Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

1. Hi Dana, congrats on another successful Giving Day in Minnesota. Minnesota media organizations are incredibly generous and give us great visibility online and in print in exchange for being promoted on our website and in social media. The goal was to establish some brand awareness across Minnesota.

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TechSpot

MAY 25, 2021

Correction (5/25/21): A spokesperson informed TechSpot that the Minnesota Board of Licensure has not issued an official statement on whether or not Marohn can use the term "professional engineer" now that his license is renewed. Instead, the Board is trying to discredit his word as a reformer, by labeling him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. What was your judging process?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. Good luck and Go Minnesota! Our goal in this 3 rd year is to raise millions of dollars for thousands of Minnesota nonprofits in one day. So what gives in Minnesota? Jeff Achen gives us the inside view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Note from Beth: The 3rd annual Minnesota Give to Max Day took place last month. And every year, the good folks in Minnesota share their results and lessons learned. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. in one day by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Haishan Yang was working toward his second PhD from the University of Minnesota when he was expelled last year. It's alleged that he used artificial intelligence tools to write his essays. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Feds say a Minnesota man illegally streamed major league sports games | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Federal authorities have accused a Minnesota man with trying to extort $150,000 from Major League Baseball after hacking into its computer system.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 24, 2020

Workers said they were given no information about the spread of the disease.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Yufei Ren is an associate professor of economics at the Labovitz School of Business and Economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Managers should commit to leading with trust, acting with integrity and fostering workplaces where people feel valued and empowered. The impact will speak for itself. Read the original article.

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The Verge

MARCH 19, 2021

Also, it’s filled with Minnesota references. The Minnesota elements might feel out of place, but they’re pretty funny overall. The Minnesota elements might feel out of place, but they’re pretty funny overall. Image by Michael Mulet. The entire structure of Fontemon, which somehow fits in a downloadable font.

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Double the Donation

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Double the Donation has received several requests asking about matching gift programs in Minneapolis. To clear up some of the confusion we created this post highlighting some of the top companies in the area that currently offer these programs.

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TechSpot

JULY 25, 2024

Spytech Software, a Minnesota-based company that produces SpyAgent and similar programs, has been breached. TechCrunch was able to access a cache of files taken from Spytech's servers by unknown hackers, and has exposed the company's activities and the devices targeted by its stalkerware products. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota comes from the estates of two now-deceased men who needed long-term care in post-acute facilities. The families of these men were forced to pay a combined $210,000 out of pocket for their therapy and care before their deaths. Read Entire Article

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Donorbox

JULY 15, 2021

Minnesota gives a small-town feel to a big state. By starting a nonprofit in Minnesota, you can help address the poverty issue, ensure the environment remains beautiful for future generations, or help connect people within your community. The people are friendly, and the scenery is beautiful. Still, there are high rates of poverty.

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CauseVox

MAY 4, 2021

My coworkers at the Autism Society of Minnesota and I decided to kick off 2021 with a creative new peer-to-peer fundraiser on CauseVox. About The Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM). Founded in 1971, the Autism Society of Minnesota enhances the lives of individuals and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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TechSpot

JUNE 26, 2023

In an exclusive report, Axios claims Amazon will start recruiting existing business in roughly half of the country's states on Monday including Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, and Washington to participate. Dense cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, and New York will be among.

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TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

Image courtesy of University of Minnesota. In previous years, knowing whether or not anyone read your blog was impossible to know. Outside of the ubiquitous ‘hit counter’ on Geocities sites, no numbers existed to substantiate the effectiveness of any digital marketing initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Go Minnesota! This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org. We invited you to be part of the Great Minnesota Give Together.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Microsoft is now planning to debut this TV commercial during the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks game on Sunday night. It also prominently features Halo imagery, despite the delay of Halo Infinite that was originally intended to be a launch game for the Xbox Series X and Series S. Microsoft’s new Xbox TV ad.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

