Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Mizfit is donating a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. Go over there and comment right now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

My colleague, Brian Reich, offered a Brain Dump " post where he lays out how Facebook Causes can be a game changer in the future and what needs to change. Joe Green, one of the founders of Causes, spent an hour on the phone with me to discuss how they hope to work differently with the nonprofit community.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. And here are a few suggestions from commenters. Dana Allen-Greil (@danamuses) November 13, 2019 Learning alongside your team was a suggestion that went across many comments. This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums.

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MAY 27, 2007

Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. The Select Committee held a special hearing, entitled: "Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Green Collar Jobs."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change: Crowdsourcing Social Change – Marcia Stepanek has a terrific recap of our sxsw Crowdsourcing session with quotes and links to the case studies we shared.

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MARCH 6, 2013

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

We want to hear from you to, so leave your questions in the comments section below, or send them via twitter to @alldaybuffet. A gathering of the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change, The Feast is sure to get you full on good.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Evaluation completion rate maintained: Just like in 2009, one of our main concerns with making a major change to our evaluation system was that we would cause confusion and see our completion rate drop significantly, so seeing it instead increase slightly (from 900 to 914) was a great result.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Yesterday’s post for Earth Day, about social media and the energy/climate change/green movement is already getting some tremendously insightful and interesting comments. It’s just the kind of conversation starter I wanted to throw out there! So that got me thinking about the idea of cause fatigue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. at 6:31 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.30.08 BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media. I love Holly’s approach to technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org’s combination of entertaining content and environmental reporting – dubbed the “The Daily Show of the environmental movement.&# They have inspired a whole new generation of environmentalists who don’t take themselves so seriously while creating on the ground change. They’re after societal change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. I think sometimes, interesting things come out of that watching. For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. At that point, we opened three new locations: Sanger , Greenfield , and a new San Francisco workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood because the Mission has changed so dramatically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And frustrating challenges like fighting off big oil’s influence on the ever delayed climate change bill otherwise known as Waxman Markey. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. And so you are not just asked to change the world, but also your organizations.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

If you want to use writing for change, why start a blog? During the Starbucks Challenge , Green LA Girl motivated readers to push Starbucks to keep their promise that they would make a French-pressed cup of fair trade coffee for any customer who asked for it. Blogs provide a much needed venue for sharing innovative thinking.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'm deeply saddened by the resignation of Van Jones from his position as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council for Environmental Quality. Buy (or borrow), read, and pass on his book, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Greatest Problems. Van Jones

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting. Something to watch. { at 2:27 pm My blog has also been rated an 8.2 at blogged.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

GOOD Maker, in a partnership with NTEN, announced Detroit's Green Economy Leadership Training (Solidarity) winner of their Use Technology for Good challenge. Share your links in the comments! The organization with the most votes by August 31 will also receive a $5,000 grant from the Case Foundation. Anything we missed?

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JULY 2, 2008

I'll be facilitating a Birds of a Feather session for Green, Social Change & NPO/NGO bloggers on Friday, July 18th from 10:30-11:45 AM. Let me know if you'll be there in the comments of this post, by email (britt AT brittbravo.com), or Twitter (@bbravo). blogher women blog nonprofit green social change

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

Kami and I have been honing the refining the definition as a starting point for our research: Lethal Generosity is when a corporation applies its core competencies to advance social change in a way that contributes to business results and gives it a competitive advantage. And of course they tie their community efforts to their mission.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Try changing out the organization name and key staff names to match your organization’s information and give it a try! It is great to comment and be visible in the community of thinkers and doers in your sector. Go to your Netvibes page, and hit the green “add content&# button in the upper left of the screen.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I have spent the last few months making some significant changes. Smartphones and Apps are changing the way we use Internet. Get more greens. If you work at a nonprofit and run their social media campaigns, then you are going to be bombarded with depressing content all day long from the nonprofit and social change sector.

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MAY 11, 2009

The green benefit of this is that if you can collaborate online, it may enable you to commute or travel less, which means lower CO2 emissions. When you can share edits, track changes, insert comments, and brainstorm without needing to print, there's less paper wasted and a lot of pricey ink saved. read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Please note that because the conversations take place over five years, some people's work and lives have changed. If you have suggestions for people I should interview in 2011, please let me know in the comments. They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The posts are meaty and the commenting is robust. Barry Hessenius follows up with more thoughts on "coercive philanthropy" and how and whether funders make change possible in the field. The Center for the Future of Museums maintains a good list of top ten resources on demographic change as related to museums.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

At the SHARE Conference last month, I spent time watching venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and techies praise how the sharing economy was the new way to make money and catalyze sharing and change. and The Next Generation of Networked Social Change: Embracing the Sharing Economy. Sign in to share your thoughts in the comments below.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

The tools have changed, but the need for knowing your audience, having an end goal, testing theories, and acting on lessons learned remains the same. Anne is the online media coordinator for Green Hour® , an NWF program geared toward getting children outside in nature. Comment on the post and thank the writer for the mention.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Draw a green line where information is flowing smoothly. Please leave your suggestions, stories, and questions in the comments below! Draw a red line where information/communication is in a silo (if this spreadsheet was lost or destroyed, could you get the same information easily elsewhere?)

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." Example: Service Nation's Change Wire blog posts weekly, Monday Service News Roundups. allow comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

They are in the process of building and growing a 'problem solving' network by convening thoughtful people inside and outside of EDF to review their thinking and then comment, critique, and contribute new information so they can improve their impact. Have a story, please sign up for a guest post here or let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

  The content includes announcements, events, program happenings, staff changes, commentary, stories about volunteers or donors, and answers to stakeholder questions.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog. Lime Green:  Community Blog.   If so, share the URL and a lesson learned in the comments below.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed. Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). podcast visionary nonprofit activist social change Thanks for listening and reading!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Soon,ECO,GREEN, and.NGO, among countless others, will be introduced into our lexicon, expanding our surfing – and outreach – options in infinitely new ways. But as the Internet grows, so does the inherent responsibility to manage its expansion in a safe and standardized way.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. Six months later, and despite being delayed again by work, a new template for GBK, and eventually several additional green sites, is almost done. Use with care!

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