NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The hashtag, as defined by Twitter , was created because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data. Since Twitter did not develop this capability into its system, the community came up with their own way: hashtags. A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-Business Relationship posted by Laura L. Savvy nonprofits will fulfill their organizations mission by diversifying their income stream. The concepts relayed in the Third Generation Workshop help put both funders and nonprofits on the same page.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. It helps learning about the process and learning from each other. What we saw was that by 9 pm on January 12th we were able to launch the program and for the next thee days people only found out about it from Twitter and Facebook and so many shared it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. In 2011, HubSpot’s Dan Zarrella conducted extensive research on the topic of social media timing. Trying out different types of content will help you see what posts work best. Tactic 1: Audit your content. He studied more than 1.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

We convened the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit (MDS11) as a way to build a more engaged conversation around the Millennial Donor Survey conducted earlier in the year. But in these tough economic times, new advances in technology are making virtual events an interesting and compelling alternative to the traditional in-person conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

her work appears on CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and the’s the author of a forthcoming white paper from the ZeroDivide Foundation about opportunities to use mobile to help serve and empower people in poor/marginalized US communities. Twitter: @agahran. Her blog is Contentious.com. Ace: Do One Thing.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

So, let’s recount the needs and constraints: Need to track progress, overseas, at every site where we work Need to do so while growing from 4 to 16 countries (on 2 continents) Need to do so from US headquarters office Need to depend on local, in-country employees We believed that technology could help us. It isn’t perfect.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up. Create a “surround sound” effect with Facebook and Twitter. Twitter: Connect and interact with influencers in your community through Twitter. Original quotes make your story read like news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Its main efforts involve working with major seafood buyers to help them shift their purchases to more sustainable options, and with consumers to raise awareness about the connection between the seafood they eat and the health of the oceans, and to create grassroots support for sustainable seafood. What were some of the results?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Twitter at @Scav. The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. Causes' goals for 2011 include a redesign and a deeper focus on key features. He blogs about community management. at [link] and can be followed on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Twitter: twitter.com/witnessorg. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). The blog has been the key standardized staple that helps to regularly generate content for readers, which then is further shared via Twitter and Facebook.

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