Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Each panel allotted ample time for Q/A from the audience which consisted of nonprofit techies and bloggers. I’m in Washington, DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Full Disclosure: Google is a Zoetica client.).

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

We'll all be joined in DC by nearly 2,000 of our closest colleagues and NPTechie friends. Once you get to DC, you're going to be having so much fun, you won't want to stop singing karaoke long enough to pick your sessions.

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MARCH 14, 2011

11NTC Tip - Wifi For the last week, we've been counting down to our time together in DC -- or online! -- for the Nonprofit Technology Conference, sharing tips each day to help you maximize your impact and your fun. The fabulous Rob Cottingham, the NTC Official Cartoon Blogger, is helping us prep with some great cartoons.

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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. . Since 2002, Bob has been executive director of the Jovid Foundation in Washington, DC. And, board meetings that are unfocused or that are dominated by one person can really take a toll on board morale.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

This post is by guest blogger Ritu Sharma, who is the executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. Washington, DC – October TBA. Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country. Silicon Valley, CA – July 26. Los Angeles, CA – August 14.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

11NTC Tip - Plane That's right, the sold out 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference gets started tomorrow in Washington, DC -- and you can still join in the fun by registering for the Online NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex is a great example of a change blogger. I guess I'm a change blogger too. The meme isn't necessarily limited to individuals as David Neff at Fispace mentions - corporate bloggers like Tyson Foods will donate 100 pounds of food for every comment made here. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2011

The second guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Wendy Harman. Red Crossers Jenny Brennan, Wendy Harman, and Seth Spiro checking Twitter and other social media in the Disaster Operations Center in Washington, DC Photo by American Red Cross. What an interesting, passionate, smart, and fun-loving group you all are.

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Care2

JULY 1, 2014

Early blogger Julius Ceaser, who "blogged" in a very low tech sense. I know of one group in the DC area, ran for a while, cashed checks, tried dirty tricks, and is now a goner.". What''s powerful is when people in the trenches work together to get things done, and that''s what makes a difference.". An example he gave?

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Care2

APRIL 11, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are filled with some of the most passionate leaders who are fighting for social change yet 92 percent of national nonprofits headquartered in Washington, DC are led by white Executive Directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 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. It’s almost Spring and a thousand theories of change are blooming like the cherry trees in Washington, DC. Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

No, those were the five video bloggers on a panel for DC Web Women's Meeting tonight which is also celebrating their 12th Anniversary - the video is here. Is that a law firm?

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

With so many informative panels to choose from (such as Diversifying Your Tech and Online Communications Teams by Frogloop bloggers Jocelyn Harmon and myself as well as Ivan Booth and Shireen Mitchell) on topics ranging from online fundraising, recruitment, and social media - it was a real challenge to come up with my top 12 picks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

She’s a blogger, trainer, coach, and consultant. When I moved from California to Washington DC in 1998 to be with my then-boyfriend, now-husband, I decided to start my own consulting company, which originally focused on writing for environmental groups, thus EcoScribe Communications was born.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. often these bloggers discard the handcuffs of their ethnic origins to tackle subjects affecting a range of racial or ethnic groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. The 2008 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge for public schools is happening this month. Bloggers compete against each other to raise the most money for specific projects in low-income public schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2009

writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. What is BootCamp?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Julia Smith, NTEN''s Community Development Manager, reports back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference in Chicago that took place earlier this month, as a guest blogger on Beth''s Blog. Salsa Labs announce a new director-level workshop at their annual Community Conference this October 9-10 in Washington, DC.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Bloggers (like me) in Austin, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, the Twin Citites, Washington DC, and Canada are volunteering to post a couple times a month about WorldChanging projects, ideas and people in their city.

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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. One of my favorites is Friends Restaurant – which provides vocational training in the restaurant field for street kids – a sort of DC Central Kitchen with a restaurant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

The DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge is an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of public schools in need. DonorsChoose.org created a challenge platform which enables a blogger to select favorite classroom projects, set a fundraising goal, and customize the DonorsChoose.org page presenting his/her challenge. And I will film it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Even better, the green laptops would match the video blogging kits that Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman brought over the month before I brought the same kits to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. I blogged it and was initially very excited!

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

DMA / Washington, DC / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available. National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) / Washington, DC / Less than $500. Strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

At the closing party of last year's NTC Conference in Washington, DC, after too many glasses of wine, I made this video " Next Year In New Orleans." A few bloggers like Tim Davies and Beth Dunn has shared their learnings in action and I would love to more of those visible. " I can't believe NTC is two months away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

During the past 8 days the two of us have wandered this great land of ours, bouncing around from Reston Va, to Ann Arbor Mi, a stop in Boulder Co, a quick hop over the Rocky’s to Seattle Wa and finally coming home to Washington DC. He is a member of the national CIO 4 Good and Green IT Consortium Groups in DC.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

She introduced pairs of bloggers to each other and suggested they make a reference and a link to each other's blog. The blog exchange has its own Blogger website , by the way, in case you'd like to join or comment. She called it the Non-Profit Blog Exchange. I had the good fortune to get paired with the blog at Grassroots.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In my spare time, a video crew was following me around to create a short piece for Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. (I’ll As always, lots of fun to actually see my co-author, Allison Fine , in person. I’m now an advisor ).

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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. In June, I will start full-time at the social marketing firm based in Washington, DC where I've been completing a fellowship, working on the client team representing the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr , Tactical Philanthropy , Worldchanging and Lucy. What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers? Expo Ignite!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Maybe it should be added to this list of free or cheap email list management tools. These two penguins do not want closed API.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. She is a Senior Fundraising Coordinator at Event 360 , and hosts informational “Get Started Meetings” for walkers in the Washington, DC area. You work hard to get people’s attention. You hone your story and shout it from the rooftops.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Where they’re from (this happens often in DC as my city is a spot tourists love to visit!) I manage the Memorial Fund’s online community ( Facebook / Twitter / Blogger / Flickr ) and am also the staff photographer/videographer, designer, and handle some online marketing and messaging. I just can’t help myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. An explosion of EDF bloggers. In fact, just last month, I took it to India. Three months later, what do we have to show for it? Here’s what we’re seeing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2009

Taking the reins as blogger-in-chief of Care2’s "Frogloop" website ( www.frogloop.com ) for nonprofit professionals is Allyson Kapin, founder and principal of consulting firm Rad Campaign and a blog columnist for Fast Company Magazine. to maximize their outreach. Reporters can subscribe to the RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

If your nonprofit is based in the DC area, NpowerDC reminds us that the deadline for their annual Technology Innovation Award is two weeks away. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! Check the web site for the application and more details.

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