Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. 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. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Laura White wonders whether " Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate ? Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!)

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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. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. More than 3.5

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Donors of all ages will be looking for meaningful points of engagement with your organization. They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in. Notice something strange about those tasks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. It's key goal is to pair pro bono professional services with nonprofit organizations who need them. " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes. Which one worked best?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Palo Alto's Facebook have exploded in popularity, drawing new users into the fold each day. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." Is this just a new name for a "learning organization?"

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: How do we get past our fear of negative comments possibly being posted about the organization from activists etc.? Beth : Hmm, I've only really on the other side of planning and organizing "comment bombing" - not fighting it. Beth : You know, on Twitter, your organization should have a personality. Beth : See [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). Pretty cool.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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