Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Their “meetings” come in diverse and innovative formats like Philadelphia’s Crowdsourcing Change , Vancouver’s Coffee Klatsch or a Happy Hour in Austin or Minneapolis. Joyce Bettencourt has a roundup on the future of slide decks (includes video!). Don’t be afraid! August’s NetSquared Events.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Minneapolis, MN: October #NPtech Social Club. P.S. If you can’t get enough of our surgeons in costume here’s one more video to get you in the Halloween spirit. =. Toronto, Canada: Intro to Crowdfunding for Nonprofits. Houston, TX: Use Your Tech Powers for Good - Volunteer! Wednesday, October 9. Thursday, October 10.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Minneapolis, MN: August #NPTech Social Club. Vancouver, Canada: Video for Nonprofits: Finding your Story. San Francisco, CA: Watch the Black Girls Code Documentary, Problem Solve w/ BGC, & Converse w/ SAP! Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Wednesday, August 14. Thursday, August 15.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

My 12-person nonprofit, National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis, began work on a Office 365 implementation in mid-April last year, and by late-May our email migration was complete. Install a webcam (now that Lync is our IM client, all workstations were upgraded to support video chat). How We Got Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greater Twin Cities United Way, HealthPartners, Initiative Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Northland Foundation, Northwest Minnesota Foundation, The Saint Paul Foundation, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, Southwest Initiative Foundation, Target, UCare, West Central Initiative Foundation and Women’s Foundation of Minnesota.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Last year was my inaugural year attending NTC, and within a few hours of landing in snowy Minneapolis, I was meeting hundreds of nptechies at the pre-conference party, #NTCBeer. The doGooder awards sponsored by see3 and YouTube presented at NTC celebrates the best in cause video over the course of the year. Year-Long Learning.

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APRIL 26, 2012

NTCwinning 8: Video Contest The DoGooder Video Contest is always outstanding, as we have a chance to see some amazing work – but this year the winning videos took it to another level by pulling on our heartstrings and bringing the ballroom to tears. Watching the heart warming videos during lunch - can't wait to see more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

Help, I'm stuck in Minneapolis airport, anyone to share a cab? Hayduke suggests the question should be Twitter or Facebook and points to video above. Summarizing Twitter responses - if you want a facilitated conversation - is not easy, although with tools like this - that may change. Twitter is great for just-in-time, quick answers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Naples, Florida: Telling Your Story: Using Video as a Medium for Spreading Your Message. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Communications Networking Lunch. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Portland, Oregon: PDXTech4Good Summer Social. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2007

Paul/Minneapolis called in or voted online to determine the movement of large game pieces (see above) each evening throughout the city. And thank you Mike Ellis for inspiring this post with a hilarious and highly relevant video of Japanese game show contestants trying (and mostly failing) to play Human Tetris. and neighborhood-based.

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NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

Recent group topics have included social media, nonprofit video, online payment solutions, SEO, and analytics. Peter Edstrom , co-organizes the new Minneapolis group that had a successful turnout for their first event and more events planned. ConnectVA also holds an annual larger event: The Social Media for Nonprofits Conference.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Time for Nonprofit and Charity Videos. They're looking for newer videos created no earlier than January 1, 2012.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! Nowhere was this clearer than at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 this April in snowy Minneapolis. A Jamboree of Tools.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. This year, the MIA also accepted audio/video submissions of up to 80 seconds, which are displayed on a Vimeo site.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

One reason for this is because Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers was inevitably a tipping point moment, captured on video for the world to see.

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