Care2

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report provides some incredible data on how 11K+ nonprofits are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. Are nonprofits raising any money on social networks? Facebook is the most popular commercial social network for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

One of the most gratifying things about the publication of the book, The Networked Nonprofit , is that it has re-connected me to colleagues and past clients as well as making connections to new people. I have another foot in the not-so-networked world with my major organization. Tags: Networked Nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Notes from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference for: Who : Speakers: Susan Tenby | TechSoup Global; Janet Fouts; Kira Marchenese. Ning/Yahoo/Google. You can only have a real impact and “control&# or influence over the public conversation about you, your organization or your programming if you are listening and engaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. Why did you select ning? Ning is also very flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

I finally got a chance to meet Manny Hernandez, author written the " Ning for Dummies Book." He is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 8,200 members) and EsTuDiabetes. Photo in Flickr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 7, 2009

Changeblogger Ning Network I've also set up a Ning network for Changebloggers, people who use their blogs, podcasts and vlogs to make positive change. years of BlogHer's Nonprofits and Social Change section. They have recently added a social networking component, so feel free to friend me there as well.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? Let's create a Ning site! New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community? No budget for a web site redesign? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed. Well, playtime's over.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. What is a knowledge sharing network? What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers. blogging activism nonprofit changeblogger blog Since then, a number of different changeblogger tools, communites and events have been created which I encourage you to join, and to invite others to join: 1.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Is your organization using niche networks as part of its social media strategy? What is a niche social network? . A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Examples of niche social networks include: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

But, being on those networks has taken it’s toll on me. Most of the reason I named this blog “Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology&# is that I am very interested in the ethical and spiritual dimensions of technology in general, and nonprofit technology in particular. It’s time spent I need for other things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Organizational Network Analysis). Note from Beth: Last May, Mark Pescue published a provocative essay called the "Tower and the Clouds" which talked about the tension between working in traditional, hierarchical nonprofits and the "cloud" like behavior of working with social media. Could this be a new type of nonprofit or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. This module takes a look at ways that you can build an online community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and fundraising tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “ Wikipedia nonprofits “, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made. Let others write about you.

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Care2

JANUARY 3, 2011

There is a lot of buzz about "free agent fundraisers" an individual using personal fundraising to raise money for a nonprofit organization. The free agent fundraiser is described in detail in Allison Fine and Beth Kanter's book The Networked Nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

If you have been using Twitter for a bit of time now, you’ve probably come to the same realization that many others have—that it sure would be nice to be able to see your follows and those that follow you in any way that lets you really understand and visualize the network. do you link to your group/fan page from your website?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. Superactivists are individuals who raise money for a cause and have a large network that can be leveraged. It happens one person at a time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website. There are new types of software being developed all the time (like, for instance, the new crop of “ Social Network Management Systems &# both open source and SaaS, like Ning.). I even occasionally still hear tell of organizations who want custom CRMs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I'm that grown up who stays up late building communities for my obscure personal interests on Ning, and aimlessly chatting with my long-lost friends from elementary school on Facebook, and even (cough, cough) playing on Polyvore. . What's a Poor Nonprofit to Do? After all, I was that kid who stayed up late playing video games. (Ah,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Social Innovation Conversations is also part of the Conversations Network , an online platform for podcast distribution. There are several "shows", including Craig's List Nonprofit Bootcamp (where I discovered an interview with colleague John Kenyon ). At first, I was to scream - oh no not another social networking platform!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 Many nonprofits are grappling with questions about where to find reliable information about the merits of different tools for a given objective. The site is called Museum 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. Our nonprofit is not unique. Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. We know what our supporters like, need and want.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

I was recently talking about communications with someone from a small nonprofit. He told me that a few months ago, they'd set up a social networking hub on Ning for friends and constituents of the organization to connect with each other. He was telling me about the organization's various forays into social media. Tools Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

Nonprofit association NTEN , consultants Common Knowledge and social networking software providers ThePort conducted a joint study of nonprofit organization and their use of and attitudes towards social networking tools. The survey asked about two types of social networking presences a nonprofit organization could have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Communities like Facebook, Twitter, and Ning are great networks to help brand your nonprofit, engage with your supporters, and connect with potential new members. But there’s no question you need to invest time in finding those people who are passionate about your nonprofits issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). However, I know there is a lot of expertise and knowledge about social media and nonprofit use out there. The more Weak ties/ the stronger the network. What would you add to this list?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

CiviCRM continues to mature, and is providing an interesting and important new model for nonprofit software development. Elgg is the open source social network management system. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. This was the year that nonprofits discovered twitter, and the year I integrated twitter into my workflow.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.??? a public benefit???) s benefit only.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I created a Changeblogger Facebook group (thanks to a suggestion by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire ), and recently established the Changeblogger Network on Ning. changeblogger blog activism nonprofit and set up the Changeblogger Wiki , Changeblogger Twitter feed, and the first Washington D.C. Changeblogger meetup.

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