Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Here's how you can help: -If you blog, ask your readers to contribute -Leave a tip in the comments -Twitter it at @kanter The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit.

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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 A new service called Qunu that uses IM to match people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

If you check out their blog, you will notice that the group has a presence on myspace, friendster, YouTube, and few other communities. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause? MySpace hasn??t com has been helpful in a way that other social networks have not been. Through this blog we??ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

from DonorsChoose.org at the bottom of posts, so that readers can find opportunities to take action to help classrooms around the world. EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. Heather Mansfield, Making It On MySpace. Digidave of Spot.Us

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!) Google Maps & MyMaps.

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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. She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. She goes to ask whether or not online social networking should be of interest to nonprofits?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

There's an unfortunate consensus emerging in the nonprofit sector that social media is only helpful for communicating with young people. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. Four years ago, web 2.0 was barely on the radar of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

It seems that a room helps with the noise levels because people have to consciously add info to a given room. " Covers the pros and cons of running your own branded social network or going with Facebook or Myspace. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

60) Search « CASE STUDY: Care2 Recruits 10,000 for CHEJ Campaign | Main | NetSquared Meetup Roundup » Thursday Jun 21 2007 Online Branding Takeaways Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:09PM | by James OMalley Yet another fantastic Internet Advocacy Roundtable took place at the Care2/Oxfam offices!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Palo Alto's Facebook have exploded in popularity, drawing new users into the fold each day. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." " His post sparked some comments about social media burnout and reflections from the US perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. If you're looking to engage and inspire new supporters, setting up an organizational presence on one of the larger social networks like Facebook or MySpace is an option.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: What books do you recommend to help us get acquainted and use social media? Q: What is the best way to acquire or create a widget for a Facebook or MySpace page? Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc. Here's my roundup of Twitter advice. Beth : See [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm sitting here in awe that you all have helped me raised $261 from 11 donors (Thurs. 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. use your social network to help you with the campaign. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). Pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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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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