Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. It’s a great, thoughtful post.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

.&# Collecting email subscribers on your Facebook Page takes a lot more than simply adding an opt-in form to a tab — you’ll learn how to do that in just a moment." He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. 'What

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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 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Mixing in social media, the practice has been called developing “ personal learning network ,&# but some, like Harold Jarche, are calling it “ networked learning.&#.

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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. Small proof of pilots with insights and learning as the initial outcomes. 2. To capture summaries of the 2010 conference to show the richness of the content as a means to promote the event for 2011. The answer?

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Tech Soup

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. Learn more about Responder. It puts one type of data on a map.

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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. What can Nonprofits can learn from this? what else can we learn? 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

When will people learn that to be open, you need to really be open ? Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. But first, of course, you must be “verified&# as a Kintera Connect partner. He asks : “Will the world notice a diminished Sourceforge?

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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. When Otieno learned he needed a fourth surgery for his cancer, he reached out to Zawadi Nyong’o who was also an Africa Cancer Foundation volunteer. That’s where I met Zawadi Nyong’o , a young Kenyan woman and social change activist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Learn basic HTML. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. You can learn by watching what they do and ultimately mimic them in your own communications and fundraising campaigns to tap into that success. WWF Mobile.

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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 3, 2010

Read our case studies on how other non-profits are using Twitter and let us know you’d like to learn more about the program! 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.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Join us for a free webinar on June 17 at 2pm (EST) to learn more about becoming a “Networked Nonprofit.&# * Five lucky registrants will win free copies of the book! She is also a 2010 fellow with the Society for Communications Research. She is the 2009 Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the first of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia. 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. Headed to phnom tamao wildlife sanctuary instagr.am/p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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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. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology. 4 admin 08.05.09

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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. You can learn more about Jennifer's work by reading my January 2009 interview with her on Have Fun Do Good , or listening to it on the Big Vision Podcast. class at Hipline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Photo by M. Schenekenberg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms. Thanks for blogging.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2008

One thing I have learned about the Internet is the persistence of information. A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Once it goes up, it’s up. Here’s what Yahoo!

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Information for bloggers. Epic Change is no different.

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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. Learn about Oxfam’s GROW campaign an international celebration of food with daily blogs, photo roundups, competitions and loads of ways to get involved and take action.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Here's what happened: In 2010, amidst severe financial woes and declining audiences, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA (MOCA), hired Jeffrey Deitch, a NYC gallery owner, to be their new director. It's wild to see so many bloggers and museum directors and critics weigh in. In some ways, this debate is fabulous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. . “I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom. They just didn’t have the resources. Disruptor: Facebook.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. Think of when you learned to drive – you’d seen a car before, your parent or friend had told you what the various nobs and levers did. Not just monitoring twitter or tracking who the influential reporters and bloggers are that discuss our programs or issues. 1Sky and 350 merged.

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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. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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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? Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused. Alright… thanks Facebook. I just don’t think so. The Page is going viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I will also meet the bloggers who have become my friends over the years and do a little bit of geeking out – perhaps learning some tips and techniques from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

When I was in Cambodia last summer, John hosted a blogger’s meet up. When learned about Giving Tuesday , he offered to share an inspiring story about giving back. When I was looking at the end of the year (2010), what my goals were, I felt a little bit discouraged. So you decided to test it out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Sunday, September 19, 2010 Do you have a brand strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. Post conference, I also learned of TwapperKeepr and Roomatic as hashtag grouping tools. Official” Conference Bloggers Knock it Out of the Park. For us giving three bloggers a special perch (and actually the table was cramped), electricity, and internet, we got amazing results.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. If someone's abusing your policy, use blocking features.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

To summarize: Strategy 1: Infuse in the infrastructure of national and community service programs the requirement that participants learn civic communication skills. Sources: ^ [1] "Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication," CIRCLE , The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, Jonathan M.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University recently distributed the results of a 2010 study, and all of the above were proven false. 6] However, women do not respond well to the peer pressure of learning who and how much others give. Women prefer to remain anonymous. Womens giving is emotional rather than business-focused.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 28, 2010

World Go Vegan Week (October 24-31, 2010) seems like a perfect time to highlight the sixth contributor to my series of guest posts by bloggers talking about how they have fun and do good. As I learned more, I realized I didn’t want my hard-earned money going certain places or supporting certain industries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. There were also long breaks so energy and learning from the formal part of the program could infuse the informal networking of the roughly 200 attendees. conference in 2010. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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