Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Increase the number of people of color I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast. They chose $5800 because according to The Express , "Fifty-eight percent more of your money stays in the community when spent at local, independent businesses rather than out-of-town chains." Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. You can listen to my interview with Ingrid on the Big Vision Podcast , or read a transcript here. We're choosing a one half-square mile region of Oakland. It's basically a neighborhood assessment.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be great here in Oakland. I'm going to be green.

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JULY 13, 2008

Ari Derfel Late last month I interviewed Ari Derfel, CEO and co-owner of Back to Earth, Inc. Below is an edited transcript of our interview for the Big Vision Podcast. The next day, some TV station, ABC or CBS, was interviewing me and they said, "Read some of your blog comments live for the camera." And, "Why did you do it?"

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JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. Obviously, I'm a big fan (: Below is a transcript from my interview with Reem from the Big Vision Podcast. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi. Why did you decide to have your business in Oakland?

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JUNE 7, 2008

Just a quick shout out for Beth Terry, another Oakland-based blogger, who was nice enough to interview me last month for her blog, Fake Plastic Fish. interview plastic recycle filter Brita Thanks, Beth! Here are some ways individuals can get involved: 1) Send an e-mail to everyone you know. Sample e-mail.)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. I work with a medicine woman from Oakland.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes.

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MAY 7, 2007

PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. NJN was created to give Oakland a place to share stories and to connect and develop solutions.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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MAY 21, 2006

Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon.

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AUGUST 15, 2006

Unfortunately, I didn't get to interview this week's Solutionary Woman, Majora Carter, but I did get to hear her speak last May at a Solutions Salon put on by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland. And she was incredible. She is a 2005 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, and it shows. You have to watch the video of her talk.

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APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community.

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JUNE 22, 2006

Today's transcript is from my interview with the founders of Back to Earth , an organic catering and outdoor adventure company. One of the things I've enjoyed the most about interviewing people for this podcast is seeing the similarities and connections that arise between people. I hope that you enjoy their interview.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Communities need to band together to support their local hospitals to fill in where the traditional resources are not enough by providing service, providing funding, advocating and governing (on Boards of Trustees). Go for a placement interview. Interviews (i.e Go to a 2-hour orientation. online marketing).

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

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JULY 13, 2009

featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). In the interview, we talk about the idea of Web 2.0 This is what Tim O'Reilly refers to as an "architecture of participation"--one in which the rewards of engagement are not felt only by individual users but by the community as a whole.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Kellogg Foundation, was kind enough to tell me more about the Fund's work in the following e-interview. Groups like Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice located in Oakland, California, working on the front lines of the reproductive justice movement. Why is it important to fund projects like these at this time?

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JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers.

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MAY 10, 2006

Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast. SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. So I’m only 26.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

24th and that Michael Stein was one of the co-hosts, I assumed (wrongly) that it was Michael Stein , Internet Strategist from Oakland, CA. I view mistakes as opportunities, so I took this chance to do an interview with Michael Stein (east) and perhaps help avoid any name confusion (at least on my part). and Nonprofits on Oct.

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JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve also happens to be the fiancé of Mei-ying Ho, who I interviewed last month. SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland.

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MARCH 26, 2010

You can imagine how excited I was to find out about Fat Bottom Bakery , a vegan bakery in Oakland, CA (where I live) that makes all kind of desserts, including cupcakes! I've posted an edited transcript of my interview with Ashley and Carolynn for the Big Vision Podcast. I think there are other ones going on across the U.S?

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. Below is the edited transcript from my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jennifer Lee from January 22, 2009. She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. Who are they as a person?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. You can listen to my interview with Jensine on the Big Vision Podcast website, or on iTunes. We have such a large community, our network is over 40,000, who is depending on us.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

"It's not how many friends you have on Facebook, it's the depth of connection of our community ties that will keep us together and allow us to have political power together." The Engage Network is a nonprofit social venture that facilitates the power of small community groups to create social change.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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JANUARY 16, 2009

Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. I work in multiples. I don't do one painting. That's why I'm a printmaker.

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Mustard Seed Communities. Top Nonprofit Website: Mustard Seed Communities. Since 1978, Mustard Seed Communities has cared for vulnerable populations across the globe. Their organization’s mission is to nourish the most in-need members of the community through the best medicine there is — healthy food! Project Open Hand.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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APRIL 25, 2007

Consequently, it is a special treat for me to share with you the transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast. To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. So, for us, that is kind of like our bigger picture.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. How do you balance your work at the Movement Strategy Center with the work of being a mom?

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JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change.

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JULY 17, 2008

Thanks to Kate and the team at Minnesota Historical Society for the fabulous photos from the project, which are sprinkled liberally through this interview. We went out and talked to community groups that we didn’t think would use the Web—different ethnic populations, on the reservations. How did this project get started?

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