Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher.

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JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. Social media is a powerful marketing tool for businesses of all types, and it is especially useful for nonprofit organizations, which typically struggle more to reach a large audience on a tighter budget. Need help improving your social media skills? First in Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

Julian’s take on the coverage: To be honest, so much of the rhetoric around the use of social media in Egypt and Tunisia makes me want to scream — folks act like these American tools just dropped from the sky like humanitarian food rations, set to save the people from their (American-supported, natch) dictators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Scan Social Networks for Free Agents.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

How are you going to maintain the website and make it compelling over time? Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Cycle through a combination of blog authors and guest bloggers from within your organization, board members, influencers, etc.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

You can download a 29 Day Giving Calendar and gift cards on the 29 Day Giving Challenge social network. Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. I was broke. I was too sick to work.

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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. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Today I got a comment on an older post, my interview with Carie Lewis about using social networking sites for campaigns. Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game.

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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.”. Disruptive Model: Social Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, HandsOn Network launched The Good & Ready Campaign that leverages interactive technologies and social networking to support their partners, The American Red Cross , Ready.gov and FLASH by recruiting, inspiring and mobilizing volunteers in support of their goals for September, National Emergency Preparedness Month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Much of the advice is transferable to other social networking spaces. (I I set it up so I could help some friends with teens who are it and hopefully by the time my kids are teens there will be a different technology use pattern to master.) Or publish them on your Web site and ask bloggers to link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Nonprofit Times covers it here. Social bookmarking in plain English!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. Similar strategy to what the San Francisco Symphony did with its blogger outreach event. Can I help next time?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Media are the everyday bloggers, local groups and traditional media. So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. You have VIP’s, media and everyday influencers.

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APRIL 22, 2009

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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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JANUARY 21, 2009

SocComm will have a mixture of individual talks, on-stage interviews / conversations and a number of “group chat&# sessions. 8:00 - 9:00 - Coffee / Tea + “Real-Time Social Networking&#. 11:40 - 12:10 - “Will Law and Policy Kill the Social Communications Revolution Before It Starts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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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. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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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. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice? What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The prelude to this interview is a tale of networking weaving. " which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I wanted to find an example of an official social networking presence, one clearly set up by the organization and one that was set up by the users. Why did you start your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Britt Bravo has a terrific interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space about Green Coworking. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! has been around for a while. Green Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The other thing to remember is that a lot of social media culture is built on the " gift economy :" the notion that it's a good idea to do things that are just good ideas. There's no expected return when you do someone a favor, or when you take time to share research for free. What about blogger outreach? That's not all!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

that is I love the content, consume way too much, and can spend a lot of time wandering around having a wonderul time. I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. social marketing,???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

As long as that number is growing, I can get some indication of the topics I'm writing about are of interest and that the time I spend responding to comments and leaving comments elsewhere helps build the regular readership community. We are at the heart of a social media and social networking revolution.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Before you feel like it is necessary to host a community or answer the posts, take some time to really understand what people are saying and who they are. Beth : Most of the time, if you've built your community, they will correct negatives or incorrect information. I did an interview with her about this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? In the short 6 months that I have been blogging, I have come to the conclusion that blogging is the missing piece in a successful social media strategy. Social media is content driven. 5) To grow your fans and followers on social networking sites.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

" In previous weeks, I interviewed nonprofits who have jumped into the blogosphere trenches feet first. Do you set limits on time, on topics? The organization has to be willing to put in the time. Time is also a barrier. I found Blogger in January, 2000. Does everyone in the organization do this?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Nate (the blogger) asked for a bookmarking feature, and then I responded by asking him to contribute to the programming of the site. Do you see this evolving more into a social networking site, or a reference that people use as a resource when needed? Projects interview professional development. You do it to be famous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

The rise of mobile and social media has profoundly altered how journalists frame and format their stories, and the same is true for nonprofit bloggers. Since most reports and studies are released in association with a hashtag, you can promote your summary and gain access to new readers by using the hashtag on social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

When I was in Cambodia last summer, John hosted a blogger’s meet up. When learned about Giving Tuesday , he offered to share an inspiring story about giving back. You have a full-time job. Alot of times bad development work is done by very well-meaning people. I made sure I did it every night before I went to bed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

"Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Her personal blog, EvangeList , focuses on social media, social change, and nonprofits.

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