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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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. Recently, she asked me if I could share any resources for her and her friends to be able to network, learn and socialize on the internet. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

To see Mailana live map Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a piece called " The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heros " using a tool developer Pete Warden's service Mailana. The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. Beth Dunn is a consultant and MBA candidate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2007

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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. Carie Lewis.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

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JUNE 21, 2007

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. 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?

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NTEN

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. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

When a service goes down, users will complain. 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 happens a lot, they may move on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: Service Nation's Change Wire blog posts weekly, Monday Service News Roundups. allow comments. Example: Anyone can publish a blog post on the NetSquared Community Blog and Social Actions' social network, my.socialactions.com. There are two ways this can happen: 1.

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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. a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Good discussion in the comments too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. Well, yeah. blame the internet! :-).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Perhaps your staff makes a lot of international trips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 To see another work in progress, go over to MIchael Gilbert's The Authentic Organization blog where he has turned the comments feature on and is writing his next book in a fishbowl!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

One that really speaks to me is the point that “measurement helps nonprofits understand and improve their social networks.” Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. I’ll select a comment at random to win the book and we can all win by learning from each other.

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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. socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. " The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. In the sharing economy, we use apps to rent or otherwise share goods and services with each other.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. I've been guilty of lapsing into "inside baseball" posts where you have to know about a particular social media tool to understand what I might be saying.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The event not only served as a networking opportunity for these two groups, but also showcased eight social good apps already in progress. Nonprofits have needs that can be addressed using mobile technology, particularly with apps or texting services. Essentially, Ohana is a mobile-friendly platform for finding social services.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

PDF Expert - for commenting on PDF documents on a tablet. Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service. Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Duolingo – is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. Carolyn Cotney, Marketing Copywriter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The company's biggest product is a log-in service that forces you to use your real identity – basically killing the privacy of the Internet. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The company's biggest product is a log-in service that forces you to use your real identity – basically killing the privacy of the Internet. He imagines what a future will be for us in light of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 Ross Braden, Senior Systems and Network Engineer.

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