Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Each participant organization designed and launched a measurement action learning project that used measurement to improve results for networked approaches and social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

I got on Beth Kanter ’s case a while back , when she was posting about "Tagging for social change. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change." Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Startup World’s winner in Cape Town Pashash is a cross between Pinterest and Facebook- When you see an item you want to buy, you take a picture of it, tag the store and price and share it. Everything you share is then added to your profile, which serves as a virtual reflection of the things you love.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

Mark Horvarth (who made a brief appearance in my video from yesterday ) has caught a lot of attention with his alluringly simple idea: record homeless people telling their stories and publish them on the internet. His project InvidiblePeople.tv Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. Michaela Hackner is a senior project manager at Forum One. Tags: sxsw. And that will make all the difference.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

You should do some research into each of these SEO content writing points: Header Structure/Hierarchy Title Tags & Meta Descriptions Best Practices Call To Actions To target your keywords, try to use them naturally throughout your content, particularly in the title tag and headers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! Every year we also do a group community project.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. 350 is an excellent example: people around the world used a tag “350ppm” to start uniting their content whether it was blog posts or analysis or videos.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer. Awesome, right?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

Using this open source collaborative platform, the Manhattan-based nonprofit has so far engaged more than 600 communities in 55 countries in creating citizen maps to catalyze new environmental projects, large and small. The owners found each other via social media and the project was born from the interaction,” Ward said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some times they go on to form their own nonprofits like Amanda Rose and Manny Hernandez and like Mark Horvath has for his Invisible People and WeAreVisible project. Tags: Housekeeping. Someone in the audience asked about the ecosystem of Free Agents. It got me thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

What I love about this project is that it is giving a different lens and context to think about social media for social good. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects. Contests/Challenges: Directly involve stakeholders in social change project or program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

During the school year, they spend one day per week at the Taylor Center working on science projects and leading science programs for young children, seniors, and other community groups. The program is rigorous, engaging students in serious scientific projects as well as personal and professional development workshops.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. Tags: Influence Events Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media. And that will make all the difference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

Lemme know and keep adding to the Changeblogger list in the comments of this post, by emailing me at britt@brittbravo.com, or using the tag, "changeblogger". Spare Change TED blog TED talks (video) TimeToShine Tri to End Homeless Up with Women (they've requested help with improving their blog) Vampituity What Gives?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What kind of projects or requests have they given the most to? Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. You can pay someone an hourly rate or a project fee and get the professional polish you need to power your campaign forward. Think about: Last year’s successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. It's messy. Hiring people.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. Tags: dee albritton Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? An easier way of helping is by tagging sites and webpages describing nonprofit innovation or great new tools or techniques. It's been great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Internally, we use a wiki to manage many projects and communicate across the organisation.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

At some level, every open source project is a community-driven effort. These projects grow and improve only through the coordination and efforts of many individuals, which requires (you guessed it) community-building tools. This community will grow, attracting new talent and ideas, which all feeds back into the quality of the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This small group organized the first Twestival to raise money for The Connection , an organization that helps homeless people by providing specialist services. Tags: social media micro-philthanthropy fundraising2.0 When the Twestival founders approached charity:water, they listened to the organization's concerns. freeagent twitter.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The best approach when creating content for an online fundraising appeal is to envision the whole project as a campaign. For some campaigns, the theme can be as short as a tag line, like “serving hope.” Here are examples from different types of organizations: $20 covers food and shelter for a homeless animal for one month. $35

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Be sure to make infographics with software that allows you to easily scale the project for different platforms. For example, you could also explain goals such as building a new homeless shelter by pulling statistics about how long the process will take or how much funding per day would be necessary to cover the length of the project.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

tracking an agent, and inevitably end up interrogating homeless people and perfect strangers—engaging in social behavior they would never consider in “real” life. The best presenter I’ve seen do this is Frank Warren, instigator of the PostSecret project. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Colorado Project. On this two minute video, Dan Hanley, Director of Development, Boulder County Aids Project, talks about how Twitter is a useful tool in his fundraising work primarily for Twitter’s ability to connect and develop relationships with new donors. Tags: Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring along transparencies or overlays for the overhead project that would show a screenshot and a tape cassette player with a recording of a modem handshake (remember those?). And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. This was circa 1997.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

For example, you might explain the story of your humane society this way: “Emma and Jennifer, our founders, noticed there was a great need for humane homeless pet care in the Atlanta, Georgia area. For example, you might say something like, “We need your help to continue our efforts to provide clothing for homeless individuals in our area.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. Why do homeless people smell bad?” Tags: exhibition design professional development. How to perform an abortion What would you add?

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