Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Let’s Talk Video for Social Change. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN. Geoff Livingston, Peggy Duvette, Brian Fujito, Stacey Monk, Robert Wolf.

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MARCH 19, 2012

more than 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. WHEN: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

TechSoup invites you or your organization to participate in the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge ! How to get involved: Submit a one-minute video or five-photo slideshow to win prizes! Maybe you think you don’t have time to make a one-minute video? Deadline: February 29 at 12:59 pm Pacific Standard Time.).

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MARCH 6, 2012

poetryslam At NTEN, we love all the various tools and technologies that help us communicate and connect with our community, ensure that all of our work and cat videos are backed up, and our data is both useable and safe. NTEN is hosting the Nonprofit Technology Poetry Slam at SXSW. Photo credit (Flickr: [link] ).

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MARCH 13, 2012

The pandemic success of the Kony 2012 video has rekindled the debate over slacktivism. As Clay Shirky famously points out in Here Comes Everybody , there used to be no way to share silly mermaid parade photos , but now it's so easy, they get shared quite readily. The best ways to make your program scalable through technology.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Using content curation, social media management, and free tools available online, any organization can create collections and share their story through video, photos, and social media. Evonne Heyning and Susan Tenby.

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JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. You have to play into the EdgeRank algorithm, and you can do that two ways: Post rich content like photos, videos, and links. Also remember that photos and videos often spark a lot of engagement.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Wallets were planted all over Edinburgh with one of four photos: a baby, a puppy, a happy family or an elderly couple – or no photo. Only one in seven of the other wallets without photos were turned in by good Samaritans. Does your cause involve babies in any way? This effect can also be replicated with technology.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. Photo: Alex E. More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The winner will be announced at the next Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in April 2012. Yaw Anokwa (2010), who, along with others from the University of Washington, created the Open Data Kit, enabling Android-powered smartphones to easily collect data in the field, like text, photos, video, audio, barcodes, and location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Increase website traffic by 25% by adding social media content starting posting by November 1, 2012. Recruit 40 organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. I’m speaking at three events as follows: Monday, April 2, 2012, 11:30 am. I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Here’s a video interview I did about the session with Holly Ross from NTEN. You can find the details here.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

" Check out the 12 Trends, from Personalized Video Thanking to Ebooks to Digital Fundraising Staffing! " Check out the 12 Trends, from Personalized Video Thanking to Ebooks to Digital Fundraising Staffing! The Academy gets at the very heart of what NTEN does.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. These posts were literally "mashed up" with Current TV's election debate feeds that aired on their cable channel and web video feed.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. The year in photos: Time to be bold. 10 photos that inspired us this year. VIDEO: ‘Life of Pi’ Tiger Owner Caught Viciously Whipping Young Tiger. Deadline for InterAction’s14th Annual Photo Contest is January 15. Procrastinators Unite.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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