Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? They are posting their introductions and photos here. If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

My conversations so far for February are all focused on the role of nonprofits online. The first thing I asked about was his view of the new role of nonprofit organizations in the social media or technology revolution that is well underway. Net2 Think Tank & Book Giveaway. Standford Social Innovation Review. I asked Prof.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. The topic asked: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? This month, we also have a book giveaway of a free copy of Skiry’s paperback edition of Here Comes Everybody for one of the contributors. What about the book giveaway?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Last evening, I had the pleasure of presenting a Networked Nonprofit mini-workshop for a group of about 50 local nonprofits and government agencies in Palo Alto hosted by the Palo Alto Community Fund. Book Winners Elliot Margolies, Liz Schoeben, and Mary Colvig. I always do a book raffle and the winners were so enthusiastic!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2014

In-person Events 10/14 SFTech4Good (San Francisco, CA): Cause Funding: Indiegogo + Cause Funder: Geek Club Books, Autism Story Apps 10/15 NCTech4Good (Triangle Region, NC): Does Your Donation Page Need Work?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. CUA held social media forums in Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne offering practical advice for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I recently got my copy of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye Paine. In the book, Beth and Katie identify a number of themes. One that really speaks to me is the point that “measurement helps nonprofits understand and improve their social networks.” ” And that they do!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

In keeping with our goal to help nonprofits, libraries, and social benefit organizations learn how to tell better, more compelling, and more meaningful stories to bring about change, we are planning a whole host of exciting FREE events. on Wednesday, August 27 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. Back in my May Nonprofit Technology News edition, I covered the emerging field of digital wallets.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – "That's right, I said it. " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Best of 2009 | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Check out the diverse submissions to the December Net2 Think Tank that simply asked for the best blog posts of 2009! ' Open Source Is Dead!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. He and I have had terrific idea swaps and brainstorms and I can only imagine the conversations he will spark in person at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. When is the NTEN Conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Connecting nonprofits to youtube users like blog brothers who have thousands of viewers. YouTube video volunteers channel - a video version of All for Good - get video volunteers to create content for nonprofits. To create the call to action overlay - join the nonprofit program on YouTube and directions. grab attention quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. CU held social media forums in Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne offering practical advice for nonprofits.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

This year, I think the watch word for smaller nonprofits will be: segmentation. The larger nonprofits seem to have it down pat. It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: Don't forget to add the search tool.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2009

That's why we asked you to help us write the book about it ! Speaking of the NTEN Superstars and the new book we wrote with them, you can hear from them directly at our virtual book release party -- and get questions answered, to boot. Ramya Raghavan announced the new call-to-action video overlay for YouTube nonprofit partners.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. " Davenport's book was published almost two years ago and is reflection on blogging circa 2004-2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Alexandra Samuel did a workshop called " Bringing Your Community to Life " at Netsquared and offered some terrific practical advice about you get the conversation started. Much of it comes from the Groundswell book and I am familiar with the content. You have to be ready as conversation facilitator. " was taking place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

That's a common question from nonprofits who are diving into social media. But it's often hard for nonprofits to figure out how they can engage people effectively online. Today, we're releasing those tools to the nonprofit community under a Creative Commons attribution/noncommercial license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? or something like this ?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk. It's a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Here's a synthesis. The Issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ). Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It seems like there's a new crowdfunding website out there every week, but which one is right for your nonprofit? I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits. So here it goes.10 Why not ask them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. Tags: Books guest blogging. What’s the catch?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It seems like there's a new crowdfunding website out there every week, but which one is right for your nonprofit? I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared.

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