Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It has a clean, neat user-interface and I encountered zero issues with their iPhone App. When you are ready to broadcast, simply posts links to your “Show&# [see below] to your social networking communities. Then add “Show Tags&# that speak to your organization’s work. 2) Create your first “Show&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Note from Beth: It is strange sometimes how social networks can have your past, present, and future collide. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. But they still suffer for issues of relevance. Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology twitter.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Baker presented an engaging and dynamic presentation which emphasized the symbiotic relationship of both online and offline engagement, the power of both to create community, encourage activism, develop branding, and unify those with common goals, both locally and globally. The key concepts behind this are activism and self-organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO), an event that he first learned about through his social networks. But consider the following: Networking. There were 44 followers that used the #floodofsupport hash tag or linked to the Crowdrise page or blog post. The lessons for arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Then be sure to tag it "stopcyberbullying" so we can aggregate it. -. Have an offline conversation with someone about it. Cyberbullying social network ( [link] lying.ning. no way we can do justice to the issue in one day, we've set up this online. Cyberbullying social network ( [link] lying.ning.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. Use both online and offline. if not free) technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation to a group of Bay Area Foundation program officers and funders who work on population research issues. 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. We help guide it."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The annual event's focus this year is Climate Change, an the issue that will impact all of our lives. Social Network Collaboration : Focus the Nation *, 1Sky , and Energy Action Coalition have decided to bridge their social networks onto one platform called The Climate Network using the community software tool Zanby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. I work at Acumen Fund and I manage the organization's social media work. Tags: movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Creating an environment for learning in public means that it is okay to say “I don’t know” about an issue or problem and to ask others what they think. Social media is a conversation engine. Illustration by Carl Haggerty via David Wilcox, Social Reporter. Offline/Online Interaction. Tags: backchannel.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Brand Your Issue. Word of mouth, etc. Be Everywhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

The difference with using social media for fundraising is that your organization may not even be involved anymore, the way it was offline. Social Networks for Fundraising. Tags: interview resources expert fundraising london ncvo presentation socialbysocial wearemedia. Birthday Cause Wrapped Up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Network for Good has some terrific stories about noisy, angry people becoming champions for their services because of active listening and then open engagement with them on social networks or in the comments of blogs. One example is from the GiveWell Blog which posted a complaint about the Network For Good's fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Media outlets both online and offline. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. The Socially Conscious Geek: Makin' Money While Doin' Good: Can you make a living as a geek without sacrificing your ideals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. To figure out your keywords, do a little brainstorming offline and then maybe use some online keyword tools. You can monitor social networks and YouTube for mentions of your organization and issue.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else. Tags: socialmedia. Google Maps & MyMaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Some tables got very focused on some philosophical issues related to goals and stuck. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. The nature of your contact with your network or friends and how you build it - transactional versus relationship building? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. The Socially Conscious Geek: Makin' Money While Doin' Good: Can you make a living as a geek without sacrificing your ideals?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Voice remains the killer app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. Does your community address local issues?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. The Socially Conscious Geek: Makin' Money While Doin' Good: Can you make a living as a geek without sacrificing your ideals? Submitted by Ted Fickes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. platforms. (see

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In addition, all of the successful social efforts in the connected age happen both online and on land – see Moms Rising’s onesie campaign , Surfrider’s advocacy efforts , the Humane Society’s Spay Day efforts on Facebook and on land. It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 at 1:18 pm Timely post, I am currently doing at pretty large scale project for a client and those are the exact issues I am determining right now. Integrating online and offline communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. David felt this was less of an issue of learning new leadership skills, but simply a distraction. How did the relationship originate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Of course, there are scaling issues. I spent less time chasing after people who were not in my network who may have a lot of influence and asking them to blog, post on their Facebook profile or retweet. it's been in churches, immigrant communities, and many other places offline for years. Tags: fundraising2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. do you think about online or offline? we mean social group. we mean a group being ‘led’ Community confusion: people rarely consider themselves part of communities offline. most proud of job at an adoption charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

More often than not, the issues that groups are tackling, while critically important are complex and thus challenging for audiences to understand quickly or obscure and thus not considered to be immediately relevant by the audience. The successful causes on Causes seem to start out well known, or bring in a high profile or strong brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Amanda Rose at the London Twestival Photo was taken by @mikebutcher The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. The team was fantastic and we had regular Skype calls and emails discussing issues that came up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Note from Beth: Last fall, Aspen Baker shared a guest post about privacy and social networks on this blog. We wondered how we could navigate the current online terrain in order to meet our callers needs and leverage the opportunities that social media has to offer. Tags: policy. Privacy is about having control.”

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