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JUNE 27, 2013

I did this video with Chad Nelson who is in charge of their ocean conservation initiatives and Surf Rider Foundation has been featured in both my books. I was introduced to Surf Rider Foundation during my first year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. So, I know they are a very capable organization.

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MAY 1, 2018

She was also interested in nature, especially hiking, ocean conservation, and birding where her life list was over 600 birds. She was proud of my accomplishments in the Nonprofit Technology field, including being a board member of NTEN, and that prompted her to learn about it. She also posed for social media photos with all my books.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Ocean Conservancy has done just that! While the timeline has the potential to embarrass some users who might have inappropriate photos buried along their timeline, the cover image is a great opportunity for nonprofits to engage their champions to help spread the word about the organization.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

According to a post in TechCrunch, a number of non-profits are launching with Apple Pay, including American Red Cross, American Heart Association, charity: water, GlobalGiving, The Nature Conservancy, Save the Children, UNICEF, United Way, WWF (World Wildlife Federation) and others.

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JUNE 26, 2013

To honor my Dad’s memory and his love of the ocean, I am raising money for Surfrider Foundation in his memory to support their ocean conservation efforts. In an article about his surfing in the local newspaper , he said, “I like the thrill of riding a large waves – it’s like climbing Mount Everest.”

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JUNE 22, 2011

Conservators. I love this question – one that every organization that is trying to encourage more internal participation from staff should ask on a survey: If we could get more BMAG staff involved in tweeting, who would you like to see tweet and answer your questions via twitter? Exhibitions team. Learning team. Photographer.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The mission of Upwell is to condition the climate for change in marine conservation, and ready people to take action. This bold project is incubated by Ocean Conservancy , and made possible by grants from the Waitt Foundation and other donors. What is Big Listening?

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MAY 19, 2014

My Ocean , is a niche social network of more than 9000 divers and this guest post by Darren Barefoot describes some powerful outcomes for ocean conservation by bringing together several strategies: niche social network, crowdsourced data mapping, and deep engagement.

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JULY 1, 2013

Tweet or Facebook your favorite story about the ocean or share an ocean conservation link with #oceanLoveEarl hashtag. Online Memorial: July 3, 2013. In Loving Memory of Earl Kanter MD. My Dad passed away this past week after long and courageous battle with Parkinson’s.

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APRIL 3, 2017

Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. Creating Next Generation Leaders and the Organizations to Support Them – by Beth Kanter and Kari Dunn Saratovsky.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Upwell, an organization incubated by the Ocean Conservancy and that works in a different way to support Ocean Conservation is using social media data, campaign experiments, and failing fast and learning fast to get impact. Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process.

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MARCH 14, 2011

It seems that every day there is a new attack on public broadcasting; the most recent coming from conservative provocateur, James O’Keefe, in an Ambush video of NPR fund raiser Ron Schiller, who quickly resigned for making inappropriate comments. At the time, there was no continuing threat to cut funds for public broadcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Take for example Jonathon Colman who is the Internet Strategist for the Nature Conservancy or Wendy Harmon from the Red Cross both are dog lovers! I started a photo sharing group on flickr called, “ NpTech Dogs &# and it is filled some the cutest NpTech dogs ever (and a few cat photos too!).

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JUNE 10, 2008

program of the Nature Conservancy bringing the total donated to $33,600 and 16,000 members or an average of $2.00 According to Jonathan Colman, (Lil) Green Patch's most recent donation just occurred this past week, but they've been donating $6-$10k a month to Nature Conservancy Cause since January, 2008.

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

Innovative Giving: The Nature Conservancy and (Lil) Green Patch. I usually don't like to toot my own horn, but I was profiled on Fast Company blog! Here's the post. It's part of a series on Innovative Giving. Here's the other profiles. Innovative Giving: The Open Architecture Network. Innovative Giving: Leverage Your Twitter Network.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Here's a few: Jonathan Coleman takes the opportunity to call attention to his organization's work and some great examples on flickr and googlemaps The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. We turn to "web 2.0"

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JULY 16, 2013

I did by asking influential social media, ocean conservation, or nonprofit bloggers to write about the campaign, although many did so without me asking. I also wrote a guest post on Dot.Complicated’s site about online grieving. Think About Different Levels of Influence.

