Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused. In my presentations I call this my “Facebook Reality Check&#. This is a new policy development. The Page does violate Facebook’s policies in two ways: 1) The Page can not be authorized. Well, I beg to differ.

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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. Advocating for particular policies, likewise, can lead to positive systemic change. Flickr Photo by S.

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JUNE 15, 2012

This post is by guest blogger Ritu Sharma, who is the executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. But how exactly can nonprofits use it and other platforms to raise money, grow their base of supporters, change policy, and recruit volunteers and board members? New Delhi, India – December TBA.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work.

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JUNE 1, 2009

This Wednesday I'll be a guest presenter in a two-hour Twitter-based discussion of environmental issues and social entrepreneurship. This follows on three recent press events with newspapers, radio and bloggers on similar topics, so it will be interesting to compare the Twitter results and my experience from these different media channels.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2012

Knight Foundation , a presenting partner, has also just committed another $25,000 in cash prizes. including the opportunity to host their own data competition on the Kaggle platform, to present their winning insights at DataWeek. Beth Kanter, nonprofit technology expert, author, blogger, trainer. The Salesforce.com Foundation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the latest Online Community Meetup, is an online communications professional with experience in building. He also has an excellent Facebook page and a dynamic website that provides information on the candidate, policy positions, and opportunities to get involved. development.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

They had short five minute presentations, which I think worked well. Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. Someone from CDC presented their ?2x10 Tobi Edler presented GSA?s News: InformationWeek

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Always ready with great fundraising advice, guest blogger Gail Perry has terrific guidance for us in her guest post this week below. They just don’t want to get stuck listening to some boring presentation. Ask him, what he thinks of the current Fed policy regarding the economy? Thanks Gail for these terrific tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

In the presentation for this session, Doug Haslam used a screencapture of this blog post as an example of how a pr person can leave a comment to pitch a story on their client's behalf. (He this is an interesting way to pitch a story -- use of a screencapture from a blogger who is sitting in the audience and pitch them in front of the group.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation. Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Nonprofit Blogging Policies. E-Metrics Panel Presentation. Advice on How To Not Pitch Bloggers. Twitter Demographics.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With a tangible call to action, ColorOfChange recruited more than 285,000 members during the course of the campaign -- gathering together the rightfully angry tweeters and bloggers into one cohesive voice -- and managed to convince nearly 300 advertisers to stop supporting the show. Movement Building and Elections. Additional Resources.

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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. Dee Dee with the BlogHer bag! Learn more about the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening to Bloggers You'll want to identify and follow key bloggers in your nonprofit space, especially if you are planning to blog or doing any blogger relations program. Find Bridge bloggers alltop.com. Finding Bridge Bloggers by Beth Kanter d.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Present your ED with the goal a blog will achieve, how you will measure its impact, who will set it up, who will write and maintain it, how much time it will take, and how much it will cost. Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe.

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MAY 20, 2011

The Organization for Nonprofit Executives (ONE) recently performed a survey of its members to help gather information for my presentation on the Board Chair/Chief Executive relationship. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Beth Kanter, Red Cross Social Media Strategy/Policy Handbook. Also, guest bloggers did a great job monitoring and tracking the comments in the post and responding to comments. If I had more bandwidth, I would have done my usual ramble rousing in the comments but was only able to do it on a sproadic basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. As Lisa mentions in her wrap up post, the session ended up touching on the issue of blog policies. Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston.

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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. Karama of So What Can I Do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

His presentation focused on the dollar side of the equation of online fundraising. Blogging in Nonprofits: Two perspectives Emily Turner and Priscilla Brice-Weller gave a point-by-point presentation of how their respective nonprofits have implemented blogs. Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

Presenters included filmmakers and producers, who shared advice on best practices for video for nonprofits. Nonprofits who work primarily with policy still should document themselves because they have access to experts on their topic. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Be sure to check it out.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Emily Riley from Forrester Research and Beth Kanter from Beth’s Blog both gave great presentations that really complimented each other. I gave a presentation about Healthcare, Nonprofits, and Social Media. They have published their commenting policy on the site. It depends the context, who is having the conversation, etc.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Also at the end, I have embedded the presentations of several of those folks I mention. Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. What can they do?

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The expert presenter was the one and only Rick Christ , Managing Partner of NP Advisors. One of the most useful aspects of the presentation was Rick’s focus on creative and strategic tips that you can implement immediately to improve your online and integrated fundraising programs. And the house was packed. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2007

I see several other Cambodian bloggers live blogging and will links to their posts. "We don't have a clear policy to promote information technology in Cambodia. If the government has special policy, we think the Internet connection will be cheaper and easier to use and faster. Chimm Manavy from Open Institute.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Last week, I partnered with nonprofit communications specialist and Getting Attention blogger Nancy Schwartz to tackle these questions, share guidelines, and highlight case studies on using social media tools to build buzz (and reach) via a webinar for the Communications Network. Social Media Policies. Social Media Policies.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab. If someone's abusing your policy, use blocking features. Be transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. Jill Foster who I met online first through her blog in 2006 and presented remotely at an event she was organizing along with Mariam Scoble. We had the time to dig into a topic and come out with a deeper understanding.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

This Wednesday I'll be a guest presenter in a two-hour Twitter-based discussion of environmental issues and social entrepreneurship (Twitter @strelneck). I wonder if this Twitter discussion will get picked up or elaborated by bloggers or others. Original Blog Entry (posted June 1st).

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

This Wednesday I'll be a guest presenter in a two-hour Twitter-based discussion of environmental issues and social entrepreneurship (Twitter @strelneck). I wonder if this Twitter discussion will get picked up or elaborated by bloggers or others. Original Blog Entry (posted June 1st).

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

On blogging and blogger outreach : They both moderate every single comment on the blog (they recommend not to allow auto-posting), and someone responds personally to each comment. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story. Shana Glickfield of Issue Dynamics Inc. ,

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « New Study: The Power of the Premium: Convincing Prospective Donors to Give | Main | 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO » Friday Mar 13 2009 Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:32AM | by Tracy Viselli "We have brought the techies and the policy wonks together, and they arent that different."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

As I discovered, PDF is very much a gathering of the “digerati”: politicos, pundits, journalists, techies, bloggers, consultants, activists, and of course vendors and sponsors. However, there were astonishingly few nonprofits or foundations present at PDF (unless you count academics from universities).

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