Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Nonprofits are also seeking to effectively use these powerful tools for social change.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Nonprofits are also seeking to effectively use these powerful tools for social change.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I wondered if we have gotten so caught up in digital social networking that we've forgotten how to do the original social networking – talking with one another! Are running down the list or sharing your "One Thing" when you meet new supporters and collaborators? What about you? And that's okay.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. The data and content were provided by policy staff at the University of Wisconsin with support from Burness Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Yes, there is a delicious list of tools to explore which include some of my favorite types of tools - aggregation, analytics, monitoring, collaboration, blogging, microblogging, and more! I think there are some definite social implications that interest me: Speed and quality of information. My interest just isn't in the tools.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign. Tip: Once you feel you’ve compiled all of the resources in your inventory, collaborate with members of your nonprofit staff at-large and executive leadership to assign value to each asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. This is already happening to some nonprofits as a by-product of their participation on social networks and using simplicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. design: is it clean?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. So again, it’s very key to get your supporters to post your campaign messages to their social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

.  When I've used this exercise, I've tried to keep it focus on tools for either external communication or internal collaboration, although he does color code the outcomes (collaboratoin, media content/networking, etc.).    And, of course, the idea of a low risk experiment. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Edge4Dev blog aims to help. hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

That's hard work, but worth it because good questions and gathering evidence usually guides us to better results. Gift of Time: Real Time Learning The problem with one-shot trainings is that you offer a lot of content and information, people get excited, and then they go back to the day-to-day reality of their busy work lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

But for now, it is only the Innovators and the Early Adopters who accept it. To get beyond the Innovators and Early Adopters to the Early Majority, these stories have to have an institutional sponsor ( community-or-purpose-based or community-related ) that the Early Majority can trust. . Collaboration Among Leading Initiatives .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

tools to adopt. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. And don't forget, if you're going to adopt Web2.0 What is mobile content and to create it - found out here. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 has been around for a while.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

and elsewhere, and on these social networking sites there is at least the basic evaluation of how many others link to the sites. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. There's not even a description of what the blogs do. The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth."

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Do an analysis to improve or create content. 50 (More) Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits by Chad Norman. So you’ve got a social media strategy…now what? Using your various social media channels to meet strategic goals is the right way to operate, but sometime you need an idea or two to help you get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Michael shared some insights into his writing discipline and practice, content filtering approaches, and observations of blogging by and about nonprofits. I was already very interested in automation at this point and built a small content management system for the purpose of publishing those bits. Collaborate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

" The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. Wes Holing, TechSoup's web content developer, predicts that the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation 's new program, called Let's Encrypt , will literally make the entire web more secure.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

At this point, you've probably heard a lot about the benefits of the cloud: how it can save you time, help you conserve resources, and boost productivity and collaboration among your staff members. Productivity and Collaboration. CitySoft is a web-based CRM and content management system for eligible nonprofits and public libraries.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

At this point, you've probably heard a lot about the benefits of the cloud: how it can save you time, help you conserve resources, and boost productivity and collaboration among your staff members. Productivity and Collaboration. CitySoft is a web-based CRM and content management system for eligible nonprofits and public libraries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

News : RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Like its predecessors, the report provides succinct backgrounds and reference projects for technologies predicted for widespread adoption on the 1, 2-3, and 4-5 year timescale. The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

What are you goals for using social media to support your organizing work? FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. How did you organization successfully deploy and adopt these tools?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

As we've grown up with it, and we've been doing it since about 1998, it has suddenly become the sort of thing that everybody is talking about now, is how do you do online advertising content that is entertaining and engaging. We've been doing that in the non-profit and social activism space for this whole time.

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