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APRIL 6, 2011

More conservative organizations and fields, might have a more restrictive social media policies. As this was explained in the discussion on Facebook , organizations with a stronger risk appetite/tolerance for their activities might have a more “permissive&# social media policy.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What investments can the Brainerd Foundation make over the next five years to help build an effective infrastructure of advocacy that builds power for conservation that will endure beyond the foundation’s sunset? Ownerless Campaigns & Engaging Millennials : Jessy Tolkan, Here Now. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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MARCH 15, 2012

She has been working in philanthropy for over 15 years in community and private foundation settings focused on social justice, conservation and health and human services. Cindy Rizzo is the Senior Director for Grantmaking & Evaluation at the Arcus Foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

The charities are listed above - I voted for The Nature Conservancy because Jonathan Colman asked me. TripAdvisor is donating $1 million to 5 great causes, and they're asking you to help them decide how to allocate it! Here's the description from Trip Advisor about why they are doing it.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

I had the honor of presenting on a panel at the  eMetrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. .  My main point is that you just think of ROI as math , then you're missing the a lot of the value of doing an ROI analysis.    What a combination!

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JUNE 13, 2013

But what was a grantmaker who works on ocean conservation doing at a conference of software engineers and open government advocates? Last week, I went to the Personal Democracy Forum conference for the first time, and I came away brimming with new ideas for my work. No, really, people kept asking me this when I told them I work on fish.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

The guests include Jonathan Colman of the Nature Conservancy and Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has launched a new podcast series called Social Good with host Allison Fine. The first installment is called "Turning Friends Into Supporters." The podcast is short and worth a listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Clear guidelines are important - see this interview I did with folks from Nature Conservancy about their contest. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Ask other folks from nonprofits who have used Flickr to run contests. Creative Commons Swag Contest. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. Matching Grant for Each Photo Uploaded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Matt Fitzgerald from Upwell shared their approach to Big Listening and Spotting Awesome which helped them leverage “Shark Week,” ocean conservation social media super bowl. The final set of case studies discussed social media success and failure. ” Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

This comment struck me as well aligned with some made by Vikki Spruill from the Ocean Conservancy. At one point Matthew said “You can’t make partnerships if someone has to buy into your brand”. She got me started thinking along this line at a networks meeting where she was encouraging the branding of issues, instead of specific organizations.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

So, will conserve battery power and take notes with pen and paper. I'm live blogging from Pittsburgh - Carnegie Mellon - Technology and the Arts Conference It's a gathering of arts people from all over the country to discuss technology issues. The wireless works!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

To avoid technology fail, they had a video team create a video with me in Boston last week — it is a reality tv meets Networked Nonprofit presentation, where I’m wondering around Boston in the rain and conservationally giving talking points. Talk about multi-tasking.

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MARCH 19, 2012

” The article described fascinating new uses of sensors and other smart telecommunications devices in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution. “The consumer Internet,” the author wrote, “can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies.”

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

The causes that are supported are listed here a good mix of wildlife conservation, hunger, and others. Once you’ve collected enough karmas you can donate them to a variety of causes. And, of course, you get badges for various activities. This idea is really cool for a couple of reasons.

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JULY 15, 2008

She told me that her board was very conservative and that she was the youngest person on staff. But as many nonprofits have discovered before they can use social media to change the world outside their organizations, they may need to implement a social change strategy behind the organization's firewall.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Don't think this a passing phenomenon: younger generations practically live online, while over the last dozen or so years, virtually every prediction of how the web would infiltrate the 'offline' world has proven too conservative. As our favorite online guru, Kevin Kelly , rightly stated a few years ago: ‘ online culture is the culture ’.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

“As a non-profit founded by one of the world’s greatest storytellers, Dr. Jane Goodall, telling our story is essential and the best way to present ourselves as the holistic conservation organization we are, on social media and other platforms. Video is a medium uniquely suited to do just that.”. However, storytelling isn’t enough.

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MAY 5, 2008

While they have put someone in charge, their social media strategy is everywhere - from the conservation department to the curators. Whether it is managing their Facebook presence or encouraging conversation on their blog with art lovers, their social media strategy is a team effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. Photo by Smitty42. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.     What a combination!

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