Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. It’s one of the realities of living in a networked world – and as much as it makes us feel uncomfortable – we have to accept it.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Higher Conversion Rates = Raising More Money. It's offline fundraising tools were built for development pros.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here. to share some of what I believe is the core of successful community building (on or offline). You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. How to keep this conversation going?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 and Premal Shah of Kiva.Org. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

we're mobilizing a global conversation about the various forms of. Have an offline conversation with someone about it. Cyberbullying social network ( [link] lying.ning. You can learn more by participating in the social. network, or you can visit resources like. via en email from Andy Carvin.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. Twitter: twitter.com/taprootfound. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. LinkedIn: taproot-foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

My latest project is called @home , which explores homelessness in America through the story of Mark Horvath (aka @hardlynormal on Twitter). Mark is an e-activist who interviews homeless men and women, and shares their stories across every digital medium he can find — YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google +, you name it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Adelaide, Australia: Mixing online with offline - building communities that take action. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Honolulu, HI: Overview of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Social Innovation Week is coming to Baltimore. See you in October!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Conversation is a “learning in public” tool – maybe one of the best.

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JUNE 7, 2010

“I loved Eli Pariser's presentation and his main theme that we have to be careful about filtering too much, cutting ourselves off from uncomfortable conversations that are the only possibility that we have for breaking through the echo chambers. Check out some of the key take-aways of PDF by some of our favorite nonprofit experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Why Social Media?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

But I do love to share my ideas and experience with others and hope this is an opportunity to start many new conversations both with readers here and participants at the seminar. where are they online already and how do they want to interact with you online (is it in the same spaces or different ones, is it conversations or promotion, etc.)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m honored to be part of the Schusterman Philanthropic Network and Jim Joseph Foundation for #NetTalks , a free, five-part webinar series for Jewish professionals who want to tap into the power and potential of alumni networks. Engagement models that integrate social media should have: Defined objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. Yet, through reading and interacting with her online through Twitter I trust and respect her.

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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? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Thinking Strategically About Social Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. And you shared them! Observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

As a SEO and Social Media Manager, I have learned the ins and outs of traffic building, lead generation, website user conversion and community building. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Tell me about your job My job is pretty amazing. Your profiles have so much personality - love it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. ACS collects data by tracking what is happening online and offline. Photos: TechSoup for Libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Social Mention. Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 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!" Use email appends to match your offline donors with their email addresses.

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Care2

MAY 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!" ” Think about it. Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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!" But how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of Twitter should be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! How do you balance online action with offline engagement? What is it?

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