Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

There isn't any thing specific on the geek anniversary gift list to mark the 23rd, so we'll send a donation to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. So, here's some advice on how to not to pitch a blogger.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. Nasscom Foundation is a partner of TechSoup Global and has an impressive technology product donation program called " BIGTech " Here's how they describe their mission and impact. David Appasamy. Gaurav Mishra. Ganesh Natarajan. Peter Yorke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

I can't do this alone and that's why I'm asking my blogger friends to join me and in helping to raise money to help the many children who are touched by the Sharing Foundation's programs. That's why we've been advocates and supporters for the Sharing Foundation for the past eight years. It's a route out of poverty.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. Roger recently shared some thoughts about why he is participating in the bloggers campaign.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

. $1,500 for One Hero The CTK Foundation will also be offering a $1,500 (USD) President’s Choice Award (the Susan Lee Winter Grant Award) for an individual working to provide creative and innovative approaches to HIV/AIDS education or prevention. Blogger's Choice Award Lastly, there will be a Blogger’s Choice Award of $1,000 (USD).

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JUNE 6, 2008

Some of the effects of mountaintop removal on people can be loss or pollution of drinking water, flooding, living with blasting up to 300 feet from your home 24 hours a day, cracking in wells and foundations, and sludge dams that can leak and contaminate drinking water. Here's how to join the iLoveMountains.org Blogger's Challenge : 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

For many years, I served as a board member for an NGO, The Sharing Foundation , that manages an orphanage and many other programs in Roteang Village, including an education program. The proceeds of my two books have been used to send two young women to college through the Sharing Foundation’s program.

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DECEMBER 31, 2007

Roger Carr from the Everyday Giving Blog presented the Bloggers Who Create Community Award to Beth's Blog! I feel like I should be giving you this award for all you work to support the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and sharing the very valuable information on your blog! Thank you Roger! But, it doesn't stop there.

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JULY 24, 2009

For 24 hours starting tomorrow, Saturday, July 25th at 6:00 AM PT, 195 bloggers will be posting on their blogs every 30 minutes to raise money for the charity of their choice as part of the 2009 Blogathon. Seems like a great idea for nonprofits to promote to their supporters who are already bloggers, or who want an excuse to start a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

I met Dr. Mani via Roger Carr who was one of the core group of bloggers who I enlisted for a "blogger's campaign" component. In the meantime, he has published a guest post on ProBlogger called " 10 Reasons for Bloggers To Get Involved with a Nonprofit." I will help spread the word and hope you will too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

There isn't any thing specific on the geek anniversary gift list to mark the 22nd, so we'll toast the date with flowers , a donation to the Sharing Foundation , and a nice dinner out someplace. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first. Blogger Outreach 101 by Kevin Bondelli.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

The British Heart Foundation wanted to attract younger female runners to fundraise for its MyMarathon campaign. Since the Foundation’s desired demographic was really into using Instagram, they focused their advertising message there and received almost 13 percent of total sign-ups from the platform: View Story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

About six weeks ago, Google Chrome made its debut with a comic book that preceded the release of the Google browser that blogger. schwag acquired by blogger Duncan Riley from Australia. He came up with wonderful to raise money for the Sharing Foundation - an online auction. It was a coveted piece of web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

She earns a monthly wage working for the sewing school and shop, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage. Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia. Chheng Srey Mom, 16, has completed grade 8.

