Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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MARCH 17, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 1 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 17th, 2011 NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) is in Washington, DC and it’s sold out once again.

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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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MAY 2, 2012

Curation at NTEN , Evonne Heyning. Let's Get Local: Using Social Media in State and Local Campaigns , Ted Fickes. Nonprofits Chalk Up Big Gains in Social-Network Followers , Derek Lieu. My Top Five Takeaways from NTEN's Drupal Day , Melissa Anderson. Wake Me When NTEN's Over , Roger Craver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Take a look at the NTEN Crowd Funding Campaign to raise money for scholarships to its annual conference. The StartSomeGood Blog , a crowd-funding platform, organizes crowdfunding stories into different types: The Issue Story: This story talks about the field or fields within which you work and how your project solves a larger social issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

On Thursday, April 9th at 8:00 am, we kicked off the tenth Annual Day of Service at NTEN's NTC which was a resounding success! Over 110 volunteers worked with almost 60 local Atlanta-based nonprofits sharing their wisdom and expertise on a variety of techie topics.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

They're all specialized networks targeted at an older audience: Seniors Meetup Groups - This is a list of meetup groups for seniors by seniors. Using this resource, seniors can find local events to attend or start their own. It was developed to provide a Social Network geared towards Mature Adults and Seniors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

I have also been involved with the Day of Service , the annual conference event where techies give back to the local community for the past decade, along with my colleague Cheryl Hanback who ran the first one. This year we have over 100 volunteers to install a wireless network or work with local nonprofits on strategy consults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

So, lunch was delicious spoof on fast foods - including a double-cheese burger dubbed " The Big Mark." All the ingredients were sourced from local farmers and no disposable utensils or plates as the " chef culinary overload " explained. We don't have control over them. So, some allow creating events, but others don't. Ted Hart).

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Greater generational differences appear when it comes to reasons for social networking and selecting virtual destinations. Although some local governments are experimenting with Wi-Fi clouds -- free Internet for citizens -- the technology still remains out of reach many. But there is still the issue of income.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." social networking site.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

We're less than 3 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. OMG WTF: Engaging Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. Technology as a Catalyst for Openness.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

We're less than 3 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. OMG WTF: Engaging Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. Technology as a Catalyst for Openness.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Close the door! Not really.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This device can send the information through a cell phone to a physician hundreds of miles away who can then offer expert diagnostic and treatment advice to the local health care provider. New Networking Models -- Lastly, new networking models are starting to change the game for the community development sector.

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MARCH 18, 2010

This device can send the information through a cell phone to a physician hundreds of miles away who can then offer expert diagnostic and treatment advice to the local health care provider. New Networking Models -- Lastly, new networking models are starting to change the game for the community development sector.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Because of this, we updated our website’s budget page and created a shorter url ( cmlibrary.org/budget ) that was easy to distribute through social networks. This illustrated the public’s view of our social media presences as the sole source of information during the budget crisis.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The NTEN Community consistently learns and shares from each other, creating opportunities to highlight the work that we all do. Last week, one of NTEN's newest members, Linxter , released allAware , a free mobile app and web-based private social network for nonprofits. The Lights.

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JUNE 18, 2009

We developed Causes because we know what it takes to be an activist and we know how much social networking can revolutionize grassroots organizing. Tags: facebook facebook causes Fundraising Newsletter NPTech NTEN susan gordon. So, Michelle started a cause. Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Note: I've had this blog post in a draft for about a week and was reminded about it when I saw this post over at the NTEN blog asking Is Facebook A Bust or Is Obama's Model the Future ? My answer: The America's Giving Challenge campaign that I just finished was my fifth person to person fundraising campaign using social media.

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JULY 21, 2014

In one moment, you may have a number of windows or tabs going at once, clicking on a link in a news story and then sharing it on a social network. A moment later, you could be checking your email where you''re pointed to various websites and social platforms. Think about how you use the Web each day. It can feel scattered.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

We're less than 3 months away from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , NTEN's signature three-day gathering that brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. OMG WTF: Engaging Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. Technology as a Catalyst for Openness.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Every year I look forward to one very special conference - the NTC conference organized by the awesome NTEN team. This happy hour is an opportunity for 501 Tech Club organizers—you know who you are—to get together and swap ideas, stories about your local meetups, and jokes. Where: The Black Squirrel, 2427 18th Street NW.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While 22NTC will be virtual, we’re considering what kinds of small, local social networking events may be possible simultaneously. Many factors will contribute to whether or how these come to be offered, including accessibility, community health, local guidelines, and practical capacity.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

These teams would often receive local intelligence, and then use online tools to get the additional information necessary to deploy their limited resources most effectively, effectively “crowdsourcing” some of the legwork in terms of finding where individuals were located.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Join your local NetSquared group. No local group? This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech. San Francisco, CA: Mix and Mingle at NTEN’s Inaugural Leading Change Summit. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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JUNE 17, 2011

Given the adoption of social media, the opportunity for nonprofits to capitalize on low cost means to improve engagement with members and potential donors is greater than ever before. Social networking can enhance institutional awareness, fundraising efforts and cause loyalty if the nonprofit effectively manages and monitors the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Two items grabbed from the NTEN Blog. Lauren-Glenn Davitian's " Be the Media -- Free Speech Unfurled " guest post on NTEN blog. Chris Brogan is doing an expert session over at NTEN. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 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!" 60) Search « What Makes A Campaign Go Viral?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. What we often think of as "social media" has given way to a larger movement, known as the Real-Time Web.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

On Friday November 4 , 300 nonprofit and social good professionals gathered at the Marines’ Memorial Hotel and Club in San Francisco for Social Media for Nonprofits – a national conference series on the use of social media for social good.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At the Millennium Villages Project, with the help of groups like Inveneo, we’ve been able to take advantage of the advent of low cost and low power computers, long range wifi-networks and, increasingly, GSM-based data to deliver ICT services in a much more affordable way. Tags: Data Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of local members. Naples, Fl: Connecting Your Site to Social Networks – WordPress Walk-in-Clinic. Using small wins to grow social media revenue.

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MARCH 13, 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!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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