Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? Mary Cahalane: Your Work or a Life.

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MARCH 4, 2006

On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). I know I read about it in someone's blog this week, but now I've forgotten whose so my apologies for not giving a blogger out there credit for the find). The project will continue through the spring and into early summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Translation: Taxi Driver - We are not in a hurry, please drive slow, we want to live a long life. 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. Headed to phnom tamao wildlife sanctuary instagr.am/p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

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. I am heartened by how many new faces are here at each conference and by how the culture endures. As always, conversations at GEO are remarkably self-reflective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. Four bloggers wrote a post; one blogger used the banner.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. The image below, created by Meredith Farkas , is more balanced, providing a "cultural landscape" of fear, loathing, and obsession with Web 2.0. To many people, the culture of Web 2.0 on the library side of the fence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft has the culture and resources to support and encourage these social ventures. Both had a personal experience, an encounter with extreme poverty – that touched their hearts and motivated them to do something. A reporter from the Seattle Times asked how the company makes sure that their day jobs actually gets done.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. I think that unplugging and limiting internet and tech use is an upcoming cultural trend, so I was thrilled to see that one of the sessions was Unplug, Unfriend, Unfollow, Unwind: Is That Sacrilege? I held one little dachshund, Paprika, till my arms hurt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

If it were not for MySpace, my professional life no doubt would be much less fulfilling. For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. Many bloggers were surprised by that data and have no clue as to why. MySpacers are incredibly loyal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. I’ve been doing this for two years now. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

The sixth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Desiree Adaway. It’s a great combination of all the things I love and adore—good food, good people-community-culture-travel – and fun! I see life and humanity at its best. Desiree is a consultant, strategist, coach, storyteller and explorer. Community is powerful.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

” Guest blogger and fundraising consultant Rachel Muir can relate. Pretend you are a cultural archaeologist. “Does the thought of making a six figure ask make your palms sweat?” In this week’s guest post, Rachel offers us all some great advice on how to nail the ask. We’re grateful Rachel! Be curious.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

That’s why we turned to guest blogger Susan Schaefer for fresh ideas on this problem in this week’s guest post. . Take any regular group meetings that have gone smoothly in your life. All of these factors ring especially true for volunteers who spend many hours sitting through board meetings on behalf of a nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The event happens in the week leading up to Mother’s Day and provides a platform where anyone can build a heartspace with text, photos and videos to show their love for their mother, an important woman in their life, or even people that inspire them. We also need to support a culture of collaboration in our actions, not just our words.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. or a good example of how silly the term "follower" is?).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater). I would love to hear Howard Gardner talk about digital learning. Howard Gardner , the John H.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2008

Today, August 31st, is Blog Day , a day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers, "preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." Cupcakes Take the Cake: all cupcakes all the time This is one of the first blogs I ever read and it is still a favorite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Last year, Sarah Bunting, who writes the blog Tomato Nation , a culture and humor blog, offered to shave her head if her blog readers donated to DonorsChoose.org , a site that allows donors to purchase school supplies for needy classrooms. More than a hundred bloggers have joined and the competition is heating up, but it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? Some more post conference write ups and live blog posts from smArts & Culture and Len Edgerly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

three dimensions of life.??? She is also a terrific live blogger! I am grateful for her detailed notes from the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. This was a trip to bring urban young people to experience life in a rural area and to deliver school supplies for children who live in the province and are very poor.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

It's wild to see so many bloggers and museum directors and critics weigh in. Is it appropriate for a life-time non-voting museum trustee to fire an employee? In some ways, this debate is fabulous. It's amazing to see papers like the LA Times cover the debate about the future of an art museum deeply. Museum management.

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MAY 2, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Or maybe it is the life-size Angry Birds games, high jump wall, hot wings contest, or 40-yard dash contests that keep this such a great place to work? As we've been successful and grown, we've put a lot of energy into fostering our fun, client-focused culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

(Story is here ) GreenMedia Toolshed founder Marty Kearns says that listening is something that is done on an individual staff level, but for it to become an organizational process leaders need to build a culture of listening. Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

So how happy was I when the blogger, Eco Chick , wrote a pos t about the celebrity-filled Rainforest Action Network benefit gala (oh, to have been there), and mentioned the blog, ecorazzi , which highlights green celebrities. Check out the eco-celebrity sites from their sidebar: Daryl Hannah Woody Harrelson Leonardo DiCaprio Ed Begley, Jr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

t feel I can ever balance my online life with being a parent and working full time the way I would like to. I am pleased that students who were somewhat limited in their exposure to multiple points of view on issues and culture are now being introduced to them and like this are broadening their horizon. See what and how bloggers write.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. They shared a lot about how to balance a "public blogging personna" with a private life. Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

video blogger??? s cultural treasures. Eath is video blogging her life story. It has changed my life in many ways. But the vlog is almost like being face-to-face and great way to connect back to your culture. and tell the world about their ideas, culture, and experience. or vlogger. t view my vlog ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

smArts & Culture FiSpace Micropersuasion E-politics. Keun Fast , another Cambodian blogger. Britt Bravo on her personal blog. Ricardo Carreon. Solution Grove. Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 1, 2005

We'll talk about prosaic stuff like Membership Management, Meetings and Events Management and Fundraising, broader ideas like security and software project management, and the social, cultural, and organizational issues that impact IT decision-making. This blog is built on a three-column blogger template by Thur Broeders.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Walking in the footsteps of my friend Yossi Abramowitz , these folks are putting out cultural products and shaking the traditional tree with new ideas. A healthy cultural ecosystem is one where people flock to be themselves. How do you think the web and technology change will impact identity? Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

It requires the ability to change our internal culture. I understand that to have a well read blog most bloggers are working very hard to specialize and target a subject area and become an expert. " Here's my interview with her: I am curious as to whether or not you work for a nonprofit organization?

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