Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

As nonprofit strategist Ted Fickes said on a nonprofit listserv, “the ice bucket challenge has been going on for a while now among golfers and many others donating to the charity of their choice, law enforcement groups raising money for police charities, etc.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Laura White wonders whether " Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate ? It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. All part of the Twitter cycle of adoption !

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We want you to know that we've heard you, and we want to quell any fears about the loss of the NTEN Discuss list (it is not going away) or the many valuable resources that have been collected in various Affinity Groups (also, definitely not going away). Can there be more than one group leader? Where does the CoP “live”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Step 3: stewarding technology in use, in the life of the community and at its closing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

The problem is that many people use the text bullet points templates to communicate their information, rather than the power of visuals to tell their organization's story. See Amy Gahran's advice : I also started an affinity group (listserv) over at N-TEN called Flickr for Nonprofits. (See here , here , and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

There are no better champions for your organization’s communication’s strategy than your staff. Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. Says Murphy, it was a tough barrier for advocates and researchers who not used to communicating in 140 characters.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

sessions and I'm in the process of organizing a third, an affinity group meeting! I'm lucky enough to be leading the session with Ian Miller Post-Production supervisor for See3 Communications who is both a MAC Geek and has extensive video production/editing experience. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Tharum and I have been in communication via our blogs, IM, and email for over a year now. Yes, one day was way too short and definitely small group interaction would also have been good, but there is next year! There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Lisa Pool’s Technology Affinity Group and Laura Quinn’s Idealware. The Technology Affinity Group. As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. Image 1: Technology Affinity Group logo. Hold a yearly conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. The npdigg community roles include consumers, voters, and submitters. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. TechSoup has RSS feeds too!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

After determining the key stakeholders that should be involved in making the hire, gather their visions for the role by asking them questions such as: What hardware, software, communications, and technology-driven systems do we need to function across all of our programs and departments? Screening Candidates.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But an animal welfare group never archives records because the elderly woman with 15 cats who gave $20 ten years ago may leave them her entire estate. After talking with some clients, it seems opinions vary wildly regarding this subject. I just wanted to see if you had any insight you could offer regarding this subject. Others Who Agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

She is the founder and president of Weinreich Communications , and wrote a book called " Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide." whether formal, like focus groups and surveys, or informal is imperative in order to create an effective strategy. After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Let's say I'm leading a youth group or course about nutrition and being healthy for at-risk youth. Some organizations start off with department or group staff blogs. Some examples of flickr groups found in flickr that relate to Extension themes. Recipe Swamp Group. Send the photo the group photo pool. Flickr Farm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication October issue is devoted to scholarly research on social networks. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Now, as with the immigration marches last spring, people are becoming engaged from friend-to-friend communications, such as email or text messages. There are a lot of groups that are using a variety of social media now to connect people to what they’re doing. Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Huge lost opportunity by not communicating fundraising expectations when you are bringing people onto your board. It allows an organization to communicate authentically. But only 70% of that group is. or actually 70% of that group is dissatisfied with the board’s racial composition. The first is advocate.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

In a world where everything is available up to the minute, museums' resistance to involvement doesn't communicate thoughtfulness or solidity--it communicates out of dateness. Hopefully a timely choice considering the recent discussion on the ASTC listserv about the differences (semantic? They're called dinosaurs instead.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Social media is talked about so much that you probably think every other form of communication is dead (Ok, maybe your thinking isn’t that extreme). If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. But that’s not the case. Clearly marked. With a call to action.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there are 12 team members on my group, and we have really expanded what we do. Is there something more quantifiable that you can gather and assess and look at as a group? From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. Steven: Cool.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. The group has an informal oversight Board run by one of the member CIOs. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Today, the iHeart Digital Audio Group exclusively shared details on the network’s past year or so with Hot Pod , as well as on its Latinx-focused network My Cultura, which launched in May. Conal Byrne, CEO at iHeart Digital Audio Group, says the network accounts for more than 15 million downloads per month, as defined by the IAB. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. As part of her job as Internet Marketing Manager in the Online Communications and Media department at the HSUS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I "met" Ali while lurking on the UK Riders list, a peer group of ICT circuit riders. She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. Mobile communications are extremely accessible however, with very few dead zones." It is so much more alive than a static web site.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art. And it's not just about recall.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

We did promise NSF very specifically 40 case studies of exhibitions, and we listed a number of NSF-funded exhibitions that people who are part of our core community group will hopefully write about. Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv.

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