Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter. (See

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Knowing that not everyone could attend in person (like someone whose pic is in the top right of this blog) we decided to live-stream and record a number of the sessions. Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. They are trying to get companies to share data mining, for example mining Twitter and FB to detect disease outbreaks. How do we protect data streams that in the public interest? Notes from Session. A new type of CSR?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

It's not enough to build a Facebook Fan page or throw an account on Twitter - you need a strategy. Tags: Care2 Webinars Nonprofit Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

While automatically streaming content can give you some gains in efficiency, you can't be an absent landlord. I've also learned what content my audience responds to most: Mini Case studies like the Humane Society's successful $20,000 fundraiser or what needs to be in your nonprofit's social media policy as it relates to Facebook.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

A variety of topics were discussed, including social media metrics, case studies and best practices, tools and applications, and strategy and planning. They are committed to advancing OpenGov initiatives and are looking for best practices and case studies to assist them in improving their use of Web 2.0 technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

John's River in Florida while live streaming with my n95 last week while on an all too brief vacation. Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. Someone emailed me to complain that I didn't link to a definition of Twitter. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

The upcoming Twitter discussion I blogged about on June 1 (see below) took place last Wednesday, here's my top impressions: First, you can see the full transcript here , posted by the event sponsor Ashoka. Its nice to have a transcript packaged, though you can also see it all by searching Twitter on hash tag #SocEntChat.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

The Twitter discussion originally blogged about below took place on June 3, here's my top impressions: First, you can see the full transcript here , posted by the event sponsor Ashoka. Its nice to have a transcript packaged, though you can also see it all by searching Twitter on hash tag #SocEntChat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We were also very lucky that Claire Sale volunteered to be our Twitter advocate who monitored the Twitter stream and verbalized important points and insights. . Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

And finally, we’ll learn from a few case studies and go over some production best practices. maybe one just for employees as an internal stream for updates on work and projects. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. Twitter - great/easy way to let people know when new episodes are out.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

We’ll use the TSdigs event in October 2009 as a case study. There are various ways you can follow the NTC online from wherever you are, as select sessions and key note speakers will be live-streamed, various people will be live-blogging, and the Twitter stream for sessions will be active.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

These are difficult times for many nonprofits, with tightened funding streams and increased demands for service. If you would like to contact Scott, learn more, talk about ideas or examples he has shared here, or just say hi, you can leave a comment here, follow ClientTrack on Twitter, or visit the CT blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

It just takes a Google search or looking around on Facebook or Twitter to make them magically appear in front of you. A Sneak Peak of the Pledge to End Hunger Campaign Case Study. Collectively, they had contact with almost 208,000 people thru Twitter alone. 207,426 Twitter followers generated 4,154 visitors at a 2.0%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The tool was a live streaming platform called Ustream.tv Ustream provides a live streaming video window, an archive of the video, the ability for the audience to log into the chat room and ask questions and a social stream. Live streamed talk shows have been used quite artfully by social media experts over the years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

I'm writing this post for the benefit of our "Twitter Backchannel Moderators" who will be live tweeting the panel and posting these URLs to Twitter. To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter? Oh my god, take a look.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Press releases, newsletters, thank you letters, and case studies all have a predictable format. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

and hootsuite.com allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook and more at the same time. A regular Twitter stream is more effective than 3 posts a week, all at the same time. Press releases, newsletters, thank you letters, and case studies all have a predictable format. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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