Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

Today, I taught a workshop in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz and supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Hosted by NetSquared. Washington, DC. Book Party and Discussion with authors. Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit , arrived. Details here.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

If you're in the Washington, DC area, the early bird registration rate for the AgileDC 2012 conference expires September 1. co-author of the Agile Manifesto, and founding member of The AgileAlliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Marketing guru and author Seth Godin posted a story on his blog; Michael Galpert joined in, both urging others take a cotton swab test by simply registering here: bit.ly/swabacheek. This guest post was originally published on Adage and is being republished on this blog with the permission of the author. swabacheek. ’ The goal?

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

If you can't join us in DC this year, we hope you'll consider helping us take this next step. Thanks to technology -- "Thanks, technology!" We don't foresee a time when the NTC won't be a live conference. We do think that eventually, however, more of you will be participating remotely than gathering at a hotel.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

This blog post was authored by Evonne Heyning, interactive media producer with TechSoup's community and social media team. Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. Are you looking for secrets to giving great presentations?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The Personal Democracy Forum is hosting a series of three conference calls over the next month. How to Lead "The Networked Nonprofit" November 11, 2010 Speaker: Allison Fine , Senior Fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos: A Network for Change and Action and co-author of The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

Every month, our meetup leaders host free in-person events in 60 cities. Washington, DC: DC Action Data Sprint. Washington, DC: Fair Labor Association Weekend Data Sprint. Washington, DC: Nonprofit Tech and Communications Speed Dating: Connect with Experts. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. As always, lots of fun to actually see my co-author, Allison Fine , in person. As always, lots of fun to actually see my co-author, Allison Fine, [.].

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MARCH 1, 2012

In November, 2011, the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The United Way of National Capital Area, and the social giving platform, Razoo, hosted a multi-million dollar local giving day.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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APRIL 16, 2012

Author: Amber Wobschall. This May, Convio will host our 8th annual Convio Cares Days, where employees across the country take time off to support local non-profits. This May, Convio will host our 8th annual Convio Cares Days, where employees across the country take time off to support local non-profits.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

This blog post was authored by Evonne Heyning, interactive media producer with TechSoup's community and social media team. Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. Join us HERE for Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations at 10am PT on August 26.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Author: Convio is coming to a city near you! We're hosting a free Nonprofit Success Workshop in cities across the country and right now we have February and March all set! February 22 | Washington, DC February 24 | New York, NY March 1 | Boston, MA March 8 | Seattle, WA March 10 | San Francisco, CA March 16 | Denver, CO.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Curated by library staff and educators, the app lets users search by title, author, genre, or list. Youth APPLab is a Washington, DC-based organization that helps high school students build their own Android apps. TechSoup is hosting a Hackathon for Good series of events as part of the Transforming Communities project.

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MAY 5, 2010

Author: Seth Merritt. No, "Nonprofit Data Jam" is not the label on the mix CD you listen to while deduping your donor data file. :) It's an upcoming event in DC, hosted by the New America Foundation, on the topic of how funding and grants data could be shared and used in other ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2008

  On Sunday, I'll be in Washington, DC for the Share Our Strength Conference of Leaders.    The workshop leaders include: Roxanne Darling, co-owner of Bare Feet Studios , host of award-winning Beach Walks with Rox and Hawaii???s s new media expert.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. She is a Senior Fundraising Coordinator at Event 360 , and hosts informational “Get Started Meetings” for walkers in the Washington, DC area. You work hard to get people’s attention. You hone your story and shout it from the rooftops.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Author: Emily Goodstein. The RSVP list was HUGE (I’ve never seen Washington, DC’s Hilton as crowded as it was that day), the menu was set (grilled chicken salad served on a bed of micro greens), and the speakers were confirmed (including First Lady Michelle Obama)!

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MAY 11, 2011

The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC. Since the initial road trip, Darius and the crew have travelled an additional 100,000 miles hosting screenings and raising awareness for DMD. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Author: Emily Goodstein. They’re frequent consumers of Convio’s Community resources and they're are stars of the DC Convio User's Group, too. What could be better than a fabulous organization getting recognized for the important work they do by the entire Convio community during our recent Convio Summit in Baltimore ?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Since leaving the foundation last year, Ted has been a whirling dervish, starting a consulting firm , authoring a new book -- People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities -- and launching GreenNonprofits.org , to help nonprofit organizations “green” themselves.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Since leaving the foundation last year, Ted has been a whirling dervish, starting a consulting firm , authoring a new book -- People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities -- and launching GreenNonprofits.org , to help nonprofit organizations “green” themselves.

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MAY 1, 2008

Heres the outline: Tell a story Keep the audience in mind Make a clear call to action Shoot video with repurposing in mind Think outside the box Prepare a script and get some feedback B-roll is important Sound is critical Give the viewer the right web tools Host a screening To get the details, read the full article. I hope to see you there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I've had the pleasure of talking with Miles Maier face-to-face last month in Birmingham at the UK Circuit Riders conference hosted by LASA. I'll get a chance to see Miles again at this year's NTC Conference and some lucky local nonprofit in DC will have Miles as a volunteer for the NTC Day of Service !

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APRIL 5, 2007

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Later in the morning, Laura Efurd of ZeroDivide, myself, and Greg Baldwin hosted an hour discussion on measuring impact with participants. Fail Faire DC 2012 is a celebration of failure as a mark of innovation and risk-taking hosted by the World Bank. ” The Failure Bow (Click for Photo for More Information).

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

This remarkable cohort of 250 community builders are hosting monthly free workshops and networking events in more than 74 cities, and they're doing it entirely as volunteers. Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Please join NTEN (and me!) Wednesday, December 7, 2016.

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JUNE 18, 2014

Prior to Blackbaud he was the acting CFO/COO of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington DC. . Digital fundraising platforms help organizations accelerate things like fundraising growth, email file size, constituent engagement, mutli-channel campaign execution and a host of other critical objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors. This weekend I participated in a Webinar about the book The Whuffie Factor along with author Tara Hunt where we discussed how the ideas apply to nonprofits. So I said I'd kick in my copy.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!),

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

East Coast Michael Stein who is based in DC is delighted he doesn't have to get on an airplane this year and is hosting a session on microformats. Nonprofit Online News adds Gavin's Digital Dinner to its author network. Zen of Technology blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers.

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JULY 14, 2008

To paraphrase Ginnie Cooper, innovative chief librarian of DC: “I have to serve two audiences: my current audience and my future audience. Retraining staff to be translators and hosts instead of experts and authorities is both technologically and philosophically tricky (and necessary). Do they need knitting information?

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Lastly, we travel to advocate for the world to change, from a position of authority based on the change our organizations are already delivering. I then zipped down to DC for three days. But, we’re concerned about small nonprofits who are not Google, Facebook, Pearson or Benetech, and they aren’t able to show up in a place like DC.

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