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JULY 3, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. Are you laying a foundation for mobile success? We’re almost a decade into using social media and yet one of the most striking realities when I give in-person social media trainings is the wide variety of experience of the nonprofits in the room.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Stephen Downs, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Robert Wood Foundation. Annie Hernandez, Program Officer, The Lumpkin Family Foundation & goodWORKSconnect. Barbara Kibbe, COO, Salesforce.com Foundation. Mary Manuel, Managing Director, McKay Foundation. Adene Sacks, Jim Joseph Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). Nonetheless, I'm confident that there will be more video bloggers in Cambodia. So, now he is another resource and Cambodian video blogger! The curriculum is here.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It's why NTEN is here, and it's why we're fans of The CTK Foundation's "Heroes with a Heart" grant awards. Blogger's Choice Award: Lastly, there will be a Blogger's Choice Award of $1,000 (USD). The CTK Foundation will choose a blogger (hopefully me) who will hand-pick one winner from any category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. Meanwhile, I am so proud that he put the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge widget on his blog. Meet Wanna. I've know Wanna virtually for over three years. I didn't even ask him.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Stacey Monk and I exchanged messages last week, brainstorming the idea of pulling bloggers together to support Beth’s birthday campaign. Her birthday wish is to raise money for the Sharing Foundation using Causes and we think we could help her crush her goal of sending 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530.

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MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

As a follow-up to Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits and 22 Must-Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Resources on Google+ , below are 22 nonprofits that are regularly using Google+ effectively to engage and inspire the Google+ community. American Prairie Foundation. Google+ is definitely a work in progress. Acción contra el Hambre.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

One of the reasons is that there are a number of really good bloggers out there who know the field far better than I’ll ever be able to. I would argue that Beth Kanter is the best social media blogger there is in the nonprofit space. You don’t hear me talking much about social media.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Then, your nonprofit now has the opportunity to strategically follow six new Twitterers, such as foundations, other nonprofits, bloggers, and media who then will possibly receive an email exclaiming that your nonprofit is now following them on Twitter, or they see you in their “Followers” list, or both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Barbara Kibbe, COO, Salesforce.com Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

That's a screenshot from the official Google Chrome comic book that preceded the release of the Google Chrome browser that blogger Duncan Riley from Australia found in his mailbox. All proceeds from the sale after costs (ebay + paypal fees) will be going to charity, split 50/50 between the Sharing Foundation and Beyond Blue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

David shares why he decided to respond to the blogger outreach - a counterpoint to my advice about what not to do: I went along because an email from Svetlana was a model of how an organization can reach out to bloggers. What's so cool is that my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation , is on this page too!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Electronic Frontier Foundation :: @ EFF. And if you are an influencial blogger in your local community, state, or country, may I suggest you create a similar list of nonprofits to follow relevant to your corner of the world. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA. Crisis Group :: @ CrisisGroup.

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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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MAY 28, 2006

It's good news for bloggers: On Friday a California Court of Appeals ruled the bloggers are entitled to the same protections as journalists in traditional media when it comes to being required to reveal confidential sources. Apple went to court demanding the bloggers reveal their sources within the firm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

She has a wonderful tradition - sending other bloggers postcards from her travels. We created postcards for the Sharing Foundation to see to raise money. Most recently, she visited Bangkok. I was the lucky recipient of the above postcard with the cool Red Cross stamp. My kids loved it and Sara took it to pre-school with her.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The CTK Foundation “Heroes with a Heart” Grant Award asks YOU to nominate a “Hero with a Heart,” and give them a chance to win $5,000 – a simple thanks for the hard work that they do. Blogger’s Choice Award Lastly, there will be a Blogger’s Choice Award of $1,000 (USD). Good luck, Heroes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place recently in Seattle. And we released a report recently that shows foundation funding for advocacy, community organizing and civic engagement has a return on investment of an astonishing $115 to $1.

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APRIL 22, 2006

The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. There was also awards ceremony co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Last Thursday, I attended at the Berkman Center Bloggers Thursday night meeting and shared some learnings about personal fundraising and facilitated a discussion. I'm in the process of reflecting in action on my various campaigns on behalf of the Sharing Foundation, including the current one. | View | Upload your own. And authenticity.

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DECEMBER 15, 2007

She earns a monthly wage working for the Sharing Foundation 's Sewing Project, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or a better paying job in Cambodia???s Are you a blogger? s garment industry. Call To Action.

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