Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2010

Sanjeev Khagram , iScale, took us through a draft white paper on Network Life Cycle. The paper will be published later next month, but it stimulated an incredible conversation. Much higher than the balcony, up about 10,000 feet where you can put messy social media tools and network behavior into neat boxes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

The Foundation is offering webinars and publishing white papers for nonprofits. Two recent papers that caught my eye were: ” How to Use Social Media for Social Good ” and “ Building Meaningful Engagement.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

On the blogging side, while the main event page is on WordPress, Geoff will be using a posterous blog for updates about the conference and to publish early chapters of #crisisdata white paper. He will, of course, share his insights about the tool for this purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

You can play with calculator and then download a free white paper, Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us which was written in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

See this white paper by Susan Mernit for a detailed case study.). Last month, the Twitter community came together online and offline in over 180 cities around the world to raise money for charity:water with the highly successful " Twestival " fundraising event which brought in over $250,000. It was launched by Dr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2005

After bookmarking Nancy White's white paper on the March of Dimes blog community in delicious, did some wool gathering to see what other nuggets were out there on the topic of blog communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

Tip of the hat to Michael Stein for pointing out this new white paper by Exponent Partners, Paul Hagen, called " Salesforce Nonprofit Opportunity." " Normally, my eyes would have glazed over, but the recent thread, "What's in Your Tool Box?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

This was a misperception and they used that to go out into the field to educate folks. You can find more examples and case studies in this white paper. They recently launched lab in Indonesia and started to hear through social media chatter that vaccine serum had meat and that people should not get vaccines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some notes from the white paper, I'm still digesting it (not being a digital native, I had to print it out).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

her work appears on CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and the’s the author of a forthcoming white paper from the ZeroDivide Foundation about opportunities to use mobile to help serve and empower people in poor/marginalized US communities. Her blog is Contentious.com. Twitter: @agahran.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

This is already being done through other channels - whether staff is speaking/attending conferences, publishing articles in journals, conversations with grantees or experts in the field, posting white papers and research on the web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I've been reading Henry Jenkin's book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" - I ordered after I heard him speak at the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning briefing (Nancy Schwartz recently wrote about it here ) and read his white paper on participatory culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Social Signal has also published a white paper on why Second Life and Virtual Worlds are important. Over fifty avatars attended. If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Michelle Murrain, NTEN board member and NOSI leader - and author of Nonprofit API white paper has insightful analysis. I can use Salesforce as the hub of my organization, and Convio as the hub of all my organization???s s online interactions, and the two databases talk directly to each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2003

I just came across this interesting white paper on use of blogs as KM tools. I need an excuse to obsess about blogging. Enterprise blogging

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Rapid Donor Cultivation white paper from Common Knowledge. " Peter Deitz does a nonprofit riff on a report called " Strategy of Giving " originally written for business people to invest their businesses. Digidave of Spot.Us posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise. Heather Mansfield, Making It On MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

While organizational adoption of social media tools for external communications strategies is becoming more common, not to mention lots of practical advice such as this recent white paper: The Revolution will be Socialized and the many how-to primers for nonprofits like this one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The Symposium has several brief white papers about future techologies and education to jump start the discussion: It's Easy To Fall in Love with Technology by Danah Boyd. So this post, is my first pass at that and hopefully you'll suggest lots of ideas in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Or, alternatively, if you have longer content pieces, say a white paper or longer video, create a “chop shop&# where you cut it into smaller chunks. If you have a newsletter article, run it on the blog. Think about bundling your content across different channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

Recently, the Foundation Center blog published an infographic about Millennial disengagement at work and best practices for leadership development based on research and white paper from Virtuali about Engaging Millennials in Leadership Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

My discomfort (which I'm moving past) was related to the issue of whether to share what you are thinking about outloud versus a finished, perfected, polished article or white paper. I wrestle with what I blog or don't blog about, even though I'm an independent.

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