Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Reading the news in early January, I came across a few “Top 5” and “Top 10” lists for a variety of topics tied to 2009. Would it be possible to sift through a year’s worth of engagements as an independent marketing consultant and boil down the lessons I learned in 2009 into a series of “Top 5” lists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at Even better, she agreed to share a blog post about what she learned on this blog. Note from Beth: As I listened to the NPR story this week about online privacy, it is becoming very important for us to understand the implications. I’m not a lawyer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining. I have a confession.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." Download the December 2009 version of this list here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Learn from the mistakes of the past. Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Who maintains your social media campaigns? I am a full-time employee of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and as the Social Media Manager I manage all the social networking efforts for the organization. 1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2)

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report. You can learn how to serve up margaritas, flashmob style or record a fundraising video, Beyonce style. There have been a lot of releases over the past month. Did you miss any? 2008 Nonprofit IT Staffing & Spending Report. Embedded bullet lists.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

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. Learn more about the Challenge & participate! Learn more about Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge here.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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

MAY 6, 2009

However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling." " Nonprofit Social Network Survey | Common Knowledge - "Learn how commercial social networks and house social networks fit into your nonprofit's online ecosystem. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Care2

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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NTEN

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. And thank you to all those who supported me!)

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. Learn more. Learn more. Social Actions’ Change the Web. Learn more. Submit your Project. Visit the Project Gallery.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. million raised by 2009 America’s Giving Challenge participants. Social networks are still for engagement, not money.

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ASU Lodestar Center

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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Care2

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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

." 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. We learned so much while running that campaign, but we also made lots of mis-steps along the way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. I succumbed. So what’s the story? Michelle twittering?

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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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APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software. Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. Radio Bilingue. NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. Michele Martin talks about developing a personal learning plan. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0 It’s a great, thoughtful post.

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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!" Being able to engage them through social media is the goal!

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Care2

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 ". Being able to engage them through social media is the goal! What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Receive monthly updates.

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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. It is about how you cultivate and develop your network. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

iE Boston Marketing and TiE Boston Social Entrepreneurs present: The 140-Character Mission: How Social Media Revolutionizes Social Entrepreneurship. Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009. Time: Networking and dinner begins at 6:00pm. Location: MIT room 3-270 (click for map). 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. This network of community foundations are actively experimenting and learning how to get better results on their Giving Days and adding to the knowledge in the Giving Day Playbook.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Learn more about Mozilla Service Week and get involved! This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. Learn more about finding a project, here. Show a non-profit how to use social networking to grow its base of supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Then, try to think in even broader terms. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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Care2

JUNE 2, 2010

In The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting With Social Media To Drive Change, co-authors Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, show how social media is catalyzing a shift away from this type of “organization-centric&# advocacy, governance and communications toward a “network-centric&# approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

However, for the older generation of nonprofit leaders, many are not used to working this way and it feels uncomfortable or unnatural. However, many of these leaders have shifted from “Do we have to&# when comes to social media to understanding that it is important for the organizations. The answer? Criteria for Success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. I could think of several interesting implementations in the nptech world that would be fun (like it would make a great e-learning platform for, say, circuit riders, or folks like that.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

What have I learned in all of this? I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join. What else have I learned? I’m not joining any social networks like this anymore. (Although I do have to admit its fun to know what a very old friend is listening to on Pandora.)

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network. These are some links I wanted to share from June 16th. Find me on Delicious for more! Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2009

This post was originally published on The Huffington Post on June 8, 2009. Copyright © 2009 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Tags: Accessible Technology E-Learning Running Your Organization Services Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

(So that’s why I do a lot of reading outside of my main discipline and think about how the concepts might apply to being an effective networked nonprofit.). Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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