Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

"It never ceases to amaze me how many people assess the cost and benefit of projects with accounting approaches developed in Venice in the five hundred years ago." I tried to make the point by raising the question, " Can you quantify the intangible ?" " And, of course, such metrics are useless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I'm speaking at BlogHer Boston on Saturday. Even better the opportunity to see long-time BlogHer friends Liz Henry , Sarah Dopp , and many others. I went back to the original and most of the questions were geared for Web 1.0. So, I've tweaked the questions. Answer yes or no to the questions below.

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AUGUST 27, 2008

In a recent blog post , Lara Galinsky of Echoing Green talks about how each new Echoing Green Fellow is asked to answer the question, "Why do you do what you do?" "It It's a tough question when you really think about it. It's a tough question when you really think about it. Cross-posted from BlogHer. To be of service.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. The story behind your organization/project.

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MARCH 19, 2007

I decided several weeks ago, for a variety of reasons, to retire my independent consultant hat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Alexandra closes her post with some great questions: What did you do today that moved your work, your organization or your personal practice forward? Maybe we should consider adding it to BlogHers Act ? I'd love to read tweets or blog posts from Debbie about the outcomes of the project. Cross posted at BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Lately, I've been asking myself a question, "Why don't I just do the same old presentation. The real reason is that I keep implementing new campaigns, trying new techniques and tools, and new projects. I thought it might be easy peasy, but it is hard work. and use the same slides?" Any advice to calm my nerves?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

(I've been wanting to do audio and video for a long time, but it wasn't until my blogher experience that I actually got moving and picked up the knowledge to try my first one. Lisa Williams showed her vlog from Blogher at the Berkman Thursday night blogging group and during the walk to dinner, I got to ask her how she did it.

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MAY 14, 2009

They accepted questions via Twitter and then had an expert reply via the White House blog. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Raise awareness for your cause and projects. Plan and visualize your projects and results: Where are we getting (or giving) donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

We're going to be on a conference call and a meebo chat for member questions. NTEN Members get exclusive access to ask questions and hear them answered, for free! To kick if off, I'll ask an ice breaker question or too. a great icebreaker question for Chris. You must go read the stories - they're wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I have a really good spam filter ( Spam bayse ), I use rules/filters to direct project related email and listserv email to folders, and am fairly good at "zeroing" out my inbox. The article answers these really important human questions: So, how do you select your circle of the wise? I just set up a few as tests.

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JULY 3, 2006

During my conversation with Rose, she told me about a panel she was on, that had a mainly women audience, and how surprised she was by how many women had questions about blogging basics. She was a mentor to young women bloggers as part of the Young Caucasus Women project and the blogs for African Women project.

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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? The Nonprofit Tech Blog is asking a question via LinkedIn - "As a donor, if you had one wish for the nonprofit sector, what would it be? AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Shortly before the Blogher July 2005 conference, I got a new digital camera that came with a video feature. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Lots and lots of technical questions -- from file formats to what video distribution service to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Her blog is filled with insightful pieces that cut through the hype of new technologies and often ask the hard probing questions that haven't been asked. Aye, what a question. These are the kinds of questions I want people to think about. What is the gender balance/politics/issues/trends (if any) in the OS nptech community?

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JUNE 19, 2009

If you're inspired after listening to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or reading the edited transcript below, take a browse through FORGE's gallery of projects created by refugee social entrepreneurs. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. Identify 2-3 questions you want to answer from your experiment. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Some have their own projects already in place before they??ve

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

How has it affected the project, if at all? Does it ever stop being a 29 day project, and become something that is more incorporated? I didn't really question the 29 days. We ask you a few, very simple questions like, "Why are you choosing to give? Cross-posted from BlogHer giving Cami Walker 29 Day Giving Challenge

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JANUARY 31, 2006

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. The Young Caucasus Women Project works with young women ages 15-19 from Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia who are participating in the Future Leaders Exchange Program.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. We've seen students, for example, take on the project of getting Fair Trade coffee into their dining halls. What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

For many years, I've organized a pre-conference event called the Day of Service , an opportunity for nonprofit techies to share their expertise or volunteer for a local organization on a specific project. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. According to the blog post, it raises several questions.

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OCTOBER 23, 2006

Michelle's comments raise a lot of good questions about the meaning of openness in this context, the relationship between openness and price, and how security fits into the mix. Blogging Basics for Women Women have been quite forceful in claiming their space in the Blogosphere; perhaps the best known women's project in this space is Blogher.

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JUNE 30, 2007

So they'll each tell you a little about that, and we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. And then we have two other projects, Police Watch that deals with police accountability and then the other one is called Books not Bars, which is addressing the injustices in the California Youth Authorities.

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