Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. Note from Beth: Last week I published an interview with Lean Start Up author, Eric Ries, that talked about how the lean start up ideas apply to the nonprofit sector. Networks have been valuable to the social change sector because of the potential for collective impact rather than individual impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 The Luce Foundation Center created a Flickr campaign to literally “ Fill the Gap ” in the gallery case. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Neff is author of The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive, The creator of the npo Lights. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

One of my key themes for the year is to look at failure and learning – and will also have a chance to dive into a conversation at the upcoming COF Conference with colleague Peter Sims , Author of Little Bets and founder of BLKSHP. His book has a great summary of the research out there on what is failure. Now you are ready to learn!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. See the range of creative expression in the flickr group. If I remember correctly, it was Robert Scoble who did it first and others took his cue.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Last night, I had the great opportunity to interview Clay Shirky , the author of Here Comes Everybody. After taking some pictures at the local holiday parade, she finds that many others wanted to post their pictures on Flickr and started a group to pull them all together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, I had the honor of doing a mini workshop at the annual BoardSource Conference called “Governing the Networked Nonprofit in An Age of Social Media &# where I had an opportunity to share some ideas on social media culture, transparency, and simplicity from the Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Flickr: ATOMIC Hot Links Ahhh, Labor Day weekend: the barbeques and parades, the hot rod drag race finals, and the wistful goodbye to summer, white shoes, and seersucker suits. 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

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. He authored The Virtual Community and was an original founder of the WELL. Here, he discusses the importance of social infrastructure and facilitation while building online communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures. 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. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission has no statutory authority to regulate the Internet. Now, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. Agus, author of “ The Lucky Years ” recently wrote in an editorial in the WSJ about the need for organizations to hire “Chief Health Officer.” ” He says health, happiness, and productivity at work are related outcomes and organizations need to support all three.

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MARCH 24, 2011

But if your nonprofit values its intellectual property, use secondary services such as a privately hosted blog, a video site or a photo site like Flickr with strong intellectual property protection. Then publish on the social networks by linking back to the content, increasing your chances of protecting copyright.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Flickr Photo: timsnell You are not your target audience. . For John Kenyon , who authored a chapter on this topic in Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission , that's the key to a strong web presence. It's an old truism that, for one reason or another, we forget to take to heart when it comes to our websites and email.

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JULY 17, 2008

I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)!

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MARCH 6, 2010

Finally, Angela Perkey, author of the Change the World, Change Your Life blog, writes about Cost-free Ways to Help Chile. Flickr photo credit: Puro Chile, es tu cielo azulado uploaded by Diego Salgado. In their post, Responding to the Earthquake in Chile , Idealist.org suggests checking the CrisisCommons Wiki for ways to help.

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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.

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JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. I read this wonderful article “ Agility Is Today’s Most Critical Leadership Competency ” by Julie Winkle Giuliani , author of “ Watch Them Grow or Watch Them Go.”

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Nonprofit guru Amy Sample Ward just co-authored a new book called Social By Social , which serves as a great “how to&# guide on how to use technologies to create social impact. Within weeks, and at minimal cost, more than 2,000 people had signed up to support the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Flickr Photo by Minarae Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. Fundraising advisors encourage this support too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . 2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Leadership and decision making come from adoption not from executive authority. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ). . “Membership&# isn’t official and moderated (beyond basic rules of engagement) and as such can change all the time, but so can the focus and the operations.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

I'm going to be speaking at two free teleclasses, one this month, and one next month, about how book authors can use blogs before, during, and after the book publishing process. Flickr photo credit: Don't leave me hangin' on the telephone uploaded by mistress_f blogging book publishing teleseminar

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. But during the session on Learning in Public yesterday, with Beth Kanter, Co-Author of Networked Nonprofit, Jared Raynor from the TCC Group and Kathy Reich, from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I was reminded that all measurement needs to start with the most fundamental question – why measure?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Basically, use quotes to distinguish your words from the author words. Here are the points made by the author Maya Norton. I would add for blog posts, you can let the author know via track back - which I have done with this post and the one with a screencast from Harry about how he uses Creative Commons.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Tip: Possible touch points include website, eNewsletter, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Flickr. She recently co-authored, “Facebook for Social Enterprise” which launched May 2011. Learn where your customer or donor touch points are, and then improve them. Constantly improve your donor experience online through good design principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. About the Author. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant. He offered to write a guest post. Orientation. Do you have one?

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JULY 6, 2010

Flickr photo: KayCey97007 I find it highly ironic that so much energy has been spent debating slacktivism. I was tickled to see Nancy Lublin -- author of " Zilch ", and a person with whom I would really like to have a cocktail -- take up the topic in Fast Company last month. The debate has hit the mainstream media.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Yes, in print: The few authors who have experimented with giving away digital copies (mostly in sci-fi) have found that they end up selling more print copies, because their books are discovered by more people. with author comments/answers about the analysis on a blog , with commenting enabled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. About the author: Christian Arnois the founder of Lingo24, Inc. , Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation. Here’s some good tips when your network is global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Flickr , Robert F. Whitlock This post originally ran on Mashable , and is co-authored by Qui Diaz , Beth Kanter and Geoff Livingston Do you believe in social causes? That in any time, but especially bad economic times, we need our nonprofit industry working to help ailing parts of our society?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

Photo in Flickr. I finally got a chance to meet Manny Hernandez, author written the " Ning for Dummies Book." He is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 8,200 members) and EsTuDiabetes.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. Flickr is one of our go-to places for Creative Commons- licensed images. You can search by topic, location, type, author, license, and source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. She is Beth’s co-author of a new book on measurement for nonprofits that I can’t wait to buy and devour this Fall. I know that Katie is an advocate and supporter of nonprofits.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Author: Blair Naylor. Besides the obvious bed-time reading of the conference guide and browsing through the photos on Flickr simultaneously laughing and crying, you should watch the Oscar-worthy, official 2011 Summit video! Raise your hand if you're having Summit withdrawals. So, yea, I'm having some serious Summit withdrawals.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr photo: shareski How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? In Pocket Change , author Dan Macasi points us to osaifu keitai , the Japanese phrase that means cell-phone wallet. Those chips clearly have nothing to do with my lack of will power.). But I digress. The concept is simple.

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