That includes one of the 1960s’ weirdest, yet surprisingly little-known, infrastructure projects: the Minnesota Experimental City. How feasible were the Sidewalk Labs Quayside project and the Minnesota Experimental City? But the two projects also demonstrate how our view of sci-fi cities — and why to build them — has changed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2010

" Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right | Beth’s Blog – "The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. Today, let’s look at infographics in general – and resources to help your nonprofit get started on making your own."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day. All told, Minnesota nonprofits collectively raised $10,041,021 in one incredible day.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 19, 2020

As Steeber points out , that’s nearly 100 stores if we include ones it closed in Germany and the Netherlands last week, leaving nearly a fifth of the company’s locations now closed worldwide.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2021

On Friday night, a VP at drone company DJI tweeted this video of a drone flight through a mostly-empty movie theater in Minnesota, and I don’t know about you but I really miss going to the movies. According to its YouTube page the video is by SkyCandy, and is a one-take fly-through of Mann theaters’ Plymouth Grand in Plymouth, Minnesota.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 28, 2021

Check out this stunning drone video that takes viewers on an amazing journey through Minnesota's massive Mall of America.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So when their day job employer, the Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM), decided to start using CauseVox for their peer-to-peer fundraising, Zephyr was all in. Zephyr James is not your average CauseVox user: they have a bit of an unfair advantage, because they wrote CauseVox education materials for years.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 5, 2023

According to a study by Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, data suggests that the level of "disruptiveness" in scientific research has gone way down in the 2000s compared to the last half-century.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I This was a community eager to speak; it was a community betrayed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

  It goes "Minnesota from"where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."   GiveMN a new online resource that hopes to encourage more Minnesotans to give and help create a stronger nonprofit community for Minnesota.  

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

States with projected surplus of workers include are California (16,591), Pennsylvania (16,036), Texas (9,035), Minnesota (8,614), and Washington State (8,414). That adds up to an overall shortage of critical healthcare labor in the country of more than 100,000 workers within five years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Check out this agenda: TechCrunch Live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Headquartered in the greater Minneapolis, Minnesota area, the startup is quickly becoming a shining star in the area’s exploding startup ecosystem. 1:00pm CT: Raising capital outside of the coasts with Anna Mason (Rise of the Rest Seed Fund) and Andrew Leone (Dispatch).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The momentum continues to build for this year''s Minnesota Council of Nonprofits'' (MCN) annual conference, Nonprofits in Motion: Momentum for a New Minnesota (NPIM14), Nov. 6-7 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Community conference minnesota minnesota council of nonprofits nonprofits in motion npim14 nptech nten speaking Program'

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By creative, I mean it’s not just in Minnesota, it is national. I saw this creative organization committed to making an impact,” Natasha said. “By Mary’s Pence is creative in funding ESPERA. I’m from Ecuador — and being in this country as a young immigrant has shaped my experience of how I see the inequalities people experience.”

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

The Arc of Minnesota @TheARCofMN. Here is a list of chapters that I’ve come across today that are using Twitter. These are in addition to the Arc Hamilton and The Albany Arc , which I have mentioned previously. The Arc of the US @TheArcUS. The Arc of Dallas @arcdallas. The Arc of Monroe @ArcofMonroe. The Arc Solano @TheArcSolano.

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TechImpact

MAY 8, 2014

Image courtesy of University of Minnesota. Nonprofits have been told since Facebook’s rise to prominence that they need to be investing in a social media marketing / fundraising campaigns. Many nonprofits thinking the path to success would be intuitively obvious hit road blocks, speed bumps and struggle to see a return on their investment.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Sony is clearly referencing the response to the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, and the resulting protests we’ve seen take place in the US and around the world. “While we understand gamers worldwide are excited to see PS5 games, we do not feel that right now is a time for celebration,” says Sony in a Twitter message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Nevertheless, we believe that our efforts to help Minnesota nonprofits and schools become “Networked Nonprofits,” to nurture social media usage and provide tools for integrating social media, have been key to driving the amazing results we saw again this year. Incentivize video creation and video sharing.

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