Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. If you’ve been paying attention to the news in the past week , you’ve most likely heard about the new changes making their way into Facebook to make sharing interests across the web easier. And the nonprofit community is an exceptional example of a group that thrives from people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bora Vuth, a young man from Cambodia who is attending college here in US, put his finger on it as he joined 136 other people on Facebook who donated to the Sharing Foundation. He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. Kami Watson Huyse calls this a shared accomplishment. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Last year, many more nonprofit panels made it onto the agenda and there was even a nonprofit lounge hosted by BeaconFire. . It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. The Case Foundation is in the middle of a month-long series called “Gear Up for Giving” to provide social media tutorials to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. The holidays are in full swing, and in between the last minute shopping, out-of-town guests, and end-of-year nonprofit campaigns, most of us are trying to fit in as much time as possible to make a positive impact in our own way. Post on Facebook. Tweet this. So what are you waiting for?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Facebook [or any social network] is your garden." Last week at the 47th Annual Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference in Baltimore, online fundraising and outreach was a key issue covered throughout the event and the topic of social media was more popular than ever to this group of fundraising pros.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Last year, I got 51 people to donate $10 for my 51st birthday using my blog, Twitter, and other social media outposts. This year, I experimented with Facebook Causes birthday application. I've been leaving notes on Facebook walls, Twitter, or whatever is the best channel. Christina Jordan. Beth Alexander.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2009

attending Mass Comm week at Texas State University and of course checked out the Social Media for Social Good panel presented by Kerri Qunell, VP of Communications at Capital Area Food Bank , David Neff, Director of Web, Film and Interactive at American Cancer Society , and Jordan Viator, Interactive Communications Manager at Convio.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

Today, Jordan Viator, our super communications manager for all things interactive, fun and digital was featured in The New York Times about using Foursquare to broadcast to her friends where she is during SXSW Interactive. Of course, I probably wondered why anyone would use Facebook and Twitter at some point and now I use them regularly.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Guest post from John Chen, @ johnYSchen , DC-based nptechie and nonprofiteer. Signing up for a Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, or YouTube account is free. It's evident that social media has become ingrained into our daily lives. Organizations are hearing: “You need to be on social media.”

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. So, there’s no time like the present for nonprofits to start dabbling in the world of social media, ideally with some sort of idea about what you want to accomplish and how you’re going to make it happen. It’s clearly one of the best channels that a nonprofit can use to reach this demographic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. In less than a week, nonprofits using Convio systems have raised over $100 million through email appeals, websites and social media outreach and many other organizations are raising record amounts. And some are just helping to fundraise for other nonprofits. Many of them include pleas to donate.

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MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Submitted by Marc van Bree, editor of Dutch Perspective During last week’s League of American Orchestras conference, I was following the session on social networking on Twitter. But Facebook and Twitter have no business model! Alexandra writes that “in the nonprofit sector, relationships have always been the key currency.”

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. If you’re an avid Facebook junkie like me, you probably noticed a lot of “colorful” updates last week. Guest post by Noel Beebe, Interactive Consultant at Convio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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