Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

An ad-hoc group of tech bloggers based in Kenya decided to do something about it. Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

While reading through profiles of local women entrepreneurs in the new CRAVE SF Bay Area guide this week, I marked the page for Change Starts at Home to share with y'all. Change Starts at Home is a website that, "educates, inspires, and empowers women to change the world by easily making changes in their own lives."

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JULY 12, 2011

In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months. Many organizations said they used the Causes.com Facebook application as a fundraising tool to varying degrees of success, but some respondents expressed frustration over recent changes to the Causes interface,” said the report.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) Thanks again for the post you bad blogger. ; > 4 Alfred Nutile 07.11.08 What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. So what’s the news?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. She suggests not to panic, and not to change course – keep steady, and keep communicating. Next week, the Carnival is being hosted at A Small Change – Fundraising Blog. {

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JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Next month's show will feature an interview with Lisa Witter, co-author of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World. LINK LOVE Be a Blogger for Change.org! I'll be publishing the transcript soon here on Have Fun Do Good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. That is something I would love to see change. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? Myspace is going with OpenID ! That’s a great step. Read an interview of an Android developer. More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting. MomsRising Health Reform Blog Carnival – September 2010. What Worked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.)

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OCTOBER 24, 2007

blogger, even though I do end up talking a fair bit about it anyway. 2 admin 11.10.07 at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes. But the most surprising thing is that a larger number of people than I expected liked what I had to say about Web 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. My sense is that becoming a master at networked learning helps you improve what you are doing in world that is changing so fast and is so complex.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. That’s where I met Zawadi Nyong’o , a young Kenyan woman and social change activist. After the workshop, I hung out with participants providing some coaching. Zawadi had just discovered Twitter, but had not started to use it regularly.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Journeys for Change is offering the chance to win a fully-paid nine-day tour of leading Social Entrepreneurs in India. I’m also a contributor to Socialbrite, NTEN, Women Who Tech and other industry leading collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

and her Passion to Change the World. Rather than trying to write it out it thought I’d point you to the graphic blog post or Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal … I found it on Beth’s Blog where she recapped her time at Blog World Expo 2010. Using Causes on Facebook to Change the World with Matthew Mahan.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Members of my virtual social change book club. Blog Blazers : 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets To Creating a High Profile, High Traffic, and High Profit Blog. The Lifelong Activist : How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Plan Your 2010: Craft Inc. How Blogging Has Changed Over The Last 3 Years. and Craft Inc. LINK LOVE *GREAT* article: Nicholas Kristof's Advice for Saving the World Top Ten Ideas to Slow Down this Holiday Season Green Career Webinar December 17th (only $5!) GoodGuide iPhone app + barcode scanning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? 2) Nonprofits are consistently kept in the dark and left guessing when it comes to Facebook upgrades and changes in the toolset. Those sites let users know in advance when changes are coming.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marnie says that nonprofits should own the impact and not the to dos, but I asked her but who will actually do the work? She says it is a mix between doing and curating, but the we’ve got to change the “I’ll do it&# as the default organizational behavior. What was the objective? What else can we do to ensure success?

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Epic Change is no different. Twitter is a major part of Epic Change campaigns and their daily engagement plan. 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.". Epic Change also incorporated Twibbon into the TMWL campaign.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! We need to let go of the idea that we are serving our constituents, and recognize the ways we could be working together to change their lives, their neighborhoods, and beyond. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The She Spot: Best Practices in Marketing to Women Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 2 pm EST. We have a limited amount of webinar lines, so please take a moment to sign up now. Lisa is the co-founder of She-Source.org, and co-author of The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World – And How to Reach Them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I believe this is because it is so difficult to measure behavior change. Numbers are the first tangible indicators, but documenting and seeing the actual change depends on how well equipped and capable those who won the popular vote and the money are to achieve those social change outcomes. This conversation was started by.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

But that was not so often, and, as staff in that organization left over time, that relationship changed. at 8:11 pm I guess bloggers don’t really get to choose their readers. When I came back from seminary, I was very clear that I couldn’t do technology consulting in the way that I had come to do it.

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