Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. What was your strategy?

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JULY 8, 2009

Last week marked the launch of the newest resource site and treasure trove for the nonprofit community – Socialbrite.org. Lasica, creator of the site, at this year’s NTC and have been anxiously awaiting the launch since then. Contributors to the site (at this point at least) include: Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog.

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For example, if you host a chili cook-off and participants will be sampling each other’s food, there is a risk that someone might get sick if the food is not prepared properly. Plus, you can make your waiver part of the sign-up process using a widget or site button, so participants can get everything done all at once.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

Diverse Content : Most people noted that they come to the site for case studies and presentations as well as more opinion-style pieces. Where’s the Action : There’s lots of opportunity to improve the real-time-ness of the site. Look for that! I’m excited to try some of these options out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Consider these two sample audiences: “Canadian women” or “18 to 30-year-old women in BC or Alberta who live in cities with more than 100,000 people” Of course, most NGOs can’t afford to hire the kind of market researchers you’d need to produce a sophisticated work-up of who your core audience is.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

You can see what others have said about their donations to support Social Actions on the SA site here. Use the widget below to donate to support Social Actions in 2009, or click on the ’share’ link in the lower right corner to put the widget on your blog, website, etc.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

What three questions are strangers who land on your site most likely to have? Devote space on your home page and/or within your navigation to answering the three big questions most likely to bring strangers to your site. Give them pass-along content like short videos and sample email text that they can share with their friends.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2008

After I finished personalizing my Birthday Cause and alerting friends about it, I was able to place a widget on my profile so people could see it when they visited my page. Even putting the widget on my page was done for me, I just clicked where I wanted it to sit!

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. His post sparked a community plea to Ning to keep its service free for grassroots nonprofits and community groups and Amy Sample Ward also wrote about it. So, if era of free 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. A sharing and learning hub We invite you to cruise around the site — and we hope you'll help us spread the word. You’ll notice that we’re not starting from scratch.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month – "Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites."

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Squarespace leaves out all the hubbub and gives visitors to your site a clear call to action. If you’re okay with giving up some control to maintain an elegant site, then Squarespace is the place to be. Weebly sites are created using a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) system, meaning you can arrange pieces on a page visually.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2008

In a time when fundraising widgets, Causes on Facebook and other forms of web-based giving are rising in popularity, it's important to not forget the power of people connecting face-to-face. If you are looking for a way to support an organization or cause you care about while having a good time socializing, why not host a house party?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Here's a sampling of what other bloggers are saying about the new Change.org: "I can see Change.org becoming a social action site for the more mature crowd who want knowledge before they get involved, and who want to do more than passively sponsor causes through corporate donor widgets.

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Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Even if you are sending visitors off to social media or a third-party fundraising site, it’s important that your website introduce potential donors to your campaign quickly and efficiently. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" How will you measure your tools' impact?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

As NTEN states on their site, The NTC is THE place to engage around the technology issues that face the nonprofit sector. Please click on the widget below if you can donate. I honestly want to make a difference in this world - this is the way I believe I can do it. When is the NTEN Conference? Recommended by @kanter ).

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MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2009

Just take a glimpse at the excitement Beth Kanter and Amy Sample Ward are already buzzing about around this year's NTC.). Put this great little widget made by NTEN to good use! But like Holly mentioned on the NTEN blog , we're going to need your help to do it and have a few ways you might be able to lend a helping hand: 1.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Learn about our NPOrganizer Starter Pack includes Web Site Development and CRM all for $2000. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Call 2 Action in booth 88.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Use free flash players like XSPF or Podcast Pickle's branded widget player to embed your latest or favorite episodes on your website. You can also create sample CDs or USB thumb drives that contain podcast episodes as gifts in goodie bags for special events that your organization holds. Best Practices and Maintenance.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. widget fundraising social network nonprofit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more. You can even add a good deed widget for your site.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. but on your site to tell people what the show is about: who’s the guest, who is the host, what are the orgs or links mentioned. You can also use web cams for a video podcast. Hosting Services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I just sampled one month. Kaushik makes a distinction between "on-site" visitors or unique visits as calculated by your analytics program and "off-site" visitors. I think the more important metric here is RSS subscriber trends or what Kaushik called "off-site audience." Audience Growth.

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