Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

On November 19th 2009, at The Paley Center for Media’s International Council Event, ThinkSocial will be recognizing three outstanding examples of innovation, featuring – an individual, an initiative and a collaboration between institutions, which together represent powerful models for how social media can be used to address global problems.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Some of the results include: Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site amongst young people - used by over 7 in 10 (72%) of all 11-25 year olds; rising to 80% of 17-25 year olds, those of college/university age – and to 83% of those who are currently at, or who have already been to, university.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% " Whites were more likely to leave or choose Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Her slides are here and Read/Write Web: Coverage of Charlene Li's Keynote and Nick O'Neil/All Facebook here ). He said the "social cloud" is about getting the problems out of the way so people can connect. I asked if there were apps on Facebook that might fall in the category of games for change? gspwest08.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times.

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JULY 24, 2007

An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times.

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JULY 20, 2013

Someone in my {Myspace|Facebook} group shared this {site|website} with us so I came to {give it a look|look it over|take a look|check it out}. Hope you get the {problem|issue} {solved|resolved|fixed} soon. I’m having {a tough time|problems|trouble} locating it but, I’d like to {send|shoot} you an {e-mail|email}.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Or in the words of Urban Dictionary, “the act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending effort to fix a problem.”. So do “click actions” like signing a petition and becoming a Facebook fan actually make a difference?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. We deferred since it violates Diggs terms of service, but our opponents might not be so ethical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

I found this slideshare show by Michael Weiksner, BJ Fogg, and Xing Kin Lui from a class at Stanford called " Creating Engaging Applications on Facebook." The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). Need to go digest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? .&# Well, I already trust them, so I joined them. So I did the usual, gave up my gmail password. 4 Ade 12.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now Described her organizational's first conversations - our audience is on Facebook and why aren't we there? Facebook is also being used for internal communications - conversations between staff about how programs are going as well as cultivate the next generation of donors.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. We deferred since it violates Diggs terms of service, but our opponents might not be so ethical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector. " He describes some of the work flow issues related to nonprofit using Facebook causes.

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MAY 28, 2009

We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Then, once we have all that working perfectly, we want to push it back out onto Facebook so we can get even more people excited about our community. Forums and blogs too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. They wanted to dispel myths about what mental problems really mean. Niche content. Blogs are connected - we're talking about a blogosphere. A rating of 100 or more is considered good in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Tell the story of how you got involved with the problem you're addressing and how fixing that problem will benefit your community. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Another point Brian made was that perhaps Facebook and Myspace are not for your organization. They tried the Causes challenge – seeking donors on Facebook – and her biggest takeaway was that influencers are more valuable than donors. In other words, to formalize that relationship is a great idea. I attended two of them.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

But there is an even more basic, fundamental problem that information technology has only recently begun to tackle: passwords. In addition, ZCS has a robust access control list (ACL) management system to customize which staff members gets access to what on a very granular level. It's fairly reasonable for a nonprofit and works quite well.

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Forum One

APRIL 9, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

For example “Starbucks sucks” will show a lot of issues around free trade and other image problems. Q: What is the best way to acquire or create a widget for a Facebook or MySpace page? Emily : I have one word of advice, go Google something right now and add the word “sucks” with it. Beth : See [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Check out their MySpace page. FreeGeek in Portland solves two problems. You can also make a virtual gift on Facebook through Changing the Present. They recently launched the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline, and are in a push to increase the hours to 24/7 operation. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach. Details here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. Why should I use Facebook? Once the culture war is over, we can start talking technology, looking for the applications that provide methods or content that help solve practical problems. The people who keep on top of Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

As researcher Danah Boyd has pointed out, teens spend time on Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks because that's where their friends are. Is it a problem or a great starting point to focus on participatory experiences with teens? What do you think? Projects participatory museum inclusion.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

The problem is, even when they do exist, they often have so little information or are updated so infrequently that they become useless. MySpace, LiveJournal, and Facebook all provide ways for you to seamlessly view and click through friends and friends of friends.

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JULY 2, 2009

According to ReadWriteWeb, they will soon be providing a related API for Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed to integrate, retrieve, and provide further statistics for each users Facebook profile. That being said, maybe I have somewhat of a problem reaching whoever I want to reach by the more 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn. MySpace and Facebook display the number of friends you have. Social networks have built on this system significantly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2018

Source Facebook Blog – Click for Source. Yesterday, Facebook dropped another bomb: It now believes that information of up to 87 million members may have been “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica. [* nearly 71 million U.S. Will it become the MySpace of 2018? users are included in that number].

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. I can’t access MySpace or LinkedIn users via Facebook, or vice versa. But anything I write on Facebook is only visible within that network. The problem is that it is highly non-transportable. Why build a walled garden?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The other problem with starting in the middle is that it takes more time and effort to create and manage your own content than to comment on others'. For a big organization, creating a blog, podcast, or even a Facebook page requires an "initiative" complete with editorial plans, topic strategy, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A common mistake is to assume that because a person is “young&# and has been using Facebook for years to stay in touch with friends and family, then they must be good at using social media for branding an organization. What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

"It's not how many friends you have on Facebook, it's the depth of connection of our community ties that will keep us together and allow us to have political power together." We want to take it to scale and see what the problems are that we come up with at scale in these three programs: What's Your Tree?, That's the process.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Facebook being the major player here with general growth at this point including: > 200 million active users. Greenpeace building up 90,000+ friends on MySpace and communicating with this audience in that space. The tools and points she covered included: Social Networks. Fastest growing demographic is 35 and older. >

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