Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." " So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). Take advantage of that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. observes, "Thus you need a strategy that combines email lists pushing your message, vision, and resources out into communities residing on sites and networks other than your own."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

If you, like Jon Stahl and many others, are interested in seeing more tools play well together, go sign it right now. buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Experiment with online contests, both creating them and participating in them. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

You can find a collection how-to YouTube and Viral Video strategy resources here. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Details here. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquared project, and posted it here. But the posting is most noteworthy for the accompanying photo of me playing my fiddle at the Speedy Tolliver fiddle contest in Arlington VA a couple years back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Contests can work too, the Crooks and Liars was mentioned. Current offers TV time; Sunlight Foundation and moveon.org ran contests for the best ads, with Sunlight offering cash prizes. " ( I'd like to add that I found this great resource that might be useful: The Fair Use Network). Exposure can be a motivation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I also encountered quite a few people asking very similar questions, or looking for the same resources. And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Guide your students to conversations and resources. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We had so many that we couldn’t get to all of them during the webinar, so we’ve answered the overflow here: Q: How can we use social media tools when working with clients in an agency specifically concerning privacy or HIPPA issues? Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2011

And we don’t have enough resources — enough help, enough money, enough technology, enough supporters, enough time — to do our work in the way we want. We put our communities and tools together to create new solutions. We see it in the broad range of projects that responded to our NetSquared Challenges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Social Media. Buffer :: buffer.com. Issuu :: issuu.com.

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