Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Reflection is a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe, analyse, evaluate and so inform learning about practice. Wow, better than a listserv! Social Change + Nonprofits turned up less than 100 resources, but several solid leads that were not uncovered by google searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

We’re going to start a listserv and take some initial steps to become our own combination of learning community and support group. She has been working in philanthropy for over 15 years in community and private foundation settings focused on social justice, conservation and health and human services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? The key for me was: I???d

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit. A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. Why did your organization integrate these social media tools - how did you choose specific tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Last month, in a blog post that I wrote called " RSS As Information Coping Tool " - experimented with switching some my listserv subscriptions to RSS reader. Makes sense to really think about whether an information source/listserv is giving you value or not. But, not all listserv RSS feeds are a like!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. She is the founder and president of Weinreich Communications , and wrote a book called " Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide." What is your (simple) definition of social marketing?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information. And of course, I use this blog as a reflective space to learn by writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Go vote here.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. Being the type that doesn't need to be asked twice to be social online, and given that I want to get a handle on what Chatter is really like, I dove in. There's a big Chatter component to it.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Social Butterfly has an interesting list of helpful list-servs. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. Most NGOs cannot afford to experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning site? Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Email listserv signup. Twitter and other social media feeds. Because you’re a new nonprofit, you might not have a lot of past experiences to rely on or photos to use. You don’t need to have all the bells and whistles, but start with what works best for your mission and purpose of your site. Blog for content. Shopping cart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). access material when and how you want it.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Holly Ross, after her 21-day experiment, now says she's an addict and others are trying to like twitter. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

It's just as much about the experience and the way the information is presented, as it is the content. Curators don't need to necessarily be trained in cutting, but in knowing where and how to unearth those special high-quality "finds" and to make them presentable. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. You can read the presenter's reflections on the event or what he calls "info-edu-tainment" here and a participate blogs about their experience here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. s reports on their experiences, so I wanted to briefly share mine. This experience has reminded me of the enormous value of sharing our stories. His post would be the perfect blog post. I have always appreciated other???s Some of you may have met CISA???s

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors. This is prejudicial treatment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. The latter is something dubbed "Rich Media" or " Social Reporting " This is a great opportunity to learn from some key learners in the video blogging field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Even if things don't work well it will be a learning experience. The exercise was a great learning experience. Andy Roberts is part of the group that is now being called "Virtual Educators Community of Practice" He's written a meta reflection on some of his recent tour experience here. Personally I think I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. So, I'm summarizing our distributed conversation, with the hope that some folks might add their , ask questions, or share observations. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. Stay tuned it is all still an experiment. " He goes on to offer some advice: Get to know the community first. Educate about your cause. And not just fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. It all translated into electricfying conversation -- both formally during the Summit and informally during social interaction. (I I think it was more intense than a Westerner's culture shock visiting Cambodia for the first time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. I'd like to see people have a variety of purposefully designed collaborative learning experiences so they are prepared to work collaboratively in professional life.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

If you do not currently have technology professionals on staff who can help you answer these questions and bring experience from prior employment, ask for support from outside constituents. Behaviorally-based: asking candidates to describe past experiences in which they successfully demonstrated specific competencies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. "We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. I have one blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

and tell the world about their ideas, culture, and experience. s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. I think that Cambodians whether still in Cambodia or in other places in the world should express themselves ??? That aside, I want to encourage Cambodians to vlog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. TechSmith is the maker of my favorite apps, Camtasia and SnagIt. Did I also mention that they sent a box full of SnagIt t-shirts for Cambodia?) from your computer to anywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

Immediately, Marnie Webb came to mind because of her extensive blogging experience, her work with TechSoup/Compumentor, and writing about nonprofit blogging. They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. This is an excellent "pre blogging experience."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were scientists, we'd have documentation of each experiment, each publishable result, each improved-upon discovery. Last week, I spoke with Jim Spadaccini ( Ideum ) and Wendy Pollock ( ASTC ) about their experiences creating this site. Jim: We are really trying to make this into a strong social site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many of you, especially those in greater Chicago, may be familiar with the Data Analysts for Social Good group that Andrew Means founded in May 2012. Those attendees didn’t just bring a range of experiences and viewpoints; they also brought a spirit of transparency and generosity. I loved that.”. right here.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And really appreciate the opportunity to share my experiences on the frontlines working on these campaigns with all of you here today. They bring a diverse set of experiences, skills, talents, perspectives. And I want to talk about an experience I had working with an advocacy organization. It’s how my brain works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

We try and duplicate offline experiences (be they useful or not) and not really take advantage of the medium. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. What I notice about web meeting tools is that most of us don't know how to make the most of them. I keep coming back to damn virtual flip chart.

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