Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Lisa Gansky’s presentation on The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing (learn more at [link] ) and the joint presentation from Bill Traynor and Audrey Jordan about Lawrence CommunityWorks, a project in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is rebuilding a profoundly shredded civic infrastructure. Audrey Jordan, a loaned exec of Annie E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Rami Al-Karmi , Founder and CEO of Shabakat , Al Ordon (JordanNet) and is serving as the E-Mediat Strategic Adviser for the Jordan In-Country Team shared some lessons about working as networked ngo. There were many ideas, but all agreed sharing success stories from NGOs in their country was important. NGOS that work like fortresses.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Michael Jordan definitely didn’t start out as a professional basketball player. One of our favorite lists of fundraising ideas from the Razoo Foundation includes some of the traditional media we’re talking about. Trust us, people will get into the idea no matter how small the prize. There are hours of practice involved.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

As Jordan Viator explains on the Connection Café blog: It’s no surprise that every other blog post you read these days talks about how to raise money, stretch funds and build supporters in the current economic climate. A major hat tip to Beth for the fabulous and creative idea of coming together as a community and helping one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. Understand the Benefits. There are many benefits both to your organization and professionally. Use “Fill In” Time.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Steve Heye is doing IT Alignment right: check out Steve's guest post on our blog, LOLnptech.org which provides some great ideas and take-aways you can apply to your organization's mission today. Jordan Viator ( Convio ) weighs in: Seth Godin took nonprofits to task on their (as he argued) lack of penetration into the social media sphere.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Jordan Viator explains. the idea behind the drive and how you can participate. Peter gives an overview of what the changes are and what they mean -- and how we, as the nonprofit technology community, can help make tracking and reporting more effective for the whole sector. Tags: community buzz nten members. Thanks, Peter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

I have also been involved with the Day of Service , the annual conference event where techies give back to the local community for the past decade, along with my colleague Cheryl Hanback who ran the first one. NONPROFIT tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Nonprofit Social Media Engagement. (co-author

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? So, yes, please vote for these panels, but .

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MAY 28, 2010

There are a lot of great discussions going on within the NTEN community: > NTEN Discuss. Join the community here , and then join the NTEN Discuss group here. > Thanks to NTEN members Nate Solloway , Chris Parks , Jordan Dossett , Jono Smith , and many others for sharing tips and ideas there. >

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. In fact, it can even generate your next great idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The SXSW Interactive Festival. Carie Lewis.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. In fact, it can even generate your next great idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve been tasked with designing and facilitating a session for trainers during our two-day e-Mediat networked nonprofit and social media bootcamps in Jordan and Morocco. The training for the NGOs that have completed the 5 workshops from the different countries over the past year. Then ask the pairs to find another pair and share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Hanafi, AhmEd Hamaza, Chema Gargouri, and Nada Hamzeh who I had the pleasure of working with closely on the e-mediat project shared their ideas – especially a sense that training is so important to building networks. ” Widad E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Day 1 included a detailed project orientation as well as a design discussion about the online learning community site lead by Andrea Burton from Meedan, a partner in the project. In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

09 NTENnies At Large (Blackbaud's Chad Norman, and Convio's Jordan Viator) (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Does this debunk the idea nonprofits should engage with social tools online? and information on her Community Organizer 2.0 Members are in bold. Thanks, Debra!

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. Twitterstorm, anyone?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. 3 Jordan Viator 03.21.08 Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. Not among Techsoup’s Business Objects offerings, and $15k without discounts – there may be some available. Client-(pc-only) server? 4 Shawn Towey 03.24.08

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will discuss (individually) their ideas about citizen service with Richard Stengel, Manager Editor, Time Magazine , and Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent and 2008 Political Editor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Check out the speaker list. I'll be blogging from both events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Generally, she uses Twitter to take the community's temperature and get rapid feedback on questions. Inspiration and Ideas: Paul Sanchez, like Holly, uses Twitter for quick polls, but also uses it as a source for inspiration. Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality? This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising. February 7, 2009 | Jordan Viator Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2005

The idea that a social entrepreneur serving the poorest of the poor in India might bump into a world famous politician is not a surprise here at the World Economic Forum. Joe exclaims: "You know something? You look a lot like Al Gore.". Many people tell me that," was the reply. Joe continues on this vein and asks the man his name.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality? This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising. What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Use search and social media to get better ideas for engagement. In this post, I’ll quickly point out where we’re missing the boat and present some new ideas for how to leverage social to help you come up with better ideas for constituent engagement. Filter your content for useful ideas.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Share here and help the rest of the nonprofit community keep the conversation going and finding new ideas to put this data to good use. Have anything you want to share or ask about the research? And if you want to download/see the full presentation, check it out below!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

Author: Jordan Viator. Last month I wrote about how the Taking Action for Animals conference essentially created their own socially enabled conference and online community of sorts. Many people think that only "techie" conference attendees will grasp ideas like live-blogging and tweeting. Here were the elements of the page: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. million to support a project based on feedback from the online community. Jordan Viator, YouTube on a ShoeString and ask the expert at NTEN with Ramya Raghaven from YouTube. Which one worked best?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. We'll share big ideas for using social media for nonprofit program delivery and some good tips for crowdsourcing for social change.”

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Friday, November 17, 2006 at 11:17AM | by Jordan Wait Source: Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge Web site. " These ideas might include pilot projects, commercial products and leadership initiatives that will improve the flow of information and news in the public interest. Main | The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Online fundraising programs are presenting new and effective ways for nonprofit organizations to raise more money and reach a wider audience more than ever, especially when integrated with other nonprofit organization communications efforts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Share them here so the nonprofit community can be better prepared the next time the need arises. Rapid response is a top-of-mind topic for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes right now. Have any other lessons learned or tips to add to the list?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Online Advocacy , Technology , Trends Reader Comments (2) Thank you for sharing the success of these nonprofits with your community. One of the most exciting aspects of working for Convio is participating in the community with organizations like Care2 and others. November 20, 2008 | Jordan Viator Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. And the nonprofit community is an exceptional example of a group that thrives from people. If you’ve been paying attention to the news in the past week , you’ve most likely heard about the new changes making their way into Facebook to make sharing interests across the web easier.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. BAM, time to tell the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Thanks Jordan S for working with us on this! I got a really nice surprise when Jordan from Pathable contacted me this week and asked if we’d be interested in them doing an analysis of the twitter activity like they had done previously for WordCamp. A Nice After the Conference Idea. Tweet, tweet, tweet… Sweet! Hell yes!

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