Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Nevertheless, we believe that our efforts to help Minnesota nonprofits and schools become “Networked Nonprofits,” to nurture social media usage and provide tools for integrating social media, have been key to driving the amazing results we saw again this year. Incentivize video creation and video sharing.

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MARCH 6, 2013

In November 2012, the giving day platform Razoo partnered with GiveMN, an organization that aims to grow online giving in Minnesota, to break a world record by raising $16.3 million for Minnesota charities in just 24 hours.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

  It goes "Minnesota from"where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."   GiveMN a new online resource that hopes to encourage more Minnesotans to give and help create a stronger nonprofit community for Minnesota.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

#TechFail #GenerosityWin on Minnesota’s Give to the Max Day: Understanding social media’s role in damage control and crisis communication Guest post by Jeff Achen, GiveMN Digital Strategist. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations.

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APRIL 12, 2013

I’m in Minnesota for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference where I am doing a plenary session on Saturday morning and two breakout sessions. This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Give to the Max in Minnesota Day. GiveMN a new online resource that hopes to encourage more Minnesotans to give and help create a stronger nonprofit community for Minnesota. I've been noticing a social media spin on making charitable donations in your community, regional, or state. Here's three recent examples. 1) GiveMN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2008

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APRIL 23, 2012

Idealware partnered with the Minnesota-based MAP for Nonprofits on this project into how, and how effectively, human services organizations are using technology to innovate their service delivery.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Giving Days have been a proven technique to raise millions of dollars and generate attention for the local nonprofit community. The grandfather of all Giving Days – Give the Max Day in Minnesota has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009.

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MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. What was your judging process?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2008

During the workshop I did in Minnesota using the Social Media Game , the question - "We're busy implementing programs, how do we carve out the time to incorporate a blog?" " The sticky note above is from 15 years ago when I was teaching art teachers about how to incorporate the Internet.

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APRIL 7, 2008

At the Minnesota Nonprofits and Technology Conference , someone from the audience asked me about good resources for parents (and teens) about Web2.0 safety issues and what parents should know about their children's media use.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

research project, funded by the San Francisco Foundation, Columbus Foundation and Minnesota Community Foundation/Saint Paul Foundation, will make this information available to the nonprofit sector. to provide nonprofits the information they need to best serve donors and advocates with meaningful conversations and dialogue about their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings.

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MAY 1, 2008

What is most relevant for nonprofits is how this will manifest itself in the workplace - this was the whole topic of discussion at the Minnesota Nonprofits Conference. The idea that "email is for old people" is nothing new - I've written about this several times here. I am a proud member of the baby boomers generation (2nd cohort).

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MARCH 27, 2008

in Minnesota, I did an afternoon session using the Social Media Game created by David Wilcox. At the Message + Medium + Mission Conference. One of the techniques I did during the report out of the small groups was throw questions out on Twitter. There were some fabulous responses.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

The Give To Max Day: Greater Washington has created a local nonprofit giving day and designed a contest that should be a win-win for every nonprofit, even they don’t win any of the case prizes! The one-day fundraiser is modeled after the very successful Give to the Max Day that was launched in Minnesota in 2009 and raised over $14 million (..)

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MAY 22, 2005

" I found this entry " Nonprofit Successfully Using Blogs " The post describes the American Lung Association of Minnesota's new blog written by staff member Bob Moffitt. Lisa is curious and raises some excellent questions: Go Bob for blazing a trail!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

TechTalk is produced by the University of Minnesota and appears on a number of public television stations. TechTalk public television show host Susan McKinnell interviewed Steven Clift about e-democracy including Issues Forums. RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits.

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APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Carmen left me a follow up comment. It wasn't in my wiki and so I just added.

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APRIL 17, 2008

A community organization in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Your $20 would provide surgeons at a hospital overseas with a SIGN technique manual - a way to make sure that these surgeons use the correct methods to give their patients the best treatment. Suggested by Matt. Partners for Violence Prevention (PVP). prevention in the community.

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JULY 13, 2008

I live in northern Minnesota with my husband. So, let me introduce you to Connie Bensen who I first started reading when I was researching an article for TechSoup. Tell me a little bit about you. Our daughter will be a sophomore in college. I'm self-taught & love exploring new mediums.

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JULY 6, 2005

Many nonprofit bloggers feel like Robert Moffit, blogger with the American Lung Assocation of Minnesota, who said as a nonprofit blogger, he felt like an. American Lung Association of Minnesota. -Rebecca MacKinnon???s s Blogging for a Cause Post. NTEN/NTC Conference Bloggers. Ivory Billed Woodpecker, a rare species.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Janne Flisrand, a network weaver based in Minnesota who I met last month at a gathering of network designers and weavers here in San Francisco , recently shared a reflection from a similar meeting of network weavers in Minnesota — all from different networks with different purposes and scale.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

The Minnesota Zoo provided a candy shopping guide to keep the rainforest safe for all the animals that call it home. Goodwill SoCal is running a contest for people to share their best Halloween Costume idea. Some are using Halloween as the wrapper to frame their advocacy messages.

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MARCH 24, 2014

The infographic does not incorporate stats from the many local giving days that are happening in many communities across the country and becoming a global movement. GiveMN , a statewide crowdfunding campaign for Minnesota nonprofits, did raised over $17 million on November 14, 2013, with over 52,000 individual donors and North Texas Giving Day (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2008

I'm working on a keynote for a nonprofits conference at the end of the month in Minnesota. I'm going to explain on the Cute Dog Theory but I need some photographic evidence. I need photos of nonprofit techies who do work in social media strategy and love dogs - need a photo of you with your dog.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. I modified his "Mankato Scale" into a nonprofit tech skills assessment. for a technology planning curriculum for arts organizations for NYFA back in 2000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

For example, I got this comment in my LinkedIn the other day: Your blog and portfolio items have made a tremendous difference in my work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2015

Source: GiveMN A school principal rides a zipline as a way to bring attention to Give to the Max Day in Minnesota. New waves of philanthropists are contributing : After Give to the Max Day in Minnesota, 5 percent of donors surveyed said the day was their first time donating to a cause.

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MAY 24, 2012

degrees in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Politics department at the University of San Francisco , where her research and teaching interests center on the politics of philanthropy, gender, Africa, ethnicity, and democratization, and on the role of technology in social activism.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

And just last week, GiveMN , a new online web site that hopes to encourage more Minnesotans to give and help create a stronger nonprofit community for Minnesota, raised over $14 million dollars in 24 hours using a multi-channel campaign. More than $550,000 was raised last March. . Donors As Program Partners Not Just Check Writers.

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