Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. But, realize that it shouldn't be a yes or no question.

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JUNE 25, 2008

At the beginning of the session, I asked folks what their burning questions were. Below are their questions, and my quick answers. What questions and answers would you add? Answer these questions: 1. Do the steps in question #1. Title the post with an open-ended question. • Who is your target audience?

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Care2

MAY 18, 2010

These social-media widgets have fast become wallpaper on almost all charitable sites. But does social media really work for fundraising? Are nonprofits raising money via social media? Now, some organizations are great at social, while most are just terrible, so I question whether a mean average applies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. The widget's resources. Gustav Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. Is social networking doomed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Back then, my favorite question was: "What is the cost of a free computer?" We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Let's begin by asking a question: "Why do donors choose to give money to one worthy cause over another?". These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. By Kari Ann Kiel, Event Marketing Consultant, DoJiggy.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” Following the presentation, Paynter answered audience questions that revealed more about Care2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? How can an online social network help your organization find volunteers? is/will impact nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

We've always done search ads, blogger outreach, and posts on our social networking profiles, but this year, I was ready to take it to the next level. I wanted to make this a social conference. The great thing about social networking is that it breaks the ice. Tweetup widget from TWTvite 2. Cross promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

This PBS station just started their social media experimentation less than a year ago and is already seeing increased audience engagement and visitors to their site. The questions from the audience, mostly general managers or programming producers - "What was your budget?" " and "How much time?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. Mmm.that's a great question how do I stay sane. I think about social marketing a lot, it keeps me up at night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Who should drive the organization's social media strategy? What are the assessment questions and first steps that an organization should take to determine readiness? How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. The Socially Networked Nonprofit. Energizing and prospecting with Micro Media.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

My question to Beth was, “That’s great – but are they just as accommodating to their full-time staff, or is flexibility reserved for visiting nptech dignitaries?” The question is, why do so many companies take this ability to manage by controlling functionality to extremes? Or bring water to a parched village via Twitter ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I recently read an article about fundraising on social networking sites. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. And given that the network is increasingly going to be the point of contact. two came to mind and rhyme: Fashion and Passion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." from Michigan State who is doing research on how younger people are using social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk? I don't even know what it is, but she also posted the question with more details on her blog.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Listen for hot topics or questions. If your content can address some of the common questions being asked, then it will be a useful resource for your audience. Some will question the impact of this type of engagement to your mission, and rightly so. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We’ve done a lot of work in these early phases of social networking and web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Bev Traynor builds on the list here and reflects on how it isn't quite a yes or not question. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. A new service called Qunu that uses IM to match people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. What do we want?

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

We especially like the idea of curation, which is providing value by letting recognized experts and social networks recommend online learning created by other authors: this is like the community playlists and celebrity playlists on Spotify. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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MARCH 21, 2008

That's the question the Nonprofit Technology Conference session, "The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach," tried to answer. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. * Maybe you gave them money. Maybe you did a walk.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. So again, it’s very key to get your supporters to post your campaign messages to their social networks.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Todays providers offer everything from communications to fundraising.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0 All rights reserved.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Stop by DonorPerfect's booth #38 for information on our fundraising software, rated Top Ten in N-TEN/Idealware's "A Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Software" Get answers to your questions, brochures and demos, and some free giveaways!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I’d like to extend my thanks to Emily and Beth for participating, and to all of the audience for your good, insightful questions. Beth : That is a question that is not easy to answer in a couple of sentences because there are so many "it depends" variations. I gave a presentation about Healthcare, Nonprofits, and Social Media.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It’s a much richer, more thought-out experience than anything I’ve seen for nonprofits on social networks. [.] There is no question that they will expand beyond the 15-page site template, and as the API improves I am certain you will be able to build on top of their app, using their infrastructure. Interactivity.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Stop by DonorPerfect's booth #38 for information on our fundraising software, rated Top Ten in N-TEN/Idealware's "A Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Software" Get answers to your questions, brochures and demos, and some free giveaways!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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