Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One of my biggest takeaways from last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco was this oft-repeated advice on social networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter: you can't make them come to you. We simply needed to make Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an extension of what we were already doing and saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Design for People To Self Organize! You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message. Text alerts can also be used to drive traffic to an organization’s mobile website and to ask people to Text-to Give.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2010

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization's fundraising bag if it isn't already. The charity has raised $15,000 dollars to date and is a great example of personal fundraising that leverages the power of social media. Leverage social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

A big thank you conference organizers! We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). Wendy has let me shadow her work for the past five years and share her wisdom in many blog posts. They had social content.

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JANUARY 15, 2011

Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most? Well, I wish you lots of luck and good fortune.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

Follow Jay on Twitter at @gordonjayfrost or reach him by email at jay@fundraisinginfo.com. All of these things put organizations without professional level prospect research at a significant short and long term fundraising disadvantage. How do you see social networks reshaping traditional donor research or fundraising techniques?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. This portal was also launched at the onset of the Haiti earthquake and utilized by relief organizations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social media is a great tool for increasing supporter engagement; a majority of nonprofits have realized this. Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. of internet user time is spent on social media and social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. I promoted this campaign mostly through Facebook friends, but also mentioned it on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Maybe it’s because I spent so many of the dark hours that followed cut-off from my community – so disconnected from friends & family, on a business trip that mutated into a frantic 2-day race home through the desert Southwest – that I started to consider what it would have been like if we’d had Twitter on 9/11.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. We’re used to hearing nothing but bad news from Haiti since it was hit by a succession of catastrophic events since 2010. Sanebox starts at $2 per month per user.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning's newspaper. That’s how you learn organizing."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

It just so happens that Allison Fine and I wrote a book together over the past year, The Networked Nonprofit , on that topic. There has been an explosion in size of nonprofit sector over last twenty years, huge increases in donations and number of organizations, and yet needle hasn’t moved on any serious social issue.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

The magnitude of the destruction and the heart-breaking images have remained with us as organizations, governments, and private individuals have struggled beyond the immediate aftermath to effect long-term change and economic impact within Haiti.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Social media, whether it be Facebook, Google+ or Twitter, thrives due to its ability to cultivate connections and promote interactions in real time, regardless of users’ location. Twenty-first-century statecraft is but one approach to using social media to advance a social cause. UNC School of Government.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

On a first-come-first-serve basis, attendees may sign up for a personal review and ten-minute brainstorm about their organizations’ sites, conducted by Raheel Gauba, Blackbaud’s director of creative services. Tags: Big Ideas , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , NTEN , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

In August, I did a little fundraising experiment that involved Twitter and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. It was the first time an organization like Compassion had used social networking as a medium to raise awareness and release children from poverty. How do they give?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti.

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