Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

tags: information socialmedia ). Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation. . tags: km laurawhitehead ). tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Tagging lets us organize the Net our way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

I learned a lot about the network approaches and was particularly interested learning a bit more about social network analysis and mapping processes. Because it took longer than anticipated to formulate the objectives, we didn't have opportunity to explore the adoption/resistance issues. . Tags: scholar.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. The problem with developing a standard is that it is only as useful as those adopting it. The real value to organizations is that they now have a dynamically updated map they can embed on their web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2009

Given Twitter's explosive growth and crossing the chasm to more mainstream adoption , the palette of Twitter tools has most definitely expanded as Brian notes in his post to more than 1,000 apps. Thanks Brian and Jesse for a terrifically useful map to the Twitterverse. . Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. Offer ways for the community to create something together We designed an interactive map function on our website that shows where all the events are taking place. Tags: online communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

create maps of communication streams. If social media is SO compelling, how it is SO hard for organizations to adopt it? Tags: open web sxsw platforms liveblogging issues events. have to trust someone with your content, contacts and stream in order to get the kind of data back that you want/need. Activities. personal cpm.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Donations via text messages , tweeting real-time updates , mapping need and resources : all examples of stories that captured our sector's attention and got people talking about mobile. More nonprofits are adopting it and experimenting with it as a communications and engagement channel. The time for mobile is clearly now.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Despite heavy adoption of technology across the space, recent data from Forbes found that 1 in 4 nonprofits are still “not sure” how to approach their events in 2021. Give shoutouts to your top donors from the virtual event across your social media accounts, and be sure to tag them as you go. Download the Virtual Events Toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

Geoff Livingston, my colleague at Zoetica, has a post in Mashable today on Five Social Media Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake Relief. He describes how with the widespread adoption of social media in the non-profit sector, people’s ability to act and support communities in need like Haiti has only been increased.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

" The site features interactive, color-coded health outcome maps for each state -- such as this Virginia map -- illustrating the relative health of all of the state's counties. Additionally, a user can view maps for individual counties, such as Fairfax County , Va., Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). The app includes ride maps, the updates and discussions. Let us know how it worked out -- we'd love to see a case study on its adoption and impact on fundraising! participants.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, it’s a great place to be. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth. Google Maps & MyMaps. Google Maps API. How Google Earth & Maps can help Non-Profits : Show what is at stake – don’t just tell people.

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MARCH 12, 2010

The widespread adoption of social media is clearly the most important trend for nonprofit technology in 2010. Budgets, time, and staff priorities can’t be an excuse because there are always ways to get it done if you have the road map. Tags: 10NTC michael hoffman NPTech see3 Social Media Web Sites Communications.

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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. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. And don't forget, if you're going to adopt Web2.0 The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Colin McKay (aka Canuck Flack ) in his Nonprofit Secret Underground Guide To Social Media Adoption suggests that most nonprofit organizations (well large ones) already have policies in place to deal with potential concerns about social media. Tags: policy. Some of this, of course, is organization culture driven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, in some places of the world there is lower adoption rates of social — for example in very rural areas of the developing world – where this data would not be useful for informing a funding strategy. They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! has learned that it must relinquish some control; in fact, it has had to take its brand off of some online tools, as this inhibited local adoption. And the results have been impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The part that I found most amazing was the the interface design of a VR space inside of Second Life that integrates google maps, RSS, and Second Life. So, here we are in the map room - a 3D google map space. Technorati Tags: iasummit2007 You have to really experience it to understand it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Are you impulse adopting tools? Tags: Information Coping Skills. Take my information overload quiz. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Then pick one idea to reduce information overload in your life from this list.

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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. . Tags: engagement guest blogging.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. Good often equals a high price tag. Who had the power to write these rules? What were structures in places at the time? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

I'm going to be teaching two intermediate/advanced workshops, one on mapping metrics to social media strategy and the other on listening. (The Understand cultural barriers to adoption. I'm going to be teaching two intermediate/advanced workshops, Tags: listening metrics ROI RSS. Knowing the audience. Pick the right tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

This leads to better understanding of networks and social media and more effective adoption of the tools and network practice. The "live tweeting" use the had tag #netfunders and I was not the only person in the room contributing tweeting from the convening. Tags: network effectiveness scholar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Michelle from aids.gov left a great comment in the original post letting me know how they remixed the work and use the strategy map questions to create their organization's social media strategy. Tags: creativecommons. This is exactly the intention and spirit of the license. If so, please share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

The upside is that they will be more eager and capable adopters of the technology you give them. Is it OK to put client home address information into a public mapping website? Tags: cloud cloud computing data gartner intelligence NPTech virtualization. The questions are big. The same rules apply. What are you seeing?

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JUNE 18, 2009

Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). As a result, your overall cost for adopting a system is reduced. Tags: cloud computing Newsletter NPTech NTEN rem hoffmann rob jordan. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. and volcom sector adoption. Let's imagine a random scenario where we're trying to sell web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Are you impulse adopting tools? Tags: socialmediametrics social media streamline metrics Information Coping Skills. Think about what is most effective for your organization's goals, mission, and capacity. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds? Tags: sxsw. Come hear how we’re changing the world. Submitted by Doug Ulman. The sites attract millions. Bring your yoga mat!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The District adopted consumer technologies for use in the public sector to make the District’s public information more accessible. For example, someone could mash-up a feed containing requests made to DC’s Department of Public Works with a map as done by Everyblock.com. Technorati Tags: wes08sep. It also allowed the U.K.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. You need leadership skills to drive adoption and participation across the organization. Tags: bi business intelligence dashboards data IT Staff NPTech NTEN. so that you can make decisions about where to invest your recruitment resources. What about you?

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