Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Digital Activism was one of several books I gave to my friends at iHub in Nairobi.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

There is a lot of hype around new digital channels, but little evidence is published to back this up. Here is the evidence from one global campaign in 2010 to demonstrate how different digital channels compared. I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?" Should we use Twitter and Mobile?" "Is

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Generation Z is being born into digital technology and will be highly connected throughout their lifetime. This future generation of donors will come of age using tablets and smartphones, smart TV, mobile and social media, and technologies not yet invented. In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

The first event, held in 2010, raised $10,000 for the humanitarian organization CARE. Because gaming fundraisers are often highly dependent on existing social networks, your nonprofit should be especially familiar with best practices for peer-to-peer fundraising. They’ve set a new donation record for every match since.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

But what's coming up in 2010? Frogloop asked some of the best nonprofit experts what should organizations focus on in 2010 to be successful in fundraising, online advocacy, online marketing, and social media? Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy: In 2010, nonprofits need to get serious about mobile outreach.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Most organizations incorporate messaging training as part of the new hire process and encourage employees to “represent” when they are out and about at professional networking events. Rebooting Your Digital Community Building." In 2010, she published her short book and ebook, Nine Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign.

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

Last week, my new colleague, Amanda, introduced the Daum Foundation , a Korean-based foundation helping Korean nonprofits use digital media more effectively for their causes. Sound familiar?) Daum and NTEN will be sharing resources with our respective communities. It immediately struck me that this is the reverse of channel usage for U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2010

The third Digital Media and Learning Competition , from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Submissions close January 22, 2010. Tags: E-Learning Fundraising Grants for Technology Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Learn more and apply today!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

Take advantage of Network for Good's handy new eGuide, The Online Fundraiser's Checklist, to ensure you don't miss a thing." " Try These Dynamic Digital Storytelling Platforms | Community Organizer 2.0 – "Nonprofit organizations can tell the best stories. " Check it out!

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Social media for social good is grassroots organizing, fundraising and impact in the digital world. Here’s 9 “social media for social good&# websites you should check out today. Crowdrise came on the scene with a big splash in 2010. 1) Crowdrise – [link]. 4) Razoo – [link].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. This is a group of largely self-organizing digital volunteers who use Twitter to respond to all of the major disasters around the world. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

| craigconnects – "I took a look at a few articles and studies, and according to ComScore's 2010 Digital Year in Review, email use dropped 59% among Internet users ages 12 to 17 in 2010. An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Can Social Media Help Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Efforts? At Blackbaud we saw our non-profit customers send over 1 Billion emails in 2010. Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Happy digital presence building! Email Communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?" " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Submissions close January 22, 2010." Thanks for all that you are doing, ARC!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson shared a cool weekend project on TechSoup's Digital Engagement forum that any organization can adopt for their next event. Instagram is a photo-sharing app (for Android phones and the iPhone) that has a built-in social network. The Swedish donation program was launched in May 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is a significant problem for the social enterprise movement." " Submit your Case Study to the Global Digital Activism Data Set! The 2010 Social Networking Map / Flowtown (@flowtown) – I love maps and I work in social media; so I always love the maps of social media!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. I think I can write something up. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake.

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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. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I succumbed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 It’s supports a distributed social networking, uh, network.

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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. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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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. 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. The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 One of the issues brought to the fore with artificial intelligence is privacy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2010

The fine folks at Fenton Communications have made it feasible for me to foray into the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum as a "Fenton Fellow" (go ahead, just count the number of "fs" in that sentence). Tags: Digital Divide Event Online Activism Online Fundraising Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). know danah boyd.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

By Ryan Davis, Director of Social Media Strategy, Blue State Digital. One of the largest web shifts over the last few years has been the increasing move to a real social web. The Remember Me website provided a way to display these haunting pictures and push them out to various social networks. It Gets Better.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Cutting Edge Integrated Social Media Strategies When: Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time. He is a frequent speaker and author on digital media, advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, and mobile advocacy strategies.

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