Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Once I started clicking around and adding Gadgets and experimenting with Buzz, Reader, Themes, Maps, Gmail, Google News and hopefully soon Google Voice , it was immediately clear that I was going to start using iGoogle and Gmail much more often. If it is still available, create an account that matches you social media profiles.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. Social Media for Small Enterprises. Here are two DIY guides for content and community mapping , you can do by yourself or with your whole organization: [link]. Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

How do integrate social media into someone's job? The danger of course is to recruit an intern who is facile with the technology and simply dump the social media stuff on them. If you go the intern route, Kivi Leroux Miller has some tips for giving social media projects to interns. How do we manage it?

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 24, 2009

How can a small nonprofit organization, with limited time and resources for social media, find the right people to connect with in that microblogging crowd? Social networking Twitter maps application search social media. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 Try your TPS.( read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

One of the themes that bubbled up was the role of ambient data from social media channels and I agreed to lead a discussion on: How useful is this data for foundations? The professional tools for monitoring and analyzing social media data can be expensive and pose a steep learning curve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

After reading a list of corporate social media strategists and community mangers compiled by Jeremiah Owyang , she wondered if there was a nonprofit list? Tags: wiki working wikily. This tweet from Patty Campbell caught my eye. Yes, there is! I'd like to see the list organized by different segments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. As KD Paine, the queen of social media measurement says, yes we can measure social media and here's how. This week's theme is social media ROI.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Here's a free tool that easily creates a special map to go with your tweet, so people will be sure to find your event. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech events Twitter maps event managment application social media. Twitter users can even RSVP or add a comment, if you choose to allow those options.( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

Mapping Metrics to Strategy View more presentations from kanter. Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy. Here's the description: The session will share an overview of why the sequence listen, learn, and adapt is critical to implementing a successful social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2010

For example, one of the concepts in the book is understanding social networks, social networking mapping, and network weaving. Deborah Finn has a terrific blog post sharing her experience mapping a network. This week we are talking about how to bust social media myths. What lies beneath these myths is skepticism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Luke is a colleague of several social media colleagues, including Justin Perkins from Care. Crisis Camps.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Read the post below or visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog to comment. Lesson #1: Voice. Lesson #2: Action.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, shameless plug for Whole Whale tools that will help a team working to increase a social presence: Linkedin tips article Whole Whale’s Social Media Course NonprofitNewsFeed.com is a weekly nonprofit news feed that can give your team ideas for content for a CEO to react to. Social Media Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Forum One

JANUARY 25, 2009

Beth Kanter outlines on her blog a great framework for mapping out a social media strategy - summarized here: 1. Culture Change (how to get your organization to loosen up and adopt a social media strategy, and the very different way of interacting with people online that it entails?). Tags: Strategy.

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Forum One

JANUARY 25, 2009

Beth Kantor outlines on her blog a great framework for mapping out a social media strategy - summarized here: 1. Culture Change (how to get your organization to loosen up and adopt a social media strategy, and the very different way of interacting with people online that it entails?). Tags: Strategy.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

8 Principles for Using Social Media Effectively View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. A number resources were shared and interesting points made during the back channel which I summarized here The first day I presented a brief over view on social media for external communications which included 8 principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2010

My colleagues at Ushahidi have already swung into action and are mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who arenot familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Tags: maps. Disclaimer: I'm on the board).

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. A core concept in systems mapping is “purpose”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. The foundation used social media heavily to promote this day. Tags: online communities. The petition will be on our advocacy website LIVESTRONGAction.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. The above map that Chad explains gets at it. Tags: facebook netaction network effectiveness scholar. How do you facilitate the hive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

We've spent the last 18 months focused on how social media can support communications and fundraising strategies and now it is time to turn attention to program delivery and other issues. The section about technology and social media describes a few key projects and trends. Tags: wearemedia. Have some thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. Why the number 52? Good for you! Great work.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Traditional community organizing informs a successful online campaign and lays the groundwork for a sustainable, effective movement for social change. In this session, participants will get their hands dirty planning a social media campaign that integrates traditional organizing theory and practice.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is from the perspective of a web developer, and this overview leans towards the implementation of GA and Google Tag Manager (GTM) and not on building reports within the GA4 interface once data is flowing. With that out of the way, let’s dive into what’s changing, and what you need to know. .); Recommended events can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Created by Future Exploration Network’s Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com , the 2009 trend map uses a " multi-tentacled hydra." There's a difference, it's a little broader than social media. Tags: trends. The mega-trends are: Global connectivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Over the past five years, I've been focusing on social media. or social media was all about. I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. The remix epitomizes the era of social relationships (see Jeremiah Owyang's Five Eras of Social Web ). What style of dancing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was going mainstream in nonprofit workplaces, along with the need to develop technology plans. Similar adoption issues and themes surfaced as I identified in my recent post on social media policy. But would some of the same fears surface about social media? What lies beneath the use of these social media tools?

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