Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. The Third C: Community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2008

If you have a favorite blog (or podcast or vlog) that uses its platform to raise awareness, build community and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place, will you post the blogs/podcasts/vlogs' name and URL in the comments? blog social change activism net2 podcast vlog citizen journalism

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

and a listing of physical and virtual events go to onewebday.org and the OneWebDayWiki Blog Action Day 08 October 15 Bloggers, podcasters and vloggers post about the same issue on the same day to facilitate a global discussion. The theme for 2008 is poverty. For more info. For more info. go to blogactionday.org. For more info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. Low-technology settings require high-touch network facilitation.

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

Videos can be from a wide variety of issue and interest areas including (but not limited to) activism, environment, education, disability, economic development, human services, international development, health, and the arts. Entries will be accepted until February 15, 2008 at which time finalists will be determined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

s needs, knowledge, and the sorts of practices they face on a daily basis is critical in an effective knowledge transfer and exchange activity.". Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

According to the most recent “Daring to Lead” study, despite the fact that only 20 percent of executive directors are “very satisfied” with their nonprofit board’s performance, the majority of executive directors (56 percent) spend 10 hours or less on board-related activities each month.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). Active agency staff + sufficient resources are committed to the process. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. But participatory facilitation can be taught. Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. Reader, I was wrong. How do you give them the string?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This event combines the lessons learned from previous fundraising activities on Twitter: A local, face-to-face component based on the popular "Tweet Ups" or " Net2Tuesday " meetups. I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf Some are calling it impact investing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." So, instead of an annual report summarizing the activities of an entire previous year's work, I am giving these updates real-time, as they happen.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Where Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Giving to charities activates regions of the brain associated with pleasure, social connection, and trust, releasing endorphins that create a “warm glow” or “helper’s high” effect. But here’s the kicker, per neurologist Ricardo de Oliveira: “ João never actively sought out street children and offered them money or sweets.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S. Oh, my gosh. It’s virtual. So I have a question for y’all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. Small acts of kindness count too.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. Visitors see things that intrigue them, point at them, and other visitor look.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. That goal means that a wiki is useful, because participants can contribute segmented content and then work with facilitators to decide how to organize it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The Engage Network is a nonprofit social venture that facilitates the power of small community groups to create social change. On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. At the moment, The Engage Network includes three "sectors": What's Your Tree?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

James Young talked about how nonprofits are using these tools for campaigns , Randi Zuckerberg gave an overview of Facebook and nonprofit activity and Scott Goodstein shared his experience from the Obama Campaign. Neff from the America Cancer Society quipped during our panel at SXSW, "Twitter meetups just to meet are so 2008.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S.

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