Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Volunteer profiles showcase a segment of an organization’s supporter base that together with a nonprofit’s staff to support a common cause. Volunteer profiles allow an organization to learn about their supporters; volunteers in turn demonstrate their support for an organization’s cause. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

They are “ learning in public &# on the wiki , paving the way for networked conversations with others. Here’s a best practice about Facebook that surfaced from the discussions. Here’s a wiki on custom landing tabs and more advice here. Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

While both are important to your nonprofit, charity, cause, or library, both together just might be its secret weapon. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Digital storytelling is everywhere these days. Join us on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:00 a.m. About Matthew Scharpnick.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. Videos can be used to do anything from providing useful training information to compelling the viewer to act on behalf of a cause. However, whether serious or humorous, videos should feel authentic and true to the organization and its cause.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Webb writes that technology can help people take immediate action in a cause, such as post-disaster notification apps. Here are some more resources for implementing digital tools and campaigns into your organization: TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki. Technology can help charities save money and time.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. Fortunately, there are a range of tools that can help nonprofits such as those created by Causes , FirstGiving , Crowdrise , and Givezooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I didn’t get a chance to attend many sessions because I was in Atlanta a short-term, but I am grateful for the wiki journal report by Kathy Reich from the Packard Foundation her key takeaways. &# She had a number of people approach her!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

After our last Nonprofits Live event on gaming, our social media team received many questions and requests — many of you in the TechSoup community are excited about the future of creating games for nonprofit causes! Scratch and Game Salad are DIY game tools available for creating games with kids. (JD).

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. The first, and often easiest, step is identifying who are the influencers on the subject of your cause and/or in the nonprofit field, in your local community and beyond.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. Hackathons for Social Good. " More Hackathon Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

At first glance, it sounds like user-generated content strategy but with a more disciplined story telling structure and intentional networked approach than getting your supporters to share your messaging points in their own words or activating the activists with social media or cause-related marketing. She also points to some funding sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I wanted to begin with viewing and debriefing some examples of video blogs by nonprofit or social change causes. Not only on his blog, Network Learning , but embedded into a wiki. The rest of the wiki is also a great resource for those looking to integrate tech into learning -- or anything else.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. Can you give an example of how a voluntary organization has used Social media effectively to engage with their supporters to generate income for their campaign/cause?&# -Claire. Birthday Cause Wrapped Up.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

link] is a climate change wiki. As, @ @JeffM2001 explains, “ awareness of climate change is already very high, we need to raise awareness about what we can do about it.&#. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link].

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2010

It's also helping all of us who feel helpless, nestled in our homes in the developed world, contribute to the cause and see immediate impact. Wikis, social networks, and Twitter feeds are letting stakeholders and actors talk virtually to coordinate their response.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. Facebook and MySpace are of course the biggies, but you might want to consider creating a presence on a do-good social network like Change.org , Care2 , Just Cause , Razoo , WiserEarth or World of Good too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What are people already saying about my cause, or organization? Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. You won’t see marketing flackery here.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

TechSoup publishes Soha El-Borno excellent post " Promote Your Cause on Facebook in Six Easy Steps " and do check out her interview with Carie Lewis from the Human Society about their work on Facebook. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

But there are other participants, like Michael Wesolowski who joined the wiki and messaged me in Facebook telling me he had joined the project with the hope that some of the community's expertise would rub off on him. His organization has a Cause and Group. The Cause has 133 members and raised $135.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

Beth has set up a wiki with information, photos and a fundraising widget that you can include in an email or blog post. Right now the campaign is in first place with 812 donations ( you can see the leaderboard here ), but it has to keep up its momentum though January 31st 'cause the other campaigns aren't far behind them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Many of this latter group of are veterans of what Extraordinaries’ Jacob Colker calls the “Command & Control Model” – programs that seek to control the relationship of the volunteer with the organization and/or cause. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Recruitment is just the start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" It's good piece, although for nonprofits, it doesn't include "causes" in the "Make Connections" step 2. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! Campaign Wiki (includes links to people who blogged about the campaign ). Campaign Wiki (includes links to people who blogged about the campaign ). Special thanks to Michele Martin!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it. We'll have check-in conference calls as well as use the wiki and hashtag to provide just-in-time learning. Learning Together Over Time. Just so they know the basic concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Another change blogger, SocialButterfly has created a Changeblogger wiki where other change bloggers can add their information. Change bloggers have some excellent tools at their disposal, like Social Actions widget which makes it possible for any wired passionate soul to highlight causes on the social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation. Andy Roberts has a good roundup of advice for encouraging participation on wikis, yet another new kind of online community. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. Sounds like it could be part of a future wiki carnival.?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Nonprofit Tech Blog points us to the Nonprofit Success Guide wiki.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

Update 7/14/08 SocialButterfly has created a Changeblogger wiki where you can list your blog, Twitter feed, etc. Update 5/25/08: Based on an idea by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire, I started a Changeblogger Facebook group as a place for folks to connect and organize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

We created a wiki for the session that has all the links and key points we shared during the session. Both Andy and Jonny did an interview with Christina Arnold of Project Hope International who spoke about the root causes of human trafficking in Southeast Asia. Some questions: What kind of camera should I use?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

and set up the Changeblogger Wiki , Changeblogger Twitter feed, and the first Washington D.C. How are you going to use your Web/tech/marcom skills to further this cause? (Or, The Changeblogger movement is growing! SocialButterfly took the bloggers listed on my post, Changebloggers List + Wanna Meetup Up? Changeblogger meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. I think reading your blog that you post similarly when the cause gets you! I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. It takes trial and error to figure that for each organization as issues, causes, and audiences differ. " It is a version of the Cute Dog Theory - what organizations need to think about to be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

The incredible people supporting each cause and the passionate teams leading these organizations are at the heart of their success. Social Movement (Wiki). Komen , The American Heart Association. and many others started movements that are changing our world to this day. Movements are amazing to watch form. Social Movements 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

He used social media ( blog , vlog , wiki , flickr , couchsurfing , twitter , myspace , dopplr , and facebook ) to harness the collective knowledge of the globe, and reported weekly on seven topics of freedom. And, in 36 more hours, I will resume my normal blogging activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. I also believe that it's more inspiring for an individual to feel moved enough by a cause and take action independently of the nonprofit. That was useful considering our time crunch.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center. What roles are needed? What are some possible tools?

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