Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Right now our organization gets more than 20% of the traffic from the surplus of social media sites we are on.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. When joining, the presence of ad-recommending data was very clear. We could only see people at our university.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Click Through to Flickr for Attributions. In our book, Networked Nonprofit , we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress. Avoid spreading the organization’s resources too thin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

This year we have over 120 volunteers who worked with local nonprofits on strategy consults or ventured out to the Clarkston Community Center under the capable leadership of Johanna Bates (our Day of Service "mom") who made sure that all the volunteers signed their waivers before climbing tall ladders and go off and on the bus and back to the hotel!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Flickr Photo by Eqqman. Source: Working Wikily Sam's story illustrates the tension between working as an organization versus in a networked way or working wikily. My offer to help kickstart, research and join the social networking policy development process at work (from a fundraiser perspective) was also rebuffed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. with "just for fun."

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Having recently attended a social media conference and through contact with individuals in other organizations, I would say that The Arthritis Society is in the middle of the pack. Where do you think your organization is particularly strong (a leader) when it comes to using technology effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

flickr photo courtesy of racoles Note from Beth: This week I've been researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements with others and invited guest blog posts on this topic. How To Create a Grassroots Movement Using Social-Networking Sites (YouTube video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. This sent me to flickr to search by the tag steward to see if there was visual and found the above, plus some religious references from google. I'm headed to the UK in January for the Lasa conference and will be presenting with David Wilcox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Recently, some museums have launched initiatives to rebrand as community spaces, acknowledging and attempting to harness the positive social energy around visitation. Notably, the Brooklyn Museum's heavy involvment with social networking sites like MySpace has extended the idea that museums are sites for discussion.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

The title of the session was “Politics 2.0 – How social networks and new media are changing politics.&# Her subject was, what makes for effective social networks. Strong Social Ties a. awareness – you have to know the network exists 2. First up was Ruby Sinreich. Here are some notes: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Source: Robotson on Flickr I don't know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. In June, I hosted a discussion about Collaboration and Competition on Social Edge in which the topic of open standards for the nonprofit sector was raised.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Flickr photo: Cindy47452 One of the things we know to be true about the work we do: we can't do it alone. That's why I find the concept of "network weaving" so intriguing, and was delighted to chat with one of its originators, June Holley. I think network weaving may answer that question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

m also blessed with entrepreneurial leadership who aren???t s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? ve laid the foundation, we can get a huge response from these networks for our campaigns. Our Flickr photo contest.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online social networks in general? For example: Mobile devices?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Measure – Prove to leadership that the investments made are yielding incremental results toward your goals. Flickr , which is a platform designed to share online photos, is another great way to source images that are labeled for reuse. The best way to avoid this type of action is to ask for permission or purchase a license.

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