Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media. Educate: Important to train or make employees aware of the implications. How did you educate people? Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here.

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Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. The idea came from NetSquared community organizers who were eager to share their best practices and experiences and saw a wiki as the ideal platform. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The youtube video is from Star Bucks Campaign. s interest to education and engage new audiences. Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. But over a long period of time social networking is actually critical in building an effective, educated political constituency."

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Ian Wilker is happy about the Google Apps Education Education being available to. Donor Power Blog writes about success on YouTube and CrunchGear has a post about video compression and optimizing your video for YouTube - it's actually interesting! Some transitions at npower and omidyar. Google Aps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Here's an article that examines how the Salvation Army in Canada is using YouTube Why do young adults love social networking ? What do you think? Here's a growing list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Search YouTube and Flickr for descriptive keywords that are part of your mission statement to see what your target audiences might find compelling and inspirational. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Jonathon Coleman ). Want inspiration? Jonathon Coleman ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Jordan Viator, YouTube on a ShoeString and ask the expert at NTEN with Ramya Raghaven from YouTube. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Rapid Donor Cultivation white paper from Common Knowledge. Digidave of Spot.Us posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I rounded up some other resources here and the Shaping Youth Blog did a roundup post with huge pile of green geek, recyclying, and youth education links. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Global NpTech.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv Be sure to search for your favorite nonprofits' names, especially on YouTube, you may be surprised to find that they have a channel. Networking for Change. and OurMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics." And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube. I create two versions of the campaign video , one for YouTube and on Revver. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally. And, at that point you should play a violin piece! This pattern is the same no matter the tools. Especially in this economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

In the social software blogosphere, there is a lot being written about how ROI is so 1.0 ( here , here , and here ) Video on the Web JournaMarketing is reminding us that YouTube launched its Nonprofit Program and it's promising video cameras to the first 300 nonprofit organizations to sign up. Not sure if they reached their threshold.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. " If you're interested the uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other activities, check out Ian's site, water cooler games. Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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