Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Stephen Blyth, a nonprofit capacity builder who I met when I keynoted Connecting Up in 2008, hosted my trip to NZ and arranged for this workshop to take place on Makaurau Marae which is the land of Maori. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 billion to $4.8 Bridging the Gaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Coordinate efforts, take joint action, and dis­seminate information about what works. 3, 2008. ** Unstill Waters: The Fluid Role of Networks in Social Movements. Deepen agreement on a shared political frame. Engage in advocacy campaigns. Marshall and increase resources and capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Photo Source: Yuba Colleage Public Space Back in September, 2008, after reading this post by Chris Brogan about taking your blog to the next level, I was inspired. I knew that I was outgrowing my information design as well as my blogging platform. Call to Action. This helps you develop a common vocabulary with the designer.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Foundations have consistently remained conservative in their grant and operational spending since the financial market crash of 2008 and have been looking to do more with their limited resources. Foundations are now investing in diversity to ensure that their organizations reflect the organizations that they are serving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

You’ve inspired to reflect on them and write my own blog article! at 6:11 am Interesting idea here – informing technology with spirituality. Being towards the “completely atheistic&# on your continuum of readers, the discussion of relationships comes pretty close to my idea of spirituality. 4 Paul Martin 02.10.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Good for you! Great work. Take Breaks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. Looking at them in isolation without all the other data and the trends and information they entail makes no sense.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008. Thanks, Robert, for sharing this information publicly so people see the trend! You should read not only Robert's posts, but the many comments by others who share similar emails they've received. Beth Kanter' s 53 birthday was this last week.

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See3

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We even re-skinned their MySpace page to reflect the microsite creative!). “In the 2008 presidential election, we witnessed how the power of technology and the enthusiasm of young voters revolutionized the political process,” says Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Both internal and external stakeholders need to be better informed about why it is okay for overhead costs to be higher when the organization is trying to grow, become sustainable, and ultimately achieve its mission more effectively. Gregory, A.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

at 1:04 pm Hi Tracey, I will ammend the post to reflect these comments, because you’re right – for nonprofit organizations, your rates are relatively reasonable. I hope that information helps you in your analysis. Have a great day, Tracey 2 admin 08.17.07 Problem is, I’m not a nonprofit organization. Wish I were!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. What's the tone, formal or informal? This one point caught my eye: RSS subscriber metrics : For some sites, this information is very useful. What is your thought and reflection process for insight harvesting? Insight Harvesting: What are the topics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? 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. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. And, I also need to make my information tracking a bit more systematic. I will look at how qualitative information fits into the mix as well as exploring the value of intangibles.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. Tim also wrote a reflection and it is enormously helpful. You should read two articles that will help inform your thinking. This is work in progress.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful. .

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

ToMamaWithLove (TMWL) is no exception – but, as Stacey Monk, CEO of Epic Change, reflects, "It's a much different medium than it used to be.". They were able to update it at any time with all the information necessary to reach out to, orient, and support bloggers spreading the message about the campaign. Information for bloggers.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Information on a label and a short video clip informs the buyer about the history behind objects including a tulip, fishing boat, licorice and tea towel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

It’s a story that reflects the turning points in our past, describes where we are at present, and indicates where we are positioned to go in the future. These are a treasure trove of information that, if overlooked, might mislead one into developing an inaccurate financial story. and Catherine T.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. I think the reason the DCM worked was because it was informal and honest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. He mentioned that "digital natives" get their information from their peers. With so much information coming out, how we can get our message out and heard? You need to get past the information overload and information clutter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. In early 2008 it was slightly lower for several reasons. The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits! In June 2008, it has more than doubled. What does that mean?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community. So we wanted a membership segmentation that reflected their individual needs. People want to experience art in quite individual ways.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. Open Access publishing therefore leads to wider dissemination of information and increased efficiency in science … Which is, actually, a very practical down to earth argument.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. What if the government said you had to?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). Unlike other online communities, ScratchR does not allow you to "pimp your profile" with all kinds of information. Profiles: Very Safe. There is no private chat.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

There are 75 pages of statistics and trend information in the report. About the Study Participants This study reflects the attitudes and behaviors of more than 800 respondents throughout the United States with household income greater than $200,000 and/or net worth (excluding the value of their residence) of at least $1,000,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water’s September campaign. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia. How do you report, reflect, and revise what you’re doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. I do that with a grain of salt.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

I spend a good deal of time with university professors who run digital media, architecture, and informal learning departments at their institutions as they show me the experiments they personally have been initiating in the virtual world. We're hoping to bring our visitors on the floor into the design cycle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. The bio of AshokaTweets says “Tweets by @tomjd and friends”.

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