous planning can’t insulate us from the need to be flexible and adapt to the changing world around us. One key lesson we learned in 2020 is that we’re truly stronger when we work together. The future is what we make it. Onward and upward!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn’t with social media and I’m lucky that they have offered to continue sharing their knowledge on my blog! Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned. By Donna Norton, Senior Director, MomsRising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word. The lessons for arts organizations.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 2, 2010

Wild Apricot Blog welcomes a special guest today: Carol Buckheit of NonprofitMediaWorks. Tags: General non-profit interest nptech Social networking Facebook Twitter research social media. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. I immediately thought of someone in my network, Vicky Davis, who writes the Coolcat Teacher blog. My cc: to June Holley, was a little tongue and cheek or sort wink and node to the master that I was applying one of her lessons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

Micro-blogging website Twitter has seen an upsurge in traffic from Hispanic and African-American audiences. The rise and fall of Myspace taught nonprofit communicators that were paying attention a very important lesson that we should learn from and never forget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. This has been the most important lesson for me in shifting the way I work to a more networked approach.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. Many of the lessons apply across new media tools. Plan ahead. Make it known.

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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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2014

While live-tweeting the immeasurably quotable conversation, I reached out to my friend and colleague, Willie Matis, asking if he planned to blog about the luncheon. I’d like to extend a special thank you to Willie for writing and posting this blog so quickly so I could share it with you. He said “yes.” I said “I want to share it.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Some lessons from the “enterprise&# October 11, 2007 One of the areas of technology I watch is the world of “enterprise&# IT. Think big companies, lots of bucks, lots of boxes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2013

As Dennis Perkins , an expert on thriving under daunting conditions, shows in his book, Into The Storm , it''s also a feat rich in lessons for anyone tasked with maintaining smooth, effective teamwork -- and delivering winning results -- in the unpredictable, turbulent waters of today''s business environment. Follow Dennis on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

People are often surprised when I say that if given the choice, I would choose 10,000 e-Newsletter subscribers over 10,000 Followers on Twitter, 10,000 Fans on Facebook, or 10,000 Friends on Foursquare… combined. That said, here are five ways to do so using social media: 1) Blog, blog, blog!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. So, what are the biggest lessons for using social media in a global movement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I've seen first hand how you can leverage your Twitter network to raise money for a good cause really fast. It's time update the history of fundraising on Twitter post I wrote that last month after the Tweetsgiving campaign raised $10,000 in 48 hours. The goal is to raised $10,000 on Twitter. Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. Wherever you are, and whatever the kind of community you are wrangling, there are some general lessons that I recommend. I hope you’ll share your lessons, too! Well, those are my five; but I have no doubt there are many more lessons and assumptions out there.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. And that’s an important lesson to learn. What we saw was that by 9 pm on January 12th we were able to launch the program and for the next thee days people only found out about it from Twitter and facebook and so many shared it.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Last April, 1Sky decided to invest a significant amount of time, energy, and resources into Twitter. We actually recognized Twitter’s potential for live blogging events, commenting on relevant issues surrounding climate legislation, and creating conversations with like-minded supporters to build a groundswell of support for our issues.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Last April, 1Sky decided to invest a significant amount of time, energy, and resources into Twitter. We actually recognized Twitter’s potential for live blogging events, commenting on relevant issues surrounding climate legislation, and creating conversations with like-minded supporters to build a groundswell of support for our issues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. It’s a good thing I did or this blog and my communities on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and now Foursquare would likely not exist. Then in June 2008 I launched the @ NonprofitOrgs profile on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

My guest post is up on Care2′s Frogloop blog; you can read the post and join the discussion there. Posterous is a blogging tool, that is really so much more. You can, as with traditional blogs, have a site that shares your posts with the world. You do need a Twitter account to use it.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 29, 2009

The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter's Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. 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. . Photo: Paul Linton.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Stand with Planned Parenthood: Lessons from Crisis Response Campaigns. I’ve been….

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Candid

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today marks the launch of Candid Learning for Funders , your new destination for field guides, blogs, training, and tools designed to improve the practice of grantmaking. . To stay connected with our latest offerings, we invite you to explore the site , share it with your network, and follow us on Twitter at Candid Learning for Funders. .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Lessons for Listening: Don’t be afraid! Twitter: even if you don’t want to engage on it, you need to be listening there. Follow #10ntc.listen on Twitter for links and conversation from this session. Conversations take place in both places separately and together. Multi-channel conversations. Communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Join me for a Twitter Chat about #MyGivingStory at 1pmPST/4pmEST on Tuesday, December 13 th , 2016. Blog Posts. Three Awesome Nonprofit Storytelling Lessons by Pamela Grow. Join me for a Twitter Chat about #MyGivingStory at 1pmPST/4pmEST on Tuesday, December 13 th , 2016. Examples of Excellent Nonprofit Storytelling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.) And I use hashtags in blog entries! ).

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