Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. And the press scorned the fundraising effort. Ironically, he had vetoed a bill that would have provided $50,000 for the pedestal as governor of New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Since early December, the issue has been covered on over 60 nonprofit and philanthropy blogs, technology blogs and press, and news publications, including The New York Times , Huffington Post , The Guardian , Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Quarterly , Cause Marketing Forum , and Foundation Center.

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JULY 13, 2010

This morning’s stories in the Washington Post and The New York Times are what people are talking about at the water-cooler. When you get a story in the press, people believe it and become attracted to the issue. But how do you get a story in the press? You can show audience through your online buzz.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Blog: BigCatRescue.org?/Blog. We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

According to the press release, the first NDU last March reached tens of millions of people internationally. Since then, unplugging has become the movement of the moment, with everyone from the New York Times to Arianna Huffington focusing attention on our overly plugged-in society.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Let’s look at an example from Fiver: Once upon a time, there were students in New York. Until finally, New York has a thriving community of students who see a path to a promising future. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Note from Beth: Last June at the New York City book party for the Networked Nonprofit , Stephanie Strom, New York Times, moderated a discussion on the themes in the book. Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. Now, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. This post is also published on Steve’s blog. Is Jumo Worth The Hype?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

The 8th Annual Games for Change Festival takes place on June 20 – 22 in New York City. Together they will discuss how entrepreneurs, philanthropists, academics, and business leaders can leverage popular media channels, be it games or social media, to address pressing social issues.

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JUNE 6, 2011

We've covered serious gaming before on this blog and at events hosted by TechSoup. As more nonprofits are looking towards technology to create effective social change, I wanted to take this time to present some exciting events taking place at this year's festival from June 20 - 22 in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. Somewhere during the frenzied media coverage of Hurricane Sandy, the press stopped using the word “hurricane.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It has also been covered in the tech trade press, from the cult of the mac to the cult of the android. Almost 8,000 have signed an online petition to urged Steve Jobs to change its iPhone donation policy. To date, there has been no response. Google and Microsoft are all ears.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If your communications team is still solely focused on distributing press releases and pitching newspaper reporters, you are missing out on major opportunities to generate earned media and reach your target audiences via multiple channels. People curate their own news today. For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

For the purposes of this blog post, I have selected only one of a number of examples provided by the authors, all thoroughly supported by impressive research, and including some examples of nonprofits that have incorporated social accounting into their financial statements. Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area, Inc. #

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

On August 4, the New York Times broke the bombshell that Verizon and Google were meeting about net neutrality to broker their own proposal. That may be what prompted a response from Google on their Public Policy Blog today. Things weren't moving quickly, but they were moving, and down a definable path. So what can you do?

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MAY 11, 2011

Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Released in July 2012 by Harvard Business Review Press, his book Story Wars calls on case studies from his own body of work and some of the most successful brands of all time to show how values-driven stories will not only revolutionize marketing, but represent humanity’s greatest hope for the future.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I'm sitting in the press area at the Presidential Forum on Service at Columbia University in New York City. I'll be blogging from both events. I also sat in on a press conference with Usher, the Summit's Youth Chair, and two participants from Usher's New Look youth program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Perhaps not quite to the same extent that the grant writer does, but you do need to worry about what outcomes you say you will achieve, and how much of the grant funds will go toward salaries, and whether or not you will issue a press release upon receipt of funding—and none of these are items that should be determined by a grant writer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I blogged it and was initially very excited! So, I was hopeful when I heard about The One Laptop Per Child - XO Giving on NPR yesterday morning and it also reported in the New York Times and ABC news. The press release does not mention whether it is going to be possible to designate the recipient!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2008

According to the New York Times article, Stop the Presses, Boys! If you live in New York, Lindsey Pollak has posted a special code on her blog that gives you 10% off registration for the February 23rd Op-Ed Project class in NYC. Pollak reports, "I have taken this class and it's really excellent."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

The luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo , a new york city based activist, organizer, blogger, barcamper and coworker. Here's the official press release ). most pressing needs. And, in 36 more hours, I will resume my normal blogging activity. Gradually, we???ve

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Rusty currently serves as Vice President, Data and Technology at the national headquarters of the American Lung Association in New York. He worked in a number of fundraising capacities at the national level starting in 1987 and moved to New York in 1992. > Read the Press Release.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

PRESS RELEASEChase Community Giving Advisory Board Names 17 Additional Charities to Receive Grants - MarketWatch: "NEW YORK, Oct 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Chase Community Giving Advisory Board today announced a final list of 17 additional small and local charities to share a portion of more than $500,000 in grants, receiving $30,000 each.

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AFP Blog

MAY 14, 2009

PRESS RELEASEAOL and Philanthropy Project Launch Philanthropy Feature on AOL News: "NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOL’s MediaGlow announced a new feature on AOL News that provides information and news about philanthropic efforts across America, as well as the latest scientific information and advice about the benefits of living a philanthropic lifestyle. (..)

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AFP Blog

MAY 19, 2009

Press ReleaseUntitled Document: "NEW YORK, May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Foundation Center has announced that Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) will serve as the exclusive beta site for its new mapping tool, 'Philanthropy In/Sight(tm),' leading up to the product's release later this spring.

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JULY 14, 2021

Taking time to map out how your email marketing fits in with these other methods, such as blog posts or social media, makes for a more robust communications plan. “ Ahead of the event, we mapped out our email marketing strategy and made sure it coincided with our social media and blog strategy. Contact Local Media.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Slighted, as these are never mentioned from the podium and rarely in the press. But the New-York based Klezmatics took the World Music/Contemporary prize for their up-to-date take on the traditional Jewish Klezmer sound. Honored, in that there are a world of catagories for the kinds of music I love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Lindsay Patross runs the blog, and people get hold of her, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. She points out why this was such a groundbreaking event and suggests a compelling new metaphor for philanthropy: Imagine if philanthropy sought to be an "empowering platform for individuals (and organizations) to make change. My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

This " Demo Spotlight " highlighted six upcoming games to present their work in front of a stellar jury: Frank Lantz of Zynga New York and NYU, Ken Perlin of the Games for Learning Institute , and Connie Yowell from the MacArthur Foundation. SOS_SLAVES. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. Now, it's almost not even breaking news to say that newspapers are facing, to be quite frank, an economic death spiral. The New York Times has agreed to run it if it's "up to their standards."

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JANUARY 26, 2023

So Wally came up with a tipsheet of sorts — a set of examples that an artist pressed for time could turn to in order not to reinvent the wheel. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods That’s the headline on today’s New York Times front page. It’s been passed around, in one form or another, ever since.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

According to MarketWatch , the grassroots web-based global movement past $1 billion in total online donations since it was launched seven years ago by the 92nd Street Y in New York City. . People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. .

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