Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

and a Digital Strategist at PwC in Austin, Texas. Add your comments below. Neff is author of The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive, The creator of the npo Lights. He has more than 14 years of experience driving innovation and change in the nonprofit sector. Check him out on Twitter @daveiam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. 2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. The final program is selected through a combination of an open submission and voting process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In 2009, the Austin American Statesman recognized David as one of the top 25 Social Media People in the state of Texas. David earned his BS in Public Relations from the University of Texas with a minor in Business from the McCombs School of Business. is the nonprofit world's first totally user-generated content Web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Bringing people to the policy table through services projects seems to have worked in Texas, Maine and California. Well…can you have your cake and eat it too? As with many things, it depends. Administrative policy change seems possible—or as Becky Hayes Boober said “less silver bullet, but more silver buckshot.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. A few days later Hurricane Ike slammed into Texas and the remainder of the HAM-up events had to be postponed. Tell me about you. It was a timely delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

When this is published, I'm be flying down to Austin, Texas for the Legal Services TIG conference to do a session on ROI and Nonprofit Technology and a workshop on Social Media. | View | Upload your own. The ROI presentation is not focused on Social Media but will most definitely inform the panel at NTC. Notes for the ROI session are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

at tek republik in Austin, Texas. League of Technical Voters) It was after successfully lobbying on 9 out of 10 technical issues to the Texas Legislature. One of those was for municipal wireless access in Texas.) We are in Austin Texas so I will be feeding them Mexican food as well as design specs and pizza. I never do.

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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. The workshop was a discussion, tweet-festival, and social media community-building exercise. And, they all got copies of Networked Nonprofit (thank you James!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

But a measurement dashboard the size of Texas is about as useful as an encyclopedia-length communications plan. Right-sizing your measurement approach. A person could get lost in Google Analytics, or spend days tracking the trajectory of every link and tweet.

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JULY 7, 2008

Today, many people in Austin, Texas saw firsthand what Twitter can do with a few dedicated people and a great idea. Here's the idea: We get this question a lot at Every Dot Connects ??? ???What What the heck is Twitter , and how can something that sounds so goofy possibly do anything useful????

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MAY 21, 2009

The batch of books in the photo above found a new home at In Defense of Animal and Funding Information Center in Texas. Over the past couple of months, I've been shipping them off various nonprofit libraries, friends, and doing giveaways on the blog. Simplicity is a good thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

To give you some incentive, by simply signing an online pledge to share the website with others, volunteer, and/or give, you will trigger a 35 lb food donation from Tyson of food products to the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. This will provide 140,000 meals for children in Austin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2008

Earlier this week, I attended SXSW in Austin, Texas and met many interesting people and connected with old friends, including BlogHer colleagues CE's Queen of Spain , Liz Perry , and Virginia DeBolt. I met several women who told me they were considering entering the nonprofit sector and had questions about how to get started.

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MAY 12, 2008

I remember when Katrina struck and when Liz Henry decided to go to Texas to volunteer. Photo by LaurieLou.

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APRIL 30, 2015

Today I presented on a “featured session” at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Grapevine, Texas. The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

Friday, March 13th Events SxSW Mix at Six Launch Party Hosted by Social Media Group Friday March 13, 2009 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm Six Lounge and The Tap Room 117 W 4th St Austin, Texas The TechSet Meets The Rat Pack at SXSWi 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Belmont Lounge 305 W 6th St Austin, TX 78701 Saturday, March 14th Panel Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas. This year took me to Europe to keynote at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy and to Amsterdam to give a plenary talk at International Fundraising Conference. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The contributors to our blog about Texas energy re-tooled how they write and edit posts to make it more flexible and inclusive. Here’s what we’re seeing. An explosion of EDF bloggers. We have a new transportation blog , Way2Go, and new participants in our international climate talks blog. And two more new blogs are on the way.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

If any picked up on the story of the campaign, an email was sent to our activist list in Texas with a campaign update, a link to You Tube and a mention of the news coverage. Once videos were complete, they were posted as home page material, and a communique to local press in Houston was sent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The SXSW Interactive Festival. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The nonprofit story I'm using is from the Capital Area Foodbank in Austin, Texas. If you’ve done your listening right, you will have not only identified them, but started to build relationships with them. I used a visual from one of David Wilcox's presentations to illustrate the principle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

The infographic does not incorporate stats from the many local giving days that are happening in many communities across the country and becoming a global movement. GiveMN , a statewide crowdfunding campaign for Minnesota nonprofits, did raised over $17 million on November 14, 2013, with over 52,000 individual donors and North Texas Giving Day (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2016

Carol Goglia, director of marketing and communications for the Community Foundation of North Texas which hosts an annual giving day in September, identified many non-technical scenarios. “It They facilitated our entire staff through the exercise.” Rinderknect described their crisis scenario planning in detail here.

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MAY 24, 2017

In addition, a GoFundMe campaign was launched and raised over $1 million towards rebuilding from donors of many different religions from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

Texas Care for Kids set up a Facebook event for their rally — they were planning to do this anyway no matter which way the decision went. During the afternoon we used Facebook to post analyses from partners and Twitter to highlight what ACA is already doing in Arkansas. And we sent our blog post as an email to our entire list.”

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