Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I asked this question of Manny Hernandez, founder of ( TuDiabetes.com in English and EsTuDiabetes.com in Spanish). Manny answered my question with a fantastic post titled " How To Create Social Change Without Forming a 501-c3 " to run as a guest post on this blog. Could this be a new type of nonprofit or not?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic. Some are huge. rating items.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Let's create a Ning site! Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community? No budget for a web site redesign? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed. Well, playtime's over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 Many nonprofits are grappling with questions about where to find reliable information about the merits of different tools for a given objective. We asked simple questions about their online activities.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

What makes TechSoup's forums work is that each forum has multiple people monitoring it and making sure that no question or inquiry goes unanswered. I became a forum moderator a few months ago, and ever since, my inbox is perpetually full of messages like, "Can someone handle this question about Symantec licensing?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Respect their decision even if you dislike it: this doesn’t mean you are not supposed to talk with them about your questions or ask for a more detailed explanation about a particular decision, but always do so in a respectful way. Most important of all: getting a Wikipedia page for your nonprofit is not a sprint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

It was a great opportunity to hear from consultants the questions, concerns, and challenges of their clients face related to social media in a strategic planning context. I learned a tremendous amount from the participants comments and questions. My slides and other resources are on the wiki.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2008

In a recent blog post , Lara Galinsky of Echoing Green talks about how each new Echoing Green Fellow is asked to answer the question, "Why do you do what you do?" "It It's a tough question when you really think about it. It's a tough question when you really think about it. Perhaps, like many of us, he took the Why for granted?"

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Care2

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Communities like Facebook, Twitter, and Ning are great networks to help brand your nonprofit, engage with your supporters, and connect with potential new members. But there’s no question you need to invest time in finding those people who are passionate about your nonprofits issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

So, when we talk about social media and being open and embracing the conversation, one of the most comment questions that comes up is: To what extent do you need to moderate the discussion in a socnet space or blog so it isn't antithetical to your mission? The are several answers to this question. by Ken Fischer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I created a Changeblogger Facebook group (thanks to a suggestion by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire ), and recently established the Changeblogger Network on Ning. Changeblogger meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

tab also answers the following questions asap: CNN Coverage of Gustav. Gustav08 on Ning. Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? A few months ago, I came up with a somewhat arbitrary framework to answer the age-old question, " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? " The survey provides us with a baseline of social network use by nonprofits. On social networks on the organization’s web site, 25.2%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. Ben Greenberg from Physicians for Human Rights asked a couple of really great questions. So this leads me to a recent discussion thread on the NTEN discuss list the other day.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." What is Openness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. Ning has been a popular platform for nonprofits to create communities of interest around their causes. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Good Reads: Online. BackUpMyTweets.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

Instead, I'd like to spend a little time thinking about the questions that were raised for me (and maybe you). The second type is "house" which the survey has defined as a social network which is part of the organizations website, typically provided by a private or white label vendor like ThePort or Small World Labs or Ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Community Building and Social Networking: If you want to build an online community for knowledge or skill sharing, using social network tools like Ning will help you get there. It is used to take photographs so they have more visual interest and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

That was a question that Mario Morino and Cheryl Collins asked in an email thread to a couple of folks with lots of great ideas and experience facilitating online communities. Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization. Provides advice, tips, tricks, questions, and support.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What do we mean by “community&# – question asked to the participants: people. – If you use something like Ning does that platform share a part of the liability? Head of Community Management at FreshNetworks, previously at iVillage, Daily Mail etc.; most proud of job at an adoption charity. shared interest. moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I Still more unanswered questions: Can a Tower "look more like a Cloud" and still be Tower? We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. So, I'm giving it away.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Ning allows you to build your own public or private online network with various pricing options. I didn’t want the spotlight to go dark on Aashika and her work, though, so am posting it here!

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

(Examples: Twitter, Identi.ca, Plurk) Communities present safe areas for select groups, can be private or open, have options for in-depth discussions or sensitive information, outlets for question/answer format and support around delicate topics. Retweet followers, answer questions, and comment back. Be proactive.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

” The big question on every fundraiser’s mind these days is this: How can an organization sustain and even increase their online donations in a recession? From asmallworld.org to facebook to any tiny niche ning community. she ran Ron Pauls online campaign) I wish I had her numbers to put in your calculator.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

But this isn't just a financial question--it's also a question of reach. There are three key questions museum decision-makers should ask themselves in evaluating the value of virtual visitors: How much do we value outreach in our educational programming and content delivery? So where do online initiatives fit in?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Technical consideration: The site should be built on a non-proprietary platform rather than Ning to address privacy concerns. Vote for this Idea].

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