Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

In addition, I'd like to thank Britt Bravo who gave her covered AOL laptop bag to schlep home the t-shirts from BlogHer and to Gina Trapani for donating her extra t-shirts. While visiting the BlogHer exhibits, I stopped by the Scrapblog booth to say hello because I'm huge fan. Here's an example. Find creative ways to thank people.

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Share your posts on your favorite social networks (e.g. Write posts with links to blog posts you love, share other bloggers' posts on your social networks, ask your favorite bloggers if they'd like to guest post on your blog. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn). Link unto others as you'd like to be linked to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Over a year ago, I interviewed Carnet Williams , a long time member of the nonprofit technology and riders community and who recently launched a tool called Chipin which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Tuesday has done a lot of experimenting with using social networks to promote her cause and we had an extensive conversation about that which I'm going to include in my a post for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on Social Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm just back after a ten-day business trip beginning with Blogher and ending with NCDD (Dialogue and Deliberation). I might even try it on the VOX system where I scored a beta invite from Mena Trott during Blogher. " Maybe the blogging will be about their learning what is a blog from real life experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

One of conversation threads was about how to make the story of how this network works more visible - and how a network goes about resourcing itself. The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). tools that facilitate this. Marnie Webb by JD Lasica.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. Digital Networkers profiles African American heavy social networking site users. Twitter Poll - ???Which

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MAY 14, 2009

Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else. Everything revolves around the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

Lisa Stone at Blogher has responded to the situation here with a post called "Hating Hate Speech: Safety for Kathy Sierra and All Women Online." ve created an online social network called Stop Cyberbullying using a free tool called Ning. Anyone who joins can post resources and share ideas, including text and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Now that many nonprofits are using social networking actively during the holiday, I recently caught up with Danielle to learn about whether Ranger Rick is back on Facebook and what she has since learned that might be useful to nonprofits thinking about working on Facebook. Powered by ScribeFire.

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MAY 6, 2009

Lisa Stone, cofounder of BlogHer. Charelene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Social Networks and Diversity Barriers. The TeleSummit brings together hundreds of women who leverage their technology savvy to inspire change and transform the world. Natalie Foster of the DNC.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

BlogHer – a social networking site for women who blog – is a great place to find women writers who may care about your political and/or social issue. If you do a good job of connecting with these e-journalists, you may be able to garner more PR and leverage their networks for success. Check out Care2.com.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Connect with readers on social networks There are a lot of social networks out there where you can meet with present and potential readers. Here is an example of author Kim Keltner's page on Gather.com, a social network oriented for folks over 30. You may also want to start Twittering.

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JULY 7, 2009

Changeblogger Ning Network I've also set up a Ning network for Changebloggers, people who use their blogs, podcasts and vlogs to make positive change. BlogHer I've been a Contributing Editor, along with Beth Kanter , for the past 3.5 years of BlogHer's Nonprofits and Social Change section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Many blogHers, like Rebeca at the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day.    Then check out the justcause - a social networking site that is encouraging people to take action behind a cause.    But, on Friday, my blog turned from red to pink! 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online.

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APRIL 11, 2008

She started out writing about what she gave away on her blog, Manifesto , but after a week or so, decided to set up a 29-Day Giving Challenge social network so that other people could share the Challenge with her. Stories can be posted in the 29-Day Giving Challenge social network's forum, or emailed to story@29gifts.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

She also has the definitive list of Cambodian BlogHers here. He is an active tagger and expert in social networking sites. John Weeks (aka jinja ) has lived in Cambodia for a long time and has been blogging for many years. I think he might be the first ex-pat Cambodian blogger. Hi blog is always informative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I'm working on a brief presentation for next week at Graphing Social Patterns called " Giving Good Poke: Using Social Apps and Social Media for Social Causes." I thought it might be easy peasy, but it is hard work. Any advice to calm my nerves?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

While browsing the blogher schedule , I came across Lisa Meyers Brown's blog " The Rhetoric of Me " which is focused on: "What I think about everything.especially nonprofits and social network technology."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

And relationship building can scale into a networked approach - take a look at the most recent BlogHer's Act fundraising campaign to improve maternal health. What is the secret to success of social networking for good? Seth Godin says it another way: You can contact just about anyone you want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

First off, I want to thank Andy Carvin for organizing this day and the ning site and leading by example - showing us how to take an issue and integrate the use of new social media tools! Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! Ethnic, racial or gender slurs. Violent or threatening images.

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MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Next week, Beth Kanter will be continuing this BlogHer series about getting started using social media for your nonprofit, or do-good project with posts about social networking, connecting offline and online action, and raising money on social networks. Relationships that were formed through your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I've been following Charlene Li ever since I heard her speak at opening keynote at the first BlogHer Conference in 2005. Here's the official bio: Charlene Li is an independent thought leader on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. Social Media Etiquette by Chris Brogan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Battle Non Profit submitted by Beth Kanter Using just one special ingredient (a small in-need non profit), three web teams will meet in the heat of Austin to craft an exceptional meal, featuring a tasty new homepage design, a well-seasoned fundraising email and a perfectly balanced social networking plan. Who will prevail? With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

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. On the social networking end, I would swim through the various frappr groups that are nonprofit technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

What have you learned about personal fundraising that might be helpful to other bloghers? A $500 cash giveaway on my blog as an exciting incentive to give to my campaign, and an event that I'm organizing in October, to also fundraise and raise awareness. One of my favorites was Alan Levine (Cog Dog Blog), who ran a marathon last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

He talks about the "Cloud" a word to describe how we're all more closely connected through social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and etc. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer. Here are the bits that resonated with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. Keywords in your profiles in your social networking site, like flickr. Website grader - useful tool to search trends.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

LinkedIn LinkedIn is a professional social network, so it's ripe with job search opportunities. See who in your network knows someone at the organizations you'd like to work for. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Ask if they'd introduce you to their contact so you can set up an informational interview.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? In addition, I also look at the Technorati ratings, but with a huge a grain of salt (thanks to my smart blogher friend, Amy Gahran. " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

at Annual Meeting posted on the blog inviting people to participate in the social web. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Social bookmarking in plain English! FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign.

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MARCH 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali. I especially connect with #4.

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