Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Jason Z at DIA bog writes about the launch of " Make It Your Own: Case Foundation's Experiment in Citizen-Centric Philanthropy " which includes both MySpace and Facebook. More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. This flaw is not that the tools are ineffective; it’s rather a misuse and missed opportunity by the organization.” – Kristin Ivie. For them, going out and cleaning up a park — that’s not necessarily attractive to them…’” – Linton Weeks.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace). They are not just posting photos of their grandkids.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace). They are not just posting photos of their grandkids.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Between email solicitation, direct mail, major donors, and grant-writing, the vast majority of nonprofits will weather the economic hard times. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" tools as part of an organization’s communications strategy. I encourage you to check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

So how do you design for that kind of maturity, and for kids who want a MySpace? We didn’t want to build MySpace. One of the vendors made a proposal to us with the phrase: “It’s MySpace meets NASA." For lots of people, it's overwhelming to jump in and embrace social networking as a basis for an educational tool.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

Need to alert everyone on a project that the fire marshal is on his way, or that you just received the $50k grant you were hoping for? This is similar to initiatives where museums create MySpace accounts, in that you are going to “where the people are.” You can communicate easily with groups of people. I used to hate cell phones.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

Granted, they can be logistical nightmares to maintain, but for many employees they are the only way to visualize and potentially connect individuals across the organization. MySpace, LiveJournal, and Facebook all provide ways for you to seamlessly view and click through friends and friends of friends. Consider, for example, the U.S.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The experience is fundamentally entry-level; you have the tools you need to succeed. Perhaps this is a reasonable "phase 2" to grants for visitor-generated exhibits--to move on to visitor-curated and analyzed ones. Real research is done on the ways people use MySpace and YouTube. There are materials to work with.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I have been doing the social media thing for almost 4 years and I took granted that most nonprofits are doing the basics in terms of measuring ROI, but recent polls I presented on Twitter speak otherwise. What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Submitted by Heather McLeod Grant, senior consultant at the Monitor Institute and a principal contributor to Working Wikily. She talked about how online social networks mirror off-line social dynamics, and described the phenomenon of “white flight” from MySpace to Facebook.

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