Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. Each of the panelists shared a brief overview of the current social networking projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at Barely a week goes by that I don’t see at least one status update or tweet from a nonprofit colleague lamenting a hacked personal account, including email, Twitter and Facebook. at UC Berkeley earlier this month, but unfortunately had a conflict.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Note from Beth: Alison Zarella is the co-author of the recently published “ The Facebook Marketing Book.&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. Content strategies are often the most difficult task for many nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday. Nonprofits can no longer ignore these tools or they risk becoming irrelevant."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She also just signed a book deal with the tentative title: How to be a Social Capitalist: winning with the currency of online communities. My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I launched a Facebook Fan Page for my blog over the summer shortly after Facebook announced vanity urls. I resisted it for a year because I was concerned about having yet another social media outpost to feed and tune. I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective.

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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. Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? " It is written for nonprofits newbies. or not work ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. The books answers many questions that are useful to nonprofits in their quest to spread and harness social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . It doesn't work that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

social networks and blogs have become the fourth most popular online destinations. Social networks online started out amongst the younger audience. However, as the networks have become more mainstream with the passage of time, it isn’t surprising to see the audience becoming broader and older.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: So far, I've been getting involved with online communities like Facebook by creating a personal profile about myself, and then creating a group for my organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

Michelle Murrain who writes the Zen of the Art of Technology Blog is known for her astute observations about nonprofit technology strategic and technical issues. Not only are Gen Y and Millenials engaged in these social networks, but a wider and broader range of people are. I also want to improve our strategy on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Social media promotion of the event was in full swing. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations. And we were looking forward to having fun on social media celebrating giving during the fifth annual Give to the Max Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

We are in the very early stages of how nonprofits and social activists can leverage social networking applications for good causes and just learning what works and what doesn't. s the same thing when it comes to social networks. Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. I may be way off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network. Social media marketing expert Danny Brown.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I think of Facebook as a middle ground between business and pleasure, sort of MySpace for post-adolescents or LinkedIn for professional late adopters like me. David Carr, NY Times That quote made me think of Wendy Harman's Facebook Profile. Like many of us, Wendy uses her Facebook presence for both personally and professional reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. How did you get the $50,000 from Western Union Foundation via Facebook? Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. What was your strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2009

Segal, in over 40 years until this weekend when she friended me on Facebook! It means roughly that to get things done you need to build up social capital , not just knowledge. Social networking site, like Facebook, are making it easier to accumulate and maintain our social capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Right before I left for Cambodia, Ranger Rick's profile (the spokesperson for NWF) was deleted from Facebook because it was "fake" and the policy is that only individuals can set up profiles. Nonprofits can use groups). I'm not saying it's wrong for Wal-Mart to be on Facebook, but can an eco-journalist raccoon get a break?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Will people give through Facebook? Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? Lots of buzzword bingo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

In the past few months, a growing number of social networking, social change, and fundraising sites have made their debut. Just this week there were posts about LinkedIn , Change.org , and Facebook/Project Agape in the nptech space. The space is heating up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Social not -working???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

What social media analytics should we pay attention to? And the nuts and bolts questions like, “Given all the Facebook changes , what do I need to understand about the new Facebook metrics and the Insights analytics program?” On Twitter, it is retweets. Some of it can’t be computed. That is okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. There were no examples – so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance. Resources: Great Governance: How Board Members Can Use Social Media by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. This module takes a look at ways that you can build an online community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and fundraising tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. I asked folks if they were on Twitter or Facebook, most people raised their hands. Next, I asked them to stand and take a photo of someone next to them and to post the photo on their Facebook or Twitter using our hashtag, #netnon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Note: I've had this blog post in a draft for about a week and was reminded about it when I saw this post over at the NTEN blog asking Is Facebook A Bust or Is Obama's Model the Future ? My answer: The America's Giving Challenge campaign that I just finished was my fifth person to person fundraising campaign using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? " Most nonprofit online networkers agree. It became unmanageable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

A few months back, I wrote about a Facebook campaign to reinstate Ranger Rick's Facebook profile. Ranger Rick Raccoon, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , was taken down by Facebook staff because it violated the Facebook's terms of service (no fake people.) they are severely limiting their options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Facebook Pages. is a component of a new advertising service that Facebook is offering to encourage brands (or nonprofit organizations, personalities (like Ranger Rick) or causes) to promote themselves through their social networks. How is this different from Facebook Groups some nonprofits may be asking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Arts and Social Media. At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

There have been many news articles recently about social media for evil: How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and even Instagram have been abused for coordinated misinformation paid social media or advertising to influence our political system. A solution needs to address all three areas.

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