Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” 2) Ask for a social media budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? What’s new? What works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. A Few Good Starter Tools. Robin suggests that you need two sets of tools: discovery and curation tools. Then, if all works well, I will bring in Robin for a discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool."

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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! My interest just isn't in the tools. How does this change our connectedness on online social networks ? just saying.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It was a one-day event packed full of panels and breakout sessions with leaders from prominent women’s organizations such as Feminist Majority , NOW and NARAL as well as feminist bloggers, artists and activists. Tags: social media see3 new media conference social networking Nonprofits Video nptech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

At first glance, it may seem impossible to recreate some of these types of events in a virtual format, but with a little creativity and the right fundraising event tools, you might be surprised at the high-quality experiences you can offer for your donors virtually. 30) Social Media Challenge. 5) Online classes. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Putnam, who has written extensively about social capital in American society in his book, Bowling Alone. Putnam defines social capital as “connections among individuals-social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Connect with readers on social networks There are a lot of social networks out there where you can meet with present and potential readers. Here is an example of author Kim Keltner's page on Gather.com, a social network oriented for folks over 30. You may also want to start Twittering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

To get there, we employed a number of strategies, but chief among them was social media. Social media has always been a key communication tool for Give to the Max Day. Certainly there’s been a correlating growth in the adoption rate of social media by the general public as well as nonprofits and schools themselves.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Install web analytics tools like SiteMeter , StatCounter and Google Analytics. Participate in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, as well as niche social networks related to the theme of your blog. Have guest bloggers post on your blog Include videos in your posts. Write more of those!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. into gaining web social (networking) skills. " While many of the drawings were abstract, the showing connected people presages the social web.

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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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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! Use online tools to gather data from across sectors. Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. Foundation application? Foundation application?

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

A dynamic design team will include developers, designers, artists, strategists, community builders, researchers, and studies on the success or impact created through gameplay. (MB, Real world games include game dynamics for civic learning, play and performance, and crowdsourcing social change. How to Design.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

We talked to Jeanette about her tips for what kind of impact a social media influencer and influencer-driven campaigns can make for your nonprofit. Look at your email list and find out who has the largest social media presence. Use the tools you already have. Another option is a tool called Klout. Her first tip?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game. There were pregame efforts, during the night, and post-event where people joined up and have continued networking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

--Ivan Boothe, Organizing Rather Than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency Building I'm filling in for a panelist on Sunday at the Bioneers Conference for the session , Alternet Presents: Social Media Activism/Web 2.0 Networking for Change. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three!

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. The Archives of American Art has pinboards for notable artists journals and Facial hair of note - "Misplace your paintbrush?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

This was interesting to me -- that people joined the Facebook social networking site specifically because I (Lend4Health) was there. For anybody who might fear that the loan recipients were scam artists or would run off with the money, this Lend4Health group on Facebook demonstrated that these people were real people.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now. Let’s start there.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game. There were pregame efforts, during the night, and post-event where people joined up and have continued networking.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. Real artifacts are not suffering with the rise of digitization; they are gaining new lives in personal memory sites, blogs, and collection-based social networks.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication. The website serves as a simple social network and exhibit proposal holding place, enabling people to propose projects, join exhibit teams, and comment on each other's work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I also keep reflecting one sentence in Dan McQuilan's post on the NTEN blog about Social Networking and Social Change: " There's some uncertainty about how non-profits should approach social networks, and especially how to get an effective return for the time that has to be invested in these relationship-spaces."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. Using existing tools to run your site allows for plug-ins. Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0

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Care2

MAY 27, 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!" 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

What also becomes clear very quickly is that organizations that have embraced the use of social media get a lot more leverage on Jumo. National Wildlife Federation , for example, is very active on various social networking websites and they immediately appeared in several places on my Jumo page.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks. Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Can you talk a little bit about why they used arts, and why it was an effective tool? BB: Why do you think the arts is such a powerful tool? BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? I'll tell you a story about one instance in which the women were using poetry, actually.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. You have to make all kind of different tools that do that, whether they are storytelling tools or just regular web tools. Jonah: I started Free Range with a friend of mine, Louis Fox, when we were 22 years old.

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