Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

I think one of the biggest mistakes that an organization can make with its website is to promise more than it can deliver – make sure that the resources to create that blog, or podcast, or photo gallery, or whatever bells and whistles that you promise on your website, are there when the website goes live. Check This List 07.28.08

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

As voters watched the heated 2012 Presidential debates last night, there was a flurry of discussion and commentary happening on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Romney said that while he was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007 he looked through binders full of women to find qualified women candidates to serve in his cabinet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. I was able to share photos , tweets , Facebook updates , and Instagram photos in real time. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Not two minutes had passed after I set up my birthday campaign and added it to my profile, I got pinged from Facebook friends asking how they could install it. Celebrating Birthdays is definitely part of Facebook culture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo!

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

I will write more about the API later, but everyone is really there to see the Facebook opportunity. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. First, you can only create one Facebook application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Vikki Spruill, Ocean Conservancy 's President and CEO and members of her communications team, Laura Burton Capps, and Dove Coggeshall about their recent experiments and learning on Facebook. Facebook was an uncharted territory for the Ocean Conservancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Give staff space and time for creativity and to think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Along with the new brand are new Twitter (@ childfund ), Facebook , blogging and YouTube efforts. They will share the recipients’ stories and photos with the social web. To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2008

Yesterday's Huffington Post article, 500,000 Iraqis Refugees in 2007 , reported that, "A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality." Become a fan of their Facebook page. That's a statistic you don't often see in the news.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. You can follow Beth on Twitter at @fakeplasticfish , on the Fake Plastic Fish Facebook page , and on her personal Facebook page. Photo: My friend Eli and I at the 2009 Bay to Breakers. We won the costume contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. People get excited about something — tweeting, setting up Google Reader, signing up for Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. But consider the following: Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. They tracked the number of photo submissions they got, but they also listened carefully to the responses they got from participants. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2016

Quite simply, the release of the first iPhone® on June 29, 2007 (my 35th). Think large, visually compelling photos and graphics, less text, and tap-able call-to-action buttons. 54% of Facebook users log in exclusively on a mobile device (Source: Facebook®), and 83% of Twitter users are active mobile users (Source: Twitter®).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up for - From Asparagus Omelets to Pumpkin Pancakes by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero During this time of contemplation about eating animals I've been cooking up a vegan storm, which you can see in my Home Cookin' photo album on Facebook.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Repurpose email content into your next Facebook post, with a link to sign up for your email newsletter. Generate blog posts with photos, videos and quotes from key staff members, volunteers or community members to help keep your donors informed, and enable comments on these posts so your supporters can take part in the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

t have naughty gifts on your Facebook profile if your ???friends??? Here's the policy for online persona from Easter Seals: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy SECTION III PART I-9 Approved by board: July 14, 2007. What kind of polices are there? How do organizations create policies? Is anonymous ever REALLY anonymous?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. I saw There.com at Virtual Worlds 2007 but did not focus as much on them, being more interested in just covering the whole event and making contacts, which are already proving to be very useful and helpful to me. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Support Peace Work Around the World Peace Project Fellow, Alison Long Photo in Flickr, Used with Permission.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

The new service allows users to make blog entries and comments, send and receive emails via their MySpace page, upload photos from their cellphones, and view or search for friends (videos will be supported sometime in 2007). Along with the increased use of SMS and mobile e-mail, people are sharing photos and video files.

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JANUARY 10, 2009

Have you seen what’s happening with Facebook ?!? In the meantime, Facebook has become mainstream relevant. When I joined Facebook in mid-2007, there wasn’t a single person from my high school class on it that I could find. Heck, even my mother is on Facebook. What’s with the fake Facebook friends?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. Using Facebook and Linked but in the basic stages Gave an overview of some statistics of Internet usage/access of the world's population. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What Facebook Knows Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 7th, 2010 Think about all the things people post on Facebook or any other social networking website. What happens in Vegas stays on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Foursquare.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue was founded in 2007 to enhance the lives of companion animals and the people who love them. Their two primary social media accounts, Facebook and Twitter, were provided via direct feed on the year-end donation form. Request a demo. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue’s Matching Gift Holiday Campaign. Who they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Thurman has been blogging about leadership, nonprofits, and social media since 2007. The blog documents these art projects with photos and some text to provide context. The team behind Project Hope Art believes that photos of the children impacted by their art projects move supporters to act. Vision and Execution.

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MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Facebook is still independent — they haven’t been bought by any big company yet. Now comes Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation. I donated $50 to the winner's charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

On September 7, 2006, Scott Harrison launched charity: water by throwing a birthday party, charging people $20 to attend, sending 100% of the money to build wells in a refugee camp in Uganda and then proving the work by sending photos and GPS coordinates to every guests.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. They have someone that goes out to take photos, learn stories. This is a stock photo. We kept seeing it on Facebook and Instagram and we got to know where we. Been a part of our sector for a long time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Everyone likes photos.

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