Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact.

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MAY 14, 2013

And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. She was formerly with The San Francisco Foundation, where she oversaw donor cultivation and stewardship for a portfolio of 450 high net-worth donors and $350 million in donor-advised funds. This is the time to network!

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JULY 9, 2012

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. It was also my duty to organize four fundraising events each year and manage an average six volunteers in any given week. I think the future of their organization depends upon it.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Naples, FL: Photos Online 501 TechClub SWFL Netsquared. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Vancouver, BC: How I Pushed A Campaign From A Floating Village. Wednesday, November 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. (One

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MARCH 29, 2016

Naples, Florida: "And the Winner for Best Film by a Not-for-Profit Organization Is …" Wednesday, April 6. San Francisco, California: Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Going to Salesforce''s annual Dreamforce in San Francisco this October 13-16? Two words: photo booth. Speaking of video and things that are awesome, See3 shares their top tips for making video work for your organization. Make sure to register by Sept. 30 to get early-bird pricing.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

photo: Robert Weiner Today, I am excited to announce that the application for scholarships to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference is officially open. If you work at an organization with a budget under $1 million and you would like to join us April 3-5 in San Francisco , we invite you to apply today! >

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

It isn’t a matter of that “photos do well on Facebook, it is which photo.” Don’t just guess. ” More about testing images on Facebook, see this useful article. Words : Language is tricky. Shades of meaning hide around every corner. Cultural nuances abound. Share an example of your experiment in the comments.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Open Data San Francisco. The lineup began with an overview of San Francisco's OpenData Program.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Two weeks before the 2011 San Francisco municipal elections, mayoral candidate David Chiu. They created a campaign video spoofing the new film “ Moneyball ,” which the Huffington Post San Francisco called “the most entertaining campaign commercial yet. Photo: Susan Chavez.

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APRIL 5, 2011

The room was full, and participants came up with some terrific examples and options for their organizations. I am part of the Digital Arts Service Corps, which is an initiative of the Transmission Project that pairs tech-savvy AmeriCorps Vistas with organizations dedicated to supporting community media and technology. Share your story!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Salim Virgi The social web offers a welcome place for individual philanthropic activity (original homeless image by jlmccoy ). The full executive summary of the study is available for download. This version has much more content and statistics than the version we ran on Mashable last Spring!

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APRIL 25, 2013

Although video is popular issues like bandwidth speed, which affect many communities, photo may be the best storytelling option. As a nonprofit example, Ilie offered the 6-word story of an organization that helps the visually impaired: "Blind graduate works for National Bank." led the bilingual tweet chat.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Do you work with a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit? Next Tuesday, December 8, TechSoup will honor tremendous work of local organizations like yours. Join us at our SOMA offices in San Francisco for great local food and drink, a chance to meet each other, and talk to members of the TechSoup team. Pacific time.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

I had a chance to sit down with Trish and Dar at the last Commons Sprint in San Francisco , and with Shun virtually, to hear the story of how the app came to life, what it can do for the community, and how the Commons supported their journey. This organization does home visits to check in on the students. DV: I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

With limited to no budget, you have the opportunity to grow your community organically and develop meaningful relationships with your fans, bringing them closer to your organization’s mission with each Facebook post. for your organization. Ads appear on the right hand side of the Facebook newsfeed. Now, let’s hear it from you.

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MAY 31, 2017

We have come to rely on Box because we share documents across programs inside our organization and with our partner organizations around the world. We have a main office in San Francisco, plus an office in London and one in Warsaw. We have lots of photos, and they're a challenge to organize.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Honolulu, HI: Creating a Facebook Fan Page for Your Club or Organizations. Follow the latest events in San Francisco with Regina Walton ’s newsletter for SFtech4Good. Photo: 676 - Burning Pac-Man – Seamless Texture. Online: Online class on Google For Non Profits Grants and Adwords Grants. Event Reports.

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APRIL 30, 2009

NTEN’s 09NTC just wrapped up in San Francisco and many conversations at the conference focused on social media use by nonprofits. With so many tools out there, and different options for individuals and other organizations to engage with you, how do you manage it all? Do you track how people find your organization?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

At SOCAP13 , a social enterprise conference in San Francisco, I attended two back-to-back conferences on big data with some nonprofit representation. MapLight is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that uses data to show money's influence on politics. How big does the data have to be? Where does it come from?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. Today, I had the pleasure of doing a little planning for March, 2012 bootcamps in country with the strategic social media adviser from Jordan, Rami Al-Karmi and Heather Ramsey at IIE in San Francisco as well as Craig Newmark and Barry Newstead from Wikimedia. Stay tuned … Video and Storytelling.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines. Participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. Be strategic about cross linking and collaborating with other organizations on Facebook by using tagging, page favorites, and participating. Charles Porch, Facebook.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? This was the third Social Good Apps Breakfast organized by Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup. The platform can be used for preparedness, response, and recovery. Supporting Health and Wellness.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

celebration of Thanksgiving , TechSoup's San Francisco offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday this week. If you're trying to register your organization or are waiting on a. Photo: paintedbooklad. In honor of the U.S. We'll be giving thanks for some much-needed days off and will pick up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Photo by Tsmall. The self-identified ‘innovation ecosystem’ in the Jewish world has been in engaged in a two year conversation about mezzanine level support for the hundreds of startup organizations dedicated to enriching Jewish life. To be sure, there must be a baseline for all organizations looking to scale.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday , TechSoup's San Francisco offices will be closed tomorrow and Friday. If you're trying to register your organization or are waiting on a donation request, account management specialists will continue plowing through them next week. Photo: Chef Jess PhD. In honor of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Adamgn NTEN opened up the registration for the 2009 NTC Conference. I also organize the annual Day of Service This year it is in San Francisco. I know that travel and conference attendance is viewed as a luxury and the first thing that gets slashed in hard times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2015

” I documented resources, photos, and tweets from meet up here. We also walked the talk, taking folks out on a walk around the San Francisco neighborhood. When we came back, Allison and I raffled off some FitBits asking folks to write down how they planned to incorporate walking into their work life.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Nonprofit leaders, impact investors, and philanthropists from all over the world gathered in San Francisco's Fort Mason Center this week for SOCAP12. Sachs also wrote Winning the Story Wars , a book about how nonprofits and other organizations for social good can use storytelling to capture an audience.

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APRIL 7, 2014

NetSquared’s global network of volunteers will be organizing more than 30 events this April in communities as diverse as Mukono, Uganda; Wellington, New Zealand; and Boston, USA. San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Using Bitcoin for Social Good. Photo Credit: NetSquared/Joyce, creative commons on Flickr.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Photo-printing company Persnickety Prints knows its target customer inside and out, and that knowledge comes through in how it addresses its audience: 2. See how CHOICE Humanitarian sets a tone with an inspirational quote that supports the organization's mission of humanitarian travel: 3. Add Media to the Slides.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

I've organized them into sections: creative ladies, yummy food, nonprofits/do-gooding, blogging/social media, and events, so that you can peruse the ones that fit your interests. December 8 (San Francisco): The Power of Women Leading from the Heart with Nina Simons * What posts, articles and events inspired you this week?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2009

I know about Operation Smile because Renee Hamilton, social media strategist for the organization, was one of the participants in the WeAreMedia workshop back in February. She also came to SXSW where she launched a small experiment using taking photos of people smiling. I felt compelled to support Renee and her organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. It becomes part of your organization's culture. She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Since then, we've assembled a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that share this conviction. Please join us for one of our monthly San Francisco Online Community Meetup events for #octribe. Photo: kopp0041. Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. SlideShare. Del.icio.us. Flavors.me.

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