Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 7, 2014
If you are the person tasked with supporting this team, remember you have to model enthusiasm and make it contagious. Use a Hub and Spoke Model: This advice will help you manage the many champions who will help you, especially if you centralized your toolkits. Facebook Groups are great for this!
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 2, 2010
If you are an organization or group that wants to catalyze and support community-generated projects or you are someone that wants to get involved, I hope this is a format you can take and run with. And I want to share it with you, get your ideas, and start a long-term process of collaboratively improving and refining this model.
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Tech Soup
MAY 14, 2013
In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Most of the content was (and is) user generated. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 30, 2010
I modeled that I don't know everything. But even better, this question posted on my Fan Page wall generated 14 insightful comments with useful advice, including one from the Facebook developer who worked on some Facebook translation tools! Many people have also remixed it. A New Definition of An Expert: Your Network.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2007
One particular quote jumped out at me, "The Facebook generation wears their causes like the way they wear their favorite fashion." That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. Maybe we all need to be role models. I recently read an article about fundraising on social networking sites. How do we inspire?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. What is it?
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 20, 2009
A great shot of your institution, shared on Flickr, serves as a free piece of marketing that may generate ticket sales. And even if visitors do take authoritative (noncommercial) shots, they are unlikely to reduce sales. There are two parts to this. First, every time a photo is shared, it extends the reach of your objects and exhibit stories.
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