Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

After all, small businesses generate a whole bunch of those great jobs created by entrepreneurial energy, and they rarely scale. People came up with a mix of names, but Carl didn't go for many (Habitat and Teach for America he did agree to). Of course, I'm thinking that just maybe this isn't a fair way to measure the social sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Give us room for leadership development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise. Your role is to give them a word limit, a general topic, and a deadline, and to solicit photos. Share and Comment on Breaking News.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 received 13,000 visitors.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 21, 2017

Whether you’re a simple weekly WordPress blogger or a seasoned webpage administrator who updates and edits every day, having a video component on your site is a stellar way to draw readers and keep them coming back again and again.

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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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Byte Technology

APRIL 6, 2017

Within the plugins setting you have the ability to select the specific field you want to display on the post submission form, choose a “default” author for any submitted content or create a new “Guest User” and have all content generated by your visitors ascribed to that name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2012

MCON 2012, a virtual summit to help nonprofit leaders learn how to engage the Millennial generation as donors, takes place online on July 19. This study provided the necessary understanding of how the generation gives and engages with nonprofit organizations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. This micro-blogging tool puts her in contact with warm and welcoming "mommy bloggers" who repost her stuff. She provides a resource.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

For those dedicated social media bloggers who generate content ahead of time, Buffer gives you the ability to create a schedule for the posts to go live. The uptime monitoring service keeps a close eye on your site status, and it shoots you an alert if there’s a problem so you can get online and solve the issue quickly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

You can add a Donate button to your Facebook Live video to generate donations as you live broadcast, and the same goes for Instagram! Guest Blogger Bio: Julia Campbell has run her digital marketing consulting business for almost a decade, focused exclusively on mission-driven organizations. Amirah, Inc. 3) Run Instagram Stories Ads.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2019

Focusing on Generation Z. In recent years, there has been a new generation joining the workforce. It’s called generation Z ? Up your game in 2019 and adopt strategies that resonate well with generation Z. This new generation consumes media in different ways, so you should tailor your approach to fit them.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 16, 2016

Whether you’re a media-conscious blogger, marketing maven for a non-profit cause or a new or established e-tailer, having your content feed into multiple social media platforms is a vital element to increasing your visibility and grabbing the attention you want and need. Know Your Users.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Just wanted to let those of you who are bloggers, or who have blogger pals, know about two classes (in Berkeley and online), that I'll be teaching in January 2012. Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers Sunday, January 15, 2012 1-4 PM Teahouse Studio 1250 Addision St., 35 when you register by January 8th. of your blog?

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

With a dedicated six hour time frame an effecting blogger should be able to compose two posts weekly and add compelling imagery and video. To that end, Mobile for Good has provided an “estimate of how much time mobile and social media require” for successes to be measured in money earned, volunteers recruited and so on.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

The next generation of movement leaders is overcoming its fetish with technology and expertise as secrets to online success. If you want to use it for a commercial production, that's okay: they have an easy license for that as well ("with any money that's generated being given to the humane society.").

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

Bottom line – nonprofits are having some success in connecting with new constituents and generating action, but the social network works best when requiring a low level of commitment. She is also the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2’s Frogloop blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out. because u r the seeds of new generation of bloggers. After the workshop, John Weeks created a Khmer image for tagging using Angkun. why do you give all of us the angkunh??? a great answer from john: ???because john, u think i???m

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 received 13,000 visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." 29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter « Nonprofit Tech 2.0 - I'm so honored to be part of this list! "Last week I asked the followers of @NonprofitOrgs to nominate their favorite nonprofit bloggers. The list below is the result of that “Tweet Out&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

inspired me to ask fellow bloggers to speak out on their big dream for their organization, cause or the nonprofit community this year, and how they’ll make it real , as they did in last January’s carnival. I purposefully left it the bloggers to frame it, and so many of them did that so beautifully—most on the theme of forward momentum.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2019

There are people within different interest groups who have amassed a loyal following on platforms like Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, or are influential bloggers. Is it to generate awareness about your organization, educate people around a cause, inspire an action or some other result? The same principle holds true on social media.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Blog Action Day is today, October 15, and the international community of bloggers is blogging about this year’s theme, The Power of We. Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

We also spread the word via social networks and blogger outreach. We learned from a previous photo contest that flopped that if you make it hard for people to figure out how to participate and time consuming, they won't. We provided the photos and an easy way to caption them - so it didn't take a lot of time to participate and it was fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Community Blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

. • In her post, Nonprofit blogs: why this one works , Lisbeth of Nonprofit Execs on the Edge points to 2 keys to a juicy blog: a focus on storytelling and blog posts that aren't staff-generated. The Nonprofit Blog Carnival is coordinated by the wonderful Joanne Fritz of About.com and hosted by different bloggers each month.

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

Upworthy, a site that focuses on curating social cause related videos and content has been receiving a lot of media attention for changing how bloggers write headlines. Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too. What about Facebook?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2015

To maximize sharing on social networks, be sure that the landing page prominently features “Share” buttons and that when shared on social networks, the web page (or blog post) is formatted to generate visually appealing thumbnails and/or a full version of the infographic.

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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. Not a new theory, remember Thomas Jefferson said that every generation needs a new revolution. At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we had a paradigm shift.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Every November, we celebrate our NTEN Members with free webinar programs, local events, Member-generated content, and lots of prizes! To all of our sponsors, speakers, bloggers, partners, tweeters, and Members, #NTENTHANKS a million for being a part of this year''s Member Appreciation Month! And the winner is. MAM Sponsors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I I may be wrong, let me know in the comments).

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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]. This post generating a lot of thoughtful discussion about nonprofits approach the editorial planning process as well as sharing of different editorial calendar templates. But it is important to understand that there is a process behind the template.

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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. She sent me these links - and I've excerpted some points from the articles - most interesting is the point about new generation of civil rights activists, using social media. it just doesn't depend on them, bloggers say.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. It is a must download!

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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. When you hear the term obesity, you normally don''t think about your website. Check out their work at [link]. Download the report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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