Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). Make it fun. The Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. We need to support the organizations that are writing it in figuring out how to cover their costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. What did set out to accomplish? Community Media Workshop???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. However, I know there is a lot of expertise and knowledge about social media and nonprofit use out there. Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! You might be surprised how many nonprofits and individuals are using Facebook groups to organize. is also called the "social web" because, well, it's social! net2 nptech Bioneers activism Flickr Photo Credit: Free Burma by Luis Yax

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Lisa Neal ) 2. For many in the boomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Follow the links from here. Generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Deborah Finn's thoughts about limiting the membership to nonprofit tech workers whose e-mail addresses are originating from a.org and whose organization is a 501c3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. Donors of all ages will be looking for meaningful points of engagement with your organization. None of them involve passive check-writing on behalf of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." from Michigan State who is doing research on how younger people are using social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Social bookmarking in plain English! Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0

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MARCH 4, 2007

When you are creating your press list, be sure to search on Technorati and Google Blog Search to find bloggers who are writing about your organization's issues and send them your press release as well. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Cross posted at Netsquared photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Stated another way, organize and simplify. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. This year I'll be adding Radian 6 to my toolkit and sharing what I learn. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? White Label Social Networking Sites - Too Much? NTEN does a comparison on Alexa of several social networking sites.

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