Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations should recognize that AI, like other technology, could exacerbate the blurring of work/life boundaries by pushing workers to remain constantly ‘on’. Organizations should commit to not using AI for the purpose of driving workers to higher levels of productivity at the cost of well-being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. How to make these summaries more useful to you all? The Frozen PeaFund , a social media campaign to raise money for breast cancer research, is seeking some advice about becoming a nonprofit organization. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NpTech Summary. Looks like a teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organization in 24 hours. I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP. I noticed a lot of "Top Ten" blog posts this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. There’s an excellent summary by the study’s authors in this post, “ Preparing Millennials for Leadership Success ,” the tips include: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How was it organized? Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology. million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improvie their safety and security on the Internet. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. The summaries are released on cc 2.5 Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

And here’s a summary of the research that proves it. Here’s a summary of the research cited in the book: Toxic workplaces are taking a toll on our physical and mental health. Stress in the workplace is expensive for organizations according to research. Why are we doing this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Blackbaud, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline. Convio or Causes? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. " The 1cent thoughts on NPTech blog muses , "Is technology the step child of older organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption. There was a really useful discussion thread on the NTEN list for requests about wiki software and summarized on the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. You can find the columns here : The summaries are released on cc 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

While Twitter and other platforms can amplify the under belly of the world, they can also connect people with nonprofit organizations and spread social good, joy, and even fun. Is your organization making the best of use of Twitter in 2018? The conversation was tweeted and re-tweeted thousands of times, and people joined in the fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2011

MFGII summary findings Nov 2011. The research found that two-thirds of individuals do not typically research the organizations they donate to compared those that advise donors and foundation grant-makers do due dilligence on every dollar they contribute. MFGII summary findings Nov 2011 View more presentations from GuideStar USA, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

As someone who spent half her career working for and with arts organizations this news makes me sad: A report yesterday from the USAToday that quotes Bob Lynch , the President of Americans for the Arts estimating that 10,000 arts organizations will close this year, 10% of the total number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

GivingTuesday , a philanthropic movement to promote a national day of charitable giving that takes place the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, organized a convening of key stakeholders called “Measurepalooza.” How has your organization achieved buy-in from staff or senior leaders about what data to collect for impact tracking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Click Through To Twitter Summary of Plenary. The organization is still relevant but no longer the only unit of analysis. The new reality of organizations as parts of networks requires another lens and different perspective. Both organizations and networks can be means to ends. Guest post from Barbara Kibbe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

Some smart organizations are helping their people make failure not only productive, but also fun. That’s the summary of a post I wrote last week for the Harvard Business Review Blog called “ Go Ahead Take A Failure Bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations. If you’re motivated to go deeper on LinkedIn after reading this summary, you will want to check out my curated list of nonprofit and LinkedIn resources here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

A good summary of my talk can be found in this blog post from Civil Society Fundraising and this summary. Change.org has more than 75 million users with 20,000 new petitions created every month – and he is seeing organizations work with activists at both the local, national, and international level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Many organizations may not have capacity for one person to be the sole blogger and many times the way into an organizational blog is a team of writers. I think it means nothing. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

New research funded by the Columbus Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation demonstrates that High dollar donors — especially 30-49 year-olds — use the social web, but have yet to be engaged by strong, trustworthy philanthropic organizations. The full executive summary of the study is available for download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The Chronicle has a summary of the report here. The insight that resonated most was a paragraph in the summary about the importance of rapid experimentation and learning is to the future of nonprofits. Being a futurist requires both individual and institutional curiosity, and a willingness to take risks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

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. The participants represent a diverse cohort of 41 women’s rights and social justice leaders from 18 organizations from 11 states across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I’m in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources. Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment. But many smaller organizations don’t. Is mobile on your organization’s radar for 2011? The Increment Steps To Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The matrix enables your organization set a baseline and goals for improvement. Because the taking the assessment in full would require a lot more time than we had for the workshop, Jo prepared a high level summary. Have them self-organize into small groups of three or four people and use sticky notes to come up with some statements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

As a trainer and facilitator, the work I do with organizations and networks, often on behalf of a foundation for its grantees, is capacity building. Bibliography with links and summaries of studies reviewed. But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2005

RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. The organization maintains a blog called " Hanging Together ," the name inspired by the Ben Franklin quote above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Learfieldinteraction blog has an interesting post " What USA Today's social media success Means for your small organization." DIA blogs about an amazing organizing victory story! BrandToBeDetermined thinks the friending is the new advertising-denial. " Tell stories, stop sending crappy press releases.

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