Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. What was your strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. So, if era of free 2.0 So, if era of free 2.0

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Don't let your data fall victim! Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. According to the Facebook Causes blog , the application has helped raise more than $12 million for nonprofits based in the U.S. These applications, and others, add a powerful philanthropic layer to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. As applications come in, the VC helps to narrow the pool, coordinate interviews, and run background checks. Sharing of opportunities among alumni and donors could be encouraged.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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!" The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? Ning's development application is very intuitive and easy. What did set out to accomplish?

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These standards are a necessary step toward implementation, and make us, as implementers, more confident that we’ll see greater application in the next three years or so. The challenges of building these experiences have decreased as device manufacturers have provided application developers with new toolkits for developing applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. The job also involves a good amount of social media strategy, content production, customer service and statistical analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I shared some thoughts about the Causes Birthday application design , and have continued my reflections below. Notes about application. The Causes Birthday Application Makes You Feel Good What's more fun than a birthday celebration? I love the application wall because it is is like an electronic group birthday card.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. What do we want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Web filtering not only blocks pornography and spyware, but continues on to sports, entertainment, politics, and social networking. More specifically, can you end hunger in a community with a widget ? Because, in many/most cases, the restrictions put in place are far broader than is necessary to keep things manageable.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also provides internal tech support to other staff who may be implementing social media strategies for programs or marketing. She a wide range of experience on different social networking sites, video sharing, widgets, and social applications. " an interactive periodic table personality quiz.

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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. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies and illustrate how using new socially oriented technological innovations can help the nonprofit community. What are widgets and how can these new tools help you solve age-old problems? * How can an online social network help your organization find volunteers? The Impact of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

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!" frogloop: Can you share any new or interesting fundraising statistics or data with us?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. ThePort Network in booths 103 & 104. We can help you with that. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Sage in booth 18.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. ThePort Network in booths 103 & 104. We can help you with that. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Sage in booth 18.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. application. Social networking. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. Easy RSS Updates with PingShot. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. Crowdsourcing: How Business and Nonprofits Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds. Accessibility. accountability. Associations. Best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. I'm so excited! Act 1: What. Act 2: Why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

After customizing this widget at Facebook.com , you can easily put it into your site’s template in a matter of minutes. By using the FBML application, you can create custom tabs that feature programs and other activities. Create a branded social network around a specific topic or cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

You can even add a good deed widget for your site. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Charlene Li's latest slide deck about engagement, relationships, and social media. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. First a little background.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. Causes is thoroughly integrated with social media, giving fundraising projects new ways to reach their audiences. You can also go to our application homepage. Massive number of people.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. 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. in the September primary.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. Give away stuff—links, exhibit descriptions, images, mini-applications (widgets), feeds. I have a constant personal quandary about the social network ExhibitFiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More.

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