Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. Some threads of conversation about the Case Foundation's Social Citizen paper - can be summarized as "This paper is right on in identifying the current "situation on the ground" The question is, as always, how do you apply the information?"

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Worldchanging Interview: Jean Russell on Thrivability - Great interview with Jean Russell at Worldchanging! After that talk (which you can hear via the above link), I asked Jean to join me in a brief but enlightening Worldchanging interview." Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting Spirited Nonprofit Management - Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Scenario I - An Interview with Kelvin Taketa and Chris Van Bergeijk - "Even before the financial crisis began to unfold, the Hawaii Community Foundation realized that it had lapsed into philanthropic habits that might be counterproductive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Today, in an email, Allison Fine is asking for our reactions to a new report she authored and published by The Overbrook Foundation yesterday called "Web 2.0 Assessment of The Overbrook Foundation's Human Rights Grantees." Some of the key themes from focus group interviews: Participants felt a ???common versus web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Tags: america giving challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2009

It seems like just yesterday when I started my nine-month journey as Visiting Scholar for Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Tags: scholar. And it's good to have a journal recording what I've learned. But it's even better for learning to have someone asked you some questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, my adventure in Alaska started with a meeting with representatives from community foundations around the state of Alaska hosted by the Alaska Community Foundation. That’s where I met Joe Page from the Jessica Stevens Foundation who told the amazing about the Talkeetna Bachelor Society. Click to play.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

Core CMP members include the African Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund. The program guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Tags: roundup bookmarks. You can also follow it online at @RebootBritain and elsewhere. " onion network - "The onion network is an international mixture of socially aware freelancers and companies. Social Networks Around the World - Check out this great visualization of users on social networks around the world from ReadWriteWeb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. you can catch up with Mike Seyfang's live blogs, twitters, pipe, and more , including this interview with Daniel Ben-Horin from CompuMentor. The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. Vivian from Roundy's Supermarket Chain and Kelly Linn Cheesemsn, Wal-Mart Foundation. Tags: Housekeeping. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Susan Gordon & Beth Kanter , originally uploaded by Craigslist Foundation. The podcast from our session can the Craigslist Foundation site and our slides can be found here. They did a series of video interviews asking folks what the nonprofit of the future might look like. My interview is here. Tags: clbc09.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

1) Downer News Cycle: Last week, in an interview with NPR , I pointed to the long cycle of bad news we had experienced over the summer as one possible reason the Ice Bucket Challenge had so much appeal. They also tag their friends. It is a reminder to have some good examples ready for your champions and supporters to emulate.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2 million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. ."

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

Once the foundational pieces of the event are secured, it’s time to build out a marketing calendar. Take advantage of the opportunity and schedule short video interviews in advance with top or new donors and ask them to share a story about why they believe in the nonprofit’s cause and why they’ve chosen to support it.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2010

Through the Salesforce.com Foundation product donation program, qualified 501(c)(3) organizations are able to receive a donation of 10 Salesforce CRM licenses. Salesforce.com is a popular cloud computing customer relationship management (CRM) database that’s used by tens of thousands of companies around the globe. Thursday, March 25, 11 a.m.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . help from Third Sector New England , Social Actions , and the Boston Foundation, a first. Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members. their nptech awesome. Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Two weeks ago, Drew announced his Twitter fundraising campaign to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation , a charity that "grants wishes for children with life threatening medical conditions." Louis Gray has an interview with her. Steve's been a huge supporter of the Sharing Foundation. Tags: fundraising2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In our quest we have interviewed, and continue to interview, top brands engaged in social media for social good. Tags: Housekeeping. We have also looked at some failures, and harvested learning about best practices and how they could have been better. The Differences Between Cause Marketing and CSR. Our focus is on [.].

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 28, 2009

A Kellogg Foundation study found that potentially up to 50% of your donors are going to want to check you out before they give, whether they give online or not. I interviewed Ted last week as part of the Telesummit and he shared a long list of things donors are looking for on your web site. www.gailperry.com ). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 If you are the Luce Foundation Center for American Art , you offer the public the ability to become “citizen curators.” What is the Luce Foundation Center doing? Absolutely brilliant!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2009

Last week, I was fortunate enough to present a session on social media with Marnie Webb of TechSoup Global, Laura Norvig of ETR Associates, Matt Sharp from the Packard Foundation, and Matt Dunne at Google. Tags: ncvs NPTech NTEN video. I think it's fair to say that we rocked! The most complicated thing about it was the scheduling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

McCormick Foundation , a large non-profit in Chicago, has a project where they made it possible for 24, 5th & 6th graders from one of the roughest Chicago neighborhoods to be in DC last weekend and this week attend the inauguration. They ran into ABC’s Robin Roberts yesterday and she let them interview her. Tags: misc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Then, I thought, ah - someone who I can ask to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation!    I told him I was really focused on the fundraising goal and I agreed to answer some questions via email.    I did. .   I told him I was really focused on the fundraising goal and I agreed to answer some questions via email. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

My friends at the Nasscom Foundation will be attending the conference and have a fantastic networking opportunity. Here's an interview with did with Holly Ross about the session. Tags: 10ntc. There's the NTEN member reception at noon. As soon as find out where and when, I'll you know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Jessica Kirkwood from HandsOn Network who oversees social media strategy about how the strategy and measurement component for this campaign. What are the key results of this campaign ? We were experimenting and learning about what an online community organized around service might look like.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. Marc Osten interviews Gavin Clabaugh -- two NTEN superstars, I must say!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008. Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies. Tags: Books.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In cooperation with MTV and The Lemelson Foundation, Youth Venture produced a half-hour documentary on the inventors that's currently making the rounds on MTV in Latin America. Youth Venture has also produced two e-books with featured and interviews on the inventors and their ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Scott Anderson from ClientTrack , a software solution aimed at increasing the impact of social benefit organizations and their work by “integrating people, processes, and technology.&# You can learn more about Scott and the work ClientTrack is doing in the interview below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

After lunch, I got an opportunity to do a FLIP camera interview with Mark and Christian – posted above. Tags: Free Agent. This year, he has a film crew following him creating a documentary. Why Nonprofits and Free Agents Should Work Together.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kimberly and Walter the piglet With a passion for do-gooding, I took it to the next level by launching a non-profit, Tranquil Space Foundation , and returning to school to get my Masters in Social Work. Tags: Have Fun Do Good Guest Posts. This aligns beautifully with my practice of yoga. Have I mentioned pigs?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This database has more than 43,000,000 (million) donation records in it — where you can search for individuals, corporations, and foundation donation records to see who they've supported in the past, how much they've given, and look for those donors who may be likely to also support your cause. The special discount ends today at 5 p.m.

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