Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Show some love in the next fews at To Mama With Love , a creative social fundraiser that leverages the emotional connection we feel with our own mothers or our own pride of being a mom. I’d like to point two really good social media practices for this campaign. How are you going to honor your mom on Mother’s Day?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

However, our organizers are currently very keen on social media surgeries. A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign, or collaborate. Whatever your social media problem, we'll have a cure for what ails you this June. Social and Networking Event.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? One example that I’ve blogged about before is the annual project from EpicChange: Tweetsgiving. Tags: challenge events case studies competition computer contest giveaway social change technology. Technology for Change.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

As with all popular communications channels, sometimes social media gets a bad rep. While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements. Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania. Many in the nonprofit social media community are helping Stacey reach her goal. I just uploaded a screen of John Haydon dong some good!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) Learn more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. This is just one of the many different ways they are using social media for the fight against global hunger which has only intensified with the financial crisis. For example, storytelling. FLIP Camera.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. SF Online Community Meetup: Embracing Emerging Social Media, with Lauren Girardin. Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Chad Norman, publisher of I dig webby things.and I bet you do too I dig speaking at nonprofit conferences and events, and one of my favorite topics to cover is the real-time use of social media. It's the perfect mix of emerging technologies, social media, communities, and the web - some of my favorite things.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Tanzania]([link] in Tanga, Tanzania * [501 Tech Club Austin]([link] in Austin, TX * [Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club]([link] in Kansas City, MO --> Upcoming Events. Toronto, Ontario: Free Webinar: Social Media for Nonprofits. HTML EXAMPLE. Thursday, March 19, 2015.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. Cleveland, Ohio: Tech4Good Cleveland — Social Media Workshop. Vancouver, British Columbia: Social Media Tune-Up for Nonprofits (with Hootsuite). Portland, Oregon: Volunteer Social — Meet 'n' Greet. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. We can see (and learn a valuable lesson about) the way current ecosystem of social media works in regards to transparency, data, and community. The transparency issue is a steep mountain to climb with social media.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. Atlanta, Georgia: Connecting for Social Good. Seattle, Washington: Social Network Analysis: Mapping Your Nonprofit's Connections. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Social Media Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

And a quick look around the social web last Halloween and there were so many companies putting Halloween costumes on their logos, that there was even a contest for the best ones ! The first example and a brilliant one was " Trick or Tweet " cooked up by the good folks at FutureNow.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. could potentially employ data towards triggering social change, great. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. It kept me interested in the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed. More here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. Instead, they are examples of what it looks like when we double down on our focus to make change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

As nonprofits hone and refine peer to peer fundraising best practices , we are also seeing more more people make philanthropy a part of their everyday personal expression – whether on social networks or in the real world. What they all have in common is kids who are combining their passion with philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The event not only served as a networking opportunity for these two groups, but also showcased eight social good apps already in progress. Essentially, Ohana is a mobile-friendly platform for finding social services. A live example of Ohana is SMCConnect.org , which provides services in neighboring San Mateo County.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. For example, while the majority of grants meant to benefit Sub-Saharan Africa would benefit people of African descent, we do not include all of them as supporting “racial and ethnic groups.”

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. As Lucy Bernholz noted, this might be one more example that fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. She asked her 12,500 followers to donate just $2.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

What makes us want to act for social change? For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. What are your favorite examples of the Best Internet Marketing for a Cause?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

The series featured stories of 12 social entrepreneurs including Martin Fisher and Nick Moon, the co-Founders of KickStart (which was called ApproTEC at the time of the series). For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector. You have to spend time there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

But I'm a member of the Social Media Advisory Board for SmartBrief, Inc , a terrific daily summary of social media insights and they asked me to do a roundup post for this week. Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate.

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