Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My Cambodian friend, Mongkol , a blogger that I met five years ago when he came to the US to do his graduate studies, wrote us a note to hand to our taxi driver. I gave Maneth a copy of the book and we chatted about social media. I gave Maneth a copy of the book and we chatted about social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2011

One of the first Juicy Blogging E-Course assignments I give to my students is to write a blog post that has more images than words. Here are a few examples: First Book Robin Hood Doctors without Borders Meatless Monday Red Cross This blog was created to, "celebrate unique contributions to the Red Cross mission."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

One of the most gratifying things about the publication of the book, The Networked Nonprofit , is that it has re-connected me to colleagues and past clients as well as making connections to new people. It was a good example of using a blog for nonprofits that we shared at Berkman Center Bloggers Meetup. I like point 5 about interns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I'm having a bit of blogger's block, so I thought I'd share this post from August 31, 2005 (my 4th blog post!), I have decided that this is the year to get my driving skills up to par so I bought this very helpful and somewhat hilarious book by Norman Klein, Drive Without Fear. Look Ahead Where You Want to Go. I hate to drive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Creative Ladies Planning the Year Ahead on Jamie Ridler Studios Wish on Create Your Own Beautiful Holiday Poetry Book by Tara Sophia Mohr I'm 42 and Full of Gratitude and Appreciation on SurfPrayLove Unfun Decisions: Scraping Bottom by Gwen Bell Forget Your Perfect Offering by Gwen Bell Creating With Kids :: Still Shots from Goddess Guide Book Something (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. I’ve known this for years, ever since I read Richard Mayer ‘s educational research in his book, The Handbook of Multi-Media Learning. The study was of medical school lectures.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. One of the students asked if Google was the best search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The class of 27 students have been collecting pennies and donated $100 to Ohio Nature Education, a nonprofit offering environmental education programs, and secured $150 for the organization. Says Angela, "Stacy is a self-proclaimed techno-phobe, but has waded into blogging with her students, who are very excited about their project."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   There is no simple, clear answers. 

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A student of various dialogue approaches, he was an integral member of the team that developed the World Cafe dialogue process and was director of community outreach from 1997 to 2007 for The World Café Community Foundation. Find him on Twitter at @pierrekhawand and on as a guest blogger on the TechSoup Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

" I just have to quote her in a few places: When you complain about your student teacher ratios, look at everyone gathered around the computer in this lesson! Cambodian bloggers (such as Mam Sari profiled in Beth's blog post) are dedicated, but would you do as Mam Sari does to update his blog? to Cambodia ?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The ninth guest blogger in my have fun do good series is Katya Andresen. I strive to be a perpetual student: I try to stay in a state of intellectual curiosity. Katya is the COO of Network for Good and the author of Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes. This brings me to… 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity. First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. Here's a few examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

The poetry program uses poetry books recommended by ReadBoston , one of the first citywide programs designed to help children learn to read. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. Step 5: Using the blog as a student workbook Skills: Using the comments section to give student feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. . Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

As the host, I asked bloggers to post about, How Does Your Nonprofit Have Fun and Do Good? Bloggers were invited to post about: 1. Isabella Mori of Alphablogs.net suggests 10 Reasons Why Arts Organizations Should Have Blogs including to be, "a virtual gallery, museum, concert hall or book store." fundraising, advocacy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

Today's task was to further explore the question: What is the easiest way for a user who doesn't know HTML to upload images on Blogger? I found that while trying to remember the author of " When Pigcasso Met Mootise ," a children's book that is often requested in our house at bedtime. Nina Laden.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. of A Daughter's Geography was inspired by Latoya's post and wrote her own Sunday Shine * {Activist Resolutions}.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Yesterday, Nancy White suggested that we add having the students create poetry from their tags. So, the flow or sequence would go something like this: * Read poems by poet (offline in books) * Talk about the poems with peers facilitated by instructor (face-to-face). Tag Poetry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Start by genuinely complimenting the blogger in some way and point out where you do agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

My background is in campus organizing, and in helping college students connect with others working to create social change across perspective, issue, approach, and geography. How can PledgeBank help me and other bloggers change the world? Heather Cronk 1. Tell me about you. how and why did you get involved with PledgeBank ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. Shel Israel donated three books. Okay, so if you've read this far, you'll notice that there are still four books that haven't been given away. I kicked in my three preview copies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. Leng graduated from college and is married.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I asked the students what else does that? It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. She's currently working on a book with her husband based on the course, so I'm definitely reserving my copy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman. about a class project where students made cards for some elderly residents of a group home. Spend it together online, checking out pictures and project descriptions.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: SHARE - Plan to show this video to your students. I also really appreciate how some bloggers have posted their own code of ethics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Tharum became a celebrity blogger when his blog was featured on the front page of the Cambodia Daily (the photo above was taken during that interview).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. The Planned Giving Blogger, Phylis Freedman, shares ideas on launching a planned giving program for prospect audiences: Planed Giving When There Is No Annual Fund.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book? What was the most surprising thing you learned from writing this book? While I was in Washington recently, I visited a former student of mine who creates Web videos for John McCain. David Perlmutter: Blog Wars began as an idea as early as the mid-90s.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book? What was the most surprising thing you learned from writing this book? While I was in Washington recently, I visited a former student of mine who creates Web videos for John McCain. David Perlmutter: Blog Wars began as an idea as early as the mid-90s.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area. Christine Cupaiuolo is a Chicago-based blogger who created MsMusings.net , Ms.

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