Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Share Stories, Photos, and Videos from Events. For nonprofits that have staff members or volunteers in the field, definitely encourage them to send in reports with photos for blog posts. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Guidelines for Easter Seals Bloggers. Be Responsible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When I'm asked questions that I don't know the answer to, I admit it and use it as opportunity to demonstrate the value of the social brain or having a good network on Twitter. I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Blogs Help Drive Jena Protest.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers help nonprofits expand their donor networks. Once you’ve pinpointed what you need new volunteers to do, write out “job descriptions” for different volunteer roles to put on your volunteer website. Try the following: Attending networking events. Connect with civic groups. Do so frequently.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Building an Effective Data Culture at Your Nonprofit. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25). Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Can Appmaker Help You? spanhidden.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Take Frogloop’s Editor, Allyson Kapin, as your muse and build a community of bloggers. If writing doesn’t appeal to everyone, you may want to enlist your colleagues to publish photos, audio or video. Consider building a Social Media Release (SMR) in which you consolidate photos, embedded video and presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. After the nonprofit Ignite Panel at Blackbaud’s conference I got a few minutes to talk to Claire about her work at Twitter and how non-profits can use the information network for good. Matt essentially describes five core pieces that play a role in finding success on Causes for Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. 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. But our world changing- it is more networked and more transparent, and the social change we wish to influence is more complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. We are also interested in a lot of the same content areas -- nonprofits, collaboration, online communication, facilitation, social media, social networking, web2.0, Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. The networking conference was an opportunity for participants from different countries to share their lessons learned and network with one another. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. As an activist and evangelist for creative commons ' values and tools, I want to play a major role in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. I've reaped the benefits too.

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JUNE 6, 2011

What’s our role? If organizations are a part of the solution, a part of the process, what does that role really look like? Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is. Organizations need to take responsibility for their role in creating and sustaining slacktivism. Cause-First.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Facilitator greets everyone individually and makes them feel welcome and does real-time network weaving by introducing them to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience.

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2008

October 15th is Blog Action Day , an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day. Here are some photos from the event: We also passed out this resource guide compiled by Global Developement Matters: How Can I Help?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

One thing that I find not enough folks talk about on stage is the integral role that data plays in online marketing efforts, and in particular the three ways that the nature of accountability fundamentally changes once you get on the web. Representative Samples? Online, accountability is complete, direct, and immediate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. possibly related classroom projects???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. s a description from an archived web page [link] of how my role changed over my ten years at this job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages. A mix of conversational marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' How does social networking/web2.0 get embedded in PBS programming?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Edge4Dev blog aims to help. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Flickr Photo: Mr. T in DC. Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. My children will meet her for the first time. By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Arab Spring changed the way many of us think about civil society, specifically the role of technology in driving social movements. For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips. mainstream media.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2016

Currently, she works with the Nonprofit Communications and Media Network and Special Olympics Southern California. There might be a member of another department that, with appropriate training, could take on the social media role. Someone in accounting might be a fit to be a blogger. And, why do you recommend this channel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? I'm so excited!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Personal PSAs are those shared via mobile and social networks, in addition to being user-generated.). *. I see this site growing as the use of mobile increases, but it’s a great first step and a good role model for other government agencies. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel).

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