Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? What questions and answers would you add?

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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. executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Peter Campbell, publisher of Techcafeteria Non Profit social media maven Beth Kanter blogged recently about starting up a residency at a large foundation , and finding herself in a stark transition from a consultant’s home office to a corporate network. More specifically, can you end hunger in a community with a widget ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Even better, she agreed to share a blog post about what she learned on this blog. The conference, according to Jason Schultz , Co-Director of the Samuelson Clinic for Law , Technology and Public Policy, was designed as “a chance to address the ramifications of what happens when people write permanently to a giant network.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

And judging by reading some of the blog posts from other attendees, like Liz Davis and Candelaria Silva , I am not alone. I facilitated a session in the afternoon called Managing Information Overload: Finding Your Blog Community." As Lisa mentions in her wrap up post, the session ended up touching on the issue of blog policies.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

19 Oct 2007 Non-Profit Tech Blog » Convio Facebook App not recommended for use right now [.] 20 Oct 2007 Allan Benamer Michael, The difference in my approach is that I speak for IT directors on my blog. I’m kind of irritated by the cursory comments in this blog in general–nothing of great depth here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference. All live blogging disclaimers apply. Rolling out widgets in next few weeks so community members can use them. User policies - a standard policy of user/community conduct is useful. Twitter - micro blogging tool. Next frontier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Having conversations without having a blog. The art and practice of blogging for nonprofits (planning, policy, writing, commenting). Measuring your blogs success and making improvements. How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. Conversations. The Socially Networked Nonprofit.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2024

Fill out an application and agree to the DAF provider’s policies. Adding a DAF widget to your donation page. You can embed a widget right into your donation page that gives donors all the information they need to request a DAF grant. The Appeal of Donor-Advised Funds first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

That's Allan Benamer who writes the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Augustine on his blog that goes along with his tagline, "Confessions of a Non-Profit IT Director." " (Allan's blog isn't the only nonprofit technology blog to mix the themes of nonprofit technology and spirituality - take for example here and here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Should foundations align their grantmaking directives with their endowment investment policies? Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. This is our most popular Managing eLearning post every year, and by now we know you want to see the hype curve first. Both are on the slope of enlightenment.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? Is the blog used and updated? And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? Is the blog used and updated? And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. Some nonprofits have begun to utilize widgets and other light-weight Internet applications to leverage social networks. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Emily Riley from Forrester Research and Beth Kanter from Beth’s Blog both gave great presentations that really complimented each other. You should decide internally how you want to handle potentially negative comments and what your policy will be about moderating comments or not. I did an interview with her about this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. that are easy to grab and use.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The campaign employed widgets and leveraged Care2, and CI’s page on MySpace, as well as blogs, to spread the word about their campaign. The campaign attracted 96,000 participants, and Starbucks did eventually change their policy, thereby benefiting poor farmers in Ethiopia. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

And the panels this year are an interesting mixture, ranging from hands-on training sessions using things like cartography and widgets in politics and advocacy to discussion about how technology is changing the political process. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Facebook Like button is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your website and blog content. After customizing this widget at Facebook.com , you can easily put it into your site’s template in a matter of minutes. If you think this will be an issue, simply write out a “commenting policy” on the info tab of your Facebook page.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Making the Most of the News Cycle In September 2008, NWLC launched a voter education microsite that included a register-to-vote widget, and we started running Google ads on keywords like “register to vote.” All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. And we’ll keep trying new things and seeing what works.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

1 Facebook (and other social networking sites): Were finding a significant amount of traffic increasing from these sites, so were launching a new widget this summer that will allow our clients to leverage this new and emerging source for fundraising traffic. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. All rights reserved.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 17, 2017

And yet, despite it’s overuse, that simple three word request remains THE clarion call to those seeking to affect policy change, as well as the single best method of empowering supporters to be issue ambassadors. It’s printed on t-shirts , verbalized in training sessions and is nigh inescapable in PowerPoint presentations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

And, they have this web widget with the countdown. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. You can learn more on their site. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

If you are wondering what Sextech is, it explores research, policy, education, implementation, and evaluation of public health programs that use new technologies to enhance sexual health of young people. How Social Media Might Be Able to Impact the Sex Education Policy Debate View more presentations from Leslie Bradshaw.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I have discussed on my blog that Academia and government must move to the net to best serve their "market" and that the biggest hurdle they face is "tradition" They are too set set in their ways to move effectively into new media. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. All rights reserved.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

News and blog content. Project Open Hand accomplishes that, and goes a step further by organizing their news, blog, and press releases in an eye-catching (on-theme!) Even better, they have a real-time Facebook feed widget on every page. An effective blog functionality also includes frequent news and events updates.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

" Basically how it works, is that the VoterStory widget can be placed on any Web site. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. 60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? Pope Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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