Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I keep hearing from the “older generation&# how aware they were of the importance of social media, but how difficult it was to change mindsets. One of the highlights is that I finally got to meet Enoch Choi who is a doctor at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and uses social media. Palo Alto Community Fund.

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JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. interest to you and your cause on the web: Social Media Monitoring Tools. View the previously recorded TechSoup webinar, Social Media Listening Dashboards , with presenters Amy Sample Ward and Allen Gunn. Blog, or using social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog. The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media. Have some thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Lauren-Glenn Davitian's " Be the Media -- Free Speech Unfurled " guest post on NTEN blog. Check out Joe Solomon's slides about how to use social media to build relationships. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

NetSquared is the guest host of The Feast’s next Twitter chat about the power of social media for social good. We’ll be tweeting questions such as “how can we better leverage social media for less talk and more action?” Join NetSquared & The Feast. Join us for a chat! Look forward to a Feast on twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

A few days ago, Amy Gahran and I exchanged some musings on social media tradeoffs. I like the microblogging tagging as I have been wanting to add a small set of tags to my 4,500+ favorites I have starred in Twitter over the last 18 months or more I have used the service. This combination of tagging and tweets gives you both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Lately, I’ve heard from many organizations that they are on board with social media and excited to be finding, connecting with and engaging their communities online. Topic: How can nonprofit organizations successfully manage multiple entry points for social media engagement? Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Here’s a listing of sessions and spaces hosted by NetSquared and TechSoup: Community-Driven Social Impact Session. Amy Sample Ward from NetSquared. This session focuses on strategies and case studies for creating successful community-driven media, events and campaigns. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010; 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

Social media tools work because they are powered by people, and people are social. My work with NetSquared and with Social by Social has helped shape so many of my beliefs about community organizing and has offered the opportunity to meet so many others doing it well. What roles are important in online community organizing?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2010

Beth facilitated a conversation, among the panelists as well as the standing-room-only room of participants, that focused on the power of crowdsourcing and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. Tags: presentation crowdx netsquared nten sxsw video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Effective Social Media. Connecting With New Colleagues. Example: Red Cross.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Who: Speakers: Amy Sample Ward | Netsquared; Debra Askanase; Ivan Boothe. In this session, participants will get their hands dirty planning a social media campaign that integrates traditional organizing theory and practice. Tags: liveblogging 10ntc community building events online campaigns online community. When: 1:30 p.m.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. Here's why: The need for online accessibility is growing - "When talking about disability, it is easy to focus on more physical disabilities (like requiring aids in walking) and using social media to create networks of support.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2009

Why not share those predictions with the NetSquared community? If you want to read some thoughts before you get going, check out these posts as starting points: Social Media Gurus Offer Their Predictions for 2009: A Few That Might Resonate With Nonprofits , by Beth Kanter. Tag your blog with “net2thinktank”. Photo by Môsieur J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Marnie has put out a call for call to talk about the NpTech Tag issues we've been blogging about the last two weeks. For context, see the discussion summary over at Netsquared -- go follow all the links for context -- and if you want to see what's been written this week, see Gavin's newest post.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. the wave pool; the same rule applies to social media. deduce shape your approach to social media and online conversation." self-proclaimed social media expert; let me change this to a different type of person. Once I knew.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? Let's take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2006

Nonprofit Use of Tagging Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. This visual is for the panel session at netsquared called " I tag the hand that feeds me: examining tagging in the nonprofit world. Playing with visuals. for the big picture look. My other brainstorming is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? Emily's post ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Might we start seeing tag called "NpTechUk" or a wiki for the UK Riders List? Cross posted at Netsquared Five Hot Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Also, for the past year, I've been summarizing resources being shared through the NpTech Tag, I've felt frustrated that you didn't always know who had contributed the resource and while one could add brief annotations, there was not a space for conversation around those shared items. Andrew Cohen shared How do you test our web site cheaply?

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

Those social media tools, along with dozens of others, have been used to help family and friends locate one another , to direct food, clothing and medical support to specific locations, and to help direct rescue workers to individuals alive and trapped under rubble. So, we invite you to share your social media for social good story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

via Emily of Emily's World comes another example of nonprofit tagging. They have several different feeds for each cateogries or tags: including news/events, jobs, resumes, real estate, etc. tagging a redevelopment, revitalization strategy? Who in the organization is doing the tagging? What is the tag design?

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

Those social media tools, along with dozens of others, have been used to help family and friends locate one another , to direct food, clothing and medical support to specific locations, and to help direct rescue workers to individuals alive and trapped under rubble. So, we invite you to share your social media for social good story.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. NTEN’s 09NTC just wrapped up in San Francisco and many conversations at the conference focused on social media use by nonprofits. Topic: How can nonprofit organizations successfully manage multiple entry points for social media engagement? From Idealist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

He refers to that moment in a post about netsquared titled Making the World a Better Place Through Your Browser. Technorati Tags: net2 Here's Robert Scoble saying a few words during the Global s London Summit. And, here's an article from OpenDemocracy briefly touching on that moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2010

This post was written by Amy Sample Ward and was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog. The third Digital Media and Learning Competition , from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Tags: E-Learning Fundraising Grants for Technology Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. Check this recent interview to learn more about Jonathan's secrets to using social media tools for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2006

Joistke tagged me with the 4x4 game activity. Full Circle Blog Netsquared Nten Blog Blogher. 4 People I tag. And, no, Joistke, I haven't done this before. So, here goes. 4 places I lived: Atlantic City, NY Philadelphia, PA Cambridge, MA Bennington, VT. 4 Web sites I visit regularly. So, here goes. 4 Web sites I visit regularly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2006

Just came across this interesting example of nonprofit tagging via a blog post on netsquared by enoch choi. Dr. Choi is an individual contributor to Google Health Co-op and works on the non-profit Palo Alto Medical Foundation's tagging efforts @ Google Health Co-op as well. ve been tagging via del.icio.us

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. 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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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

To enter, just submit a short essay (300 words or less) explaining an idea for how your non-profit can (or already does) use media and technology to solve a social problem. The essay should also focus on how the organization should use technology and media to further its goals beyond fundraising. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward.

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