Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. Where does motivation come from? And it is generated partly by social cues.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It was the promise of these new applications that arguably triggered some of the initial excitement and hype around the latest generation mobile network standard. 5G-based edge computing was supposed to deliver all kinds of futuristic applications. But now that the time has come to turn these concepts into reality,

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Still, if Substack’s broader fortunes should change, it would be the second, highly hyped consumer company in a16z’s portfolio to have truly captured the public’s imagination, then lost momentum. Like Substack, the audio-based social network Clubhouse has gathered the bulk of its funding across numerous rounds led by a16z.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And the study also found that the other hyped-up reason for 5G, low latency, also isn’t here yet. T-Mobile 5G can be a big boost over 4G, but its speeds are only what we’d expect from a good 4G network—it isn’t a new experience. The last few years have seen the growth of the 5G Hype Industrial Complex.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

There is a lot of hype around new digital channels, but little evidence is published to back this up. Yet it wasn't just endorsed but them, they were actively seeking ways to support it through their available networks and with their available assets. I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?"

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

But that’s ok, we dove deep into the hype and looked at what skeptics are worried about for the new application. federal courts FBI says North Korean hackers preparing to cash out after high-profile crypto hacks Friend.tech hype is skyrocketing, but will it actually reach the stars? federal agencies.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

That alone should be reason enough to perk your ears up, make you investigate and cause you to think of ways to leverage the massive network of people who may want to hear from you. Your Special Event Director /Manager can hype your next event to the Facebook world. Facebook is a communications platform with close to a billion users.

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Care2

APRIL 25, 2011

Or perhaps you are attending your organization’s biggest fundraising event of the year, and need to be in constant contact with your fundraising team and board members who are doing a lot of networking to raise money. Forget ducking into a corner to find a quiet spot to call staff. Loose the retro walkie -talkies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

More like crypt-no : Anita reports how 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried takes a swipe at Bitcoin, saying it has no future as a payments network. Startups and VC. Every now and again, startups raise money for missions that make me worry about the current timeline we are on. billion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

This means that its software sits on a network of separate computers (called nodes ). Despite the hype and complexity, blockchain is a truly disruptive technology and one worth keeping an eye on by all nonprofit technology innovators. Blockchain Simplified. At its core blockchain is a database technology.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2022

Licht congratulated the CNN Plus team in a memo to staff announcing the shutdown and said that the decision “is not a reflection of the quality of the talent and content at CNN+, some of which will migrate to CNN’s programming or some of the company’s other networks.” The network seemed to be doomed from the very beginning.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Yes, people attend conferences and trade shows in order to learn and grow their skill set, but they also attend to network with other industry professionals. A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. .

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype. While these aren’t formal podcasting apps — there’s no way to record a Clubhouse conversation natively — they all seem to take advantage of the podcasting hype buoyed by Spotify.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 2014

Jelly is a photo-driven social media application for iOS and Android devices, which enables users to find answers to their questions and get advice in real-time by crowd-sourcing opinions from people within your social media networks. Create early hype for a new product of service. How it works. 5 brand benefits of using Jelly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Over the past few years, community has been a buzzword for tech startups looking to sell a product or service based on their definition of a useful network. He said that the app’s early hype saw it grow 10x in users month over month, a boom that broke a lot of the underlying infrastructure of the app. Clubhouse’s product-market fit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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InfoWorld

JUNE 4, 2024

What is most interesting is that multicloud is occurring mainly behind the scenes, without much fanfare, taking a backseat to the hype around generative AI. Everyone saw this coming Generative AI models, especially large-scale neural networks , require immense computational power and scalable infrastructure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Invest Time in Your Network 2.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

After years of drama with the SEC, Telegram is calling it quits on its crypto-focused subsidiary, Telegram Open Network (TON). billion in tokens prior to launching the network. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Telegram’s active involvement with TON is over,” wrote Pavel Durov, founder and CEO, in an announcement on his channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang has a post called " The Many Challenges of Social Networking " suggesting that social networks have passed the peak of inflated expectations and has identified a good list of challenges to success. " This relates to three challenges identified by Jeremiah: Successful Networks have hard time scaling.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Use social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. There are a few different reasons we offer contests: to recruit riders to join the ride and promote the event, to raise more funds, and to promote our social networking sites with re-tweets and fan ‘likes’. They: Register early. Belong to a team. Don’t go too crazy on contests.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 I’ll then talk about blogging, podcasting and vlogging, which I think are probably the most hyped, and potentially least useful for nonprofits to jump into without a lot of thought.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Get super stoked, because we are hype. Kanye West , also known as Ye, is buying niche social network Parler in a deal that will see the musician, fashion mogul, and controversy generator buy the service — but not the infrastructure that powers it. And it makes us here on the show look good! Hell yeah, this is our Monday show.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

based startup that operates its own “microfulfillment” network and promises to deliver items such as over-the-counter medicine, baby food and alcohol in 30 minutes or less, is in talks to acquire the U.K.’s GoPuff, the U.S.-based ’s Fancy Delivery , TechCrunch has learned. It already operates in 500 U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

Let’s step back a minute and consider why a nonprofit or social benefit group wants to include social networking as part of a social media strategy. Why would your organization want to have a presence on a social network? Goals: What are your goals for the inclusion of social networking in your social media strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic. Increase Knowledge Capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. Social networking matters.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. Multiverses are “multiple different worlds connected in a network, which do not have a shared theme or ruleset,” including Ready Player One ’s OASIS. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and spread generosity. It was almost ten years ago that we published the Networked Nonprofit during the early days of social media and networks.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

That zoom would a step down from the Samsung S20 Ultra’s hyped 100X zoom, but that turned out to be gimmicky in real-world use, so perhaps the reduced zoom will result in better photos. And the hole-punch front camera is 10 megapixels, reports WinFuture.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

Any AT&T subscriber with the right phone and a 5G plan will be able to connect automatically to the network. However, according to AT&T’s SVP of Network Infrastructure Mo Katibeh, focusing deployment within high-traffic indoor locations is in many ways easier than bringing mmWave to an open-air location like a city block.

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

With all the hype growing around this new social media platform, you’re probably asking how it might be useful in your fundraising strategy and whether you should jump on the bandwagon. By liking, commenting, reposting, or sharing, you and your followers can keep a conversation going across your networks. Sound familiar?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

Like the similarly over-hyped mmWave 5G, Starlink is remarkably delicate. While that’s happening, the Wi-Fi router will boot itself up (it’s a wee bit slow) and eventually offer you a generic Starlink network. Connect to that, open the Starlink app, and you’ll be given the chance to rename that network and set a Wi-Fi password.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

At the same time, I want to temper the hype, refocus the conversation, and use the example of agriculture to forge a productive template for all business sectors with carbon habits to fight climate change. I believe that agriculture can be a leading climate solution while feeding a growing population. Now, it’s agriculture’s turn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. People had joined the social network primarily for the visual experience – not to read. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Write Good Captions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

If you want to be successful using social media in your fundraising strategy, remember: Build your network before you need it. Some of the new tools now being launched to create a single profile that can be used across social networks will as analysts predict make social networks like air.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Meet the Speaker: How to Build Your Early VC network. Meet the Speaker: What Does Product-Market Fit Mean When Hype Tanks? The lounge is primo networking territory, so come prepared to quench your thirst for opportunity as you enjoy your tasty drink.

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