Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. JD gave an amazing presentation packed full of practical and useful tips and tools. JD Lasica, SocialBrite.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

And at month's end she and Robyn, Care2's Editor in Chief, will be presenting the Care2 Environmental Impact Award to filmmaker Alexandra Cousteau (granddaughter of renowned oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau) at the Women In Green Forum. Women In Green Forum Santa Monica, CA. Dreamforce '11 San Francisco, CA.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

August’s Online Community Meetup featured Zoey Kroll of Hayes Valley Farm , an urban farm located in San Francisco. Appearing as her super hero alter ego, complete with green cape, Super Green, Kroll spoke about how online activity can be used to inspire offline action. Photos: SusanChavez.

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APRIL 18, 2011

View more presentations from Museums Computer Group. As SFGMC continues to “go green,&# we have for the first time made our concert program available on line pre-show. Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing. QR codes are popping up in school lesson plans, like this arts lesson plan.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This month, Forum One and Autodesk hosted a panel titled, "Social Media for Social Impact" during Social Media Week in San Francisco. Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. The mid-summer event offers 100 exhibits and many presentations for 5,000 attendees. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Example: When Kjerstin Erickson, Founder of FORGE, blogged about her organization's struggles on Social Edge , she received an outpouring of support, plus stories in the San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

On August 29, 2011 some of us from TechSoup attended NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit in San Francisco. The cloud security technical session presenter was Donny Shimamoto, who is the founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies. There is something called the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles.

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OCTOBER 9, 2005

Yesterday I went to the San Francisco session of the second annual Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp. The first session I went to was Strategic Communications Planning presented by Josh Seidenfeld from The Spin Project. He also listed the following Green Economy Trends that are also available here : 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. An easy example is green technology.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

This past year alone she has been a presenter at NTEN's NTC (in San Francisco) , Blackbaud User Conference in Charleston , SxSw in Austin , the list goes on. He is a member of the national CIO 4 Good and Green IT Consortium Groups in DC.

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. The flyover electrified the room. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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OCTOBER 31, 2006

The Green Belt Movement was born. The Green Belt Movement evolved into a pro-democracy movement resting on the beliefs that governance and management of resources needed to pre-empt conflict and that by sharing resources equitably, more people felt that they belonged.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Prior to Inner City Advisors, Jose served as the development director for five years at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that provides microenterprise business technical assistance and neighborhood planning services to small businesses. I'm going to be green.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

You can see her full slide deck from the presentation on Slideshare here. All of a sudden, this woman who lives 1,000 miles away is a volunteer for a company here in San Francisco." Joe Green is other co-founder and CEO. With over 150 million installs, Causes is one of the largest apps on Facebook.

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MAY 4, 2010

Solame was just an absolute, silent and powerful woman leader who, as it turned out, had been involved in fighting for freedom in her home country, Uganda, and was one of two women that was present for the rewriting of the Ugandan constitution. These kinds of concepts are so not real, and so not what Women's Earth Alliance is about.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

When Batkid saved San Francisco, the whole country watched. And the moon’s a hunk of stinky green cheese , holds nothing back and shares some much needed advice from Alan Clayton that all nonprofits should hear. In this presentation, Counter-Intuitive or New Path to Profit?: And we talked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The space is available to any tech person in Nairobi to use once they become a green member. With over 1900 members, the space offers a connection point and co-working space for the community, a fast Internet connection, lots of light, great views, and fantastic latte! Jessica Colaco who is the manager poses for a photo.

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