Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. For example, they recently set up an Amazon wish list for their Food Pantry and posted to their FB page. Within minutes, a fan commented that they had just placed an order for them. Image by Codilicious from Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests. Will the contest provide a meaningful opportunity for stakeholder empowerment?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. Share your thoughts in a blog post of your own, in the comments below, or on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog. Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment. Share your thoughts in a blog post of your own, in the comments below, or on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog. Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. Organizing is about building relationships and mobilizing people around a cause. Just like any real world activist, motivation is triggered by empowerment and shut down with arrogance.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

CyberMentors is an anti-bullying app, which focuses on building self-esteem, confidence and helping to make people feel safe. learning to build apps now because, well, they can." have access to the tools to play, create, and build. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. As a 2010 winner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. The use of mobile and social media enhanced the experience beyond having the standard back channel via a hashtag on Twitter, but the substance of his comments resonated.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Let us know in the comments! Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. In my book, there are two things all blogs must have: a way to subscribe and comments. Now, I know that many organizations have a fear of being overrun with negative comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

leave comments on blog posts that written about the project directing to new url. Nonprofit Social Media Empowerment Guide. NpTech Social Media Empowerment Guide. Empowered MEdia MEdia Empowered Empowered by Media SMEG (social media empowerment guide). MEdia EmpoWErement. Make the changes: logo. get domain name.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Please leave a comment or use the #4change hashtag to tweet your post if you do write something of your own! rootwork : I strongly believe list building w/ petitions etc. annanten : @rootwork list building is just a strategy to engage more folks in your campaign. network building (awareness, trust) and campaigning (action).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Phoenix, Arizona: Website Building 101: Quick and Easy Web Presence for Nonprofits. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Abomey Calavi, Benin: Apprenez Comment Votre ONG peut Utiliser Adobe Spark et d'Autres Outils.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Don’t react to comments like…you have changed or you are a brown nose. Generally, the younger management tends to be less focused on micromanagement, and more focused on team building.” “The Therefore, they do not have a felt need to build relationship with people older than them. It is not fun but it will not last long.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Build community. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment, you can join the conversation here.' Humans empower each other.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2015

In turn, we always say ‘thank you’ for their time and contribution in a variety of meaningful ways, whether through a VIP experience, influence, empowerment, recognition, or tangible reward. Share your content and build buzz. Share in the comments below. Have a staff person that dedicates time to overseeing the program.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

The organization is also encouraging people who participate in Blog for Choice Day to post a link to their blog post in the comments for today's post , and will highlight individual blog posts throughout the day. This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Constituent Empowerment. Changed from brochure to interactive website, multi-facteed file building strategy and acquired over 1000 new names per month and have converted about 1% to donors in 6 weeks.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? We start with the community and build to projects. If you'd like to weigh in, please leave a comment or send me an email with your thoughts. My answer: neither.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As professional video storytellers who work almost exclusively with nonprofit organizations, we continue to learn the best, most ethical ways to approach storytellers, how to build trust and establish a safe space for stories to unfold, and how to create a thoughtful storytelling process from beginning to end. o Empowerment and choice.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action. One of the participants on Saturday commented, "the crux of this is that we want to create exhibits that make visitors believe that one person--one visitor--can make a difference." They balance the rhetoric with the opportunity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

You're responding to comments and playing matchmaker between members of your community. Perhaps not every organization can be as optimistically trusting as HubSpot, but you can help build that trust by creating social media guidelines or policies for employees. Of course, you say, I know this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Whether they implement a system, or build it, they will inevitably have the job of supporting that technology. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Second, Empowerment. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

I already see in the chat, we have a couple of comments about what Lisa just said. If you want to answer the one or two people who had comments about it, please do. Marty, I see your comment in the chat. And, Marty, I saw your comment about the career change and everything else. Ephraim: All right. And obviously you have.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Edward offered a few more tips when thinking about IT Strategy: IT Strategy at an NGO is about capacity building and moving the agenda up the strategy pyramid to mission-moving applications. These are not questions to knock us down, but to challenge us to better solutions. Look to the future in the Field and the schools. So what can we do?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

For example, if your nonprofit focuses on youth empowerment, platforms like Instagram and Snapchat might be more effective than LinkedIn. This not only provides you with free content, but also helps build a sense of community around your nonprofit. Do your research and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each platform.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Leave a comment below and we’ll connect you to the masterminds (and note that the ideas written here are just the initial starting pitches from the opening reception on September 5; they may have evolved and morphed throughout the day on September 6). Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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