Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

As with all popular communications channels, sometimes social media gets a bad rep. While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements. Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

In this month’s chat,we had some good discussion around social media guildines and online community moderation. Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. Read the full transcript here!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

" How do your social media channels fit in your organization's emergency communications plan? " 6 questions to prepare you for a social media crisis – "In social media, the disasters people talk about most are fundamentally crises of public relations. Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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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. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.

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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. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. Chris's post gives a condensed history of Feedburner and how the need for its services has changed given the social media landscape over the past 5 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many of you, especially those in greater Chicago, may be familiar with the Data Analysts for Social Good group that Andrew Means founded in May 2012. To learn more and stay in the loop with Data Analysts for Social Good, you can join the LinkedIn group and subscribe to the listserv. right here.

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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. Iavor says they started with an over arching strategy, "We had to think through what we do as a brand in the social space and how it relates to our business goals so we could deploy social media strategically."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Social Change. Social Enterprise. I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Photo by SCFiasco on Flickr. A great big thank you to Ryan over at PICnet for this hack -- I can now move my NTEN Affinity Groups emails over the reader. This, of course, assumes that haven't reaced the point of RSS reader overload and I can successfully shift my email reading habit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Discover Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile Your Result: Creator. Whether podcasting or maintaining a website, the amount of content you create makes your Groundswell Social Technographic group a valuable target for social media marketers. Discover Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile See All Our Quizzes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? The key for me was: I???d

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 17, 2006

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term). FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT? FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. She is the founder and president of Weinreich Communications , and wrote a book called " Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide." What is your (simple) definition of social marketing?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

AASP''s listserv, Fundsvcs, won the grand prize in the 2013-2014 LISTSERV Choice Awards. Data Analysts for Social Good demonstrates and explains how satellite imagery data is being used to detect poverty. M+R shares 6 Rules for Online Writing that just might shatter some old grammar rules. Mark your calendars for 2015!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv. Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful? Then add some type of social rating system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

We’re going to start a listserv and take some initial steps to become our own combination of learning community and support group. She has been working in philanthropy for over 15 years in community and private foundation settings focused on social justice, conservation and health and human services.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

networking through professional or social associations (consultants associations, Rotary, and associations that your potential clients participate in). Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Options include. writing articles. publishing a newsletter. public speaking. business cards. volunteer work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” Keep your supporters and donors updated on the progress you’re making in real time via email and on social media. Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Close the loop.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. Being the type that doesn't need to be asked twice to be social online, and given that I want to get a handle on what Chatter is really like, I dove in. There's a big Chatter component to it.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Before, there were some high-activity listservs and sites with patterns to download. Now, there’s podcasts, blogs and knitting social networks. When I fell “asleep,” knitting was a different world. Now there’s so much for knitters online, it’s hard to grasp it all. The place to be as a knitter online seems to be Ravelry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Last month, in a blog post that I wrote called " RSS As Information Coping Tool " - experimented with switching some my listserv subscriptions to RSS reader. Makes sense to really think about whether an information source/listserv is giving you value or not. But, not all listserv RSS feeds are a like!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

This is a resource directory and social networking space for the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, a 4-year funded project going into its 2nd year. This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space. For detailed info see here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I've gotten too many messages from colleagues that have the subject line "Do We Read The Same Books" and it encourages you to sign up for a social software called Shelfari. The "bacn" from this program was sent to a listserv, and it annoyed people on the list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

This is a question our faculty, staff, and student team asks frequently in our quest to meet our Center's mission to help build the capacity of the social sector for those who lead, manage, and support nonprofits. Through informal discussions we've had with stakeholders, it seems there are a few preferred sources of information.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

Which tool is best for your group will depend on your goals, your members level of engagement, and the group’s comfort level with social technologies. If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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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. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I have in the past tried to access email from listservs that had RSS feeds. changing habits is another story).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. There was also a good post on Social Media Today by Collin Douma that looked at Best Practices for Facebook Fan Pages. Social Media Today, Best Practices for Facebook Pages.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And every advocate for social good has much to gain by paying attention to the Information half of IT. There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products. Check out the Blackbaud Community to get started connecting with other data-focused friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Go vote here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds). Start thinking about success stories that you can share with your organization. to get success stories. is going end-of-life!"

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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. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning site? Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning.

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