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APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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JULY 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is now officially open! Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

years, Peter has been working extremely hard to build Social Actions from scratch. The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and share opportunities to give or volunteer for social causes using social networking strategies. He has identified nine goals for 2009. For the last 2.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your budget is limited, you can distribute the responsibility for using various tools among different staff members, but implementing an effective social media strategy that is dispersed among multiple staff members will require strict organization and disciplined leadership. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? – "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. Do you have a branded online community for your organization or project?

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JULY 6, 2012

These days,"social network" is a term that often refers to a social media community, such as Facebook, and thus is not a term that many managers would take seriously unless they were discussing a social media campaign. The connection between two people within a social network is referred to as a tie.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. This focus on collective participation and 24/7 connectivity has impacted more than just our social lives. In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Some social networks are set up to enable communications with a lot of people quickly.

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OCTOBER 18, 2009

million for nonprofit organizations. With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. Tags: Nonprofit Events Social Networking. The heated competition will run through November 6 th. Share them with us below!

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Social Network Collaboration : Focus the Nation *, 1Sky , and Energy Action Coalition have decided to bridge their social networks onto one platform called The Climate Network using the community software tool Zanby.

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APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

When it comes to fundraising, though, one of the areas of most interest is motivation – this can help fundraisers and organizations align their message and delivery with the points of interest and the channels that are the most influential to the target audience. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. has turned out to be the glue that holds it (the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand) all together and makes it work, surprisingly. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Fundraising and building a robust and active email list is critical to nonprofits who want to thrive in a multi-channel world. 2) Social Networks require their own list growth strategy: email open rates are on the decline, according to Pew, 61% of adult users are social network users, an increase of 9X since 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. This session will take a look about these trends and how nonprofits can equipment themselves to be networked nonprofits. BE: understand networks.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. A July 2009 Pew Internet study found there is no digital divide for online when you factor in mobile access. But what's coming up in 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. Amid his top picks, David harped on a few tools and sites in particular David's top picks include: Social Networks. File Sharing. User Experience.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Fundraising and building a robust and active email list is critical to nonprofits who want to thrive in a multi-channel world. 2) Social Networks require their own list growth strategy: email open rates are on the decline, according to Pew, 61% of adult users are social network users, an increase of 9X since 2005.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009

What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. The first step is mapping your network so you understand the connections – hubs and influencers. Adam Goldberg (Socially Gold).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Large companies and some nonprofits are spending as much as $50,000 to build and launch an a iPhone App. Your organization can create a page on your Web site announcing the new App and promote it in your e-newsletter and on social networking sites. Don’t start building your App until you have created an account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. How are you cultivating relationships with people in your professional or organization’s network or movement? It isn’t about quantity, it is about quality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with FourSquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. Thus, I'm not building a habit of checking myself into the location. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" No organization wants to be left in the dark and scramble to play catch up later.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2009

A lot of people have been talking about this animation (mildly off-color language) created by Michael Edson for WebWise 2009. Tools Social Networking Running Your Organization Online Fundraising Using the Web and Internet Staff. Tags: Web Building Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

How is it being organized? On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

which builds play spaces for communities, will receive American Express NGen Leadership Award. ( Click here for an amazing guest post by Heather McLeod Grant about KaBOOM! network strategy.). The number of retweets using the hashtag #ISconf increases from 2009. Darell Hammond, co-founder and CEO of KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

One focuses on telling nonprofits not to bother with social media, the other provides some strategic ways to move forward. Weber Shandwick released the results of a survey of 200 nonprofit and foundation executives to explore how their organizations (range of budgets) are using social media and the value they derive from these efforts.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Social networking is generating very little revenue. (

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. at 12:59 am @sudha My organization is getting ready to launch a Drupal site with deep Salesforce.com integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. So, let's get out the nonprofit vote for panels at SXSW!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) has begun. Here are the details: Sessions Today: Building and Sustaining Vibrant Online Communities 1:30 p.m. Many organizations are looking beyond social networks to create their own private communities of supporters, advocates, or collaborators. The time has come.

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