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. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. 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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Whether you are running a campaign, trying out a new social media platform or anything else, monitoring which places are sending in the most traffic can help you focus attention to the best places. If you do, check out Nutshell Mail for reports on your various social media presences. How do you set up an unconference?

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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. From these WiserTuesday meetings spawned the creation of a Social Innovation Camp in Paris in June. Tags: socialnetworks.

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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. Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Starting Off on Social media with Jen Nedeau and Shireen Mitchell. Unconference. Unconference in DC will lead a series of sessions and conversations about using social media to create networked communities and movements. Join Amanda Rose, founder of Twestival as she kicks off the unconference with a special keynote.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

Hosting unConferences across the United States, She’s Geeky aims to inspire women technologists in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, provide a space for women geeks to create enduring communities, and foster collaboration and innovation among peers.&#. Want to join in? What do you think?

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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

JUNE 26, 2010

It was more than a book promotion event – it was an opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with a peer (Peter) about social media. Nonprofit social media strategists who teach us everyday about how to build networks. Tags: Networked Nonprofit case foundation Wendy Harman. Conference along with Wendy Harman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. They do not view social media as fundraising strategy. Wendy has been working an internal social media capacity builder.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). Meet these smart people whom I met, and you may not know about, but should: Jill Finlayson, Social Edge Social Media guru. This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

Social Culture. Rethinking Social Media Internships. unconference on Friday morning in Washington, DC. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. Here’s some of themes we touched with links to posts by others (and some of our own): How Nonprofits Need To Adjust in a Networked World. Strategies for Being A Networked Nonprofit.

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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). Members are in bold. Who's your Mayor? Wendy's Keynote. .

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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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Forum One

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Back in September, Forum One was one of the sponsors of CongressCamp, an informal "barcamp" unconference here in Washington. For two days, attendees exchanged ideas on how social media and collaboration tools could increase citizen engagement with Capitol Hill. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

The Online Community Report MeetUp is back this month, fresh from the Online Community Unconference and ready to discuss online community tools and techniques. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 This month our guest speaker is Brad Selby from Flixster , an online community for movie lovers.

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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. Suddenly, many opportunities open for new and better government services without the usual price tag. The diversity of the team should reflect the diversity of the city," he said.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2009

We hoped to give you a way to connect prior to the conference to form groups and create social events. Unconference: You want to learn more from your colleagues, have a chance to play with the latest ideas that we haven't included in the conference agenda, and have more chances than the pre-planned Affinity Groups to connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Holding unconferences to invite individuals and busineses beyond their staff and partners to participate - and this serves as a important research/feedback mechanism. Tags: transparency. Along with Kathy Reich and Stephanie McAuliffe , we got to ask many questions about their network. Sharing internal presentations on slideshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. We will explore how nonprofits can unleash the power of social good by transitioning from stand-alone institutions to networks energized by abundant resources in their ecosystem. Trust me.

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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". Pulse and Signal The Serendipity Factor SocialButterfly Social Media for Social Change So What Can I Do? In one place or multiple?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

CongressCamp was an unconference focused on the Congress side of Gov 2.0. Participants explored the use of web-based social and collaboration technologies and their use in transforming congressional engagement with the public. Congressional use of social media and related Web 2.0 This suboptimal use of social media and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Wikis can also be used in the pre-planning or organizing some of the social events. I've seen this used frequently with "unconference" or "open space" technology-oriented conferences and workshops. Take for example these two nonprofit oriented conferences: Games for Change and Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2009

We are using a hybrid unconference/workshop model in which participants work collaboratively to explore and brainstorm a few pre-selected "wild ideas" for future museum initiatives related to audience participation. I'm working on a project to open an interactive museum/bar in Santa Cruz focused on social participation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Tags: professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009. Inspiration.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Even if you’ve never participated in an ‘unconference’ event like this, no worries! Social Media Veterans (#smvets). Finding Networks and Connections in Social Media – [Juniper] (#netconx). Unleashing Technology to Advance Social & Economic Development – [International Ballroom A] (#tech2adv).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

In addition to choosing 6 breakout sessions from more than 90 possibilities covering the latest & greatest (as well as the tried & true), you'll be able to attend Affinity Group Meetings , Ignite Sessions , an Unconference on Open Data and APIs , and more. Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN. That's a lot o' learning! CFRE Credit !

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Forum One

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Back in September, Forum One was one of the sponsors of CongressCamp, an informal "barcamp" unconference here in Washington. For two days, attendees exchanged ideas on how social media and collaboration tools could increase citizen engagement with Capitol Hill. Each Hill office typically has one person focused on social media.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

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. The session with the most tweets ( 398) was The Networked Nonprofit: Using Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Last week, I focused on the 2014 theme (social impact assessment) and the many creative evaluation projects produced by campers. MuseumCamp was inspired by other action-oriented professional development experiences, ranging from open-ended unconferences to tightly-formatted tinkering workshops. Tag Team the Facilitation.

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