Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to find out more information about your organization, or project If your blog has its own website, separate from you organization or project's website, create an "About Us" page for your blog that describes the mission of your organization or project, and links back to its home page. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They just finished a YouTube video contest. They even created a Facebook application. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page? They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. We also created the Brooklyn Graffiti Group.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

These changes in technology are creating fundamental changes in how people see their role, the community and their identity. or a fundamental shift in how people connect and communicate and create networks. Share and Enjoy: 3 Comments comment Shai Gluskin Wow, that Beery piece was long. Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. Even though this comment was made on digg.com and not on our nature.org web site, I???d Our Flickr photo contest.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. All of a sudden, I’m starting to see nonprofits create organizational and budget structures that encourage multi-channel marketing and fundraising. Hope youre doing well!

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. All of a sudden, I’m starting to see nonprofits create organizational and budget structures that encourage multi-channel marketing and fundraising. Hope youre doing well!

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