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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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 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! On a daily basis, I work with the organizers in all these cities as well as those interested in organizing in their community, to connect them to each other, share information and ideas, and create innovative ways to link the global network.

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MARCH 29, 2017

LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The conference highlights include honoring General Colin and Alma Powell with the 2010 John W. Here’s what their focused goals and objectives: Goals: 1. To create “buzz” about Independent Sector with “non-attending audiences” through attendees’ social media mentions. Darell Hammond, co-founder and CEO of KaBOOM!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 17, 2011

Juicy Blogging E-Course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders February 2-23, 2010 Optional check-in conference call on February 16, 5:30-6:30 PM PT To register, go to [link] Do you want to re-energize your blog and blogging practice, or rediscover the “heart” of your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010. What you think of Jumo’s potential?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? Blogger Deb Roby taught me how to knit a few years ago, but then I put it down. Participating in Art Every Day Month , created by Leah Piken Kolidas , was very healing for me this year. May 1954 eruption of Kilauea Volcano December 22 - Travel How did you travel in 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The messages or story is created and shared: Metrics are related to the process of producing or sharing the desired message or story. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

A Cycling Blogger @ fatcyclist sent the Manager of Lance Armstrong’s racing team @ johanbruyneel a resume. Create a challenge or competition that inspires people to compete. A Cycling Blogger @ fatcyclist sent the Manager of Lance Armstrong’s racing team @ johanbruyneel a resume (joking) as if he were applying for a job.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. The Ushahidi platform was created and deployed by this group in about three days. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. Bloggers and #NPTech folks sometimes use language that is a little too technical for nonprofit staff who have no formal training in computer technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Blog Blazers : 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets To Creating a High Profile, High Traffic, and High Profit Blog. Full disclosure: I was a Contributing Editor for BlogHer from January 2006-May 2010. Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Tweet Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

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. First, create a page on Causes and activist resource center. Meet Geoff. Check out the video. Where should I start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In February 2010 I organised an event called Follow a Museum , this was prompted by the low number of followers which I felt most museums had on Twitter and simply aimed to boost those numbers. On December 8, 2010 , conductors from around the world will come together to engage with fans, first-timers and complete strangers.

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JUNE 2, 2010

A much in demand speaker and trainer, she was the keynote speaker for the Cambodian Bloggers Conference in Phnom Penh, The Connecting Up Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Minnesota Council on Nonprofits, Making Media Conference in Chicago and others. She is also a 2010 fellow with the Society for Communications Research.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Both women, along with Lisa Sonora Beam and myself, are planning a 2010 creative women entrepreneur retreat together. I created a collaged accordion book for my vision of my business that has brought me a tremendous amount of clarity and inspiration. I am a big fan of Kimberly's work, and am happy to support any of her many ventures.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They created Facebook for Good and Non-Profits on Facebook , yet they can’t seem to find the time to update them very often. But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? It was created in 2009 long before there were Community Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My Cambodian friend, Mongkol , a blogger that I met five years ago when he came to the US to do his graduate studies, wrote us a note to hand to our taxi driver. Founder Eve Blossom has created a business that merges design, social change within a for-profit business framework. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

USA for UNHCR created the Blue Key campaign as a way to drive awareness of this global issue in the US. That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Why important?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I liked being able to create things that I thought my clients wanted (and they thought they wanted.) I’m creating a new practice, called MetaCentric Techology Advising. at 8:11 pm I guess bloggers don’t really get to choose their readers. At first, I liked it a lot. I stumbled a fair bit along the way.

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JUNE 20, 2011

In addition to Twitter, two volunteers created separate press releases about the campaign on PitchEngine to spread through their networks. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Information for bloggers. Infrastructure. Information about the campaign and how to get involved.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Focusing on those areas where your goals overlap enables you to create a common ground, share a purpose; and that’s where you can build a movement. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. Organizations need to take responsibility for their role in creating and sustaining slacktivism. And then something exciting happened.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

These changes in technology are creating fundamental changes in how people see their role, the community and their identity. I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work.

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Forum One

APRIL 19, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

APRIL 19, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Once a year, Blog Action Day unites bloggers around the world to focus on an important global issue and to create a dialogue that transcends international borders. Author: Jill Ward. They also added and mobilized 2,265 Facebook fans during a 14 day period — 155 percent increase from start of campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. Mark Hager is the lead author of the ASU Lodestar Centers "2010 Arizona Giving and Volunteering Report," as well as the " 2010 Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits Report for Maricopa and Pima County Organizations."

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 30, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. She learned from the experience to require email in the voting tool, target people likely to submit videos, and do more blogger outreach. Again, what are your goals.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.)

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Commu. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Out with the old, in with the new.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

In reference to a nearly insurmountable financial challenge from 2010, one respondent shared that, "We survived almost 4 months without our major income source from the [local government] by laying off 2/3 of the staff and operating on minimal expenses. Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Commu.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I was pleased to learn that Daring to Lead will be published again this year, drawing on data that was collected from thousands of nonprofit CEOs across the country in the fall of 2010. Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Commu. We will alert you when this study is available. Research Friday: Really, is the Nonprofit Sector B.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? Blogging allows nonprofits to quickly and easily create and post content that’s timely and relevant to the here and now. While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. There are currently 133 million blogs worldwide.

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