Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

I'm live blogging at blogher and in about an hour and half, I'll be attending a training on how we're supposed to be tagging our posts and some points about writing style, etc. Her is the description of my task: All social and networking portions of BlogHer are being blogged all day by our BlogHer-on-the-street, Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Tell me about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

BlogDay is focused on getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. You are suppose to notify the bloggers, write a brief description of their blogs, and tag your post with BlogDay2007. It's simple to do and a great way to connect with other bloggers and pass along some link love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Blogher's first big social event was Friday night dinner was at the Andiamo Cafe for approximately 140 people. We stayed on the back patio with another blogher from LA and nursed a few drinks to help us mingle. " Here two nonprofit bloggers, Marnie Webb and Nancy White, talk to each other for the first time in real-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2008

Are "the best" or "most influential" lists of bloggers a good thing or a bad thing? I rather not have a list, but get to know them one-by-one - and these interviews are a way of doing that. But in the last month, I've come across three "best of" type women blogger lists.

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APRIL 25, 2012

My first guest blogger is the lovely Amy Kessel. I recently created an interview series on my blog called Unfurling , where I conduct interviews with women and record them as videos. The interviews give each woman a chance to explore what’s unfurling in her right now, and to fall in love with that unfurling a bit more.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I hope you've been enjoying my have fun do good guest blogger series as much as I am (: The tenth guest blogger in the series is Kimberly Wilson. Kimberly is a teacher, writer, do-gooder, entrepreneur, and eco-fashion designer currently obsessed with Paris, potbelly pigs, and all things sparkly. Have I mentioned pigs?

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. When you see someone inappropriately attacking another blogger either on comments on or a blog, say something!

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MARCH 7, 2011

The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. While interviewing the organizers for a magazine, I heard how they worked with young women who had rarely or never felt good about their bodies and were in detention on charges related to prostitution and drug sales. and teaches yoga in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005. s very difficult to decide which to attend. This year, I finally got an opportunity to attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. The second thing she did after hiring an attorney to get the organization's tax-exempt status was to hire a well-known cancer blogger for her organization. Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Interviews (written, audio, video).

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JULY 3, 2006

Rose Aguilar from Bay Area Business Woman interviewed me recently for an article entitled, "Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere." Britt Bravo, MA, write for three blogs: her personal blog, Have Fun * Do Good , the NetSquared blog , where she is the Community Builder, and for BlogHer , where she is a Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. And since this interview is going to be posted on Blogher, I'll narrow it down to women bloggers: 1. I got to know her when she asked me to participate in her Blogging Neighbor Series 1.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process. I probably should stop, but if you want to focus on what women are blogging about in the nonprofit space, check out the blogher ngo/npo blogroll.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. by Spirit River Studio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. In addition, several UK bloggers are focusing on nonprofits and social networking tools are also must reads - Steve Bridger , David Wilcox , and Nick Booth. In addition, have a conversation with the three people who joined you - what did you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The question. " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

This is a summary of what women bloggers have been talking about in the nonprofit technology space this past month or what I'm dubbing the nptechersphere. I will be posting interviews with them in a few weeks, so stay tuned. Maybe it is part of the gearing up for the upcoming session at Blogher called " Get Deeply Geeky."

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OCTOBER 23, 2006

To atone, here's a set of links for this week, all from female bloggers. Beth Kanter is one of my favorite bloggers, in part because she so often does interviews of very interesting people in her postings. Recently she interviewed Laura Allen , who runs a consultancy called 15second pitch. Open API's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So, I thought it would be great to interview her and learn why she was successful. In February, I was asked to go to Uganda with 15 other bloggers through Compassion International. What advice would you give to other bloggers who want to use their. Cross posted at BlogHer. Tell me about you. Do your homework.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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