Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

In those days, I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on a project called ArtsWire, an online network for arts organizations and artists. Back in the old days, there was a very small community of peer that I could ask questions and learn from — we had a listserv!

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APRIL 8, 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). " How do your social media channels fit in your organization's emergency communications plan? Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.

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JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

are two organizations doing good work to make that happen. Here’s the way TAG describes itself: "TAG is a membership organization of foundations that promotes the understanding of how information and communications technology can help its members further their philanthropic goals." Organize regional meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” And if your organization is large and bureaucratic, figure out a way for information and approval to flow more quickly, so that you can stay nimble and responsive. Consider your timing.

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JULY 17, 2009

Will you tier your fees for different sized organizations? Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Figure out how you will bill for your work: hourly (at what rate) or fixed-fees for projects? If you charge a fixed fee, or cap your fees, how will you deal with scope creep? Will you charge for travel time?

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JANUARY 12, 2011

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space. I don't normally blog job announcements, but it is such a great organization and if I lived in New York I'd be appying myself. For detailed info see here.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. The event was organized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and hosted by Congressional members: Randy Hultgren (Illinois), Chaka Fattah (Pennsylvania), Ben Ray Lujan (New Mexico), and Alan Nunnelee (Mississippi). are reused.

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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. Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

One tidbit that Rebbecca shared is that they didn’t demand or require that their partners use their logo (although a simple text acknowledgment was included instead.) TechSoup has done an amazing job of partnering with local organizations throughout the world, and customizing the partnership to both minimize the risk and meet local needs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

are two organizations doing good work to make that happen. Here’s the way TAG describes itself: "TAG is a membership organization of foundations that promotes the understanding of how information and communications technology can help its members further their philanthropic goals." Organize regional meetings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

To develop creative, sustainable partnerships with nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, issue groups, labor unions, educational institutions, business corporations, foundations, and all levels of government. You don't need to be an organization to do this. Share your story about your summer service project.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great for other organizations. We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. I didn't get much out of yesterday's keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Twitter and Nonprofits On January 8th, the next NetTuesday meetup will focus on Twitter and campaign organizing. Details here.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Blog for content. Email listserv signup. Tell your story and those of your members and why you formed the organization. You don’t need to have all the bells and whistles, but start with what works best for your mission and purpose of your site. Here are some possible features you could include on your site: Event registration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Mari Smith suggests these key reasons: More people can find out about your organization because your Page gets indexed and is search able inside and outside of Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. And of course, I use this blog as a reflective space to learn by writing. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

There are no better champions for your organization’s communication’s strategy than your staff. In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) January 7, 2015.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning site? Community Media Workshop???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. His post would be the perfect blog post. And as always, I met fans of Beth Kanter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Tracking Blog Conversations. If so, let me know. Ego searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. This is one of many events taking place to mark the Island's Grand Opening organized by the tireless Lori Bell who must not sleep. There a number of interesting events planned over the next couple of weeks. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Context – private, internally-focused or serving an organization, or the wider world (i.e.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Does the thought of creating a tech plan for your organization seem overwhelming? If you've never even considered creating a tech plan for your organization, or it's been a while, you're not alone. It has also been a great way to measure the organization's progress in meeting tech goals. A mysterious process?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users. and Katya A. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. We use it to go where people are already organizing against genocide, and give them tools to do so effectively. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. There's not even a description of what the blogs do. Many times, I'm asked by newcomers to RSS readers what is the best way to get started is finding blogs to read. There are many such lists on del.icio.us

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization. Identification. Pre-qualification.

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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. also coordinated and integrated the content and blog postings with our hsus myspace page and rebecca???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. Although I do have a couple of uneasy feelings about blog spontaneity. ll blog it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Tracking Blog Conversations. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. Technorati.

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