Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

At the Minnesota Nonprofits and Technology Conference , someone from the audience asked me about good resources for parents (and teens) about Web2.0 I'm doing a bit of research on this topic for BlogHer for Earth Day that will encourage community members to create "green themed" videos with their kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Work out who your target audience is and write your content exclusively for them. Source out your target audience by getting or making links and writing for social media. I learned about this from a personal branding session at BlogHer I attended this summer. " It's a three prong strategy: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The content we presented went from high level overview to on the ground practice, with each chunk punctuated with an interactive exercise with the audience that allowed them to share insights with another people in the room. Did get one party hosted by Carwoo and organized by Renee Blodgett who I met a BlogHer in 2005.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Set up a virtual book tour I first heard about virtual book tours through Kevin Smokler.

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JUNE 1, 2006

Have more Inbound messages from your audience than Outbound messages to your audience. Let your audience grow and create your product. I'd seen Tara wow the audience when we were on a Blogging for Business panel together, but I'd never seen Elisa (or Lisa) from Blogher speak before, and I was super impressed.

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The ability to change a product or service to meet target audience needs/demands. Incorporates technology into the approach, which allows the company toscale in a manner that traditional small businesses cannot. Fast growing with degrees of innovation. Why a Women Startup Challenge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005. Sarah walked around the room, Oprah style and had a conversation with the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Shortly before the Blogher July 2005 conference, I got a new digital camera that came with a video feature. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. So, I played and played and posted the good, the bad, and the ugly on YouTube , OurMedia , and Blip.TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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JULY 3, 2006

During my conversation with Rose, she told me about a panel she was on, that had a mainly women audience, and how surprised she was by how many women had questions about blogging basics. Rose Aguilar from Bay Area Business Woman interviewed me recently for an article entitled, "Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

They assured the audience "We love Ranger Rick" but of course they couldn't make exceptions for a 40 year old raccoon. Beth Kanter, BlogHer CE for Social Change and NGOS, writes Beth's Blog. Does Ranger Rick have a fan page now? Powered by ScribeFire.

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MAY 14, 2009

Everything revolves around the audience. Reach a broader audience: More than 500M Google Earth users today; Drive people to your site; Gain members, volunteers, donors, media coverage. It really depends on the audience you are trying to engage. Or, you may need to get one that can work for many kinds of groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

The term "extra organizational activist" comes from Alison Fine's book Momentum and I first heard it back in September 2006 when I read the book and reviewed it over at Blogher. " The audience at SWSX will consist solely of nonprofit folks and the ones that are there are probably already putting these new web tools to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

While browsing the blogher schedule , I came across Lisa Meyers Brown's blog " The Rhetoric of Me " which is focused on: "What I think about everything.especially nonprofits and social network technology. I started to wonder about what an appropriate metaphorm for the nonprofit sector of blogosphere might be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. A successful social marketer is someone who really gets to know their audience ??? Perhaps most of your target audience members are not technologically savvy and don???t

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MARCH 27, 2009

Measure your reach not the “get”: With the huge opportunity social media offers to access new audiences in creative ways, it also presents a major “ownership” hurdle that is forcing nonprofits to shift the way they think about traditional acquisition. Here are a few of the highlights that I took away for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Choosing which of these tools to adopt starts with outcomes, strategy, message, and knowing your audience - and nothing to do with the tools. So the issue is more how to best match your strategy, outcomes, and audience with the right tool and what type of simple experiment can you set up and what will you learn? The Case Study.

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MARCH 13, 2009

The audience will have ample opportunity to ask questions and respond. An interactive conversation between past and present elected officials and the audience on political leadership in the digital era. Panelist: Julie Barko Germany, Director, Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The audience will have ample opportunity to ask questions and respond. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. Even though I'm more like twenty-something times 2.5, Why did I go?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. That's rare in a conference setting.

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JUNE 19, 2009

I think that is ultimately, I guess, our target audience. Cross-posted from BlogHer. I am sure that there are people that look at a post on "Things I Suck At" and say, "I'll never donate to an organization whose Executive Director sucks at multi-tasking," or whatever it might be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I want to grow my reader community by providing a great content and conversation about how nonprofits are using social media to reach new audiences, to do their work, or personal learning. I asked a BlogHer personal branding session whether it was important to narrowly focus your topic to build audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There were some good points made about the need for context (outcomes and audience), some assumptions made about bloger RSS reader behaviors, and a very short list of tools. Context to me means outcomes, intent, and audience. So, let's start with the familiar before we depart into the twilght zone. Are blog metrics all about traffic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. After (and only after) defining a clear objective, honing in on a specific targeted audience (i.e., The question. " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As Katya herself explains in a May interview with fellow Blogher Nonprofit Contributing Editor Britt Bravo "It lays out ten sound principles (I call them "Robin Hood Rules") behind some of the most successful marketing campaigns in history, and shows how anyone can use them to advance their cause by leaps and bounds.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

In January, Lina Srivastava of Strategy for Social Change Initiatives moderated an online discussion on ArtTribesNetwork about "Preaching to the Converted": Engaging Your Audience and Combating Issue Fatigue. Cross-posted from BlogHer. In her summary of the session, she offered a few tips: 1. Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

It's provocative content that hits the pulse of your audience, as well as filling a necessary niche. Cross-posted at BlogHer What's your advice about getting conversation going on your organization's blog? I noticed that you have lots of comments. I learned a lot from Think progress as a model for organizational blogging.

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JUNE 30, 2007

But it's a much broader audience than just your family. it doesn't have to be completely narrow, but you're going to get more of an audience if it's about a particular issue, rather than just everything. And always be sort of writing to them, even though you know it's a broader audience. Because you're just sending links.

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