Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. " He said that MacArthur hopes to make investments to help nonprofits and civil society organizations address serious issues. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. I had the privilege of attending an event for A Billion + Change , a national campaign to mobilize billions of dollars in skills-based and pro bono volunteer services to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to effectively meet community needs. Guest post by Cindy Hallberlin.

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MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. While each of these channels has their own mechanisms and conventions for using tags the primary function of those tags remains the same - organizing content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your organization’s capabilities for doing this? How will your organization know if you are making progress? Phil Buchanan is President of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). The questions are: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. This post and the more detailed piece on the Chronicle of Philanthropy will help you get up to speed on the issue and why it is important for nonprofits to get behind. After you read this post, take some action.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Flickr: Juushika Redgrave This past weekend saw the first offical day of fall which means we can all look forward to months of potted mums, candy corn, and annual conferences. John Haydon helps to clarify Facebook''s changes to their news feed and how this will affect your organization''s account. Register now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by Yandel. But many causes and organizations are finding that it’s a lot harder to get picked up in the local paper and/or the national news than it used to be. So long live new media, which places your nonprofit organization in the driver’s seat. Content is King. Tailor the Tool.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Nasser Halteh of ZeroDivide , Kimberly Hedges of Americans for the Arts , and Alvaro Rojas from The Chronicle of Philanthropy all scored notebooks from Higher Logic. Flickr photo credit: woodleywonderworks. And now for our last round of winners, including our grand prize winners! Thanks (or should I say #ntenthanks?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? It lays out some the benefits, but also suggests situations where a social networking strategy is probably not right for your organization. Signs that a social networking site might work ??? or not work ??? This thinking approach keeps us from fondling the hammer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. This month he explores why and how networked nonprofits should rally for more transparency in campaign funding based on a more detailed article over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. Given the massive cuts we are seeing across the sector, there is no way that private philanthropy can respond on a dollar for dollar basis. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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APRIL 7, 2014

NetSquared’s global network of volunteers will be organizing more than 30 events this April in communities as diverse as Mukono, Uganda; Wellington, New Zealand; and Boston, USA. Chicago, IL: Join Us to discuss The Nature of Measuring Impact in Philanthropy. Photo Credit: NetSquared/Joyce, creative commons on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr by Leo Reynolds. What does distinguish these organizations, though, is the specificity of what they ask people to do when once they’ve brought them together in conversation. As philanthropy takes up ‘network thinking’ as its next frontier, there is the danger that we’ll get too caught up in the technicalities.

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MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. What Is Web 2.0? Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

Flickr Image from Carlos ZGZ. The Giving Challenge is a chance to be adventurous with philanthropy. September 1 and 2 is an AMAZING time to celebrate the good things your organization makes possible in this community. So put on your field boots and a hat. Bring your butterfly net. Plan thoughtfully but be flexible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. KONY2012 has prompted countless reporters, bloggers, and talking heads to comment on the changing ways in which we are becoming aware of social problems and the organizations that are tackling them. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. But the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University says we are experiencing the second slowest recovery since 1971. These trends are based on Target Analytics’ evaluation of transactions from 77 organizations, including over 37 million donors and more than 77 million gifts totaling over $2.4

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. What do you think?

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MAY 2, 2008

FinancialAidPodcast suggests paying down your debt, putting it in a savings account, or donating to a charitable organization. Trista Harris of New Voices in Philanthropy thinks you should purchase goods and services from a local nonprofit. Flickr Photo Credit: Money uploaded by Jennifer R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. not organized or centralized by specific non-profit organizations) model be sustainable and/or enough to affect real change in the world? Claire Williams Diaz talks Hope140, T.W.E.E.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

flickr: Beach650 Most days, we're hiding from the rain in our Portland, OR office. November 8-9 in Kansas City, MO : The 18th annual Philanthropy Midwest Conferenc e will feature Anna speaking about Mobile Fundraising Made Easy with Mobile Citizen. But this fall, NTEN staff is traveling all over the country to various NPTech events.

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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

JUNE 10, 2008

Flickr Photo by lafabriquedeblogs. The phrase "Working Wikily" was coined by Lucy Bernholz (I don't know how many phrases she's originated in the nonprofit, social media, and philanthropy - but this one is a gem). These may include: Networks of organizations. Networks of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009. Non-profits will recognize the potential of bringing on these virtual community organizations, especially their ability to raise in tiny increments in a down economy. It's that time of year again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. ” The scarcity mindset exists when it comes to self-care because there is a lack of belief that self-care can help their organization achieve better results. Not prioritizing self-care, as an individual or as part of the organization’s way of working can lead to burnout.

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JULY 9, 2008

In May 2008, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that six groups (Fetzer Institute, Ford Foundation, Hidden Leaf Foundation, Jewish Funds for Justice, W.K. Flickr Photo Credit: Shining Treetops uploaded by Zest-pk activism religion contemplation spirituality environment

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I was also surprised to read this post by the Web Metrics Guru, not the usual type of blog that covers the nonprofit world or philanthropy.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

You might be surprised how many nonprofits and individuals are using Facebook groups to organize. On September 28th you could have uploaded a photo of yourself wearing a red shirt to Flickr to show your solidarity with the monks in Burma as part of Red Shirt Day for Burma/Birma/ Myanmar. Networking for Change. Ask for help.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Qui Diaz:Livingston, recently did research for the Philanthropy 2.0 ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up. Panelists: Wendy Harmon: social media manager, philosophy is to use social media to execute mission.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

It never hurts to organize a fundraising campaign around an event, even the Super Bowl. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com Flickr photo credit: Gingery Sweet Potato Soup uploaded by thebittenword.com Super Bowl donation philanthropy giving cause marketing What are some of your Super Bowl giving experiences, or ideas?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

If Friday the 13th was your lucky day, and you won the lottery, what organizations and causes would you support? Flickr photo credit: Luck of Summer Rain uploaded by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic. philanthropy donation nonprofit Women for Women International blog What are 13 causes you'd give to if you won the lottery?

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JUNE 16, 2006

Last weekend I went to my second Dining for Women dinner--a group of women get together for dinner, learn about an organization's work with women and children in impoverished countries, and pool their collected funds to make a donation. image via Flickr women cake philanthropy fundraising The couple raised over $600.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Students who are planning on entering high paying careers need to learn how to make their businesses sustainable, and how to give back to their community through philanthropy or volunteerism. Flickr photo credit: Middle. Seems to me that students need to be taught how to prioritize and balance time, money and passion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Flickr photo from: Just Me Robin Photos "Fried Green Tomatoes anyone?" Virtually all of online givers (96%) have given to charity before, but a sizable proportion (38%) is new to online philanthropy. is evident at Network for Good when numbers of donations are charted by organization. children,??? ???cancer,???

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