Wild Apricot

AUGUST 30, 2010

As always, you’ll want to check back from time to time through the month, as late-coming webinar notices are often added in the comments section, down below. And if you’re aware of a free nonprofit webinar.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 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.). Carie Lewis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Organization Size: 125 exotic cats, 9 paid staff, 107 volunteers, 80,000 supporters. We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Chris then spends about 8 hours per week responding to comments an building relationships with our viewers. Organization: Big Cat Rescue. Name: Carol Baskin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " I strongly agree with Hildy Gottleib's comment at the end of the post and urge you to read both the post and the discussion in the comments. " Check it out! " Check it out!

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 8, 2009

If you're not sure, it may be time to work out a social media policy for your staff and volunteers who blog and chat and comment online, where the personal and professional lines often blur.( How can you control what’s being said about your group and your cause? read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. link] – "As far as we know, it is the first such comprehensive listing of options for causes, nonprofits, and NGOs who need tools to manage volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Before the rise in popularity of online social networks, HandsOn Network recruited, trained and worked with service leaders – the kind of people who see a problem in their community, organize an effort to fix it and recruit their friends to help – exclusively through our local affiliates. Is that good?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

It’s Time to Focus on Volunteers’ Results - Philanthropy.com - Evan Hochberg has a terrific post on Philanthropy.com starting an important conversation on what to do about all this focus on volunteering and service. "Government, You can add to the conversation in the comments, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

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. Great slides.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

What do you do if someone comments with a racial slur on a photo of your volunteer? As they say, “With any social media profile, comes great responsibility.” Photo & video etiquette: In this section, we made decisions on whether to tag employees, volunteers, clients, etc. ASU Lodestar Center. Like this article?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

On April 14, TechSoup presented a webinar on using social media tools to support, involve, and recruit volunteers. Posting your volunteer job on LinkedIn is good for the organization AND for yourself. University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing.

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NetWits

JULY 31, 2008

is about using blogs, discussion boards, and all the latest social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. Should your employees or volunteers be out there authoring blogs, tweets, and comments on news articles, message boards, and discussion forums? Tags: Web 2.0 Customer Service 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. If you are managing numerous social networking profiles Monday-Friday, then you need some down time on Saturday and Sunday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

But keeping a spreadsheet of the names of people who “like&# and comment on threads involves a lot of cut and paste. What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? So Many Social Networks, So Little Time. Doing social media right takes time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2010

In article in the San Francisco Chronicle , a privacy expert gives some good advice: Parry Aftab, one of several Internet safety experts who Facebook helped develop Places as part of a volunteer advisory board, said the feature does include enough controls to protect privacy. Add it to the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month – "Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! Unconference here: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Now, your talents and time are needed to take the next step: make NABUUR itself self-supporting and driven by a global community of volunteers. From January on, NABUUR will be volunteer-run: no more office staff.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Avi Kaplan shared some feedback on my facebook wall this morning, as well: I really agree with Avi – there doesn’t seem to be a way to comment on someone’s post to reply, or to reply to the news items. Is it to see if they are worth your donations or volunteer hours? Isn’t that the point?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2009

Manny is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 4,000 members) and EsTuDiabetes (with close to 1,000 members, which is turning it into the main community destination for Spanish-speaking diabetics).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. Momentum is tremendously important.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. How are you showing your gratitude for the hard work of your supporters (“volunteer&# means something very different online!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I think these are four qualities to look for: Network: This is a collection of people and organizations that linked together. It's your professional social network or a network of organizations or typically both. My Plancast for SXSW Session: Crowdsourcing Social Change.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. It's too late to take it back -- and it could have been seen by clients, donors, funders, volunteers and clients. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2009

The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. It's about a lot more things, but I'm hoping you will share your thoughts on that in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Kari Dunn Saratovsky (@socialcitizen), publisher of Social Citizens An interview with Facebook’s “in-house sociologist” Cameron Marlow, appeared in last week’s issue of The Economist and has since created an interesting debate about the value and depth of our online social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Resources include staff knowledge and comfort with different tools, experience levels of staff working with supports, volunteers, and the public, staff with time available, staff with appropriate job duties to include social media, available budget for training or workshops, etc. For more on evaluation: Social by Social How-Tos.

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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? The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

These apps can give your volunteers, donors, and constituents an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the important work that you do. You can even add comments to the photos during the event and tag your favorite photos for sorting purposes later. What's New. YouTube Capture (iOS). Don't forget about YouTube!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

I republished the post on my blog and offered a free copy to a nonprofit who left the best comment about how their organization is applying these principles. Here's an interview with them about how they using social media part of their hospital's patient relations and communications strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. At its core, use of online social networks is still a phenomenon of the young. Don't introduce overly complex sign up forms or processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. I'm elevating them from the comments because they make a great post. Although our members will comment and post on our Facebook and Twitter.

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