Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month. right here. Data Guest Post'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

I was curious how a large national network with local affiliates approaches a social media strategy in a networked way. This a terrific example of in working in networked way. We have a mix of experience, from the early adoptors who can share their vast experience to those who are new.". Here's an example.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. They/we may soon have an operations manual to share on how to do it. (2) There’s a lot of overhead to consulting, even if you don’t do a lot of networking or advertising.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We thought we’d share that with you. to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. She also said that they learn about new technology mostly by word of mouth throughout their church network. Church Technology Listservs. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Start thinking about success stories that you can share with your organization. Share how an organization similar to yours was able to strategically use technology to increase its impact. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) What about other senior management? How about your board members?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Combined, these networks have almost 20,000 members, a testament to the hard work (and networking expertise) of these two network creators. whether you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

TechSoup recently completed a data center move of more than 100 servers and 25 networking devices. A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. Sharing the Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. And the IFRC, my organization, has a Learning Network with many free courses for volunteers. 4) Share an application with an organization in your sector. But they were open to sharing a person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Usually, I panic and start brainstorming a list of smarter people and browsing my networks for people I am sure can give me the answers. And occassionally, there might be a post where some good soul has summarized the learning from the last time that particular question was asked on the listserv. memory lapses, had forgotten it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. Recent advances in web development make data sharing much easier. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. " I also went through my network on delicious of people who are power taggers and might know also about conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. I think I'm a digital curator. Steve Rubel has an excellent definition , although it isn't new. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. But I live in a digital world in which text is still king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option. We access all orphanages via the internet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

Share your story about your summer service project. They have toolkits available , and will be building more, to help you create your project. Find a volunteer opportunity on Serve.gov using the search engine powered by All For Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Or will Convio innovate less due to their massive new market share and potential perceived lack of competition? Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Thurman also advises organizations to invite guest bloggers since they will invite their network and increase your blog traffic. Ideas for content can be sourced from staff, supporters, other blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and listservs. The blogging experts shared more advice and answered audience questions following their presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Frankly, I'm most interested in blogging as a gateway activity to a whole series of sharing that can happen online. Anything that made writing and sharing easier made sense to me. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! And, if you've written about curation in the past, share the link with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. I've written about my blogging workflow before, but I'd like to share my creative process. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Hopefully, while we improve communication on our end, you all will start to see the endless opportunities for the free, in-depth networking and educational experiences that CoPs will provide. The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

There is also the use of social media tools (and online collaboration tools) to support inward facing work, including online groups, communities of practice, and internal coordination or learning activities of organizations working as pure networks. what is kept within the community, what is shared with the wider world).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Similarly, as an online learner, I find it exciting to share ideas and learn from and with others. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Heather from Aspiration shares her process for securing a venue for Penguin Day. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

There are plenty of options ( Google Sites , Ning , and GroupSite , to name a few) that allow you to host discussions and share documents with groups of people relatively easily. Forum One's own Online Community Research Network regularly publishes results of surveys from online community managers about community platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. The key is in figuring out what would be the big draw that people would want to share with their circle of friends, whether it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. Networking Insight Blog.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

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!" Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And my colleague is going to share our presentation and we will jump right in. As I shared, I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS and an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. And when people ask why I do the work that I do, I like to share my own mission. So a little bit more about me very quickly. A lot of Cs, okay.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. As the director of education at a small science museum, Woody thought it would be useful for his staff to share and have access to demos being offered by science museums all over the country. a conference). Otherwise, people won't contribute.

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