Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This started a year long (and well funded) effort to “crowdsource” a vision for Wikimedia’s future—a deep and wide think about the challenges and opportunities the Wikimedia movement faced and how they can position themselves to meet them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

The project is funded by the Packard Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund – wanted to strengthen the social sector consulting industry and to support nonprofits to be better consumers of consultants. The project partners include Shiree Teng, Groupaya, and Compasspoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To meet people where they already are, we created a Facebook group and wiki site to share information. Find a Fund Way to Play: This year, a few community foundations experimented with using their pool of donor-advised funds and fundholders to contribute to the day. million , once the dust settled).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

She’s advised literally hundreds of Packard Foundation-funded organizations around the world on social media strategy and what it means to be a networked nonprofit. She manages to make everyone feel like they have wisdom to bring to the table (or the wiki). She makes everyone feel like failure is okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The wiki content is a first draft, there will be also be a community-driven editing process. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Also, in some places of the world there is lower adoption rates of social — for example in very rural areas of the developing world – where this data would not be useful for informing a funding strategy. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later. Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Defining the platforms – be it a wiki forum, open data sets for analysis, or a webinar – that provide the best pathways for learning to take place will make the process that much speedier and easier. And it turns out, those are pretty important questions. The who? Throw open the doors – there’s learning going on!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

Narrow the goals : In this round of the game, we had planned that groups would form around possible ideas/topics, create a plan, pitch the plan for “funding&# and also create a 3-year timeline of how an idea like that could unfold. Then, we asked that the groups pitch to the same two people for ultimate funding (&# winning&# ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

SAP recognizes that nonprofits typically receive funding only for their direct services, leaving them struggling to handle pressing needs such as financial, logistics, and human resources management. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The game wiki is here. You can read the notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki includes curated resources, tips, and learning from the leaders in nonprofit social media. Apps for Social Media Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

It might be difficult for the nonprofits to drop the word investment and replace it with insight - only from the point of the view that the word "investment" translates in donations and funding. And usually have to submit reports that demonstrate "impact." Nonprofits need to learn the insights and also understand the value of the investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Of course, he gave attribution to all his funders, showing a slide of the project they funded and often including a logo. She has also shared her slides and wiki here. I'm a big fan of the "wikitation" and think that a wiki coupled with slide share is a great way to do it. " It would lead to a contribution.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone. http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 7_July_2005_London_bombings. Social Media in Disaster Response. link] Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. In addition to Zoetica, implementation partners include SMEX Beirut , TechSoup Global , and Meedan directly, plus a network of in-country teams and training partners.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Parts of the plan were funded under the Federal stimulus package including the Connect America Fund , which was created to supply affordable broadband to underserved people and areas. Learn more about broadband and, in particular, get resources for expanding Internet access and digital literacy through our broadband wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

An example of the last point, is the Packard OE Wiki that has been dubbed “Public Learning.” ” A nonprofit example is Engineers Without Borders that makes it impact assessment reports available on its web site. No shame in failing.”.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You are funded to do this by a US foundation. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). You accomplish this by educating the people of that country on all aspects of safe water, and you lead projects that help to improve the quality of the water supply. Mobile phones. Voice Recorders.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

This is the key federal law affecting Internet use in schools, requiring any school district that receives E-Rate funding to filter or. TechSoup’s broadband wiki also has some great resources about developing tools, policies and resources for your IT infrastructure. Are you in sync with (Children’s Internet Protection Act)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. For this workshop, we had a hashtag - #Artslabsf and the wiki. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Make sure to read through the FAQ and look at last year's winners to get a sense of what they are willing to fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

Mani Sivasubramanian is a heart surgeon using his Internet marketing business to fund heart surgery for under-privileged children in India. I set up a wiki that included lots of text and photos so they could remix as they wanted or not. I included a sign up sheet too. I also used to document links to their posts as we went along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I wish I could have attended the other workshops that were taking place at the same time as mine - from David La Piana on Strategic Planning and Dione Alexander from the Nonprofit Finance Fund. My slides and other resources are on the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. I’ve lifted this from their website. . "To

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Where To Find Resources and Case Studies The WeAreMedia Wiki has several excellent collections of Twitter how-tos, case studies, and other resources for nonprofits. They tweet about important resources, charities, and funding programs in their region. NPTech Twitter Group is a list of 263 nonprofit technology geeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. I've added a wiki to my Facebook profile.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Online social networking was just being born. Google Maps.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. I could create a fundraising page or campaign for your organization, maybe tie it into my running a marathon or my birthday, and would never need to ask your permission, get your information, or even handle the funds!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Chapter 6: Budgeting for and Funding Technology (Scott McCallum, and Keith R. Keep your eyes peeled for a wiki in the coming weeks, where you'll be able to add your two cents to the conversation and enrich the experience of the book for the entire community. Chapter 4: How to Decide: IT Planning and Prioritizing (Peter Campbell).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2008

But in December I thought, "hey all you did was raise the minimum" So I decided to go for mostly strangers, doing one blog post and sending out a few twitter messages: Wow, what a response- I raised my total funds raised to nearly $1600, and a number of them were from people I've never had contact with.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

My Dad is involved in the creation of the Global Center for Cultural Enterprise and Entrepreneurship which will support cultural entrepreneurs around the world with training, tech support, and policy and funding resources. You can see what they have so far on Ning here and their wiki here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Our key objective was to make a viral splash, to spread dynamic content, to increase donations to the ARC Disaster Relief Fund. I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. How did you implement it? That was useful considering our time crunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

The Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund is what gives us the ability to be ready to respond to the 70,000 disasters that happen every year. In order to keep the fund healthy, we set a goal of raising $100 million back in September. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc.

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