Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 28, 2010

Part social networking site, part smartphone App, Foursquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. Religious institutions :: Washington National Cathedral. Foursquare now has 1.6 million users. Quite simply, you “Check-in” to venues while physically at the venue and offer “Tips” and send out “Shouts”.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. Social networks are still for engagement, not money. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, have raised over $100,000 using Causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Yesterday in Washington, DC, Target's senior fundraising analyst Paige Grainger gave a terrific "state of the nonprofit industry" talk, which summarized key findings from Target's latest, 2011 Index. Paige spoke at a luncheon that Care2 sponsored of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Check out this page to see where NTEN will be in the community this month, we''d love to link up with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees. Hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Meanwhile in down at action camp in San Antonio, Texas, I heard through Twitter that copies of the Networked Nonprofit were offered in a raffle. Networked Nonprofit at PRSA in Washington, DC. I met “ichi&# virtually when he let me know about a Netsquared Japan meet up featuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

These are the questions discussed during the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C. There are more and more people like me who are tracking their health on their smartphone or on social networks and a growing number of wearable devices that can track data. Are there other benefits? What are the challenges? last month.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Dane Grams will be making his Care2 speaking debut at the DMA Washington Nonprofit Conference, on a panel called Follow that Donor! NOI RootsCamp Washington, DC. Engaging Networks Community Conference (North America) Toronto, ON. DMA Washington Nonprofit Conference Washington, DC. Feb 18 - 19. Ryann Miller.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. The site currently has 1.6

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

After all, associations have been in the "social networking" business long before Facebook and Twitter became household names, Lehman says. This is why social media has been so successfully adopted by associations and integrated into their existing marketing mix. Social networking is another layer that enables that.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

. • Transparency and Government 2.0. • Video Activism. • Launching Your Own Startup. • Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling. • Tech Marketing in a Recession. • Social Networks and Diversity Barriers. • Innovation and Tech Career Reinvention. • What Shirky Didn’t Tell Us. • Feminine Mystique.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Washington, DC: Web Trends: Wordpress & Beyond. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Honolulu, HI: Overview of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Wellington, New Zealand: A very social, cool little capital talk: #net2welly Social Media Sept (2 of 3).

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Care2

JULY 24, 2012

This means embracing online registration tools and even social networking integration applications. Make it fun and interesting so that people will want to get involved and use all of the tools you’d use in other campaigns (ads, social networks, email, etc.). Bring registration to where your base spends time!

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. So, I was intrigued with a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites.

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C., Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month – "Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! ." Read all of the lessons Carol learned – and I'd love to hear what you learned! NonProfit 2.0

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JULY 6, 2011

He has played a leadership role in a number of companies including FundraisingINFO.com (FRI), WealthEngine and Wealth ID, as well as serving as a fundraiser in New York and Washington and a grantmaker with the federal government. How do you see social networks reshaping traditional donor research or fundraising techniques?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Last week, I had the privilege to serve as General Manager of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington , an online fundraising event that raised $2 million for 1200 local nonprofits from almost 18,000 donors. Traditional mainstays like the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation also fared well.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

Connect Supporters with Local Elected Officials using Local Advocacy Change doesn’t just happen in Washington, DC. Leverage Your Supporters' Influence and Follow Engagement with Social Share Tracking Organizations have enormous potential in the form of their supporters’ social networks. Check it out >> SUMMER.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2009

The recent analysis of giving through Facebook Causes by The Washington Post was not encouraging. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Social Networking. 29 percent said they had raised $500 or less there during the previous year, and only 1.2 percent said they had raised over $10,000.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

M+R Strategic Services and NTEN are about to host an in-person event in Washington, DC from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Seminar Social Networking Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web Building. Register for the webinar if you're not attending in person. Starts now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Within hours, Planned Parenthood sent a fundraising email out to its network, asking supporters to replace the money that Komen had pulled for breast cancer screenings for low-income women. As the news traveled from email boxes to social networks to mainstream media, activists, men, and women expressed their outrage.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

And if you’d like to learn more, visit our website and consider joining us at one of our many upcoming conferences, the nation’s only series devoted to social media for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference will take place on March 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC. I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Part of what makes the NTC unique is how they involve the community in every aspect of conference planning.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2009

The grant recipient will receive up to $10K in social media auditing, monitoring, and strategic recommendations from industry powerhouse Fenton Communications. The deadline is today so get on it and tell your Washington, DC-area nonprofit friends as well. What Are They Talking About: Social Media, Web 2.0

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A new report from the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers shows definitively that grantmakers expect to give fewer grants in 2010 than in 2009. Tags: Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends Web 2.0 Make room for strategic serendipity.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Bellevue, Washington: Microsoft Azure IoT Workshop. Seattle, Washington: Social Network Analysis: Mapping Your Nonprofit's Connections. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa and Middle East. ## Europe and UK. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Thursday, June 1, 2017. How Do You Use It?

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 Other states , such as Nevada, Washington, and New York, have also moved to protect data privacy, and others are expected to follow. As I mentioned, there was a time when the top tech CEOs were claiming that privacy was finished.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. Here are some of the extraordinary people and groups that Dara found which are taking up the challenge: Karen Volker who runs Cure Violence in Washington, D.C. Dara Westling. Dara has possibly the longest title at TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In my spare time, a video crew was following me around to create a short piece for Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. (I’ll He asked if we had seen any organizations change their mission as a result of connectedness on social networks.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Close the door! Not really.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The site was unveiled at an event on Wednesday in Washington by its sponsors, the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The site makes it easy for users to engage with the information and share their findings with their social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

conference in Washington, D.C. I think Jen is correct in her observation that young people aren’t necessarily going to search out a nonprofit’s website themselves but will be receptive to participating with the tools and social networks they already use every day.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

He is a frequent speaker and author on digital media, advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, and mobile advocacy strategies. About the Presenters: Alan Rosenblatt is the Associate Director for Online Advocacy at CAPAF.

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Care2

MAY 8, 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!" Social networking is generating very little revenue. (

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