Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Many blogHers, like Rebeca at the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day.    Then check out the justcause - a social networking site that is encouraging people to take action behind a cause.    But, on Friday, my blog turned from red to pink! 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

I'm live blogging at blogher and in about an hour and half, I'll be attending a training on how we're supposed to be tagging our posts and some points about writing style, etc. Her is the description of my task: All social and networking portions of BlogHer are being blogged all day by our BlogHer-on-the-street, Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. The topics: * What does it mean to be a "conversation community"? Will your site always be English only? Will your site always be English only? The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. Feedback?

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JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2006

4 jobs I had: General Manager of the Pro Art Chamber Orchestra Management/Capacity Assessment Evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grants Day of Service Consultant for N-TEN Community Builder/Network Coordinator for Artswire, an online network for artists and project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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JULY 30, 2006

The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance. When she began getting up to 100 requests a day for survivor information, Sara directed people to survivor sites and other resources. They also set up a wiki. Tips from Dina 1.

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JUNE 1, 2006

Be a Community Advocate, not a Company Evangelist 3. I'd seen Tara wow the audience when we were on a Blogging for Business panel together, but I'd never seen Elisa (or Lisa) from Blogher speak before, and I was super impressed. Now I'm really excited to go to the Blogher Conference ! Be 100% Authentic 4. Serve a niche market 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. I think of those online communities as social media because it was all about conversation, getting to know people, and interacting. It was all about community.

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JULY 27, 2006

You can find places selling local food near you through the Local Harvest site, search for Eat In, Act Out events near you, or add your own, on the Eat In, Act Out Frappr Map (pictured above), and read more about the Food Project on their blog. food local organic community

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to Wikipedia , giving circles are a form of philanthropy consisting of groups of individuals who pool their funds and other resources to donate to their communities and seek to increase their awar eness and engagement in the process of giving. Connect with giving circles and encourage your members to start their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

The Cambodian Blog community has many facets, including an active group of "ex-pat" bloggers. She also has the definitive list of Cambodian BlogHers here. He is an active tagger and expert in social networking sites. Photo by Mythicaldude. Details Are Sketchy is an anonymous blogger who writes about life in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

One of my Twitter followers, @persistance pointed me to Shireen Mitchell (aka @digitalsista ) who is moderating a session at BlogHer, DC about online community building for political action. Digital Networkers profiles African American heavy social networking site users. it just doesn't depend on them, bloggers say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2005

Recently, Susan Getgood , marketing consultant , posted a comment in this thread: When I talk to my for-profit clients about blogs, one of the main ways I tell them that a blog might help their marketing efforts is to build on an existing community of users or interests.

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MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2006

While working on a post for blogher this morning, I came across information about a do good film company that I wanted to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits. Just the Write Click!

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AUGUST 29, 2006

According to the Womens Way press release , "The correlation of women’s professional growth and development with their philanthropic involvement makes a strong business case to employees and employers about the importance of investing in community involvement as a professional development tool."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Shortly before the Blogher July 2005 conference, I got a new digital camera that came with a video feature. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. So, I played and played and posted the good, the bad, and the ugly on YouTube , OurMedia , and Blip.TV.

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AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. She is a real community person and is often promoting other people's projects. Change.Org is covering news about social change on its site. I only use email to communicate with old people , by Jeremiah Owyang. Why did I go? Amy Sample Ward.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities When: Sunday, March 15th from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Room C Description: This talk gets to the heart of how people interact and exchange information in online communities: through social capital, or as Cory Doctorow calls it, Whuffie. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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MARCH 27, 2009

These messages of value add were echoed by Mario Anima of Current TV (From Flickr and Beyond: Lessons in Community Management) who talked about the role of community managers to develop new tools to continue dialogue not just deliver information. Maybe success is as simple as providing something people want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

You can learn more about her impressive accomplishments by reading the official CV/Bio at her web site. How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? Cross posted at Blogher The paper is a must read.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

As you mentioned, there are over 2,500 people who've signed up on your site who have committed to do this, more than once sometimes. There's a woman named Erin who is a community manager of our site. She helps manage the team of volunteers that run the site. What is your web site? And they're also sharing stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. The strong community vibe in the room was inspiring and comfortable. I credit that to the organizer, Geoff Livingston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. Set a Time Frame, Track it and Talk about it: Make sure you activate the tracking system or install an external tracking system like site meter, bloglog, or Google Analytics. Look at your data for answers. What should you bring forward?

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JUNE 19, 2009

. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally.

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APRIL 24, 2007

And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. Three hundred dollars a year is a huge barrier for kids in this community, and kids all over the developing world. So, this community got organized. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

This week, as BlogHer , launched a special campaign with GlobalGiving to raise money for lifesaving programs for women around the world, here is an interview with Donna Callejon who is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving. And women are the backbone of most low-income communities, around the world and in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. The video bloggers have learned that the school is actually located on top of the Agriculture Street Landfill, an infamous Superfund site in New Orleans what was used as a dump and incinerator site after Hurricane Betsy. " Why?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

If you're American, you can find a blood drive near you on the American Red Cross site. Why not volunteer with your honey, or a group of pals in your community on Valentine's Day? Cross-posted from BlogHer. Fox is hoping it will help some of the victims of the fires in Victoria. Giving blood make you squeamish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

That will come after I get back and will morph the c ampaign site in that. In addition, I'd like to thank Britt Bravo who gave her covered AOL laptop bag to schlep home the t-shirts from BlogHer and to Gina Trapani for donating her extra t-shirts. They would match donations $1 up to $2,000 I raised for the project. Here's an example.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

"It's not how many friends you have on Facebook, it's the depth of connection of our community ties that will keep us together and allow us to have political power together." Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? What are the things that I've seen that have worked?

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JANUARY 31, 2006

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. Personal Politics & News Race & Ethnicity Religion & Spirituality Research & Academia Sex & Relationships Technology & Web Travel & Recreation World In addition, they have blogrolls of women bloghers in each category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I want to grow my reader community by providing a great content and conversation about how nonprofits are using social media to reach new audiences, to do their work, or personal learning. How can I keep growing the reader community and the conversation? This tells me the importance of naming your blog with something in your topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

She writes also for the Big Medicine web site. I work with staff across all the hospital departments to improve our level of preparedness in the case of any type of event that results in an emergency affecting the hospital or the communities we serve. Tell me about you I???m In 2005 I lost my home to a fire. Since then I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." Like the new pro-migrant community blog, the Sanctuary.

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