Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Teach For America is an organization working to inspire our country's most able and determined college graduates to stand up and fight injustice in the educational system. Beth Kanter, BlogHer Contributing Editor for Social Change and Nonprofits, is the author of Beth's Blog.

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APRIL 17, 2009

The systemic problems in the public school system I worked in overshadowed the impact we were making with our arts programming, and the lack of political and social change aspirations of my career counseling students was starting to trouble me. . Cross-posted from BlogHer. career activism social change

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

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. I was networking weaving between the offline/online. 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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AUGUST 29, 2006

Here are some BlogHers who are giving back through volunteering, or using their blog to advertise do * good opportunities: Rocks in My Dryer puts the word out for Operation Special Edition , a program that provides volunteer doulas for pregnant women whose husbands or partners are deployed when they give birth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

I so need a better system. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. " World Grows Wide blog talks about the Google Custom Search feature. Social Web. Here's two roundups of links about social media and nonprofits. AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Approaches to change that are about cultivating self-awareness and are grounded in love are the natural immune system response to an organizing culture that is riddled with apathy, despair and burn out. Cross posted from BlogHer. In the words of the great leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., philanthropy activism nonprofit spirituality

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MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Does it say what you really want it to about your organization? Your website should tell people who you and what you do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager Humane Society of the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. is yielding a new generation of advocate, fostering social enterprise to drive change in a broken public healthcare system. Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Set a Time Frame, Track it and Talk about it: Make sure you activate the tracking system or install an external tracking system like site meter, bloglog, or Google Analytics. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Identify 2-3 questions you want to answer from your experiment. The Case Study.

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MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

While it does require using a paper notebook, it is actually a methodology best described as a mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system. I’ve been writing a blog for over a decade and in the early days I got a big boost from Blogher, co-founded by Elisa Camahort Page, one of the co-authors of this book.

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JUNE 19, 2009

There are people who will work as hard as they possibly can, but because of structures, and because of systems that I had access to that they often do not, it just seemed to shake my vision of what's right in the world. Cross-posted from BlogHer. refugees Kjerstin Erickson development international UNHCR social entrepreneur

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Next he talks about how our online social behavior has shifted the power system, but first defines the old power system: The entire nature of power has changed, as have the burdens of power. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

Donors Choose (which came my way via Blogher Lisa Stone's sister!) She is using a system called dropcash to raise $300 in 30 day to demonstrate the value of these tools to her organization's cause. The site connects with individuals who want to help out. Technorati Tags: npfundraising

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JUNE 30, 2007

So I started to understand that there was a system at play that needs to change. And there are women who choose to get ahead by emulating the systems that we have. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. More women voices are needed everywhere we go. About 17 of our products are Fair Trade. anything.

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