Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Carmen left me a follow up comment. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Update: I remembered!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nonprofits can easily design their profile on change.org to match their website and other social networking sites. Your role is to empower them to fundraise on behalf of your organization. Change.org has numerous Cause Communities and each one is guided by a blogger who is an expert in their field. They need to be asked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 Thanks again for the post you bad blogger. ; > 4 Alfred Nutile 07.11.08 So what’s the news? These are good steps forward. Thanks for a great site!!

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers help nonprofits expand their donor networks. Once you’ve pinpointed what you need new volunteers to do, write out “job descriptions” for different volunteer roles to put on your volunteer website. Try the following: Attending networking events. Connect with civic groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

In the comments of Nancy's post, she has teased out a definition: Technology Steward The person or persons who take active leadership in the selection, configuration, support and maintenance of technologies to support the ongoing activities of their community along with developing and nurturing the practices for using those technologies.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. There are many good ways to measure a blog's value , but somewhere inside ourselves, we feel that comments are the thing that validate a blog's existence. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?," It's a bit strange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

This third and final post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For I got to introduce myself and my role in the project, but the most valuable part of the meeting was briefing on social media and activism.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Share and Comment on Breaking News. The easiest way to conduct these interviews is through e-mail or over the phone, but for the enterprising blogger with a penchant for journalism, in-person interviews provide the opportunity to get action photos and video interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

After the nonprofit Ignite Panel at Blackbaud’s conference I got a few minutes to talk to Claire about her work at Twitter and how non-profits can use the information network for good. Matt essentially describes five core pieces that play a role in finding success on Causes for Facebook. Build a network. Check out the video.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. My colleague, Debra Askansae , who is a blogger and consultant with nonprofits recently wrote a great post about taking her medicine and this follow up post about content calendars. What role do your metrics play in your editorial decision-making?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Building an Effective Data Culture at Your Nonprofit. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

At barely a quarter of a century this remarkable dare I say trend setting young woman has become a role model, an example of how to connect and interact with legions of people in all walks of life. This is rather amusing as she is in such demand to speak at so many conferences regarding the Social Networking program at NWF.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What’s our role? If organizations are a part of the solution, a part of the process, what does that role really look like? Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is. Organizations need to take responsibility for their role in creating and sustaining slacktivism. Cause-First.

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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. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages. A mix of conversational marketing.

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JULY 9, 2009

writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. The teams' efforts this week are already paying off with earned media - blogger DCist has already covered the competition. (I And I'm partial to Batwoman, myself - I like her stance on the issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs. I was networking weaving between the offline/online. s a description from an archived web page [link] of how my role changed over my ten years at this job. A totally manual blog!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I put in a few networks in the late ’90s (ugh, really, I pulled cable.) Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 at 8:11 pm I guess bloggers don’t really get to choose their readers. So you get people like me who kinda, sorta, understand.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

We welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions! Partnerships, fee-for-service models, social enterprise models, and networking are just a few avenues nonprofits can take to help navigate around the economy's traffic jam. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 7, 2006

But this flash-based software is not a toy application either - you can use it build network diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, floorplans, mockups of user-interfaces. Speaking of phone interfaces, Jeremy Wagstaff, in his Loose Wire blog, comments on the shortcomings of trying to use a desktop point-and-click approach on a phone.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

These changes in technology are creating fundamental changes in how people see their role, the community and their identity. I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I'm also prepping for a panel session I'll be doing at the Museum Computer Network Conference later this fall on Web Analytics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics. We are at the heart of a social media and social networking revolution. t do much to change my core community. Good content matters.

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali. I especially connect with #4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of other bloggers writing specifically about social marketing. Unfortunately, the term ???social

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

I think of the origin of Nonprofit Online News as one of those sweet Internet accidents, something that always reminds me that networks are infrastructures of natural abundance. And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. The short version is this: One subsystem or another of my network pulls in about 50,000 messages a week.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By the way, we are also giving away a free copy of our book to one lucky Frogloop reader, so be sure and add a comment below about why you would like to win a copy. Whether you are an events person, a web guru, or a director of development, there are sets of tactics geared towards many roles. Why am I telling you all this?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Citizens should seek opportunities to create and share public knowledge and discuss public issues; expect their governments to be open, transparent and collaborative; volunteer to the best of their ability; and create and share knowledge about the networks and relationships in their communities." [1].

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” 84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. They recommend spending an hour per day building your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Building an Everyone a Changemaker™ world is a very different mission from simply looking for the world’s elite social entrepreneurs, it involves using the stories and examples of these entrepreneurs to inspire people to action, sharing lessons learned across our networks and opening up the innovation process to more people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Benkler goes further , and I go with him: Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development. Please feel free to join the dialogue, either in comments, or on your own blog. at 7:27 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Peter Suber 04.08.07

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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! JOIN the Stop Cyberbullying network to create a central repository of information that is rated and reviewed by educators and to discuss what works. If the network is blocked, I've got a template on my blog. REPORT - Every little BIT helps.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood." Then, use the web and social networking for research. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? The best comment line can be found at Emergency Trap Blog. Act 1: What.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Or, if you are considering a blog, find out who the key bloggers are in your topic area. Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. Sony Bolsters Web Presence with Social Networking Features by PR Week. Dealing with negative comments. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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