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. It was a good example of using a blog for nonprofits that we shared at Berkman Center Bloggers Meetup. Devon Smith. Manny Hernandez.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Notes from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference for: Who : Speakers: Susan Tenby | TechSoup Global; Janet Fouts; Kira Marchenese. Ning/Yahoo/Google. Where are the conversations? Communities. What to listen for: brand. sponsors and donors. supporters and evangelists. industry and local news.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits?

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JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Consider Ning, Basecamp, and Zoho.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

There are several "shows", including Craig's List Nonprofit Bootcamp (where I discovered an interview with colleague John Kenyon ). Paul Lamb pinged me to let me know about a segment called Nonprofits of the Future where he is interviewed by John Powers and explores how new social web tools are transforming nonprofits. (He

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? The survey provides us with a baseline of social network use by nonprofits. There was also a webinar presentation of the results.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

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.).

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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. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction. s not easy!

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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. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. This was the year that nonprofits discovered twitter, and the year I integrated twitter into my workflow. it’s absolutely an application to get to know. Stay tuned.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Participants explored the use of web-based social and collaboration technologies and their use in transforming congressional engagement with the public. technologies as an effective means of driving citizen engagement and increasing government transparency. technologies. Congressional use of social media and related Web 2.0

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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 simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Social Networking. Mobile Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. A few interesting UK-based blogs to check out in the nonprofit technology space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

  He is doing this on his own - and not as a nonprofit organization, fundraiser, or charity.   Observe is his photos in flickr , read his blog , follow him on Twitter , join his Ning community , and learn why you should care about poverty. Skelliwag has some awesome tips on how to fight poverty with technology.

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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. This is where the line between "organizational" and "personal" gets blurry and uncomfortable for nonprofits, but maybe I'm wrong. Details revealed from TechCrunch.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. As the technology for display improves, and broadband becomes truly ubiquitous, we will start to see the newsprint go away. Not to mention the environmental issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? " Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. What is Openness? Platform???

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MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Mobile Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. here are 22 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits : 1. That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!],

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MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. below are 33 of must-read updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Mobile Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “ Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.” But both of the peer learning designs are for nonprofit practitioners who have fully embraced online networks and comfortable using them technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Some recent nonprofit tech posts addressing this topic here , here , here , and here. Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 What do you think? era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. Ning has been a popular platform for nonprofits to create communities of interest around their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

I am still thinking the Cloud, Storm, and Tower keynote that Mark Pesce delivered at ConnectingUp Austraila where he suggested that nonprofits need to "look more like a cloud." The visual above sort of illustrates Tower organizations versus Cloud organizations. . I'm giving my copy away, but that isn't the point of this post.

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MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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!" Nonprofits are facing challenging times with leaner resources.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Open diplomacy would serve as the overall diplomatic strategy for the country -- placing new emphasis on: 1) increasing transparency, promoting openness, and valuing foreign citizen feedback; 2) promoting the use of new and emerging technology to bridge the cultural, political, scientific, and economic gap between the U.S. technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 9/15 « i On Nonprofits 09.18.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I went to learn from thought-leaders focused on social media and its impact on politics, in the hopes that many of the lessons would be relevant for nonprofits, foundations, grassroots activists, and for our emerging networks practice at the Monitor Institute.

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