Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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JUNE 2, 2011

As Facebook reaches 600 million users in January 2011, social media continues to attract attention from nonprofits internationally. Are you new or seasoned at social media marketing? Even for social media gurus, the area is constantly changing. Read Mashable.com and other social media news outlets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Cause awareness days can be very powerful for fundraising because social network communities are highly likely to promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days. Experiment with at least one new social network. Refresh your social media training. Download and study nonprofit mobile apps.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. Interestingly, social media comes last.). It's nice to see NTEN members playing well together!

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JANUARY 26, 2011

I’m not sure if you caught the news today but CauseVox has launched their public beta! In the age of the social network, new sites want to be “the hub” for information/engagement and the non-profit space is no different. Keep track of activity through your news feed in the administrative interface.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Learn more about the Challenge & participate!

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JUNE 12, 2012

The NTEN Community consistently learns and shares from each other, creating opportunities to highlight the work that we all do. Have more news to share? Have more news to share? Playgrounds that Build Communities. This week, our Member Round Up features great opportunities to do just that. The Lights.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Flickr: hellojenuine Member Appreciation Month, or MAM, as we affectionately refer to it around NTEN HQ, got off to a strong start last week with some great free for Members events, lots of #NTENThanks sharing, and of course, prizes! Social Network Fundraising: Facts, Myths, and Strategies that Work. prizes, of course!

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APRIL 22, 2010

The Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report , our joint project with Common Knowledge and thePort, told you that 86% of nonprofits have a presence on Facebook. It's got great information on community sizes and staff time devoted to maintaining a presence, as well as some fundraising numbers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. Allan Benamer talks about Convio’s new big client, Susan G. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. Using the internet isn't a new concept to my Grandmother, though it's not really something she finds very intuitive either. Eons - Eons.com is one of leading online communities for people over 60.

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MARCH 23, 2009

You may have noticed that LinkedIn rolled out some new features for groups: Group managers can add RSS and Atom feeds to the News section. New posts will show up as new news items. > I've added NTEN's blog feed and the 09NTC Twitter feed to our members-only LinkedIn group. > My take: good thing!

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AUGUST 15, 2011

" Facebook gets into texting game with Facebook Messenger — Tech News and Analysis – "Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online. If she can’t answer it she’ll find an expert who can!"

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

While it is a powerful tool that is transforming the way associations do business, it is best used in tandem with -- rather than in the place of -- their more traditional marketing and communications activities. At their core, associations are communities in which people of like interests and goals gather.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Here's a growing list.

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MAY 6, 2009

Big news: The 2nd annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is coming up on May 12th via phone and web! Charelene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Holly Ross of NTEN. Social Networks and Diversity Barriers. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. We have a great line-up again.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

at 7:56 am I have no idea if there is a Kintera User Society, but we at the Blackbaud User Society would be thrilled to have Kintera clients join us to get unofficial support for their products and join our growing community of Blackbaud clients and users. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. {

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Your organization is awash in data, but (while we hate to be the ones to break the news) nobody wants one more boring spreadsheet. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. "Farmville is so huge! No, really.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Social networking, once the office pariah, is now becoming an integrated part of office culture. According to a recent study, more people are connecting with social media on their mobile devices than on desktops. Social media now gives you the opportunity to reach people no matter where they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

And if your organization finds itself in the middle of groundswell or if there is a major news event or a public relations crisis happens and it is being discussed on Twitter or other social media spaces, your CEO can join it without having to get up to speed. Holly's Twitter account is her personal but it is clearly branded as NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. The NTEN WeAreMedia project has been hard at work over the last few months building the house so to speak -- focusing on how nonprofits can use social media effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Will there be improvements in Facebook functionality/design of groups and communities so they can find one another - what I call "distributed social good."? 5. Can you comment on the value of using Facebook for community building, social networking, and true peope-to-people giving? Eddie Harran). Ted Hart).

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MAY 8, 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!" Social networking is generating very little revenue. (

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together. One of which is called Elgg.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Get all your Obama administration news wherever you go, without CNN (thus avoiding Nancy Grace). . I had heard of these guys before, but finally signed up for a sample analysis of the NTEN community. You guys have a LOT of profiles on social networks. The Change.gov Widget. Five things we learned from Bill Gates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world.

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MARCH 26, 2009

One of the most common things I hear from nonprofit staff is something along the lines of, "I'm just learning about social media. Do you think I can keep up with this NTEN webinar or that conference session on this topic?" Social media is an area the nonprofit sector has been, in many ways, leading the way! .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). Or even a social network strategy? I know that people are doing fantastic work around the ways in which social networks can be powerful tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

. “ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., She is also the Membership Director at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. Her blog is Contentious.com.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In our integrated communications plan, we believed that taking advantage of social media tools would assist us because of its social nature; allowing us “always be on” and present in the community conversation. We chose two specific social media networks, Facebook and Twitter, to assist us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. Convio or Causes? I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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