Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2016

Get Inspired Businesses, Brands, and Bloggers … And a Few Nonprofits! When I wrote my article two years ago, I had a hard time finding nonprofits and charities that were successfully using Snapchat. Share Exclusive Content, Challenges, and Contests. Two years later, there seems to be a very small bump in nonprofit users.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. As one woman put it, “spending time on this means time staff isn’t spending on other work.” So in the interest of hers, yours, and everyone else’s time, here’s a rundown on what I see as the real time costs of a variety of Web 2.0

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Time is Running Out: Apply or Nominate Someone by Wednesday, February 29th! Blogger's Choice Award: Lastly, there will be a Blogger's Choice Award of $1,000 (USD). The CTK Foundation will choose a blogger (hopefully me) who will hand-pick one winner from any category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

As some readers of this blog may remember, last year at about this time, I celebrated the big 5.0 birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo).

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

No one likes a dull board meeting, or a long one, or one that doesn’t start on time. That’s why we turned to guest blogger Susan Schaefer for fresh ideas on this problem in this week’s guest post. . Chances are, they share these traits: Convenient, agreed-upon meeting time and location. Prompt start and end times.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Geoff Livingston wrote a provocative blog post about “how we are in the midst of a new media revolution where norms and “best practices&# have been dictated by an echo chamber, mostly by top tier bloggers, that don’t necessarily understand the medium or deserve the ability to dictate best practices. Give me a break!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Certainly, giving from individuals won't be enough to fix the economy and provide the resources that charities need to deliver important services in hard economic times. For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Now say that five times fast! They use social media to achieve goals of increased transparency and increased donations of blood, time, and money. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

How are you going to maintain the website and make it compelling over time? Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.). Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Who are the target audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. However, the true genius of GoFundMe may have been its timing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. How many points do I get each time I refuse a plastic straw? We won the costume contest. Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. Photo: My friend Eli and I at the 2009 Bay to Breakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Christine Herron suggests the Electric Company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

I was little afraid that I might end up not only wasting time making music videos in Second Life, but actually composing a theme song. Perhaps inspired by his recent Second Life Photography Award , my favorite edtech blogger, CogDog (aka Alan Levine in RL and CDC Barkely (woof, woof) announced a NMC photo contest. (Be

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. So I had great time eating my favourite chocolate waffle when watching Harry my favourite green geek.

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See3

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

You can see the first video, “Free&# , below: On the website, there are interactive ways for new activists to get involved with NARAL Pro-Choice America’s work, including taking action on a choice-related issue, learning about state-by-state legislation, or entering (and later voting in) a $1,000 t-shirt design contest. (We

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Or maybe it is the life-size Angry Birds games, high jump wall, hot wings contest, or 40-yard dash contests that keep this such a great place to work? This week, these words have added significance. It has been a pleasure to be a part of something so special. Next week, the family gets a little larger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

With that said, it is difficult to make time for learning when you have a big, hairy to do list breathing facing you or in this case when grief is involved. With online contests or when there is a “matching grant,” I’ve been able to raise more, but I did not have one. Don’t Set Minimum Gift Levels Too Low.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Other than benchmarking against yourself over time, are there sub-sector averages that we can look at?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

With the passage of this law, it is also an opportune time to showcase a few online tools, techniques, and communications strategies that some pretty cool nonprofits (some of them our clients) are using to amplify the voice of the healthy kids movement. Seventeen million children live in food insecure households. " campaign.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nonprofit bloggers including Alison Fine , Beth Kanter , Steve MacLaughlin , and Brian Reich were quick to point out that donating money on Facebook is just one of many actions people can take in support of a nonprofit or cause. 4 - Be Specific and Timely. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Setup of all three has a one time fee. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. .&# Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? Those are all "How-to" links, by the way, but) if you're short on time, here are 50 Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2008

It will be easier to ask many times if your site is focused on the topic of philanthropy or related to the mission of the charity you are raising funds to support. With $10 and 10 minutes of your time you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. Where's the conference tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

It was amazing how many there were, sometimes even two at the same time. But I have seen groups use LinkedIn to form committees that do fundraising, to have people volunteer time from an in-kind standpoint, etc. See3 has run many successful video contests (a few examples here , here and here ). I went to several Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

She a prolific blogger, a nonprofit techie, and has worked in the nonprofit sector for twenty years. It's time to strike up a conversation backed by sound research, philosophy and experience. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th! Check out the flickr stream here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

The importance of monitoring in real time and demonstrating what's working through active listening and continually taking the temperature. Cautions against it not being a popularity contest, but the number grows because people get some value from part of an active, informative, and value-driven community.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

It's a great way to spend our last bit of time together while highlighting some of the individuals and organizations shaping our sector. Second Place winner ($3,000) -- Zemanta's Related Social Actions for Bloggers -- submitted by Jure Cuhalev of Zemanta. Thirty-five developers submitted web applications to the Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. This was the first time I observed the use of "retweeting" a fundraising message.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

OK, quiz time. They put it on YouTube, embedded into this landing page , and then sent emails to all their lists, all at the same time. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? So a bunch of groups get together and want to get people engaged. What’s the best way to do that?

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. In today’s NY Times is an article about Facebook and the difficulty of getting your data removed. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Here’s what Yahoo! They take the post down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? A number of folks have sent back thanks for saving them some time in prepping a presentation. It provides a huge return on investment. Here's why: A way to crowd source ideas.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Gretchen has donated her time to numerous causes including Relay for Life, Girls on the Run, Rebuilding Together and just recently became involved with the local land trust. Gather the troops and start brainstorming ways that you can grab the attention of supporters, bloggers and media. People step up in times of need.

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