Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . The original photo is on Flickr and caught the eye of an editor from Esquire Magazine who was looking for photos to illustrate a piece about wedding photos. Tags: relationships. That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! I got a good laugh before hitting the delete button.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

GOOD magazine breaks it. Tags: Social Networking fundraising trends. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. And the nonprofit fundraising world is being broken a little bit at a time too. Kiva breaks it. Room to Read breaks it. GlobalGiving breaks it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

charity:water has a huge Twitter following of over 1 million fans and supporters and has a great deal of expertise using social media to leverage fundraising and raise awareness of their work. The Twestival and Charity Water's house social network are stellar examples. The CEO's of Social Media from India Leadership Forum.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Lots of members, including Charles Lenchner and Laura Quinn , were talking about the recent Pew research report on the use of social network by US adults over at M+R 's Progressive Exchange online community. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member. What a great team-building and healthy idea!

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See3

OCTOBER 30, 2009

October 30, 2009) – America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that encourages people to leverage their social networks to recruit supporters and win cash awards for nonprofit organizations, today announced that it has received a $75,000 grant from the W.K. Tags: Uncategorized fundraising. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

8:00 - 9:00 - Coffee / Tea + “Real-Time Social Networking&#. 9:20 - 9:40 - (M) David Kirkpatrick, Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine. 11:40 - 12:10 - “Will Law and Policy Kill the Social Communications Revolution Before It Starts? Tags: social media. 7:30 - Registration Opens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Fundraising Success Magazine covers The Great Debate: Direct Mail vs Online Acquisition. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Since building our social networking tactics was still on the “to do” list for 2010, we had to pull together a social marketing campaign on the fly. Like Brenda, EngAGE founder Tim Carpenter first learned of the project from GOOD magazine. Tags: contest crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place. There is a huge gap in understanding between what young people are doing with social media spaces and what adults perceive.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why compete with a social network giant that can do everything bigger and better than you? Social networks of personal webpages populated from museum experiences is one option.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

You’ll land on Braincake , their social networking site for girls, parents, and teachers focused on math and science education. When you’re reading Seventeen Magazine, you’re really about 13 years old. I like that; here’s an educational site that also has social networking at its core. Tags: web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

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 I thought of it as a magazine. Technorati Tags: nptech, bloggerview, nonprofit, Going to conferences is a part of my job.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

News : RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Tags: blog nonprofit. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo! blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Adam Lerner shared the story of Superheroes , a storefront in downtown Denver operated by a web designer who wanted to invite people to use his space to hang out, read magazines, and make things via letterpress. She made the clear point that teens use social networks to connect with people they already know, not to meet strangers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And, perhaps many took her advice, opting for turkey versus tagging items with the NpTech Tag! The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, maybe it is not too surprising that something that makes us feel good while doing good and a little silly like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went wild on the social networks. (That’s the response I gave during NPR Morning Edition when asked why it was catching on). These are all very serious and sad world events.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I loved all things journalism, magazine, newspaper. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, 1 billion monthly users each, and teenagers spend more time sending DMs, IMs than perusing social networks. So this is really how I discovered the principles of communications and marketing. So I was a journalism major in college.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

It is not something like a book or a magazine that stays static that you pick up and read that has a single and clear, stable position. Tags: Online Activism Social Networking Web 2.0 And now they come at you really, really fast.". It is a broadcast. It is a broadcast, it has to change. It has to move or it dies.

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