Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

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. They work in collaboration with the communications team. We help guide it." We support it, guide it.". .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Dupe: Taproot is hub for new ideas and collaboration. YouTube: youtube.com/thetaprootfoundation. LinkedIn: taproot-foundation. Jumo: [link]. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. put it in a UK context , we're seeing a new voluntary sector emerge, and if organizations want to survive and win funding they're going to have to show (i) greater accountability to stakeholders (ii) collaborate and share and (iii) embrace new technology, ie, web 2.0

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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. Danah Boyd has posted a provocative essay on the class divisions she sees in users of MySpace vs Facebook. Michele Martin has some reactions.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible. " If you have thoughts about Second Wave adoption of Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

If you check out their blog, you will notice that the group has a presence on myspace, friendster, YouTube, and few other communities. MySpace hasn??t To invite people in Myspace is also painstakingly difficult unlike Friendster that you just click a button and invite. Some have their own projects already in place before they??ve

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

While current trends in film length make me dubious of this trend’s overall power, O’Reilly observes that short-format content is more accessible, more searchable, and most importantly, well-suited to collaborative work. One of the comments listed other, non-web-based collaborative uses of short-format content, including potluck dinners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life.

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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? And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks. Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set. Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system.

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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 Long term vision: They think there are many more activists out there and the best way to connect and collaborate, but give them their own tools. Goal is getting people to connect and collaborate. I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference.

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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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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. It must work to quickly overcome the difficult social media challenge in order to: 1) Support the President?

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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? He's probably right.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Next time, we’re thinking of having a celebrity judge so that we can collaborate with them and generate more excitement about submissions. Make sure contest rules and contracts are run through your legal department, and that you specify permissions for use of the content. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! com , Inc.

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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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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. Open source fosters community collaboration. We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. Forums and blogs too! And videos!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. Is a email users and non-users the next digital divide? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 tools to adopt. Here's one that isn't on the list: Mindmeister. has been around for a while.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

I've seen a lot of colleges creating groups on Twitter ([link] Myspace, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Tags: collaboration ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Here's the key takeaways for me: * The capacity to be successful is an investment in time. vlogging, and podcasting).

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

Next time, we’re thinking of having a celebrity judge so that we can collaborate with them and generate more excitement about submissions. Make sure contest rules and contracts are run through your legal department, and that you specify permissions for use of the content. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! com , Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

good for time-sensitive response (answer questions, defense, etc) -do a regular google search for related terms - Pr / newspaper coverage Friend recruitment (TAF) - bulletin reposts on myspace Not just number, but quality of blogs look at technorati and alexa rankings PROCESS / STRATEGY Top 10 referrers were all from mail programs ???

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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

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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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Digital media is being shaped by the private sector (YouTube, MySpace, etc). These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s There are better and more efficient channels for collaboration, conference calls for one. s no wonder she does not see SL as a next step. If you are running meetings to plan events or do projects - Meyer's Briggs J tasks - Second Life sucks.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Plus, in our society, it’s tough to collaborate. When the immigration marches came along, these students were aware of the power of on-the-ground organizing and used the tools they know best, MySpace , text messaging, cell phones and email, to self-organize and come out and march. We reward winners, not team players.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

and it's being requested by a haunted 23-year-old curator who uses his MySpace page as a professional homebase, but heck, who isn't up for a little ghoulish informality in the world of staff disclosure? But comments on the gamers' forum like: An internet collaborative [sic] art display in a national museum? Coincidence? I think so.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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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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