Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

There were eight hours of online conversation through channels like Twitter and Google Hangouts where you could ask questions of world leaders about some of the most pressing challenges facing the globe today and they will talk about next week at WEF. Engagement Networked Nonprofit' Civil Society 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

Last week I wrote a post called " 8 Nonprofit CEOs Who Tweet " and the number quickly grew based on the responses in the comments. It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Update & Review My Work-Life Harmony Plan : In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience. In 2021, I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. I reflect on my themes for the year and habits to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. It isn’t about following thousands and thousands of friends on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been asking myself how can we leverage the addition of nonprofits and charities on the Twitter Suggested User List? I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? saying that Twitter was now a “king maker”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global. What did you discover by putting your Twitter followers on the map?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in Twitter chat series #socialmedia. The beauty of Twitter is that you can do a little bit of network weaving to bring other people in the thread. I was scanning who else was on Twitter, but not participating in the thread and I tweeted a question or invitation to join them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Back in November, someone in Senator Dowd’s office made this epic Twitter mistake. Here’s a play by play of the Twitter Faux Pas. The hashtag #gettingslizzerd , a reference to drinking too much, trended on Twitter. Twitter mistakes are going t happen. They apologized and moved on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. The 5K Visual Browser is one tool that help you see connections between the people you interact with on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

With the big holiday charitable giving season just around the corner, there's a host of cause-related giving campaigns waiting in software launch and nonprofits gearing up for their end-of-the-year efforts. This cause-related campaign has a big fancy web site and nonprofit partners. Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. It also sparked a conversation on Twitter among some classical music people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2015

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. SocialRank is a tool that helps you understand your followers on your Twitter and now Instagram. For nonprofits, if we can capture attention that leads to engagement, a deeper relationship – such as volunteering or donating follows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

When I got to showing Twitter, I was met with the usual skepticism. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. Chris Brogan started a project called " Twitter Packs " which is a simple list of people who use twitter organized by interests or locations.

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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? Are you currently on Twitter? Now, let's start building a listening post on Twitter: Step 1: Sign Up. Twitter Packs - Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

There is an inherent tension between strategy and tactical implementation of using social media to support a campaign's objectives or nonprofit's mission, whether the goal is fundraising, marketing, or taking action. The rest of the guide is a great basic primer on getting started with Twitter. The objectives: 1. Spread the Word 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

I asked colleagues what nonprofits had good employee champion programs and Chris Tuttle pointed me to Human Rights Watch. In 2009, they embraced Twitter because journalists were active on Twitter and it was an efficient way to reach them. Over time, using Twitter has become more an organizational cultural norm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

After Marc finished reading the Networked Nonprofit , he was curious about crowdfunding and free agents, chapters in our book. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Twitter reflections and insights have been the air. Chris Brogan's post says, " Twitter has changed my life." " I might also say that Chris's life changing experience on Twitter has had a ripple effect on two young Cambodian college students, Leng Sopharath and Champerom. re just using Twitter to scrape data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

That's today's nptech twitter stream over at nonprofitpulse. Would be great if people could add their twitter feeds. You can see who is tweeting what in nptech land, tag cloud, and shared links. Who is behind this? UPDATE: Eduardo Bejar. He says it is still in Beta and welcomes suggestions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I’ve been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects – from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. A list of active Twitter users who do summer learning programs and their members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

I was also reminded by one very smart colleague that the Twitter audience card had out-of-date information. In the last few months , Twitter become popular with old people. If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth. Twitter is where the stalkers are."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Photo by Esparta A few weeks ago I did a book giveaway for the Twitter Book. Readers from nonprofits who wanted to a chance to win a copy of the book had to leave a comment saying how they were using Twitter and how they hoped to improve their results. I also learned that Twitter search has some tricks too.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

With declines in public trust and the continuing need to raise more money, nonprofit leaders will need to strategically leverage organizational and professional networks. With declines in public trust and the continuing need to raise more money, nonprofit leaders will need to strategically leverage organizational and professional networks.…

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I've seen first hand how you can leverage your Twitter network to raise money for a good cause really fast. It's time update the history of fundraising on Twitter post I wrote that last month after the Tweetsgiving campaign raised $10,000 in 48 hours. The Salvation Army has also launched a Kettle Campaign on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

World Resources Institute - two of the most savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.     Our session is on the social media metrics track and one of a few that are geared for nonprofit folks. Why Twitter Matters View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

So I asked my twitter followers for some ideas on best practices and nonprofits on Twitter. That will be really useful for the NTC Panel where I have to do a basic intro of Twitter and some best practices during the NTC Conference for this panel with Susan Tenby from TechSoup. Use the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

In 2007, I was the first person to use Twitter to fundraise so I could attend and help sponsor the first Cambodia Bloggers Conference. I also used Twitter to get pro bono donations of technology t-shirts from technology companies to give to the Cambodia bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2007

Photo from Lynetter's Flickr Stream and discovered via Twitter from Cogdog. That was one of gems I found while taking a quick twitter break. How, if at all, do we transform this metaphor to nonprofits? Maybe there is no analogy for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The ComcastCares Twitter account is an example of how businesses are using Twitter and other social web tools for customer support and service. It made me wonder if any nonprofits have started to use Twitter in this way. You can read more about what they are doing at Valerie Maltoni's Conversation Agent or Chris Brogan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name. For example, here's the arts programming account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Chad Norman, publisher of I dig webby things.and I bet you do too I dig speaking at nonprofit conferences and events, and one of my favorite topics to cover is the real-time use of social media. Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. guest blogging npfundraising nptech social media twitter.

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