Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI.

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JUNE 17, 2010

She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. And what happened to MySpace?

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JULY 1, 2009

As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. MySpace has become the ghetto of the digital landscape,” Ms. Did you consider MySpace ? Go where the community already is! They won’t be there to find you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I'm going to riff on Ivan's advice, " You Don't Have To Be Everywhere" (like Mastercard) After an organization has identified an audience, objective, and strategy, a question that often comes up: What social networks should we establish our presence on? How many social networks should we participate on?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? I would say MySpace has dropped off the most for us. Who maintains your social media campaigns? Book Tour ?. ?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research out today from nfpSynergy shows that organizations who serve youth may want to be going online to reach them. The Research. The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. What It Means. No running in the halls!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? " Most nonprofit online networkers agree. It became unmanageable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. We wanted something different; not just another MySpace profile. This was mostly a myspace campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

Networking: I add people to my network when I met them face-to-face at a conference or meeting or virtually. I also search through their networks if I need to find a contact or source for a blog post, research, or other task I'm doing on for a project. Just like you would in flickr or other social networking tools.

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JULY 10, 2012

Once your blog is in place you could choose to spend time on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, but why waste time on every site out there when you can optimize your time. Based on our research we know that Facebook and Twitter are the top sites used by nonprofits and the social networks with the largest user base.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? MySpace, back when it was cool. I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We’ve done so many things in social media that flopped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

In my research of nonprofits using mobile technology, it’s clear that mobile technology has been slow to catch on in the nonprofit sector compared to the business and higher education sectors. Nonprofits were the absolute first to utilize social networking sites.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? YouTube: youtube.com/womenforwomenintl.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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JULY 17, 2007

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Ammado is a social network just like Facebook or MySpace, but whose primary focus is to empower people and nonprofits worldwide to fundraise and donate online. Ammado has staff dedicated to vetting nonprofits and researching their legal status. Not any anymore… thanks to Ammado.com.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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JULY 26, 2007

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. I join as many social media sites as I can and try to spend time learning each community so I can offer advice to others on how to engage with them. Book Tour?. ?Book

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MAY 7, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

MySpace), subscribing, forwarding and/or learning. Priscilla also introduced me Nicholas Street's work as well as Participate Online - User Motivation in Mass Participation (PDF) - the research seems to have been commissioned by the BBC and carried out by Sparkler in the UK. Has anyone done any research on this topic?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

How do you decide what kind of information or campaigns are delivered to your various community members on different social networks? Scott Stadum at Idealist.org responded with an excellent collection of points for nonprofits considering how to manage the multiple entry points for engagement with social media. From Idealist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. We help guide it."

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Nonprofit Tech for Good began as a “Nonprofit Organizations” Myspace Page in 2005. The time required to be active on those social networks is time well spent. Quit a Social Network. There is very little trackable return on investment from using the social network. After two years (!!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. At its core, use of online social networks is still a phenomenon of the young.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

As a SEO and Social Media Manager, I have learned the ins and outs of traffic building, lead generation, website user conversion and community building. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! It's my job as a social marketer to use the stats to figure out what is working and what is not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? What might be needed is a set of social media usage guidelines. Source: www.facetime.com/survey08/summary/. presented by Electronic information expert, Robert D. Brownstone, Esq.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

In the why it is important section, I went through the social networking from birth to high school slides. I asked the young people to share with us if they had used any of the social networks like Webkins, Penguin, Virtual Pets, etc. I wondered whether there was a social networking version of that project today.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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