Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. broadcaster VRML world projects in 96 called the Mirror (BT, BBC and others). ve found the environment elaborately constructed but humanly forbidding. t think I???ve whenever i???ve

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Between the hashtags, the Facebook groups, the online petitions, the blog posts, and the constant emails, there’s just an overwhelming amount of advocacy communication online today. In this blog post, I want to discuss two big themes from chapter 1 of the book. Today’s hybrid media environment is still in flux.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

About the Presenters: Clint O''Brien — VP of Nonprofit Services, Care2 Clint O''Brien has worked in the nonprofit sector for 15 years, starting at TV network PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, where his work included helping local PBS member stations use their websites and email to find and keep donors. About Care2 Care2 (www.care2.com),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form. This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail. I’ll have more on this in an upcoming blog post having just spent a couple days at a convening going deep on this topic.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

If you want to get acceptable audio for video blogging on an inexpensive camera you need to control the noise/environment or get really close to your subject. The guy watching us was public broadcasting producer. Certainly not everyone can afford to purchase expensive equipment to ensure broadcast quality audio.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Resources: Blackbaud’s Giving Tuesday site has a whole host of resources to help you be successful such as the toolkit, a webinar series, podcasts, blog articles and giving trends data. Cities that come together, develop a greater community and improve their environment.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Sure there are special broadcasts that detail typical training regimens for certain prolific athletes, and I for one am quite interested in attempting to eat the 2008 diet of Michael Phelps, who famously proclaimed he was consuming 12,000 calories a day. How could I train at this stage in my life to do what they are doing?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In this resource-strapped environment, it's arguable that not considering open source options seriously when evaluating your software toolbox is a disservice to your organization, board, constituents, and clients. . As open source software moves more and more into the application layer, it is increasingly relevant to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2015

Just about every client I’ve ever worked with has said, “We need a blog!” And so we build them a blog, and launch the site. Six months later, there’s no new content, just three old, stale blog posts. I was working at Public Interactive in Boston, where we built tech for public broadcasting. Fast forward to about 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

You realize that it's making the whole environment richer with your unique participation — you don't expect anything else from it. This isn't a broadcast medium; this is a place to engage with your community. Betsy Harman, on Beth's Blog. Just as there isn’t a standard ROI for a Web site, there’s no standard for a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Putting the Public Back in Public Media Think NPR and PBS are just broadcasters? This visionary panel will explore the premise that openness will be ubiquitous by 2040 – when the debate will no longer be private vs. public, but instead public vs. broadcast. Think again. Public media is no longer just a one-way street.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Thanks to many recent conversations I've had with Erica Mills of Claxon Marketing (and spending much time reading her blog ), I'm coming to realize that telling someone your most compelling thing is better than telling them your everything (to use Erica's words). We had already received the message that the class would be "broadcast only".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Not too long ago, I got an email from Marc van Bree , the PR coordinator from the CSO, who telling me about his new blog. I got pulled in to help create weekly Web content for the broadcast, because of my interest in and knowledge of HTML programming and the Web. You have a "personal professional" blog. Why I blog???

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? Interested?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? Interested?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. Twitter is like a big radio party--everyone can broadcast and everyone can listen. I'm cool with you using Twitter to let me know about new blog posts, exhibits, programs, or changes to your hours. But not enough of you.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In public broadcasting, for example, where direct mail is the main vehicle for acquisition (other than on-air pledge drives), the people donating in response to Direct Mail campaigns are 65+. Full disclosure: Care2 operates the Frogloop blog, and hired me to be its editor.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In public broadcasting, for example, where direct mail is the main vehicle for acquisition (other than on-air pledge drives), the people donating in response to Direct Mail campaigns are 65+. Full disclosure: Care2 operates the Frogloop blog, and hired me to be its editor.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

revolution came along, and the Web became a social environment where people could share their own content with others, discuss it, and redistribute it. It could be doing something as simple as providing a blog about topics of value to your audience. It had a lot of interesting, sometimes esoteric information.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Everyone wants these to be shown and shared in a safe environment. How do you create a blog around the excitement of sitting on a giant concrete dinosaur? Every kid likes to be polled, and plenty want to share their personal experiences--check out the Club Penguin blogs for confirmation of that.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Blogs and social networks fall in this category. Sure, it might be nice to broadcast your blog feed to a screen in the museum somewhere, but the real value is for readers who can visit again and again from the flexibility of their own environment. Sepagration. Why not explore them in museums?

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

But the impact on the environment from direct mail actually goes far beyond the number of trees cut down. Is there a debate in your organization about cutting back on direct mail because of its negative impact on the environment? The same has happened with radio, broadcast TV, and now even cable. Let us know!

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 31, 2022

The speed and ease will ensure that your staff is happy, your virtual audience is happy, and the environment is comfortable! . Whether you live stream or stream pre-recorded content at a delayed broadcast, you will need a video streaming platform and probably some editing tools. . Reduced Tech Budget.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For example, a website can be used to share educational and scheduling information, social media can be used for broadcasting updates widely, and text messaging and email marketing software can both be used to share specific information with individual supporters. Social media platforms. Encourage followers to share your posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Included in the top five is the environment and animals. In addition, shared information on their blog and website as well as including it in their weekly email newsletter to more than 2 million subscribers. They had a strong wifi connection and used an iPhone on a tripod to broadcast the event.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

She’s been blogging for us. So there’s another feature of WhatsApp that’s broadcast so you have a list of all the people that you want to share your message with and every time something important happens you can just broadcast to your entire list. like people can’t respond to the broadcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. Chad Norman did a fantastic job at summarizing and blogging the key points.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Elizabeth Cowell was British broadcaster and the first female announcer to grace the television airways for the BBC in 1936, just before the network launched its television service. She went on to earn several more titles and an Olympic gold medal and is still one of only four women to win a title after becoming a mother. Elizabeth Cowell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Increased Relevant Visitor Traffic and Page Rankings: You're using social media tactics to drive traffic to your organization's web site or newsletter sign up or improving search engine results or using social media channels to spread your web site or blog content. Homebase: Home base is your organization's website.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The promise of this new field is to give severely disabled people a way to communicate and control their environment. She also invites us NPTechies to discuss Rifkin’s vision on the Nonprofit Quarterly blog. The commercially available Emotiv EPOC headset is such a device.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He summarizes and discusses recent brain research that suggests immersion in digital online environment (e.g. The Net Generation are defined as individuals under 30 who have literally grown up digital and they're part of a global cultural phenomenon that's here to stay. There's a whole chapter on the Net Generation Brain.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They broadcast and unite women's voices from around the world into a powerful force for change. The women are day after day documenting that healing process in their online journals, in their online blog. We call them journals, because blogging is a little intimidating to the women who are new to this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

The title of this blog post comes from a post that Scott wrote the other day that I couldn't resist stealing. (1) It's an environment that attracts some of the most connected people in a wide variety of industries, creating a unique opportunity for ideas to take root in wider audiences. 1) Who are you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 26, 2018

With online and offline activism at unprecedented levels, this year’s State of the Union is likely to attract large online and broadcast audiences. For days before, the day of, and for days after the hashtag #SOTU will be a top trending topic on Twitter. Must-Read Resource: Limits on Political Campaigning for 501(c)(3) Nonprofits.

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