Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Nonprofit social media techies filled the pages with links to tools, tips, and tutorials for these types of social media tools: Monitoring. Social Bookmarking. Photo Sharing. Video Sharing. Social Networks. Fundraising Widgets. RSS Readers. Commenting. Blogging Tools. Podcasting. Micro Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign. I donated $75 so I could get the t-shirt and photograph myself in it - and added it to all my social networking profiles. my photos, my articles, my videos have traveled around the world literally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. Ning is also very flexible.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Not only does a personalized website give participants a platform to share their story, upload photos, and process secure, online donations, it also helps them easily manage their fundraiser. Upload a personal photo. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Show them your smiling face!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Photo by Stitch. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Photo Sharing. Video Sharing. Social Networks. Fundraising Widgets and Apps. Podcasting. Micro Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. In a networked nonprofit, VCs could partner new volunteers with experienced volunteers to save time in orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

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. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

When in-person is simply not an option, consider using multimedia to enhance your site and make it visually appealing – videos, photos, images, podcasts and even live streaming video are great ways to share your organization’s culture and engage with constituents using a personal, interactive touch. multilingual Interface.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Flickr Photo: Dunechaser I'm shovelling my way out of both snow and email this week. . This is a great example of nonprofit video done right. The Change.gov Widget. You guys have a LOT of profiles on social networks. They also have some really interesting stats about social network usage. KnightPulse.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

We've always done search ads, blogger outreach, and posts on our social networking profiles, but this year, I was ready to take it to the next level. I wanted to make this a social conference. The great thing about social networking is that it breaks the ice. Tweetup widget from TWTvite 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. If it isn't vacations, it's photos of restaurant and a fun evening out. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! Does it matter to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. 15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. Impressive to read that some videos were downloaded 100,000 times! How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. The Socially Networked Nonprofit. Alligator on the St. John's River in Florida.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Make sure you have someone armed with a camera to capture photos and videos of every event to show people what you’re all about. If you invest in creating a 3 to 5-minute video on YouTube, you can also republish short clips on different platforms. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." from Michigan State who is doing research on how younger people are using social networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. * National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Lucy Bernholz captured the video stream from blog.tv Second Life 101 - some great photos. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues. A report about the event from Hastac. and offered an analysis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Some video I shot with my Flip : Intro to Facebook and their application builder: Why Convio’s Facebook app builder is better than Causes Share and Enjoy: 9 Comments comment A View from Home » Convio Summit. It’s a much richer, more thought-out experience than anything I’ve seen for nonprofits on social networks. [.]

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. Previously, On NMC….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. The good folks at ChipIn , the personal fundraising widget that I used for this campaign, put forth a challenge. She told me that she bought because she saw the photo on my blog with my kids wearing my t-shirt. We made a video. I want to thank Carnet Williams and ChipIn for the challenge match!

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. But what if I want to put an ad in my video?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. Causes is thoroughly integrated with social media, giving fundraising projects new ways to reach their audiences. Video content, copy, calls to action. Massive number of people.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. Rock the Vote.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. When I write posts on this blog or share photos on Flickr, they are searchable in Google. But anything I write on Facebook is only visible within that network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More.

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