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. The project was a success, but I felt that it lacked real engagement between the public and the museums and Ask a Curator came to mind.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) Personally, I’ve seen different levels of staff take on social media with excellent results.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller ( @kivilm ) is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (Jossey-Bass, 2010). She enjoys writing, volunteering, hiking, vegetarian cooking, and teaching her kids how to bake.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

She is an experienced Director, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter and Social Media Marketing Strategist with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana, Thailand and Laos. Aaron Bramley is the Co-founder and Director of Communication/Education for Lights.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

Because of new Microsoft eligibility rules that now allow private foundations to receive Microsoft software donations , Jeff Brandenburg, Irvine Foundation’s director of technology, describes his experience getting the first donations in his foundation’s long history. Jeff reports that he's not been bored at all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

You can subscribe to the show on the Big Vision Podcast website, or via iTunes. If you have suggestions for people for me to interview for future shows, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com, or leave a comment below.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller ( @kivilm ) is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (Jossey-Bass, 2010). She enjoys writing, volunteering, hiking, vegetarian cooking, and teaching her kids how to bake.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

As I wrote this post on the flight back from my third NTEN Conference I know I felt similar to many of the other 1,600 “NPTechies” (Nonprofit Techies) who are leaving San Francisco. Cisco sponsored the project and provided the hardware for the network. Photo Credits: SteveLavo (Flickr).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2011

By Danny De Bonis, Director, Political Media, IB5K. For Earth Day 2010, Repower America created a fun video that engaged their members and showed the world the broad spectrum of voices that were demanding clean energy legistation. In the Fall of 2010, Repower America wanted to ward off an attack on the Clean Air Act.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana. What was that? What were some of the highlights?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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