Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In fact, 56 percent of individuals who follow nonprofits on mobile and social networks take further action, the number one action being making a donation, after they have read a compelling story published by a nonprofit. On mobile and social media, whoever shares, posts, tweets, and features the best content wins.

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Communication Online Nonprofit Social Media 249

NTEN

MARCH 13, 2013

Instead of siloing social media into “that stuff that so-and-so does,” what would a more integrated approach look like? Since social media relies on social networks, let’s examine junctures in various organizational relationships where social media could be useful.

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Relationship Facilitation Social Media Tools 95

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.) But I’m still bored silly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

There's also another charitable donation social networking site that facilitates free surgery. Other featured LinkedIn for Good organizations include American Red Cross, the World Wildlife Fund and Unitis and Kiva, microfiance organizations. hat tip, Dave B. at Journal Marketing. Personally, I'm very disgusted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

She recently blogged about her take on social networking has changed in the past year and now recommends to clients that they should consider what value they can gain from a social networking presence. Not only are Gen Y and Millenials engaged in these social networks, but a wider and broader range of people are.

Social Network 50

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. He went through some recent trends with social networking use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? A new role here to facilitate these Wired fundraisers. or not work ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. FourSquare is a location-based social network to help you connect with friends using GPS via your mobile device. What's a location-based social network?

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Twitter Fundraising Social Network Sponsor 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I put out a query for examples of blogging and social network/media policies for nonprofits and got lots of good examples. There was/is a lot of fear about encouraging the use of social media in our ranks, so it seemed like a doable first step. Photo by Nic's Events. And, do all organizations with blog need a policy?

Social Network 50

Social Network Policy Network Social 50

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Reboot Britain - David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and I are going to faciliate another round of the Social by Social Game at Reboot Britain - I'm really looking forward to the innovative ideas groups come up with! I'm also looking forward to the rest of the day as a participant and not just a facilitator.

Web 100

Web Bookmarking Social Network Delicious 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. “We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Learn more about the Challenge & participate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

The process encourages stakeholders describe user profiles and what the site needs to meet their needs. Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Jon Lebkowsky.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Social Social Network 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

These days,"social network" is a term that often refers to a social media community, such as Facebook, and thus is not a term that many managers would take seriously unless they were discussing a social media campaign. The connection between two people within a social network is referred to as a tie.

Leadership 90

Leadership Research Develop Social Network 90

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

One of the themes raised up as the GEO/Monitor Institute conference came to an end was the importance of trust and relationship building in networks.

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Relationship Measure Impact Build 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

This got my attention because I was designing a Networked Nonprofit workshop for E-Mediat and will incorporate a network mapping exercise. Danielle connected me to Daniel Chu, Vice President, Affiliate and Regional Strategies and resident network weaving enthusiast. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them.

Network 127

Network Nonprofit Map Exercise 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. The most powerful feature of the map is that allows you peer into your online social network, notice connections, and to remind yourself of people you know but may not of thought about in years.

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Technique Network Tools Map 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

The event used social networks like Twitter and Tumblr for real-time updates on the event and had the ladies of Sleepover 2.0 The two-week fundraiser had nine teams of social media influences and celebrities competing against each other to raise for money for nine different charities. live streaming for entertainment.

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Charity Facilitation Organization Tips 50

The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Industries around the world should begin to think of utilizing BYOD to facilitate workflows. So, when we post our job openings on LinkedIn and Facebook, we actively encourage our employees to share them throughout their personal and professional networks,” Veytsman said. We take personal devices for granted in today’s world.

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Change Linkedin Mobile Social Network 137

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He acknowledges that trust and accuracy elements could get tricky as social networks have found out. Socher hinted at some social sharing elements they plan to build into the search tool including allowing you to have your own custom you.com URL with your name to facilitate that sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is also important to expectations. The magic thinking of “ everyone on social networks ” may not happen over night. .” How has your nonprofit or foundation avoiding having your organization’s culture eat your social media strategy? Council on Foundations. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Social Media Culture Strategy Media 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization.

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Story Build Organization Platform 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Share Social Media Reflection Professional 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. I was reflecting on that and how Twitter can really facilitate network weaving. Here's an example: Charlene Li posted the above tweet looking for examples of social media in schools.

Network 94

Network Twitter Technique Social Network 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. This will facilitate a self-organized, community scrapbook of the event from attendees.

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Facebook Haiti Social Media Disaster 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website.

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Websites Social RSS Facilitation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. How have you used social media to personalize your interactions with potential supporters? Our detailed case study with Darius Goes West reveals some fantastic insights and learnings.

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Case Study Social Media Conversation Studies 89

The Next Web

JULY 14, 2012

“ Yammer is much more than a company social network. Yammer has facilitated cross-departmental collaboration and made our company more innovative.” Hammer Away on Yammer. Our Yammer feed has a constant stream of new ideas, articles and more. ” - Bhavin Parikh , Magoosh, Inc.

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Collaboration Tools Business Skype 148

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Social Media Measure Social Media 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. with "just for fun."

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Social Media Policy Media Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

That their web site may be or incorporate a blog as well as integrate, videos, podcasts, and photos. (2) Social Outposts: This is your organization's presence on social networking or social media outposts like Twitter, Facebook, or other places.

Content 94

Content Strategy Social Social Media 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. Social networks lit up again, this time with posts asking for donations and celebrating the generosity of people who care about Minnesota.

Social Media 121

Social Media Media Social Fundraising 121

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

– "The goal of the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) project is to turn qualitative case studies of digital activism around the world into a non-proprietary quantitative machine-readable data set in spreadsheet form that will facilitate the work of scholars in this new field."

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Web Bookmarking Case Study Map 114