Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The Nature Conservancy has used Flickr Group to host a photo contest on its Web site. Here's an interview with Nature Conservancy staff members Evan Parker and Susan Citro about how the organization is using Flickr. Why did your decide to set up a group on Flickr? What is your best advice on using groups?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492. Tags: The Book. Blog: pancan.org/blog. Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. Twitter: twitter.com/PanCAN , twitter.com/Advocate4PanCAN. YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. gid=104492. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Tagging lets us organize the Net our way.

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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

Chantal Forster, Executive Director, TAG ( Technology Association of Grantmakers ). Since we started impala, by far the most common feedback we’ve heard across hundreds of interviews with nonprofits and foundations alike is that they’re skeptical. If you’ve been waiting for an invitation to the data conversation, this is it.

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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. This feature enables a group of people to join and share items they have discovered from their FriendFeeds (or elsewhere) and have micro-discussions. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Can you answer it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. Respondents were asked if they contributed to each group of tool or simply viewed the material offered. The fact that this question was only asked after groups of services and not after individual services produced what seem to be unreliable results.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. Facebook The Non-Profits on Facebook Group is for those who work for, belong to, or support nonprofits on Facebook. For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. There's even an NpTech group that has to date 115 slideshows and 31 members. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It’s now been a few months and I wanted to check in on the status of the platform, the impact it’s had on communities using the tool and organizations supporting those groups. Earlier this Fall, I got a message from Laura on the Chain Reaction network (on Ning) that told members the group would be moving to another platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream. nonprofit technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Last night, I had the great opportunity to interview Clay Shirky , the author of Here Comes Everybody. Last month, my blog here on SSIR discussed the idea that nonprofit organizations, with the use of social media, can now create shared spaces online for their communities—truly convene groups online.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

#1 Thing You Need to Know about This Post: 5 non-profit groups will attend the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival for free if they submit their innovative ideas by Sunday, October 31. The SXSW Interactive Festival wants to help more non-profit groups attend their event. Check out a few of Blackbaud’s Interviews at SXSW 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

The new version of Miradi also supports the creation of a future central repository of shared conservation data so conservationists launching new projects can draw on the deep knowledge accumulated by these groups. Miradi was built in partnership with these global conservation groups and input from users around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Remember to tag the guest and any companies mentioned to increase the potential for engagement and comments. MAKE sure to tag the guests or anyone you think might find the episode. Don’t just rely on auto-post functions as they won’t properly tag the companies and guest(s) involved. Personal LinkedIn. Be our guest !

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I think museum visitors are ready and eager for museums to catch up to retail and the forprofit world and recognize them as individuals rather than homogeneous groups. We started with focus groups with current and prospective members, asking about their interests and what kinds of experiences they would really value as part of membership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process. The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

While we've used traditional research methods, including a survey of 720 Challenge Participants and interviews, we are facilitating “Conversational Case Studies” that explore best practices in integrating social media with fundraising campaigns by the America’s Giving Challenge (AGC) winners. Tags: america giving challenge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2009

I remember sitting in a small group with the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. They had just take a group of students to Washington DC to meet Caltech alums working in science policy, but they want to go further. So, I sat down at breakfast with a group of campus leaders.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Some of the events include: Using Tinychat to broadcast multiple live streams, chats, interviews and guest panels. Additionally, join the 12for12k Facebook group for updates as they happen. Tags: challenge events 12for12k fundraising nonprofits twitter. Special comedy skits including Soul Possum and a New York comedy troupe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. 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. without leaving the virtual world!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Reboot Britain - David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and I are going to faciliate another round of the Social by Social Game at Reboot Britain - I'm really looking forward to the innovative ideas groups come up with! Tags: roundup bookmarks. I'm also looking forward to the rest of the day as a participant and not just a facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. We kept doing this until people had a chance to have conversations with about dozen people in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

In the beginning, I was summarizing the answers using Q1:A1, Q1:A2 in my tweets. This is what a focus group moderator would do in a face-to-face session. These are standard types of “question probes&# and active listening that you would do if you were interviewing someone or moderating a focus group.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

." 'Online fundraising will change everything' – Third Sector – "Azadi Sheridan, the chair of the Institute of Fundraising's Technology Special Interest Group, tells David Ainsworth why donor 'churn and burn' won't work in the future. We wanted more than four ways to use the new tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We were lucky enough to locate the training at the America House Kiev which offered the dream combination of great lattes, flexible space, state of the art equipment, and super fast internet. The first day the room layout was in small groups, to encourage knowledge sharing and co-learning. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

February’s Net2 Think Tank sprang from an interview with Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody. Watch the interview and check out these responses! Watch the interview and check out these responses! You can watch the video interview with Skirky below. Tags: role nonprofits net2thinktank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 8, 2010

I interviewed Kivi Leroux Miller today about her new book “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide.&# There were several nuggets of wisdom that popped out of our conversation, and I thought I’d share them with you. You must identify the specific groups of supporters who are out there, and craft your message to them. Tell stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

Ed Batista posted some of his reflections about nonprofit blogging in response to reading the interview with Michael Gilbert as did Jon Stahl. But the groups I work with tend to be mid-sized at their biggest. Technorati Tags: nptech ve heard little fear of dissidents expressed in my travels with folks ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I had a fairly large group and an excellent space to work in. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room. Participants worked in groups to identify the benefits, tangible/intangible value, and financial analysis. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

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