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. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Back in November when Open Social was announced, we had a round of discussions in the NpTech space that summarized on my blog. Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. For now, here's the basics culled from the press release, official blog posts, and blog commentary. s benefit only.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Creating a Blog within your Community - Why send the traffic back to Word Press and Blogger? Angelika Lipkin is the Manager of Strategic Partnerships for Higher Logic , a social media and mobile software company for associations and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. Since this brought dogfighting into the spotlight and put it on the minds of many Americans, we figured it was a good time to reach out to people. That way can recoup the $ spent and justify time spent. I run the org???s and online advertising campaigns. Our mission is ???celebrating

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

What role do video games, cell phones and social networking websites play in the development of today's children? Attending this press briefing will grant you access to a panel discussion and one-on-one time with some of the greatest minds and most influential s in the fields of technology, digital media, education and learning.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What is Earned Media? Word of mouth, etc. Brand Your Issue. Be Everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. Similar strategy to what the San Francisco Symphony did with its blogger outreach event. Not the press release.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

8:00 - 9:00 - Coffee / Tea + “Real-Time Social Networking&#. 11:40 - 12:10 - “Will Law and Policy Kill the Social Communications Revolution Before It Starts? Note: Press + Bloggers - please email: jeffp@pulver.com if you would like to attend SocComm. Tags: social media.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Keep your ear to the ground at all times. Listen, listen, listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. young people??? " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? Official press release here. Nonprofit Times covers it here. at Annual Meeting posted on the blog inviting people to participate in the social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. 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. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." This year's program is heavily weighted to the "social web" and nonprofits. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. The program introduces how to use the technology, but also social skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Papyrus, printing press. The other thing to remember is that a lot of social media culture is built on the " gift economy :" the notion that it's a good idea to do things that are just good ideas. There's no expected return when you do someone a favor, or when you take time to share research for free. No, no, seriously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

local time). 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?' These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. s what makes it fun. You have a "personal professional" blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? In the short 6 months that I have been blogging, I have come to the conclusion that blogging is the missing piece in a successful social media strategy. Social media is content driven. 5) To grow your fans and followers on social networking sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been mulling this post over for months, and with some recent changes made by Facebook, the time has come. At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. Reconsider.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Arab Spring also demonstrated that storytelling doesn’t need a big budget or tons of editing time to be effective. 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. Signs of the Times: Occupy Wall Street.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Official” Conference Bloggers Knock it Out of the Park.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

We also find, from time to time, that advances in technology -- say, the microwave, or social media -- cause us to rethink everything we thought we knew. Is the press release still the cornerstone of our recipe book? It's a question without an answer, but social media makes the tension apparent every day.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. One at a time. They recommend spending an hour per day building your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another platform, try the Squidoo Widget Finder Lens. The particular Web2.0 It's one click!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

that spending a lot of time on top-down navigation is mostly a waste of time. Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. Unique Readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The next level is to produce your own talk, via profiles on social networking sites, a twitter feed, flickr group, blogs, podcasts, or online video. Many of the most active bloggers and Web 2.0 But she didn’t issue press releases or just blog about it on the BADM site. And Jennifer talked it up online. initiatives.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2016

She is a blogger, marketer, and communications coordinator for Qgiv , an online fundraising service provider. If you’ve been in the nonprofit world for any time at all, you know the importance of a multichannel approach to fundraising. It’s time to start fundraising, right? Abby Jarvis is a gust contributor for Nonprofit Hub.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Joshua is a public relations professional, political technologist, social media nerd, amateur public policy wonk, Eagle Scout, bleeding. We have strategies for crafting compelling email campaigns or fostering communities on different social networks. The following post is by Joshua Gee.

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