Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. What Is Web 2.0?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

One level is not better than another; it is just where the organization is at with respect to becoming a networked nonprofit and agile at using social media and other emerging technologies. Avoid spreading the organization’s resources too thin. Often, a “Return on Investment” argument surfaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Inspiration may come from outside our silo and together we'll remix it. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0 Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Lisa Neal ) 2. Tyler Willis ) 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. She goes to explain: The millions of online-activated volunteers in the Obama campaign will find the drudgery of governing unappealing and abandon Obama's citizen government movement. It's that time of year again. Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I'll get a chance to see Miles again at this year's NTC Conference and some lucky local nonprofit in DC will have Miles as a volunteer for the NTC Day of Service ! However, most of the UK voluntary sector (apart from larger organizations) are not grasping the opportunities of online tools to connect with their stakeholders. experiment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Non-profits will recognize the potential of bringing on these virtual community organizations, especially their ability to raise in tiny increments in a down economy. On that latter point, social media savvy nonprofits will be thinking of strategies and ways to leverage this free agent fundraising - and it gets back to relationship building.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Spring is often event season in the nonprofit world and I’ve been involved in my fair share over the past few months as a speaker at a gala, volunteer at a 5k fun run, an attendee at a “friend raiser” for a local politician and a few others in between. Start Marketing Early. Emotional branding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. We had space for 25 organizations out of the 100 that applied. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. The Real House Wives of Social Media You've heard the buzz around how nonprofit organizations and corporations are using social media for social good. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

If your organization is trying to figure out how to move your stakeholders from passive listeners to passionate participants, this is your golden opportunity. I volunteered to be the Dance Cybrarian. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. But not many people to share with or remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Using a futuristic body parts metaphor I might add) As part of this, we have to face the question of the degree of openness that a nonprofit organization will embrace. But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations. Wait a minute! Isn’t that scandalous?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization. Why this target group?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. We need to support the organizations that are writing it in figuring out how to cover their costs. Or these organizations will simply cease to exist. Open Content for Nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week, I was honored to deliver the lunch keynote at the 2014 TechNow Conference in Pittsburgh, PA organized by The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. (My To reap all benefits of crowd funding for your organization, you need a strategy. How do you define failure for our organization or program?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And this year it may very well be virtual volunteering. Jayne Cravens has a great piece on the topic here and you find an excellent how-to article for using SKYPE with virtual volunteers here. Mike Seyfang, a nonprofit technology consultant in Austraila, tells us to avoid YouTube if you want to get remixed and mashedup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. They also provide fertile ground for us to organize rapid, collective fundraisers.

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