Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yesterday, Twitter announced its first corporate social responsibility effort on its blog: We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right direction to make a difference as both a technology and a business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

The week we launched TwitCause , TechCrunch called us a “ Causes for Twitter ,” today our platform for supporting nonprofit causes on Twitter has surpassed 500,000 followers , spotlighted dozens of nonprofits , raised tens of thousands of dollars, and won the hearts of celebrities, nonprofits, and caring Twitterers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is? Social Listening Literacy Skills. Are you currently on Twitter? Step 3: What will you twitter about? I'm paraphrasing.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. After our panel I got a few minutes to talk to Claire about her work at Twitter and how non-profits can use the information network for good. Looking to get more out of Twitter? Check out the video. Watch the Video from #bbcon.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We're back again this year with all-day coverage of the best #UNselfie posts from around the web - send us your favorites on Twitter and check back here for updates! My #GivingTuesday #unselfie goes to @LBPLFoundation because libraries are still critical to literacy in our community pic.twitter.com/ZC1N49U6Mp — Kate (@KAzarPD).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 8: International Cat Day — #CatDay. 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — #IndigenousDay. 12: International Youth Day — #YouthDay. 12: World Elephant Day — #WorldElephantDay. 19: World Humanitarian Day — #WorldHumanitarianDay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

DigiDave left a comment on my other post about what to talk about on Twitter - he suggested a specific type of Q&A - how it is good for just in time specific information, like "What's the atomic number for Radium?" " So, I put the question out to Twitter network and then before I could google it, Jim Thompson answered.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

You can find information about how to apply on the Pollination Project website, follow them on Twitter at @Pollinationproj, and like them on Facebook. The new Pollination Project is giving $1,000 seed grants to individual changemakers, every day, 365 days a year.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Want to raise funds via Twitter this holiday season? But in order to be successful your tweets need to stand out from the rest of the noise on Twitter. Today I’m going to share examples from Twitter – both good and bad. These are verbatim as they appeared in the Twitter stream. You’re not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I first met Mark Horvath on Twitter and later face-to-face last December during a trip down the California coast during the holidays. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Twitter has already made arrangements with 250 cellphone companies in more than 100 countries to offer some free Twitter access, and is insuring that it will be easy to use on even the most basic mobile phones. Facebook and Twitter may work well on them, but lots of things on the Internet don’t. Convergence.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Twitter to squeeze the wine business for charity | Webware - CNET: "n an attempt to boost literacy rates around the world, Twitter has launched a wine label with San Francisco-based winery Crushpad.The label is dubbed Fledgling Wine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. Looking to get more out of Twitter? Why Twitter Matters | Getting Started with Twitter | Twitter 101 for Nonprofits. Meet Claire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Pew surveys point out these benchmarks: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. People are using social and Internet platforms – many of which have immense amounts of unstructured and often shallow information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 8: International Cat Day — #CatDay. 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — #IndigenousDay. 12: International Youth Day — #YouthDay. 12: World Elephant Day — #WorldElephantDay. 19: World Humanitarian Day — #WorldHumanitarianDay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. x (Total Retweets).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Find Ken on Twitter at @kenhomer. Find him on Twitter at @pierrekhawand and on as a guest blogger on the TechSoup Blog. Find Kristy on Twitter at @kg. Pacific time on the October 25th episode of Nonprofits Live.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

We drew information from Resource Media''s Seeing is Believing report, and explained how the language of pictures is universal - picture processing is an ability that we''re all born with, as opposed to reading literacy. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

As you make new hires and consider ongoing employee development, keep in mind that data literacy skills will be foundational to every role at every level of an organization in 2021 and beyond and will critically shape who survives and thrives as leaders going forward. . Determine what you’ll track moving forward (e.g.,

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

News and information is what Twitter is all about, and it moves fast! So one strategy (among many) related to sharing your video on Twitter is by jumping on already existing and trending hashtags. ” Also, add the Twitter handle of organizations and influential people who are likely to be interested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of social productivity as it relates to using social media and chewing on a post that Chris Brogan wrote a few days ago called " You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter." Certainly we have a baseline of digital literacy skills , but what does that mean in web 2.0, social media context?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening Literacy Skills Whether your nonprofit is using listening tools that are free or a professional tool to take a deeper dive, after you figure out who will do the listening and how to make it actionable , it's time to address the nitty gritty of what and how. . Technorati.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

As a strong advocate of children literacy for the past 24 years, Reach out and Read has established a network of 5,000 partners in 50 states and distributes 6.5 Log in to share with us in the comments, post on our Facebook page , or tweet at us on Twitter. million books per year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Jay Baer is a blogger and social media consultant who has been doing Twitter 20 interview series with social media. I use a couple of different Twitter clients and decided to use cotweet for this interview. Tags: twitter. I first discovered him when he was interviewing David Armano. Jay asked some terrific questions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. Maybe the most important part of the of a course like this are the community literacies that are accumulated through a community enquiry into new material. Just keep adding sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Over time, I've changed these areas, refined the key words and phrases that I listen for, and pulled in new sources as they've surfaced, like Twitter and LexMonitor. Beth Kanter - Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights? Listening helps me to stay informed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold points to some research data from Nielsen that more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return the following month.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2017

From improving literacy to helping communities recover after natural disasters, nonprofits take on vital roles to do good in the world. As of 2014, 98 percent of nonprofits used Facebook to network, while Twitter followed at 70 percent. There are currently over 1.5 Your professional web presence extends beyond the website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I wrote a guest post for Brian Solis titled " Listening Literacy for Nonprofits " which outlines some of the basic how-tos. provides free data analytic tracking for services including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more - accessible through a web dashboard, XML and Dashboard and Yahoo! Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

My twitter friend Durff asked for feedback on her slide show. The point that blogging builds literacy - you show me a bunch of photos of kids at computers and a screenshot of the Starbucks campaign. What are you trying say about the connection between blogging and literacy? I thought it was excellent and told her so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Members of the Online Community and Social Media team also captured impressions of the day, keeping a running stream of photos and videos on Facebook and Twitter in real time. Although the community couldn't visit their usual haunts on techsoup.org, they could still keep up with TechSoup online. TechSoup Sweat Equity.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. In India, women bloggers are threatened on Twitter with “live-telecasted gang-rape and acid attacks.”

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Twitter, Facebook, and Google Apps. For example, North Texas Library Partners mentioned that they created Information Assistant , an Android app that promotes information literacy. they had to say: The apps organizations are using are a lot of the big-name apps like. This lines up fairly well with. may not have the resources to do so.

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