Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many nonprofits considering starting a blog should look at a team approach so the onus isn't on one person to blog. " Nonprofits and Web2.0 Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

So, where does your nonprofit fit in this race to capture your online audience? conference in NYC aims to help nonprofit staff answer that question and develop a game plan for your nonprofit’s online organizing future. NonProfit 2.0 Unconference. The Nonprofit 2.0 The Organizing 2.0 Date: December 5th.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2010

Unconference: NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Tags: Social Networking Staff Training Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Folks from TechSoup Global will be presenting at several breakout sessions and activities during # 10NTC. Below is the best way to keep up with them on day one of the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. How do you set up an unconference? Community Mapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

WiserEarth.org , a nonprofit that offers social networking for the international sustainability movement, launched today in French , Portuguese , and Spanish beta versions. Tags: socialnetworks. WiserEarth offers a free and ad-free network to a vibrant member base of 37,000+ people from 231 countries, regions and territories.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Farra Trompeter wrote up an amazing article about Foursquare+Nonprofits (and other location-based social network tools). Read the article for Farra's takeaways and tips for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

We were in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday for our book tour for The Networked Nonprofit to celebrate with live and virtual events hosted by the Case Foundation and Chronicle of Philanthropy. We also keynoted the Nonprofit 2.0 Nonprofit social media strategists who teach us everyday about how to build networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. Tags: india.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Open APIs offer new possibilities for the nonprofit sector, both in how we can use governmental and institutional data to serve our beneficiaries and in how we can deepen our impact by sharing our own data within the sector.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2010

As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasn't sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

We are bringing together industry leaders using the real-time web in social networks, financial services, media and nonprofit groups to discuss: * the state of the art, science and business of the real-time web. Tags: Communication. efforts to create standards and interoperability.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). That is really the reason we even do face-to-face these days, as much of the content at conferences is pretty much the same conversation again and again, at least in the nonprofit tech world (Twitter or Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. It was a fascinating discussion that touched both on many of the reasons why nonprofits are taking a look at data sharing and on why consequential data sharing can sometimes be challenging or unfeasible for nonprofits. Tools Web Building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I've seen this used frequently with "unconference" or "open space" technology-oriented conferences and workshops. Britt Bravo recently attended Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp and pointed us to the Boot Camp Wiki. Wikis can also be used in the pre-planning or organizing some of the social events.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2009

Yesterday, NTEN Community Members joined us for the beginning of the planning for 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. We're looking a an unconference track or on the first day of the conference. Tags: 10NTC community NPTech NTEN. We had some good laughs remembering the fun we had at the 09NTC. Thanks to all who participated!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2009

Transparency Camp is an unconference designed to convene a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

A conference or unconference? Lemme know and keep adding to the Changeblogger list in the comments of this post, by emailing me at britt@brittbravo.com, or using the tag, "changeblogger". In terms of organizing a way for Changebloggers to meet and connect, what do you think the next steps should be? Should it be virtual, or in person?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

CongressCamp was an unconference focused on the Congress side of Gov 2.0. Political campaigns and nonprofits are fueling the push to transform digital communications on the Hill. Tags: Events Government Transparency Strategy. Last weekend, Forum One participated in CongressCamp at George Washington University.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We're only about 6 weeks away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta -- but to get the regular price ($459 for NTEN Members) you need to register by March 1st! The Georgia Center for Nonprofits will bring the successful Georgia Nonprofit Summit Conference to the NTC in the form of the Leadership Summit Track.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

It’s that time again: time to meet up at the Nonprofit Technology Conference! Even if you’ve never participated in an ‘unconference’ event like this, no worries! This cross-platform event allowed for multiple levels of interaction with the single goal of teaching nonprofits how to tell stories digitally.

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MAY 27, 2010

This year's NTC brought 1,430 nonprofit professionals to the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta GA. Day 1 of the conference saw 122 attendees volunteer to help 58 organizations during the Day of Service , while 50 of you attended the Open Data Unconference and 139 went to We Are Media Sessions. We're looking at you Beth Kanter & Allison Fine.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. Ning has been a popular platform for nonprofits to create communities of interest around their causes. Manny Hernandez, author of Ning for Dummies, is the founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes - two highly successful nonprofit communities on Ning.

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