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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Flickr Photo from DenneyTerrio. Ed Schipul is a colleague from the NetSquared Community that I have had the pleasure of knowing for two years now. He was one of 81 people who donated to my campaign to send two young Cambodians to college last October.

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AUGUST 5, 2011

Their suite of online fundraising applications support campaigns across multiple channels for optimal results. A few years ago, he was a blogging novice; now, he now uses Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, and Google alerts to strengthen his museum's community. Understanding the needs of your community is not always easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

Check out how flickr is being used to promote a nonprofit cause. link] The JumpStart Ford ([link] is a campaign to convince the auto industry to improve fuel efficiency and eliminate greenhouse gasses by 2020. Part of the campaign includes a photo context in Flickr using the tag freedomfromoil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature. What's the protocol?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Flickr: Juushika Redgrave This past weekend saw the first offical day of fall which means we can all look forward to months of potted mums, candy corn, and annual conferences. TechSoup and NetSquared have put together a month of educational opportunities, from local events all over the world to day-long Twitter parties and a free webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. We had seen it working for other organizations, as well as political campaigns (such as Dean, Obama and MyGOP).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Details here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. Take part in campaigns that already exist. PARTICIPATE: "Web 2.0" Ask for help.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Example: Al Gore asked, "What do you think it wil take to reverse the effects of climate change?" • Flickr , "Show how rewarding it is to volunteer, to highlight issues that need extra attention, or to show pride in your cause." Examples: Climate Concern's Group and the ONE Campaign's Groups. Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook. I remember stepping into a Netsquared meet-up and meeting for the first time three people who I???ve It was as if I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Throughout history, they've taken a wide variety of technologies and used them strategically to move their campaigns forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign. DIA Blog - " E-xemplar: Ways to Make Legislative Campaigns Suck Less " Global NpTech Can anyone translate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Include outreach to bloggers as part of your online fundraising campaigns. Darren Rowse celebrated ProBlogger's two year anniversary by using his blog to raise $830 US ($100 AU) for Oxfam Australia with his Blogging for Chickens campaign. Chez Pim raised almost $62,000 with her Menu for Hope Campaign in 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. Finally an interesting question over at Netsquared from Cauzoo, " Bells and Whistles, Do They Help you Get Heard ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. From Flickr User EJK. Fundraising Campaign - Street Kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. Because the international community and media have failed to respond to this environmental disaster, they are bringing the campaign to the Social Web.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 9:00 a.m.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

NetSquared believes in the power of meeting face-to-face in the actual physical real world. That’s why we’re thrilled that NetSquared is joining TechSoup by having a strong presence at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared kenya : Trainer of trainers.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. Their ideas could very well lay the foundation for an effective micro-philanthropy campaign. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own. Get an iPhone. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. from the Campaign Monitor blog takes us through a detailed makeover of an email newsletter to help illustrate best practices for email design, layout and construction. Today I Cried resigns ! Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Extreme Email Makeover.

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