Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

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. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. Community Media Workshop???s Why did you choose Ning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2009

My colleague, Manny Hernandez, has written the "Ning for Dummies Book." . For anyone who works in nonprofits and wants to know the secrets to success of setting up and running a "branded" social network on Ning, Manny's book is your best resource. Tags: ning. Both have been runaway success stories.

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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. Community Media Workshop???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin launched the Gustav Information Center on Ning, and through social networks, word is spreading fast - the hash tag #gustav is being used. As we wait for Gustav to hit, Tom Watson gives us reflection about social media and Katrina -- How will the use of social media and with Gustav may it different this time.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? So, how can you quantify - as close as possible - the amount of time it takes to put social media in practice with good results? In A Museum? It's so hard and you could cop out with "It depends."

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" 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. Raise awareness? Build web traffic?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

com, Connie Reece, Social Media Club and Frozen Pea Fund, Beth Kanter Moderator: Allyson Kapin, Women Who Tech and Rad Campaign. Hot Or Not? 5:15 PM EST Twitter! Panelists share their opinions on the latest trends in Web 2.0 and how organizations can effectively use them to build community as well as as how to measure the real ROI???s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Roxanne Darling presenting Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop. There are amazing people in this room - a combination of social media rock stars who are based in Hawaii - Roxanne Darling, Todd Cochrane , Lorelle from Wordpress, Neenz from All Top, Colin Devore from Viddler.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

It was a great opportunity to hear from consultants the questions, concerns, and challenges of their clients face related to social media in a strategic planning context. Thom was kind enough to do an interview with me about their ning use that I will publish in the next few days). My slides and other resources are on the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques. One thing that I've discovered that if you want to be an effective user of social media - watch people who are good at engaging audiences in the conversation.   What will you do today?

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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! If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community?

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Care2

JANUARY 3, 2011

However, there is a new class of free agent out there, specific to social networks: " the free agent community.". The free agent community exists on a social network and decides, as a group, to raise funds for an unafilliated nonprofit organization. Three recent independent social community fundraisers underscore these points.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

As you might know, almost a year ago, I made a big change in my use of social media – I segregated my social graph – work related stuff moved to LinkedIn and Twitter, and personal friends only on Facebook. I won’t be using the 1/2 dozen or social media accounts that I have.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I finally met Devon Smith face-to-face who writes the awesome 24 Usable Hours blog , a must read on theatres and social media at our New York City book launch event hosted by Demos last month. He’s been at the center of the Social Media Diabetes community. Devon Smith. I like point 5 about interns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

NTEN's WeAreMedia project has been discussing and building six tactical modules on social media - the practical tips and resources you need before you start to focus on the tools. Sharing Your Story Social Media Style. Participating in the conversation. Spreading Awareness and Generating Buzz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. It is now headed towards the gulf coast of the US. This site worked much like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies.

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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. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media.

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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. The Social Web, and Web 3.0:

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Big data has become a topic of interest due to the large quantities of data (and meta data) now captured, stored, bought and sold as a result of the digital age in which we live, especially via eCommerce and social media. Cleaning / cleansing – [KLEE-ning] / [KLEN-zing], noun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Over the past five years, we’ve stumbled our way into social media. We’ve listened to our supporters online and attempted authentic engagement with various social media platforms. Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. Our nonprofit is not unique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Social Innovation Conversations in an initiative of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Social Innovation Conversations is also part of the Conversations Network , an online platform for podcast distribution. 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

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Gina Bianchini, CEO and Founder of Ning. Johnson, Director of Social Media, Fast Company. I'm honored to be on the list along with some awesome women. Mary Hodder, Founder of Dabble.com and VP of Product Development, Apisphere. Tara Hunt, Co-Founder Citizen Agency and Citizen Space. Sandy Jen, Co-Founder of Meeboo.

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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 The key is understanding your audience and their online social activities. Some key findings: People who visit museums and galleries are engaging in social media and more so than people who don't.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Consider Ning, Basecamp, and Zoho. What roles are needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Gustav08 on Ning. Social media is making easy for those of us who are not in area effected by the storm to volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Today, Jeff Pulver , a well respected member of the social media community and legendary on Facebook reposted one of my notes about the Sharing Foundation on his Facebook profile. I thought she might be referring to our campaign, so thanked her. Yes, indeed Laura is helping us out. Thank you Laura! Yep, it's working! Thanks Julia.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

He was telling me about the organization's various forays into social media. 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. After an awkward pause, he followed, "Nothing happened with it, so we took it down."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She also just signed a book deal with the tentative title: How to be a Social Capitalist: winning with the currency of online communities. I think the key is to go beyond "friend collecting" and to leveraging social capital through building relationships one-to-one. TechPresident had a nice summary of this announcement.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Participants explored the use of web-based social and collaboration technologies and their use in transforming congressional engagement with the public. A variety of topics were discussed, including social media metrics, case studies and best practices, tools and applications, and strategy and planning. technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter.

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