Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. It is about how you cultivate and develop your network. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Leaked Facebook documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal show that the social network has spent the last few years examining the effects Instagram has on younger users' mental health. The company has long insisted that social media can positively impact users' state of mind, but its own research appears.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good When we think about giving online, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle or widget for fundraising. Analysis of cumulative online giving (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Since its launch in July, Meta’s text-based social network Threads has gained many features, but a major missing part in the puzzle has been the app’s availability in the EU. The company, however, could launch the platform in the EU next month, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

at Journal Marketing. 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. Personally, I'm very disgusted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites? He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1) He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1)

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It follows a similar full-page newspaper ad in the The Wall Street Journal , New York Times , and the Washington Post yesterday. These changes will impact Facebook’s lucrative ad business, but the social networking giant is framing them as something far larger that could impact small businesses. Image: Apple.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Facebook has removed a network of anti-government accounts associated with the fringe “ boogaloo ” movement after designating the group as a dangerous organization, the company said. The network does not have a distinct name from the larger movement; Facebook simply calls it “the violent US-based anti-government network.”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The whistleblower behind the leak of an enormous cache of Facebook documents to the Wall Street Journal , Frances Haugen, went public on 60 Minutes on Sunday, revealing more of the inner workings the most powerful social media platform in the world. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen appears on 60 Minutes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

The details of the experiment were published in an article entitled “Experimental Evidence Of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks” published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. ” Which Social Networks Are Growing Fastest Worldwide?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

In an article in the Journal of Business Venturing , leading positive psychology researcher Barbara Fredrickson found positive emotions help build essential resources for entrepreneurs. Among those resources, the top three she found were social capital, resilience, and big picture thinking. Take two minutes and journal.

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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.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So, for example, if you’re reading your favorite newspaper and see an interesting article you’d like to share with someone – or across a social network – you just need to scan the paper with the app and it will launch the digital version for sharing. It hopes to have a network of 20 million iHelp users in the next five years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Facebook’s vice president of global affairs criticized a series of stories by the Wall Street Journal that reported the social network is aware of numerous problems across its platforms that cause harm to users, but does little to fix them.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

The 2010 Social Networking Map / Flowtown (@flowtown) – I love maps and I work in social media; so I always love the maps of social media! Here is an updated version of XKCD's Map of Online Communities; with updated numbers and networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. A couple of days ago, she made a call on her blog for academics to stop publishing articles in closed journals. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I’d like to ask other academics to do the same. I agree with her that open journals are the future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 Also, it depends on the privacy policies of the network provider.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2012

My talk is a call to action to nonprofits to be more intentional and mindful in how they curate and consume content from social networks. I’ll be talking about the art and practice of good curation and also share some techniques for staying focused while doing working on social media for practitioners.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. If it doesn’t correct course, the 17-year-old social network could, for the first time, lose out on an entire generation.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Aside from falling into Snapchat’s bracket of primary audience, he believes the impermanence of disappearing messages truly represents today’s needs for a social network. To D’Aloisio, the natural human behavior isn’t to journal everything. Rather, it’s the instinct to forget.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times, for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. I think I can write something up. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

." Emergency Social Data Survey Results – americanredcross's posterous – Check out the slides and data from the American Red Cross's survey on Emergency Social Data! " Thanks to Joe Solomon (@engagejoe) for the link!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook - The Wall Street Journal circulated a newly compiled list of "professional conduct" covering social media, social networking, and so on. These are some links I wanted to share from May 14th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I succumbed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

That might mean owning a voting share in the next big social network (yes, this is a thing you can already do) or owning a digital item in some upcoming game, which you could then transfer to another game or resell to another player. I have nothing to do with web3,” he wrote, adding that the Journal used his name for clicks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In a statement given to The Wall Street Journal , Facebook confirmed that the country’s telecoms providers had been ordered to block its services, adding, “We urge authorities to restore connectivity so that people in Myanmar can communicate with family and friends and access important information.”

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