Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Tell me about you.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

20 Ways to Be a Generous Blogger 2. 11 Highlights from BlogHer '11 7. Create and Connect: 100 Letters for the Last 100 Days of 2011 Photo credits: Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter is by Michael Dolan. The 20 Ways to Be a Generous Blogger poster was designed by the hubs. 7 Ways Writers Can Give Back 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

" She has is supporting a campaign to Free Monem , a blogger arrested by Egyptians security forces on April 15th. In an email, Mary suggests taking these actions: As the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day an Egyptian blogger, Abdel Monem Mahmoud , sits in jail, his only crime his desire for a more open Egyptian society.

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MAY 9, 2012

The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. I create conversations. Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity.

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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. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. and the BookVideos.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Michele Martin, Bamboo Project Michele Martin is one of my favorite BlogHers in the nonprofit space. The goal of the project is to help bloggers build traffic for and community at their blogs. I discovered some wonderful nonprofit BlogHers by checking out the bloghers who participating in this learning experiment.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I hope you've been enjoying my have fun do good guest blogger series as much as I am (: The tenth guest blogger in the series is Kimberly Wilson. Kimberly Wilson, Tranquility du Jour: How I Have Fun, Do Good When I started Tranquil Space in my living room in 1999, creating a socially conscious business was always my intention.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. FOKO was created after the TED Global conference: ???Africa The idea is to help them create hand-crafted items that can be sold on the Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

I asked a few colleagues on Blogher and beyond and discovered a few excellent blogs and video blogs that offer advice and recipes for parents who want to make sure their kids are eating a healthy meal. Applications are being accepted until November 9th! Need some ideas? But, there must be others. Here's some comic relief from Spices of Life.

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MAY 3, 2012

My second guest blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the warm and wonderful Jocelyn Harmon. Jocelyn is also a recognized blogger and speaker on online marketing and fundraising. The opportunity to create and be creative with little cost. Access to new and diverse individuals.

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MARCH 9, 2011

The seventh guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Jamie Ridler. What we create together is unique and extraordinary. We create unforgettable moments. • We create a microcosm of what’s possible. Jamie is a creative living coach and the director of Jamie Ridler Studios. We know our impact.

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APRIL 7, 2009

As many of you know, in addition to writing for Have Fun * Do Good, I am also a Contributing Editor, with Beth Kanter , for the Social Change and Nonprofit section of BlogHer. I've been a creative career coach for 10+ yrs, and am the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact. blog blogging blogger fun

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MARCH 8, 2011

The sixth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Desiree Adaway. She uses her superpowers-her voice, sense of adventure and belief in the transformative power of community-to help organizations design programs that create unrestricted revenue, volunteers and advocates. I see life and humanity at its best.

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APRIL 25, 2012

My first guest blogger is the lovely Amy Kessel. I recently created an interview series on my blog called Unfurling , where I conduct interviews with women and record them as videos. I'm starting the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series up again! Amy is a certified life coach devoted to helping women unfurl into their authentic selves.

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MARCH 10, 2011

The eighth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Mary Mulliken. She works with individuals through relationship and live-cycle transitions and creates and leads public and sacred rituals of all kinds, while cultivating intentional motherhood one day at a time.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. For the month of September, Natasha Maw read and blogged in an effort to create awareness, and raise funds for Darfur. The 2008 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge for public schools is happening this month.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

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JULY 29, 2006

The first whole group session of Day 2 of BlogHer was, “How Has Blogging Changed your World?” The first woman to speak was Cooper Monroe, one of the bloggers who created The Being There Clearing House. Monroe closed by saying, "I learned that women bloggers can change the world."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. Who are your favorite bloggers who write about nonprofits technology? Michelle Murrain. Jordan Viator. Deborah Finn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm finally back home after an extended business trip that began with the Blogher 2006 conference. "While fundraising was once the domain of nonprofits and their corporate partners, with each crisis, Network for Good has seen an increasing number of people creating links to their favorite charities to fundraise on their behalf.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. How many do I score for each small company I discover doing good: reducing their waste and creating ingenious products to help us reduce ours? Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America? BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone asks us to make our own "transition plan," and ask ourselves how are we are each going to help create change in America.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. 10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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JULY 10, 2007

Starting Saturday, July 28th at 6 AM PST, 2007 Blogathon bloggers will post a new post every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for their favorite cause. As of this writing, 240 bloggers have registered for the Blogathon and $16,161.91 Image Credit: The 2007 Blogathon mascot, Meme the Sheep, was created by the Ryan Estrada.

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MAY 23, 2008

Update 7/14/08 SocialButterfly has created a Changeblogger wiki where you can list your blog, Twitter feed, etc. Update 5/25/08: Based on an idea by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire, I started a Changeblogger Facebook group as a place for folks to connect and organize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

Cyberstalking and Cyberbullying is a real issue, impacting many women (and men) online - not just the high profile a-list bloggers. Lisa Stone at Blogher has responded to the situation here with a post called "Hating Hate Speech: Safety for Kathy Sierra and All Women Online.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The twelfth guest blogger in my have fun do good series series is Heather Meyer. Heather is a passionate fitness expert, who loves to dance from her heart and inspire others to create their own beautiful! You can connect with her on Facebook, or her blog Work it Out!~Fitness

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. Best practical tip, create a relatively simple, but not hackable password and keep it the same for all the accounts you are going to create. This stays true for the ID/name you create for your accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

It was a link list I created on how to create web pages. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space.

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DECEMBER 12, 2008

In her article, Straight from the Heart: A Plan to Organize Your Giving in Crosswalk , Beth Huber offers six steps for creating a giving plan: 1. Create a giving plan chart. Create a file for your giving records. To create their plan, they decided how much they would give to each cause by how important it is to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box! I create a post draft and cut and paste the description into as well as gather up any useful background links. publically.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

During the BlogHer Conference session, How to Turn Your Blog into a GOtV (Get Out the Vote) Machine, the incredibly inspiring Zephyr Teachout (former Director of Internet Organizing and Outreach for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign) talked about the importance of three things when organizing: * Have an online petition tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Starfish Circle.

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AUGUST 31, 2006

Each student will create a Blogger blog during class. Britt Bravo writes for three blogs: her personal blog, Have Fun • Do Good , NetSquared , and for BlogHer , where she is a Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast.

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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. whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy. This would make a great blog post!??? official???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I probably should stop, but if you want to focus on what women are blogging about in the nonprofit space, check out the blogher ngo/npo blogroll. Also, educational technology bloggers are great resources to read if you are interested in technology for learning. And, I guess I should create an opml file like Marshall.

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MARCH 27, 2009

The goal seems to be much more in line with the overall goal of SXSW (and other conferences for that matter), which is not to collect as many business cards or email addresses as possible, but to create authentic connections with people that share a common interest. The email is only one means of maintaining that relationship.

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