Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users?

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JUNE 16, 2009

Junction49 - Junction49 want to challenge the negative perception that young people don't volunteer in traditional ways anymore. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network. They do this by giving them the chance to do something they believe in, when and how they want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I put the call out for some case studies and Carie Lewis, the HSUS, Social Media Rock Star, took the time to share her story about the success and challenges of LOLseal s. We have a significant presence built up over the last 18-24 months on major sites like Facebook and Myspace. What were some of the challenges?

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AUGUST 7, 2007

An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times.

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JULY 24, 2007

An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I found this slideshare show by Michael Weiksner, BJ Fogg, and Xing Kin Lui from a class at Stanford called " Creating Engaging Applications on Facebook." The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). Need to go digest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

I "met" or rather connected with Tony from Fern Thai through Facebook (I think). Tony was kind enough to help promote the America's Giving Challenge to his community on MySpace. He recently sent me an email query and I thought I'd put it out here for others to give advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. There are many museum professionals active on Facebook - step one is to create an individual profile and then go find your colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

He also asks a great question on that I was pondering over with a reporter today: Beyond the big MySpace and Facebook social networks, how are nonprofits getting their message out and finding supporters on smaller, niche networks? What about the challenges to adoption? We turn to "web 2.0"

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Care2

MAY 18, 2009

The report covers the basics, and answers commonly asked questions such as ("Should we be on Facebook? Then the report dives into four key areas: Return on Investment, Job Description, the Marketing/Customer Service Balance and Dealing With Challenging Community Members. Should we have a blog?")

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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. I was offered (unknown to me) a plate of fried ants and it looks like Noneck ate some frog.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Confronted with a Memorandum for Transparency and Open Government and over 200,000 websites designed to spoof social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter already on the Web , the US Federal Government faces a unique challenge. Facebook; Twitter; YouTube) and emerging (ex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge. He quickly found me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and my blog. Nhuong also received some good questions from his post over at MySpace: "the organization usually gets most of the money.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While younger users are more likely to have a presence on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, older users often find their way to interactive games, chat rooms, and online activities where they can engage with peers. How to' networking sites are increasingly popular among older adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She notes that in the short-term Facebook isn't threatened -- for now. Application developers are going to go to where the heat is, and that heat is red hot at Facebook But longer term, this may change. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet). It will run on MySpace. Platform??? Container???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Will people give through Facebook? Is that MySpace friend an activist? An article in the Washington Post notes that "fewer than 1% of those who have joined a cause have actually donated money through [the Facebook Causes] application." Lots of buzzword bingo. Lots of new vendors. Lots of tools. Few experts. Few owners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Participate in memes , blog carnivals and challenges. Participate in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, as well as niche social networks related to the theme of your blog. That's about how many words the average person can read in a minute. Leave more space between paragraphs. Use bold subtitles. Catch the reader's eye.

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APRIL 25, 2009

With so many great panels to choose from it was a challenge to come up with my top 10 panels to check out. In this session, representatives from Causes (as in “on Facebook&# and “on MySpace&# ), Capital One and Network for Good will present channels for raising money and awareness other than your website.

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MAY 28, 2007

It is fueled by easy-to-use blog software, social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the online video phenomenon of YouTube, and a thousand other video sharing sites. The article is a nice look into the challenges of user generated content contests.

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A lot of times it’s {very hard|very difficult|challenging|tough|difficult|hard} to get that “perfect balance” between {superb usability|user friendliness|usability} and {visual appearance|visual appeal|appearance}. I’m really {loving|enjoying|digging} the template/theme of this {site|website|blog}. It’s simple, yet effective.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Participating and running challenges encourages openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

It was a challenging year but I learned a great deal about myself and became more interested in blogging. But honestly, I would have an excellent website before branching onto facebook or myspace. My college granted me a fellowship after college to live and work in Philadelphia to learn more about the non profit sector.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They even created a Facebook application. We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. The facebook thing was very organic. Us on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I had already been working for NWF on facebook and myspace but I wanted to test out more social bookmarking and networking sites. Slide 17: My greatest challenge with social media was finding the time. We are such a big tent organization that covers so many issues that we are looking for ways of broadening our audience.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Another point Brian made was that perhaps Facebook and Myspace are not for your organization. They tried the Causes challenge – seeking donors on Facebook – and her biggest takeaway was that influencers are more valuable than donors. In other words, to formalize that relationship is a great idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. This site provides an incredibly useful breakdown of Facebook users by age, gender, and location.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. In fact, ASPCA and Conservation International received recognition during Convios Summit, in part for their successful use of widgets on social networks such as MySpace. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

It’s important to recognize that you will not recruit millions of new people to your organization and raise tons of money just because you have a profile on Facebook, or because your staff Twitters. Reader Comments (6) One of the challenges is of course creativity. The truth is, Web 2.0 is a buzzword. so important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." Using Facebook and Linked but in the basic stages Gave an overview of some statistics of Internet usage/access of the world's population. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. At the stage of staring at it from a distance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Been active since 1995, working in the northern part fo Romania to help mentally challenged people overturn the stigma. Niche content. Blogs are connected - we're talking about a blogosphere. A rating of 100 or more is considered good in Romania. Personality is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Is there a creative thinking challenge? This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. What would you add to this list? This idea came to me from Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The challenge of engaging disaffected visitors is not teen-specific, and the potential for participatory techniques to address this challenge need not be limited to this audience. As researcher Danah Boyd has pointed out, teens spend time on Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks because that's where their friends are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The Fellows provide much needed energy, expertise and enthusiasm while being exposed to to the compelling, challenging, essential and often dangerous work done by campaigners for human rights and social justice. Check out their MySpace page. You can also make a virtual gift on Facebook through Changing the Present. Details here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

BB: What's been the biggest challenge? BB: What's been the biggest challenge as creative women entrepreneurs? That part seems comfortable and exciting, but putting in all the business stuff, and learning how to do that in an intelligent and legal way, has been a real challenge. Six months ago? Seven months ago?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. Why should I use Facebook? Addressing the Challenges So if you're someone (like me) who cares about sharing Web 2.0 The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 literally speak a different language from the rest of us. Unclear application.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

create and manage a Facebook group or page, or a MySpace page. The challenge with blogging is frequently updating the content; I'd say once a week is a must, and posting two or more times per week is a great goal. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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