Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Do you think that people on social networking and media are just teens and college students? And, if they aren't blogging, they're reading, take for example the AARP Pet Pals Blog and the others identified in the comments here. Source: Karl Kapp presentation.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

They are examples of organizations that have been caught in the middle of a firestorm and don’t have the necessary policies in place to manage an online crisis immediately after it erupts. When you see a negative comment on your blog or social media channel, don’t delay your response. Komen Foundation have in common?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

He has focused on one channel, Instagram, because he wants to show the world his professional life at the Met through the eyes of his iPhone. I analyzed his photo stream and witty narrative to connect examples of what he shares to the criteria for an effective personal brand. It’s about authenticity which breaks down as follows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. Global Giving will vet contest applications to ensure they meet the requirements — for example, grant proposals may not contain profanity or involve political advocacy for a particular party.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. they might indeed need to catalog and respond to comments in a rulemaking, but if they ask for more open-ended input about general policy issues, that should be valuable input which does not trigger response obligations.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

She is my favorite go-to, social media expert. Not only does she understand social media very well and stays on top of all the changes, but she also has a very deep background in nonprofit work. I will continue to use that phrase and, because there’s so much more than just social media. Julia Campbell with us today.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. SF Online Community Meetup: Embracing Emerging Social Media, with Lauren Girardin. Beirut, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. Manila, Philippines: Social Media Surgery. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

" Saskatoon Public Library's support is just one of many examples of public libraries supporting disaster preparedness and relief. For example, the San Francisco Public Library's website has a page that curates local services and resources on preparing for and dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Toronto, Ontario: Free Webinar: Social Media for Nonprofits. Chicago, Illinois: Social Media for Social Impact: Fundraising and Customer Relationship Management. Beyrouth, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

To enter, you had to write a comment on the post, Win a Copy of Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World about an "ordinary" person you know who is doing extraordinary things to change the world.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This was the third Social Good Apps Breakfast organized by Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup. These events bring together app developers with people from the nonprofit world to present new ideas and improve on social good projects already in use. He encouraged other nonprofits to be a part of tech for social good conversations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

And, if you're thinking that only teens like memes, look at the range of people who drenched themselves for the Ice Bucket Challenge. The Facebook post garnered 5,365* likes, 2,279 shares, and 364 comments, while the tweet got 506 retweets, 58 replies, and 358 favorites. twitter social media Multimedia and Graphics facebook'

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Oh the hours!!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I asked them to take the social object challenge - to talk to a stranger, get two strangers talking to each other, and create an object to get strangers talking to each other without their intervention. These girls made it clear that while most of them enjoy social encounters, they almost always want someone else to start them.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. You feel like you could be a part of something awesome there (check out their FAQ for copious examples of this). It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. Examples * BeliefNet has prayer circles where people can share prayers for specific people. On the example they showed, people of all religions posted prayers for a sick child. care about. The Yes We Can Obama video. . *

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through questions of local relevance and international significance. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal? social media, or social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

" At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it. " Some statistics about how many young people are using various social media tools. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. As nonprofits hone and refine peer to peer fundraising best practices , we are also seeing more more people make philanthropy a part of their everyday personal expression – whether on social networks or in the real world. Look out world!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. I encourage you to share your own rules and thoughts on this in the comments. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Keep the event social and the tone light. Here are some examples: For a soup kitchen: We’re so much more than a meal. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. Here are some examples: For a soup kitchen: Give the gift of a hot meal, compassion, and support, all for just $6.85.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. Here's an example: if the Exploratorium wants to appeal to adult-only visitors, it needs to find ways to address the perception that it is overrun with kids.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 23, 2023

For example, if you receive a lot of traffic from organic search, you can focus on improving your SEO marketing approach. Social media engagement data. Who interacts with your nonprofit on social media? Visitors can choose whether they are a parent, teen, educator, alum, or supporter. Internal data.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. For example, kids and tools. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. I invite you to do the same in the comments. Over three exhibitions at the LSM, 20-35% of visitor comment cards were deemed "relevant" to the exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. They were in a playful mood, talking about the objects, playing the games, responding on the comment boards. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. Next time, everyone was talking.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

You’ll land on Braincake , their social networking site for girls, parents, and teachers focused on math and science education. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. For example, podcasts.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users. In this age of cheap real estate, it's interesting to imagine what a museum could do with a short-term rental of a public storefront focused on creative weird social experiences.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This post was authored by Beth Kanter, author of the new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , and creator of Beth's Blog , where she writes how networked nonprofits leverage networks and data for social change. They use social media, mobile, and data strategically selected and use to reach that goal.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

Later, Elaine comments: Now, after researching the topic, I am less certain that broadening the audience for museums is achievable in general. All of these examples are indicative of an institution-wide approach to promoting inclusion. What does this “not sufficient by itself’ bit mean? Some are simple design choices—like at the MFA.

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