Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Would it be possible to sift through a year’s worth of engagements as an independent marketing consultant and boil down the lessons I learned in 2009 into a series of “Top 5” lists? Well, I decided to give it my best shot, starting with social media. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! is developing systems to recognize and reward those who are having the most impact both online and offline. Like many nonprofits working in more networked ways, KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. The lessons for arts organizations. Don’t think of social media as a quick fix to raise funds. All are captured here ).

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2010

Michael Cervino, Beaconfire: For online campaigning, a whole new world of tools and tactics is opening up for nonprofits as the commercial sector invests in social media, social networking and more sophisticated UI experiences. Michaela Hackner, Forum One: Community is king - both online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?&#. What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? All participants are grappling with how best to use social media to find and mobilize an audience. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Paynter’s talk, "The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community," examined how to build and sustain online communities by relating some of the lessons he has learned through managing the Care2 community since its inception. May’s Online Community Meetup featured Randy Paynter, co-founder of Care2.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Social Change Anytime Everywhere: Best Practices to Build a Multichannel Campaign Plan From your website to social media, email to mobile messages, online to offline, multichannel strategies require coordination and creative thinking across teams and departments, and a focus on the core of your work beyond any one specific call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Social Media ROI Case Study Slam.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Lesson ( RE ) learned, always budget in that ten minutes late start and print out the location from an email don't transcribe (dang, was trying to save paper) Also, keep a few slides after the end that may explain a commonly asked question. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed.

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Care2

MAY 31, 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!" on the eternal quest for the perfectly integrated online/offline fundraising database."

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Care2

MAY 29, 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!" on the eternal quest for the perfectly integrated online/offline fundraising database."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Seth Godin - Flip the Funnel concept -- get our supporters to leverage their networks. There are offline ways to do it. The program introduces how to use the technology, but also social skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. charity:water has a presence on Twitter and has the caught the attention of social media gurus like Twitter's founders and Mashable.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Not a peep on Twitter or Facebook even as supporters continued to post thousands of messages on social networks and let's not forget the buzz that grew offline, around dinner tables, and office water coolers. What's more telling than this communal reaction is Komen's response to its own community's revolt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Not alone, of course, but with lots of help from my friends and network. This is a passion-driven effort on my part with two goals: to support Cambodian children through the work of the Sharing Foundation and to share my lessons learned with other nonprofits so they can use these tools for the greater social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Note from Beth: Last fall, Aspen Baker shared a guest post about privacy and social networks on this blog. I want to share with you our challenges and lessons learned about building a private online community and to make a case for private networking as a critical strategy for social change. These are solvable.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Social Network Sites: In an effort to court the younger voter, candidates have built presences on My Space and Facebook. These site subscribers are the hubs of their own social networks -- a population un-polled by traditional pollsters but known to the campaigns. What formal and informal networks do they cultivate?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Does the future of online fundraising lie in mobile social networks that have an easy built-in payment system for in-the-moment charitable giving of very small amounts by thousands and thousands of people? And, she has also challenged the notion of the size of a "small donation." She asked her 12,500 followers to donate just $2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Everyone else must work harder to spark a true grassroots movement (online or offline) and realize the results that the technology world, including Causes, have promised through their platforms. The successful causes on Causes seem to start out well known, or bring in a high profile or strong brand. Let’s review: Its not about the technology.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

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Care2

JUNE 1, 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!" 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

What are you goals for using social media to support your organizing work? FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. One without the other is never as effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. White Label Social Networking Sites - Too Much?

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

3) Tips for list building, frequency of messaging, asks that work, integration with offline, etc. Care2 is an online social network of over 14 million people worldwide who want to make a difference in causes they care about. An email list? Facebook Ads? 2) How was 2010 different and what new trends had an impact this year.

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