Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser. And now, mobile.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. You can check out all twenty research projects here. This year, the theme was social impact assessment, or measuring the immeasurable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. That’s why I’m honored to share this guest post from Melinda T. Tuan , project manager, for the Fund for Shared Insight. Photo by LIFT.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets. The projects varied from educational tools for children to energy efficiency. The projects for this event don't necessarily have to be technology-related. Another interesting concept was a mobile tech shop for homeless shelters.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

To help kick off Caravan's next breakfast, happening on May 1, I thought I'd follow up with one of projects, LocalFreeWeb , discussed in October, and see how it was progressing. Sometimes social good projects lose steam after hackathons end, but I'm happy to report that LocalFreeWeb is moving ahead. spanhidden.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I started the keynote by reading a poem by Deanna Zandt, a friend and the author of Share This! Some of the goals your organizations has for the community and the future are shared by that same community and other groups. I’m not sharing these examples of mergers as a way of saying I believe there are too many organizations.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Please add your own ideas in the comments too. Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. Build on their existing expertise/experience/perspective as opposed to asking them to comment on yours. Now how the heck do you do it?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This can be a great way for them to get to know your staff and interact with donors during your next event or project. Connect with local religious leaders and find out what sort of opportunities their congregation is most interested in and to share information about your program. Collaborate with local businesses. Do so frequently.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. We''re investing a lot in a public plaza project outside of the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Colorado Project. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. What Powers Learning: Sharing Experiences and Stories With Peers. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. A Federal case in New Jersey questions whether comments made by employees about their employer on a private site outside the office can be constituted as defamation.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Taking part in Giving Tuesday can mean many different things—from participating in an organized service project to donating to a nonprofit to smiling at a stranger. Encourage social sharing. Social media is a great tool for supporters to share their personal fundraising pages, so make sure you encourage them to post their pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring along transparencies or overlays for the overhead project that would show a screenshot and a tape cassette player with a recording of a modem handshake (remember those?). And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. What did I do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. January: Have a January birthday? And, yes they did !

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2015

ending chronic homelessness"), we measure lots of things. He cares about the social impact of his projects, but at the end of the day, he uses financial profit to measure their success. The project is forcing me to hone in on what is absolutely MOST important to our institution when it comes to developing shared goals in partnership.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. People are showing up, getting involved, and sharing their enthusiasm in droves. I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. Leave a comment on a post.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. As a charitable donor, Ive become so fickle its almost embarrassing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Furthermore, how can museums and communities work together to share strengths in the community? Stacey will be responding to your questions and comments on this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 Our dashboard rocks and we would be happy to share it widely — as we think that people SHOULD indeed be tracking all of their data as vigorously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 16, 2006

Last month I wrote a post, Cocktails and School Supplies , about a fundraising event in Los Angeles that our friend Meg produced to collect money and school supplies for a school Covenant House (a shelter that houses homeless and runaway youth) is opening in Tijuana. Her event raised over $2,000! Tijuana education activism Covenant House

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you read along and have something to add, please share your comments. We house homeless women and children. per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. In other words, we’re sharing how many more people will be served by the nonprofit because of the new Program Director. I think $54.80

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary recently tied together National Lazy Day and National Dog Month for a special twist to highlight their old geezers: Once you’ve filled in all dates that you want to recognize, it’s time to fill in the gaps and think about content you want to purposefully share. Don’t just share what YOU think is interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. This made curious: How did Twestival get started? What is its relationship with charity:water?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Marie Palacios will explain what donors want to know, why it is crucial, and how to share your past achievements, so donors contribute to your future goals. But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. Marie: Absolutely. Marie: Wonderful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

If you would like to add a nonprofit, please do so with a “Because…” statement in a comment below. It Gets Better Project. National Coalition for the Homeless. National Priorities Project. Polaris Project. Share Our Strength. Happy Thanksgiving! American Diabetes Association.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Let me stop sharing my screen her and we can bring up your beautiful slides, and you can take it away. So, as Steven shared, we can share a little bit more about me. And I think that that’s been a very important focus because a lot of my clients are just saying, “We don’t need to build a project.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. If you have other questions, or other ideas, please share them! We don’t, though, have a lot of efficiency or shared information. Many of the nodes and groups you don’t know and maybe not even share similar goals.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Inability to collaborate and share. Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? We got the data, and we got involved in the project. You may not have a Community Assessment Project in your community, but you have something. Probably not.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

It’s great when people share your content; it’s even better when they are real people doing it of their own accord. Because many people use the internet as a means to express themselves and display their identity, content that relates to people is often shared more. Do an Exciting Project. Aim for Many Niches.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Access to the right information can help avoid these problems altogether or lifelong consequences such as infertility, homelessness, and so on. The hackathon sought to develop a tool to provide adequate help when youth shared information about their health and behaviors. Hacking the Winning Tools. Hacking Successful Solutions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

They were in a playful mood, talking about the objects, playing the games, responding on the comment boards. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. On the third floor, they sat down in our creativity lounge and started making collages.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

But most importantly, we love these sessions to be interactive, so please do chat in your questions and comments. So I’m going to stop sharing here, Rachel, and I’ll let you. Rachel: I will go ahead and share mine. But you still want to be sharing the same basic overall story. You can use either of those.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When I served in my first executive director position for a small community-based healthcare nonprofit that served the homeless, I still remember the first fundraising conference that I attended. That assessment gave us a real projection of three types of funders: Likely, Unlikely, and Undetermined. Allow me to explain.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

tracking an agent, and inevitably end up interrogating homeless people and perfect strangers—engaging in social behavior they would never consider in “real” life. The best presenter I’ve seen do this is Frank Warren, instigator of the PostSecret project. At adult surveillance workshops, visitors hit the streets of D.C.

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