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. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. Million in donations for charities this past winter. The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1

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JANUARY 21, 2009

"Someone should create an iPhone app that allows you to donate $1.99 What if a group of nonprofits got together and created an application where you could donate to one, or all of the groups, each month through your iTunes account?" They say they donate a portion of the retail price and ad revenue to plant trees.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. Kickstarter. based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Kickstarter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there is a schwag recycling room , I participate. Several themes that came out in the discussion: The line between for-profit and nonprofit. I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there. What's a conference without schwag ? Are there too many social entrepreneurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I'm going to be guest blogging about this effort over at Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog this week. They raised $1,500 in two weeks from $10, $20, and $50 donations. (I I read on Netsquared about how Creative Commons is trying to raise money with its video on Revver and am trying it out. I did a campaign video. What a deal!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Lucy Bernholz reports that embedded giving - in which a charitable transaction becomes part of any other financial transaction, such as checking out of the grocery store and making a donation to diabetes care - has gone web 2.0 " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far. And if you???re

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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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AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. " Last month I summarized multiple threads about how social networking sites like Facebook can be time wasters for both for-profit and nonprofits. Every time you get a question right the advertisers donate 10 grains of rice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

He also describes some issues with the interaction design of Causes: In addition, the Social Cause app does not let non-profits a) access the contact information of members b) update members on the cause or c) even send them a receipt for donations, and of course, market again. Instead a third party handles all touches. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Too bad Apple isn't donating them to nonprofits! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Marnie Webb is on a road trip. What are your summer vacation plans? Just what we need!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. How Google Earth & Maps can help Non-Profits : Show what is at stake – don’t just tell people. Plan and visualize your projects and results: Where are we getting (or giving) donations? Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. Check out this beautifully produced video here.) Off to consume those now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

The Best and Worst Cities for Nonprofit Efficiency (posted by Sarah Conner Smith ) Social Media and Web Strategy and Marketing Jonathon Coleman shared The (Lil) Green Patch Facebook app has donated $33,600 to The Nature Conservatory's Facebook Cause (I screenshotted and summarized the discussion thread here ). Causes Raised $2.5 And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I did an interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Leda Dederich, the creator of the dotOrganize project, and co-author of the report "Online Technology For Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy." What do you think that this means for the adoption of emerging technology by non-profits?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

you know, as a person you can bring your values into a profit-making business. The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. We don't use that much wood.

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