Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. This is the listening and scanning I do. My “Circle of Wise&# is always changing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 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). By providing tools and support for people with ideas, the group hopes to empower Americans to change the world, one project at a time. What do you think?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 3, 2012

My hope is that Tara will be a resource for you either through her Playing Big program, her blog , her videos , or her Twitter feed. I listed a whole bunch of choices for that “biggest challenge”: __I just can’t find enough time to do all that is important to me. Fear and self-doubt are still running the show, way too much of the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

If you're new to the topic, it is a great way to get up to speed and will would definitely help you inform your strategy. It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The Twitter accounts from a small group of gurus/practitioners in online community management.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

He definitely is "character approved" in my book. I asked my friend who is a High School teacher if he knows about DonorsChoose, and he said he uses it all the time! What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Take a minute and check it out!

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" People definitely saw the URL in the local press and on local media websites and responded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. We crafted a two-day challenge, mixing all-staff sessions with smaller group time. An explosion of EDF bloggers. Lots of great ideas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. Who will set it up?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. I called them up, let the phone ring 10 times, and nobody picked up. Thats not definitive, but this is another one I suspect wont be too worried about the revocation. They reported $1.2

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

These programs, including TweetDeck and Seesmic , can be incredibly helpful for managing many of your nonprofit organizations social media outlets, but youll want to make sure you spend time playing around with all of their various functions before you start sending out official tweets. Have you ever had a social media nightmare?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! His definition: projects that are not well funded. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

I must agree that communication is such a key component in every aspect in life but at the same time it is not practiced enough, especially in the nonprofit world. I agree, students can definitely benefit from witnessing the types of conversations that are taking place not only at our Spring forum, but at our Fall conference as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Our laid off staff put in over 1000 hours of volunteer time during that period… " Although stories like these are incredibly inspiring, we know that sweat equity is not sustainable; nonprofit professionals can not be volunteers on a permanent basis. " Such a scary statistic, but definitely very eye-opening information to have.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. It's SO easy to just give money/time easily and walk away feeling good about donating what you have, and it takes time and effort to do the research beforehand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

In the comments of Nancy's post, she has teased out a definition: Technology Steward The person or persons who take active leadership in the selection, configuration, support and maintenance of technologies to support the ongoing activities of their community along with developing and nurturing the practices for using those technologies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

I spent more time than on the email but most people do not read an email because they are too busy with volunteering, kids, work and some are even pursuing their degrees. I wasn't timely with an e-mail response but I did give when I was able to speak with the coordinator in person. April 14, 2011 9:57 PM justnes said. Great advice!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

Approximately 1,000 Arizonans sit on their KnowledgePanel , and 687 of them took the time to respond to the Giving and Volunteering Survey questions. After all, a year is a long time to remember back on. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Which one is better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

There's no expected return when you do someone a favor, or when you take time to share research for free. On Facebook: According to Non Profit Social Network Survey , 80% of respondents have a staff person dedicating 25% of their time to social media. How about repeat performance — is this their first time dealing with you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. No worries.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 9, 2011

Disclaimer Monday, May 9, 2011 Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit posted by Brittany Fasnacht , Office Assistant ASU Lodestar Center Todays youth generation has been stereotyped as the "me" generation — as obsessed with technology, social media, and constantly checking Facebook news feeds. May 11, 2011 9:32 AM Rebecca Herrera said.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

On Thursday, as they hugged goodbye, Zee had a particularly hard time letting go of Shelina, both figuratively and literally. Shelina was heartbroken when she had to leave Zee, especially because Zee had shared that her parents were divorced and didnt spend much time with her. But what are the costs involved for the community members?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2011

I have a rough time donating to nonprofits. What if I decided that, every single day, Id devote a little bit of time and a little bit of a care to a different nonprofit organization? Sure, it definitely takes commitment, but Carlo proves we can absolutely do it. I always have excuses -- Im too busy! Im a grad student!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

RSS Widgets: I installed grazr which easily puts my bloglines feeds that I'm reading on my sidebar in a nifty little directory. FeedBurner has recently partnered to offers customizable widgets for your feed. " Widgetbox For bloggers like me, Widgetbox offers a Widget panel. It helps automate your blogroll. It's one click!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another. Act 1: What.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Google Analytics is one of the most important tools in your arsenal as the platform feeds real-time data from your website into a user-friendly dashboard. Or, are only interested in the statistics at this time. Needless to say, I spent more time researching references over writing the actual content. Bounce rate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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