Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2017

That’s why it important to have networking opportunities to connect with professional colleagues face-to-face beyond online groups. I try to make an effort to do this regularly. Working as a nonprofit consultant can sometimes feel isolating. This past week, I met up with nonprofit consultant Carrie Rice.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Resources, symbolic attraction of alliance members, and expanded networks” as stated in a review from AIM Alliance , are all compelling benefits to joining forces, however, organizations should proceed with caution as these solutions are not sole problem solvers. Build a trusted network.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Just this week, Points of Light released its Civic Life Today: A look at American Civic Engagement Amid a Global Pandemic report, which states that: Prior to the pandemic, voting and donations to nonprofits were the primary ways people participated in civic life. Today, people believe civic action is more important than ever before.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

It’s been an important part of my life for all of this time. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In the Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Seung-Chul Yoo and Minette Drumwright provided data from 2017 indicating that “…86 percent of U.S. Primarily, those that donate via digital platforms do so because they are influenced by their social network, not by what an organization accomplishes. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Second Life kiva.org volunteer: Julles Boucher Kiva.org , a micro-finance organization, has funded nearly 17,0000 loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries and last week crossed the $11 million rank. I discovered this when I clicked on Skeeboo Tammas's profile while chatting with him in Second Life. His profile said.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I don't know what it is about November, but there are a bunch of challenges for creating and giving coming up: 30 Days of Gratitude Carla Kay White, creator of the Gratitude Journal app , is encouraging folks to record 30 days of gratitude in their journal, with her app, or as a photo journal on Instagram.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

." - Facebook update by Marianne Manilov, Engage Network Maybe it's because it's summer, but lately I've been hearing more and more people talking about spending less time online. I love staying informed about what my friends are doing, and feeling like I'm able to be involved in their lives while also maintaining a busy life of my own.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Recent research findings by Christopher Einolf and Susan Chambre (2011) provided empirical evidence of the strong influence of both formal and informal social networks on volunteering. Previously, the positive impact of religious congregations and social networks on volunteering was found by Park and Smith (2000). Who volunteers?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Creativity Gypsy Girl's Guide Kelly Rae Roberts Life Unfolds Lisa Sonora Beam Superhero Journal The SanFranista Tranquility du Jour Treelife Coaching wishstudio Food Bryant Terry Civil Eats Cupcake Spy Farmer Jane FatFree Vegan Kitchen Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara & San Mateo County Veggie Goes Vegan Fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. These fundamental values help children develop their philanthropic characters in life. Lead by Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

I-WE-IT is a tripod of inter-connected skills for leaders: the individual leader (I) , the power of teams or networks (WE) , or the system that they are trying to change (IT). We started with mindfulness from Chris Block, improvisation from David Havens , and Heather and I co-facilitated a session on networks.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life. Whos on Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Last year, I decided that I didn’t need to wait until New Year’s to establish happy, healthy habits in my life. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. How about you? I did it! I’m now am feeling refreshed and recharged for a new year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Why not talk face to face with people who pass through the network to be part of our day without having shared a conversation out loud. Culture, politics, education, business, economy, cooperation, youth, journalism, the new values on different facets of Web 2.0 Why not go one step further and stay with them? as a backdrop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates. Your friend from third grade just had her 10th baby!)

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. Citizen journalism. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 Social Networking Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. Also, they have a very interesting ROI calculator for social networks that is worth a look. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

Walt Mossberg, tech journalist for the Wall Street Journal, recently updated his semi-annual buyer's guide to laptops and mentioned the following in terms of choosing between the two form factors: Tablets tend to beat small, low-cost laptops in weight, start-up speed and battery life.

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APRIL 30, 2013

She has more than a decade of experience in broadcast journalism and has reported for network affiliates in Southwest Florida, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area and founded Storytellers for Good in 2009.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Setting up such a project can require a team of designers, developers, and coders to bring it to life. Bringing data to life, giving it context and meaning, is crucial. IJNET, the International Journalists' Network, put together a journalism safety toolkit for journalists in the field. Online Guidelines and Handbook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. And the fastest way to long term fulfillment is to seek the happiness of others, he said.

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MAY 9, 2011

The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 85% of Americans have mobile phones, a majority of which will be Internet connected multimedia smartphones by year's end. This rapid expansion of the possibilities in digital communication has unquestionably transformed information consumption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life. Covey notes that these views of life have been deeply scripted within us, suggesting this mindset goes beyond the nonprofit workplace. Selfcare Peer Program: You Are Better, We Are Better.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals. Continue learning about why genocide happens and how I can take action by following blogs like the Genocide Intervention Network , ENOUGH , Stop Genocide on Change.org , Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth , and Human Rights Now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

No matter the seeming outcome, know that you have made a difference in the life of at least one person. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I am still a novice in the world of nonprofits, but certainly not in helping people. Be Helpful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

LinkedIn LinkedIn is a professional social network, so it's ripe with job search opportunities. See who in your network knows someone at the organizations you'd like to work for. Also, people often share job openings with their LinkedIn network before they post it elsewhere.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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APRIL 19, 2007

Speakers include Julia Butterfly Hill of Circle of Life , John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America , and Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart. If you are a environmentally conscious yoga studio or instructor, you can join the Green Yoga Association, and check out this month's "green" issue of Yoga Journal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 19, 2007

Last March, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported about a survey by the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network that found: "Young charity workers cited burnout and low pay as the biggest reasons they might leave nonprofit work. You can see a close up of one of the journal pages here.

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