Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? While analyzing our orchestra's "social network," I discovered that someone attended high school with Garrison Keilor. I wonder if we need a new term to describe this approach?

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JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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MAY 25, 2009

Tags: Accessible Technology Online Activism Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Lam is harnessing social media to spark civic engagement and drive global giving and volunteerism. He is the creator and host of GoInspireGo.com (GIG), a multimedia platform that "uses social networking for social change." Participate virtually at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons Drive-In Theater in Second Life.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Susan was asked about her role as the community director of TechSoup and the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and she discussed how the networks are connected to each other. Tags: Social Networking. Episode 22: Susan Tenby from TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life. Chavez believes that the key to effective blogging is anticipating what the audience hopes to take from an educational event and guiding an audience to a greater understanding of a topic.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2010

This post originally appeared on the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life blog and was penned by DustyArtuad. NPC is happy to share that TechSoup Global won the open-vote portion of the Justmeans/Financial Times 2010 Social Innovation Awards. Great work everybody, and we deeply appreciate the help from the entire virtual community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. What about the networking opportunities? (We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. And, I got an instant response.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

Beyond managing social media channels, such as Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn , the community team also produces regular events on nptech topics including the monthly Online Community Meetup and the annual Digital Storytelling Challenge.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2009

If you're not in the Bay Area, you still join us by viewing the event in Second Life. Tags: Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Social Networking Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Pacific at the TechSoup headquarters (525 Brannan Street, Third Floor) in San Francisco for the mixed reality awards screening party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week. Ruby Sinreich mentions that a RootsCamp will take place in Seoncd Life. More information here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

I keep stumbling upon Paul's work all over the web - most recently he facilitated discussion on Second Life at Socialedge and a recent article CNET called Social Networking for All? Be dure to check out some of his YouTube videos really funny and well done!

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. The mixed-reality discussion took place in real life at Seton Hall and in the virtual world, Second Life.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

ROI of social media can be an intangible- The NonProfit Times March 15, 2011: "here's Facebook, Second Life, Myspace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and now Jumo. There are many smaller social networking platforms. What's It Cost?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. Also, they have a very interesting ROI calculator for social networks that is worth a look. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Sue Bennett 09.11.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Rik Riel writes about the first professional orchestra to perform in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

But wait a second, I could attempt to live blog remotely. because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater). and Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Paul Lamb pinged me to let me know about a segment called Nonprofits of the Future where he is interviewed by John Powers and explores how new social web tools are transforming nonprofits. (He He mentions the Leng Sopharath Campaign -- he was a contributor) He also talks about Nonprofits and Second Life.

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NOVEMBER 9, 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!" Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Is this my life? ;-). Social Networking. What struck me was the code of ethics for Virtual Worlds: Virtual Worlds Act in second life like you would in your first life. Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. Mobile Phones. Virtual Worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

While the plugin makes it easy to expand your network, you have to think about your contact acquisition behavior. Just like you would in flickr or other social networking tools. I installed the LinkedIn tool for Outlook so when I add people to my Outlook address book (via Plaxo), I can also easily add them to my LinkedIn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

I actually didn't know, so I asked my Twitter network. Twitter is a micro-blogging and social networking tool. It's a super useful tool for tapping the collective wisdom of your network. amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I've been online since the days of early dial-up modems, so I was participating in social networks before the term "social media" was even used. Through Twitter, I became aware of your work with social causes. Find out what social networks they participate in, and communicate with them online.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Another good use of social bookmarking sites is to create group resource lists for collaborative bookmarking. Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. The campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. social marketing,??? I think to be successful, you also need to follow a systematic process for developing your social marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. It may be the basics not social networking tools.)

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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!" Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. " If you have thoughts about Second Wave adoption of Web2.0 And while we're looking at Web2.0,

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