Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Social Change Behind the FireWall submitted by Holly Ross Successful nonprofits using social media are masters of social change behind the firewall. To vote: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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JULY 19, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

It is important to understand that social media is just one channel, primarily for engagement and connection tactics, but organizations will need to use other channels like email. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too. Should your organization adopt a similar model and share popular memes and videos with your audience on Facebook to generate more engagement? What about Facebook?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever. Social networks are for-profits enterprises and their revenue models are almost entirely based on advertising revenue. Just block and forget. But $3 for a click-though on an ad?!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. As social networks try and become profitable they are experimenting with new ad models and trying to drive more traffic to increase ad revenue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

"There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. This article will survey social networking, and then show you how you can get the most benefit out of it for your nonprofit organization. You can add to the conversation in the comments, too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Also, they have a very interesting ROI calculator for social networks that is worth a look. { He even asks “What would Jesus do?&#

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. It’s why we’ve been working on an intelligent model—in geek-speak, a “graph”—that understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Whether you are already using Facebook for your organization or not, this is a good place to go to learn more about how to use the social networking platform to it's fullest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

According to Warren, Google looked at the mental model of the person who isn’t sharing online and how Google could inspire them to share with more trust and control. Google started with the asymmetric model of sharing first because it is hard for people to grasp. Source: Quick Draw Comics - John Weeks.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

They even make job candidates join their specialized social network. What do you think of the Zappos model? Log in and tell us about it in the comments! Lastly, the blurred line between work and life is a bit disconcerting to me. Key Takeaways. “I’ve never felt so valued at a job before.”

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JUNE 25, 2007

section about the genocide in Darfur, which includes information about direct action, as well as connection to a variety of social networks, blogs, and content about the situation. This is what has made MoveOn so successful, and a powerful model for museum exhibit/program designers who want to inspire action.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling: As we’ve previously pointed out, it’s hard to define what AI is, and if you accept a wide definition of AI then it has been in use in eLearning for a while. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. Peak of Inflated Expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. Some were social change leaders who leverage volunteers; others were administrators who recruit volunteers as their sole function – often at a large nonprofits or national service organizations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

They even make job candidates join their specialized social network. What do you think of the Zappos model? Log in and tell us about it in the comments! Lastly, the blurred line between work and life is a bit disconcerting to me. Key Takeaways. “I’ve never felt so valued at a job before.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

A Day in the Life of @Starfocus At Work by Michael Sola Who is this social butterfly? At barely a quarter of a century this remarkable dare I say trend setting young woman has become a role model, an example of how to connect and interact with legions of people in all walks of life. But who is she really?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. StartSomeGood's funding model is based on a tipping point model instead of an "all or nothing" model like Kickstarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? That happens when leaders model and encourage it. World Institute.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc. » Why you need social media marketing. [.] … sucks. Christopher S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

There’s some much of it that it is now measured in exabytes which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is contributing to this information overload. I’m a huge fan of Harold Jarche’s “ Seek, Sense, Share ” model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. It strikes me that this a fantastic model for professional development 2.0 sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank). Exportable OPML feeds for all blogs and hot posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Almost as a model of how to deal with negative comments to a post , Jeremiah Owyang has invited his critic, David Charback, to write a guest post. There was a quote in the comments that said, "Some companies are just not quite ready for true ???transparency???, and by definition not quite ready for social media."

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JUNE 23, 2014

She was able to connect with Invisible People , a nonprofit that has used social networking to reach out to homeless populations. Mark Horvath, the founder of the nonprofit, dealt with homelessness himself and strives to change the negative perception of homeless people through social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Jeremiah Owyang shared three different models for how corporations organize and deploy social media: 1. Photo by SamDiablo The Tire: Social media forms at the edges of the company. I've seen this model with nonprofits and I'd add that the other downside is that the implementation isn't strategic. No clear leader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! but is happening around the country by various individuals.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. A logic model can only go. story on how a new technology worked or didn't Share it with us in the comments.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

His commentary was first posted on the Communications Network blog. Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. In fact, I discovered his post via Facebook where I left a comment on his note and followed the links to his blog post. She ends her post with: So, how do you encourage interactions with commenters on your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

Listening, responding, and being flexibly are qualities that I observed being modeled throughout the three days of planning from project leaders – an important networked leadership skill. I got to introduce myself and my role in the project, but the most valuable part of the meeting was briefing on social media and activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. I absolutely agree on the need to work in networks of organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Advanced Brand Monitoring: Let the Haters Hate : This panel will get into the whys and hows to monitor your brand in a social world. I will also be tweeting this post.). What is it?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes. So this post, is my first pass at that and hopefully you'll suggest lots of ideas in the comments. This melting of boundaries will happen from inside out through individuals working in nonprofits using social networks to connect across silos and organizations.

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