Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I Recently, there was a thread about online donation tools and I shared Laura Quinn's Idealware report with a caveat that it was probably more useful for NGOS in the US. Does anyone know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 " Donor Power Blogs describes the online/offline generation gap , although some members of the great generation have been spotted on YouTube.

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APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Plan with other local NGOs and create an informal board of IT advisors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. According to my colleague Rik Riel, this campaign is sponsored by the Spanish NGO Mensajeros de la Paz , which is leveraging various new media to draw attention to their work.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. You'll also need some video editing software.

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