Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2012

Shel Israel describes social or goodwill fundraising (individual raising money and giving to causes) as the “ cult of generosity ” – I would like to call “ Individual Social Responsibility ” – like there is “Corporate Social Responsibility,” it is also important for individuals to be generous. Flickr Photo by Time Anchor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. My children will meet her for the first time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

My Networked Nonprofit co-author Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about the Age of Automation with an eye towards our next book. He announced on his blog that he working on another book, Augmenting People: Why AI Should Back Us Up, Not Push Us Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I decided to give away copies of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith's Trust Agents , Shel Israel's Twitterville , and Nancy Smith, John Smith, and Etienne Wenger's Digital Habitats. We asked folks to leave a comment on the blog post sharing why they wanted the book. (I'm I'm going to ask for follow up case studies.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I'm looking forward to attending the fundraiser in Silicon Valley where there will be fundraising raffle for signed books by these authors: Shel Israel – Twitterville Mitchell Levy 42 Rules for Driving Success with Books Janet Fouts- Social Media Success! What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving season?

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JULY 25, 2012

At least, that’s what Robert Scoble and Shel Israel are exploring in their upcoming book, The Age of Context: How it Will Change Your Life and Work. Robert shares some examples of how he thinks the Age of Context will affect our daily activities in his blog post announcing the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors. Brian Reich author of Media Rules left a comment offering to include a copy of his book.

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JUNE 1, 2010

We’ve just added our first books in Tamil and Hindi (two national languages of India), and so it was fun to brainstorm about the possibilities. The coolest demo was of a high quality Arabic text-to-speech synthesizer. I could see that the adaptive technology possibilities for Arabic are both real and exciting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

When she saw the announcement for my next book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit , she told me, “You must interview Karen Bloom.” If so, Aliza and I would love to interview you for the book. (Bad pun, I know). I was introduced to Karen Bloom through Barbara Glickstein , a colleague who is connected with me on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

When he discovered that the library had no books and with school just starting, Rajen arranged for a donation to supplement what the director had purchased with her own salary. author Laura Arrillaga-Andresseen (who wrote the foreword to my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ). I got to observe the director in action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I encouraged this group to think about their social media use as a bridge and shared the story of Pratham Books and how Breakthrough , a human rights organization, is using the Extraordinaries application in a creative way. Network Weaving With Books and Twitter. I discovered a new form of network weaving : book giveaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was thrilled to co-facilitate an interactive session called “ Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Using Tech for Healthier Work and Life ” with Aliza Sherman (who is my co-author for the Happy,Healthy Nonprofit Book ), and Gina Schmeling, Director of Individual Giving, Hazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

They have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events, including last week's Tweetsgiving Meetup where my daughter won a lunch with Twitterville author Shel Israel that was being raffled off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Stephen Downes went ahead said the word, Twitteracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Lethal Generosity: During Shel's time on stage, he was asked if what his next book will be. He also shared some of the ideas he thinking about, but will not write a book. I got very excited about this one " Lethal Generosity ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have titled their book-in-progress Naked Conversations. I'm looking forward to attending the How to Be Naked session at BlogHer. where bloggers will share how they handle revealing aspects of their personal lives on-line. However I would argue that blogging is not nakedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. . 2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

The key is that, unlike the illustrations in a book of fairytales that depict a crucial moment or two, visual stories are driven from beginning to end by their imagery. Our recent project for Masa Israel Journey shows how all these elements can work together. Well, it can be a lot of things.

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MARCH 15, 2010

I'm with Asi – we need a new phrase for video games, like graphic novel for comic books.) Asi says Impact Games does not hide its intentions behind the game – there is one way to "win", and that involves following the plan to peace that has the most support among the UN, Israel, and Palestine alike.

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JULY 18, 2007

Here's what I found: Chicago Books to Women in Prison , a volunteer collective that distributes free books to women in prisons across the country, has a blog as their front page. They recently posted about the Chicago Tribune article, "Behind Bars, But Still Girls".

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

But then you go overseas, and my experience, in Israel and Palestine and London and South Africa, Mozambique, people ask you, "What the heck are you doing over there? When you go to Palestine or you go to Israel or wherever, you can't say, "Well that's George Bush." and you kind of go through your rebel phase.

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