Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Tools and How They're Used.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

—– I’ve talked about issues and ideas over the last year about the use of certain tools or platforms in the social technology for social impact sector, from Causes to Ideablob to Ning. Many tools—whether it’s a page, a group, or a network—focus on numbers. Read the original post and conversation here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. Concerns about adopting social media will no doubt arise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? Research Studies of Nonprofit and Social Media Adoption Overbook Foundation Web 2.0

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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. Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

" The social media era where it is so easy to get access and use the tools.  You can describe as the "tools" or you can describe it as media.     The social media tools allow us to scale personality and better relationships. .   Leveraging Communities Has set up a Ning. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

most proud of job at an adoption charity. don’t automatically reject free tools like Ning.com. tools like CAPTCHA. – If you use something like Ning does that platform share a part of the liability? Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. shared interest. reciprocity.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Early-adopter-types (you know who you are) will talk about it nonstop for a while, and then forget about it until it actually launches. But the reality as I see it?

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