Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

Now, I found it: N OSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. Hat tip, Katrin Verclas - NTEN Discuss listserv (yes I still read listservs). The NOSO experience offers a unique opportunity to create NO Connections by scheduling NO Events with other NO Friends.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements. Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Games for Change is looking to hire a community manager to manage a variety of online projects, primarily the Knowledge Network. This is a resource directory and social networking space for the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, a 4-year funded project going into its 2nd year.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Before, there were some high-activity listservs and sites with patterns to download. Now, there’s podcasts, blogs and knitting social networks. When I fell “asleep,” knitting was a different world. Now there’s so much for knitters online, it’s hard to grasp it all. The place to be as a knitter online seems to be Ravelry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Iavor works closely with individuals responsible for social media and the web at Local United ways, right now via a listserv that serves as a just-in-time support network for social media and web. Iavor is responsible for the implementation of the national United Way's social presence. Here's an example.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. But if they're there, we want to be there too without dividing ourselves into separate networks. We can make a white-label silo social network right now. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

, I decided to do an action learning experiment on these questions: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads than traditional techniques? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

individuals who make their mark on community opinion through participation on blogs, listservs, social networking and bookmarking sites, and other online forums where people gather to exchange news and views. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

Email your email lists, listservs and social networks directing people to register and search for projects on Serve.gov Link to Serve.gov on your blog or website ( Digital badges are available here ) Think creatively about how to collaborate with other organizations, businesses, foundations, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable, and easy to use. A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. The most successful groups on Facebook are those whose members are passionate about the group’s focus and goals. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. This makes me wonder: are younger practitioners creating their own online communities of practice in visually-based social networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. social networking sites. Eric Eckle suggests that this points to some larger organizational issues in embracing social networking sites. Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook.

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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. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Snacker: As conversations and resources become more distributed -- some on social networks, some in tag streams, some on listservs, or blogs -- and the rise of micro media - some people just snack on information -bouncing or multi-tasking from one bit to another. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. Isn't that what social networking is all about? Nonprofits can use groups).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

(I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. and elsewhere, and on these social networking sites there is at least the basic evaluation of how many others link to the sites. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted). There are many such lists on del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people. She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter." Somehow that morphed into my thesis topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 tools in their web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. There I'm thinking of things like wikis, social networking applications that allow you to eavesdrop on what your friends are doing (this is how I think of subscribing to a colleague's del.icio.us By that I mean that they should expose themselves online.

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Care2

JULY 11, 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!" Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. Usha from Beaconfire Consulting notes that it was conducted in the Louise Bethune conference room and fills us in on why this is symbolic.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Screening Candidates. Each step of the interview process should be planned in advance to ensure consistency and equity across candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. social marketing,??? After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday. Blog reactions here , here , here , here , here and here. big three???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! That geek has been sleeping for at least 15 years and when it opened it eyes it found a whole new world.

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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.

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