Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. What’s elevator speech for the organization, he campaign and your role. The challenge is that typically refugees are so far removed from our “normal” lives that we don’t automatically think of giving to organizations that work to support them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As a Bay Area liberal blogger who lives in Oakland , I feel like I should be taking part in occupations, posting photos, interviewing organizers, and sharing ways to get involved, but I haven't done any of those things. Flickr photo credit: Occupy Protest tent 99 percent by Ano Lobb. Who will listen? Share Tweet

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This guide will help you to outline and develop a year-end fundraising campaign that works for your organization and your donors, specifically curated to your needs in 2021. How has COVID impacted your organization? Give Local worked with other organizations to highlight nonprofits during the holiday season.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

. • Sandy Rees of Get Fully Funded Blog posted 12 ideas to get you thinking about blog content including: r eport back from events , invite guest bloggers to post, and ask your readers questions. Include a photo in the post if at all possible. Flickr photo credit: Juicy! Nonprofit 2.0 It's about our supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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JULY 18, 2011

When you're trying to convince (inspire, cajole, drag) your nonprofit staff to begin blogging for your organization this is likely to be the first complaint you get and one of your bloggers biggest concerns. If you're strapped for topic ideas, consider turning to your organization's events for some inspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. You might be wondering how does an organization or an individual “abuses” self-care. The third way was recently pointed out by Vu Le, Nonprofit With Balls Blogger , in a hilarious way. We’ve come across examples of how nonprofit abuse self-care. There are three ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

Photo by Geoff Livingston. Here's an interview with did with Holly Ross prior to the session. Thank you!) Also, a huge thanks to Geoff Livingston who took fabulous photos ! Shawn , a passionate free agent fundraiser and video blogger, was in the room.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

If you’re not familiar with Brandon, he’s the blogger/photographer behind Humans of New York (HONY). Photo a Day Campaign. Use your Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts to share a photo of someone who’s been impacted by your mission. Ask the kinds of questions that get to the core of why your organization exists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

T he fourth guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Sample Ward. Amy is a blogger and trainer focused on supporting and educating organizations and changemakers in the use of evolving technologies that cultivate and engage communities. Happy Monday, Have Fun, Do Gooders! Sharing is caring, so they say!

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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. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. not organized or centralized by specific non-profit organizations) model be sustainable and/or enough to affect real change in the world? Or … how have you seen other people/organizations go about it? Networked Nonprofit – Interview with Allison Fine. Meet Matt. Build a network.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Everyone at your organization thinks the new website is fantastic. Look for opportunities to test different calls-to-action and other key content that is important to your organization. Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Spotlight/Profile, Interview.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Include the following key items to make it easier for a reporter or blogger to develop your story into a feature, and increase the likelihood of it getting picked up: Direct quotes from “in the know” sources. Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to put faces and names to blog posts Posts should say, by your name , not by admin , or by the name of your organization. Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Keep it short.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The prelude to this interview is a tale of networking weaving. " which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I wanted to find an example of an official social networking presence, one clearly set up by the organization and one that was set up by the users. Even though I sometimes look back and don???t

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as an Editor at newassignment.net , which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us for the Big Vision Podcast. Why is this needed?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds. You can read a transcript of my interview with Zainab Salbi here. You can read a transcript of my interview with Lisa Witter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Photo by M. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Meaning, if you are a senior-serving organization and you have 1000+ friends, 80% of whom are under 30, well, enough said… &#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

It recommends links and photos while you write. I also didn't like the photos it recommended (and in fact one it suggested was all rights reserved). I follow something very similar, although I am very reiterative about the process until I publish and similar to Chris Brogan - very organic about the first three steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. In this photo, Pagna is on the left.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Atlasien of Upside-Down Adoption said she was going to become involved in a local organization for immigrant rights.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. What’s our role?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Kari Dunn Saratovsky (@socialcitizen), publisher of Social Citizens An interview with Facebook’s “in-house sociologist” Cameron Marlow, appeared in last week’s issue of The Economist and has since created an interesting debate about the value and depth of our online social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Photo from John Kenyon. Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. I asked him if he would be a "guest blogger" here and he granted me permission to repost. His post would be the perfect blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I am beginning to post the photos, videos, and notes that I took while I was there. 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. Read his blog post about winning ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If is still relevant. Jon's comments on plone comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

She emphasized that when great programs are housed in bad organizations they die. She encouraged focusing on what facilitates the building of strong organizations that can house successful programs, and "raising up patterns" of what is working operationally for organizations, and disseminating that information.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

On a blank piece of paper write (without editing) a long list, or create a mind map, of all of the issues that are important to you ( i.e. health care, education, foreign policy, the arts, crime, poverty, animal rights, environment, local politics, organic food). You can be as general or specific as you like. obama change America

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Connie Reece shared some insights in this interview and you find more links to case studies and post campaign reflections here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. Her personal blog drives traffic to her organization's web site. Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal. " The organization also has an Advocacy blog. s a lot harder than it looks."

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