Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2009

Focus on quality content and community, not on the technology. Bay Area The Hub social innovation web activism Kiva Change.org Virgance Help people feel powerful. Be passionate. Be transparent. Provide opportunities that create measurable change. Involve a lot of people. Use the carrot. Use the stick. by Tony Wang on Philosopher 2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. Kiva does this in way that scales and they are a highly effective organization.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Kiva breaks it. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. Room to Read breaks it. GlobalGiving breaks it. GOOD magazine breaks it. Causes on Facebook breaks it. People to people fundraising breaks it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own websites, blogs, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Money is the ultimate user generated content.??? m always trying to catch up to my younger staff members.??? All of the groups are using the web for donations; some to much greater success than others. As one participant said, ???Money I'm thinking about the interview that I had with Jon Udell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

And while Pete Cashmore announced that he would be doing a charity event in September around his 24th birthday, I'm wondering what charity wedding registry Sharon and Adam will register with? ( Kiva ?) Be a little less "formal" and try a few fun updates and other content that sparks conversations.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

But internet behavior is changing – people find opportunities today through content curation and sharing, and they expect information to be presented in a contextual, localized format like on Yelp or Google Places. Zeph currently volunteers with Year Up, and in the past has volunteered with Kiva, Citizen Schools and Mercy Housing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

There’s no upper limit on how many people can search, find, and use that information, and the content doesn’t change rapidly. Tools that deliver ephemeral information include Social Actions , Craigslist , Idealist’s job database , Freecycle , Sparked, Groundcrew, Kiva , VolunteerMatch , NPO-Connect , and Community Corps.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Kiva's a great example. They put out these seafood cards, which you carry in your wallet, and you can pick which fish isn't being over fished, which fish has the lower mercury content, etc. You can go on and be a loan partner with another community, and give to a woman or a man that you can see who they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Another write up about Kiva. If you want to talk about micro-lending with Kiva for a whole day, here's a Talkathon. The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits. A post that uses the metaphor of UNIX permissions to explain open content.

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