Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I attended a panel called "The Future of Social Innovation on the Web" This all-guy panel was facilitated by Dennis Whittle, Global Giving and featured Premal Shah, Kiva.org; Jonathan Greenblatt, Our Good Works; Steve Newcomb, Virgance; and Ben Rattray, Change.org. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI. We did a riff on KD Paine SobCon ROI of Relationships in Social Media that I covered on my blog earlier this month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Jeremiah Owyang describes this issue, but calls it " Fondling the Hammer " It's a symptom of a larger problem - the lack of ROI thinking and it happens in the nonprofit sector too. Shiny Object Syndrome. Max Gladwell also has more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Kiva , charity:water and a few others were mentioned. Seems like facilitative leadership is key. Buoyed by the success of their first event, the Twestival organizers wanted to do a second event, selecting a charity that had a global outreach and an active presence on Twitter.

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