Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. They realized quickly it was the wrong approach. " We’ve stopped cramming calls to action down people’s throats because we understand that’s not the culture of MySpace or Facebook or the way social media can be successful. We help guide it." We support it, guide it.". .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

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. Circleup is a social messaging application that allows nonprofits to communicate and collaborate with groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Jason Z at DIA bog writes about the launch of " Make It Your Own: Case Foundation's Experiment in Citizen-Centric Philanthropy " which includes both MySpace and Facebook. Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook. An excellent primer that also describes why people love and hate Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? The Wild Apricot Blog has published a nice list of ten examples of how nonprofits can use Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

How often should an organization post to Twitter or send out updates on Facebook? I know of some but they would pick my Facebook personal profile instead of the Organization's Page I am admin of. Is the stigma of having fans or cause supporters with 'questionable' Facebook profiles true? Thank you Kevin! Is that true?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now Described her organizational's first conversations - our audience is on Facebook and why aren't we there? Facebook is also being used for internal communications - conversations between staff about how programs are going as well as cultivate the next generation of donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

He summarizes the internal control issues elegantly: New media tools can give housing associations better ways to provide information, and support communication and collaboration within and outside the organisation. Now, to dig into David's post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. Read/Write web has the top ten Facebook Apps.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide). A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older.

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Forum One

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. Just last week, the council released ?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Then, once we have all that working perfectly, we want to push it back out onto Facebook so we can get even more people excited about our community. Forums and blogs too!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Along with collaboration and transparency, social media has introduced (or assuaged) our need to be heard. They want to try things on their own and be a part of something, helping it become more than it is. They thrive on feedback and want larger roles within organizations and the workforce.

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Forum One

APRIL 9, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 23, 2007

With all the hoopla around MySpace, Facebook and social networking these days, it seems like everybody wants to start their own "community." Are they looking for a place to learn new things, to meet people with shared interests, to organize around an issue, to collaborate, to share resources, or to just have fun?

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We have started to make our presence known on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and we're encouraging people to use sites like Flickr and YouTube to share their photos and videos with the Idealist network. We'd still like to do more, though, to integrate these tools into the flow of our website.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

At my organization, we use Zimbra.com's Collaboration Suite Network Edition , which has a good configuration of SpamAssassin. when trouble arises to get an instant answer. Plus, there is always the trusty search engine. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. I also use [link] as an incoming mail filter proxy.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A large number of the collaborative projects of which I'm aware (in which staff partner with community members to co-develop exhibits or programs) are initiated with teens. 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

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. A good collaboration between the state hospital and ngo. . 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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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5 Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5 Natalie: Its really about numbers as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

in her post " Your Brain on Facebook " Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn and Orkut are all popular and powerful social networking sites. He's talking about sharing content and interacting with others that heightens intelligence through collaboration with other people and with machines. For example, Carol Torgan, Ph.D,

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. The story of Daisy and Daniel was emerging on the GOAC web site as well as on Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, and the museum’s blog Eye Level.

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