Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The cute animal theory has not gone unnoticed by nonprofits, even those that are not animal welfare organizations, zoos or aquariums are sharing content featuring cute animals on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. And now, mobile. Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

A number folks offers some insights in the comments or on Twitter, including Amanda. I didn’t feel like the Twitter community could handle another cause infused global campaign on the scale of Twestival so soon. Founder Scott Harrison was the only one on Twitter and I’m pretty sure he’d admit that he didn’t really ‘get it’.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Who’s read a blog post about it? It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog. Our fear should not be of losing branding, not having “control” of the conversation, or having someone post a negative comment on our blog or facebook wall; but only in not changing the world, right? Slacktivism. What is it about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. Tags: sxsw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

A couple weeks ago I asked you and the Have Fun * Do Good Facebook group for suggestions for Changebloggers, people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. I titled the post " Look Out Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter " with a wink to Clay Shirky's work. Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We were also very lucky that Claire Sale volunteered to be our Twitter advocate who monitored the Twitter stream and verbalized important points and insights. . Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people. We were also lucky to have Sarah Davies live blogging notes as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We were also honest about how we used tools and organizations began making it public who was behind that wall – For example, a bio on Twitter might say “responding to your questions here are Amy and Claire” or a blog may include short bios or links to the staffers contributing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

On the stage with me were two of my favorite free agents, Mark Horvath (next to me on stage) and Shawn Ahmed (virtually through Twitter and video). On the stage with me were two of my favorite free agents, Mark Horvath (next to me on stage) and Shawn Ahmed (virtually through Twitter [.]. Tags: Housekeeping.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

I got on Beth Kanter ’s case a while back , when she was posting about "Tagging for social change. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change." Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

It’s softer around the edges than Facebook and Twitter, and it’s more focused on images than words. Tag them in captions and photos. Twitter: At 330 million users per month, Twitter feels like a fading platform in comparison to the others. The app has about one billion monthly users. Keep it short with words.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. They’ve been contributing to our blog, writing about donor acquisition, experts on both sides. Kari: But the good news is, if you are using Bloomerang, you will have a lot of these, or if you’re not, you can start tagging things so that you can. Jackie: Exactly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2011

Last year, I connected with Stephanie Rudat over a year ago when we were both named on a list of 11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following. (It is also how I met Mark Horvath, an activist for homelessness). Blog your hearts out! Post images on Twitter, Facebook, your blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects. Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something.

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