Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This post was written by Trenton DuVal, contributing editor at NetSquared, and originally appeared on their blog. Like any organization working on big issues, nonprofits take on. Teambox takes a social networking approach to keeping your team synchronized. It’s what the NetSquared team uses to stay on task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation can help your organization become the go-to authority on an issue or topic area. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." How do we continue to connect and have a conversation facilitated by different social media tools? Thoughts, leave them in the comments. On blogs, comments are the conversation. bubble would burst.

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? How do you encourage comments? Make it easy to comment. Ask for comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Connectivity is still an issue in most parts of the world, and we need to think of solutions that account for the lack of access to the Internet. & Catherine T.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

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!" To create a new comment, use the form below. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

When you are creating your press list, be sure to search on Technorati and Google Blog Search to find bloggers who are writing about your organization's issues and send them your press release as well. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! is also called the "social web" because, well, it's social!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

We'll share big ideas for using social media for nonprofit program delivery and some good tips for crowdsourcing for social change. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Leif Utne.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. Marnie mentions one downside to FriendFeed - that she is unable to process the information as quickly or as seamlessly as she can with other tools that she is regularly using for social bookmarking, feed reading, and causal interactions. And if you???re

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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. Once you've done this a few times you'll find you can use it on the fly when you get into those disagreements about interface design issues within your department." Good discussion in the comments too. Need some comic relief?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Share breaking news within your field Chances are someone on your staff is already bookmarking and forwarding news stories about your issue each day. allow comments. Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' social network, my.socialactions.com.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

We'll share big ideas for using social media for nonprofit program delivery and some good tips for crowdsourcing for social change. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Ted Fickes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask). Nonprofit Online News: This is written by Michael Gilbert and is probably the oldest blog that covers nonprofit issues. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Alerted by "Tweet" (post on Twitter) from Andy Carvin, Michael Stein (East Coast) points to some privacy issues related to color printers. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

We had so many that we couldn’t get to all of them during the webinar, so we’ve answered the overflow here: Q: How can we use social media tools when working with clients in an agency specifically concerning privacy or HIPPA issues? It seems like reviewing all posts and not posting those comments would defeat the purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. Cross posted at Netsquared " Web 2.0, Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Does your community focus on networking with learning & sharing? Does your community address local issues? Then check out. Net Tuesdays.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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