Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I'm still looking for the best places to find numbers on Social Networking sites (like number of users and growth -- I'd love a chart or graph of comparisons to MySpace, Facebook, and Linked In. The chat above is from Alexa and is shows the growth of page views for facebook versus myspace over the past three years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). They move with you from one site to the next and maybe in the case of Myspace, back again. Create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit and start informing your communities on Facebook and Twitter that your nonprofit is now also on Google+. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. MySpace has become the ghetto of the digital landscape,” Ms. But did you do that because you heard of Facebook in the news, or from a friend?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. I’m not bothering with MySpace, Orkut, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

So, to simply for the nonprofit masses, I present and frame very simple definitions and interpretations of Web 1.0, will organize the masses in ways never seen before through geolocation , group texting and mobile websites, and much of it will be done via Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and FourSquare smartphone Apps. and Web 3.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Dupe: At present, Taproot is unique in that we don’t raise money in this way.

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NetWits

MAY 21, 2008

At Blackbaud, we have turned to sites such as LinkedIn ®, MySpace ®, Facebook ™, and Spoke to build social networks designed to attract candidates that may not be actively looking for a job. LinkedIn® users create profiles and build their networks by inviting friends and past and present colleagues to join their social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Social Media Explained View more presentations from kanter. Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. Social Media Explained View more presentations from kanter.

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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. For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." If you look at Facebook's terms of service, it says quite clearly that you can't create a user profile based on an entity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Her slides are here and Read/Write Web: Coverage of Charlene Li's Keynote and Nick O'Neil/All Facebook here ). The fortune cookie visual came from Google's David Glazer's presentation on Google Open Social. Chris Messina's presentation. I asked if there were apps on Facebook that might fall in the category of games for change?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The film is being presented by Fathom Events, CARE , ONE , and the U.N. The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. Post a Women for Women International digital badge on Facebook, MySpace, your blog, or your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

Don't present it as tools only. It is also important not to present social media as "tools" but get upper management to understand the cultural shift that needs to happen to be successful. Think about how you present advises Marnie Webb. The metaphor of the dripping faucet. You can't give up. There must be more tips?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide). A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. More than 3.5

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). How about Digg ? Will there be conferences for Orkut experts to exchange best practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They were all on Facebook (turned their noses up at Myspace), watch YouTube videos, and use IM applications, with more 20 people on their IM lists. Facebook, for instance ??? or advertising, who use it for work, to present themselves as particular types of people. No surprise there. s perceptions of them. ???Maybe

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? presented by Electronic information expert, Robert D. I did some additional research on Facebook to look at how different nonprofit people fill out their individual profiles.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? At AIDS.gov, we promote our Twitter , Facebook , MySpace , Flickr , and YouTube accounts on our website, business cards, at the end of all our YouTube videos, presentations, and even our email signature.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Someone in my {Myspace|Facebook} group shared this {site|website} with us so I came to {give it a look|look it over|take a look|check it out}. I {enjoy|really like|love} the {knowledge|info|information} you {present|provide} here and can’t wait to take a look when I get home. Howdy|Hi there|Hey there|Hi|Hello|Hey}!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 If you're looking to engage and inspire new supporters, setting up an organizational presence on one of the larger social networks like Facebook or MySpace is the best step. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Will people give through Facebook? Is that MySpace friend an activist? An article in the Washington Post notes that "fewer than 1% of those who have joined a cause have actually donated money through [the Facebook Causes] application." Lots of buzzword bingo. Lots of new vendors. Lots of tools. Few experts. Few owners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) application in your Facebook account. Visit SlideShare and read through great presentations on just about any topic. them how to promote your cause. For many in the boomer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). How about Digg ? Will there be conferences for Orkut experts to exchange best practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research. Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk.

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Care2

APRIL 25, 2009

In this session, representatives from Causes (as in “on Facebook&# and “on MySpace&# ), Capital One and Network for Good will present channels for raising money and awareness other than your website. April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Also at the end, I have embedded the presentations of several of those folks I mention. Another point Brian made was that perhaps Facebook and Myspace are not for your organization. They tried the Causes challenge – seeking donors on Facebook – and her biggest takeaway was that influencers are more valuable than donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. After the introduction, I gave my brief presentation. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Personality is important.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Connect with readers on social networks There are a lot of social networks out there where you can meet with present and potential readers. Here are a couple examples of videos individual authors created on their own: • Gayle Brandeis' video for her novel, Self Storage • Michael Belfiore's video for his book, Rocketeers 5.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

” Connie Reece, co-founder of Social Media Club International and a Boomer herself, says in her presentation "Email Is for Old People" that organizations need to reach out to Boomers on social networks, and integrate this outreach with their email marketing strategy. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

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. They live, eat, and breathe social media in its various forms – from Facebook and MySpace to Twitter and YouTube.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Forums and blogs too!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

” Connie Reece, co-founder of Social Media Club International and a Boomer herself, says in her presentation "Email Is for Old People" that organizations need to reach out to Boomers on social networks, and integrate this outreach with their email marketing strategy. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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