Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Facebook, MySpace and More View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years.

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JUNE 21, 2007

If you have profiles on social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook , make sure icons that link to those are on your home page. The nights theme was Pimp My Nonprofit as the wonderful ladies from CODEPINK shared their website with the group. Make the first words they read the ones with the most impact and importance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

During my interview with her for NetSquared she said, "Some of the most exciting things going on are what individuals are doing by themselves online, through a meet-up or through a blog or an email, and how organizations learn how to leverage that passion, I think, will prove how successful they can be in this new era."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I missed the post about flickr use by MoveOn on netsquared when I was in London earlier this month. and MySpace. Just tracked down the original article, The Best $24.95 MoveOn Ever Spent: Flickr via Jon Stahl.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2007

Logo from Future 5000's MySpace page. Originally Posted on NetSquared. You’ll also be able to post campaigns, create coalitions, show organizational relationships, and share resources needed and available with other organizations. In it’s simplest form, Future 5000 is powerful—because you are. I just got goosebumps.

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. This post was written for the NetSquared blog. But rather than the person of the year being the you in user, isn't it the us in users?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. million users. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Or use nonprofit.alltop.com ( Sue Waters ) ( Allan Benamer ) 5. For many in the boomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

If you check out their blog, you will notice that the group has a presence on myspace, friendster, YouTube, and few other communities. MySpace hasn??t To invite people in Myspace is also painstakingly difficult unlike Friendster that you just click a button and invite. The Short Resource List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I finally got to meet Jayne about a year at the netsquared conference. She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. She goes to ask whether or not online social networking should be of interest to nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Is a email users and non-users the next digital divide? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 tools to adopt.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. Panelists: Natalie Foster, DNC ; Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach ; Laura Quinn, Idealware. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!)

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

[link] Opuzz [link] FreeAudioClips.com [link] FlashKit [link] Creative Commons’ OWL Music Search [link] Photo Sharing Flickr [link] Flickr for Good [link] Video Sharing Platforms YouTube [link] YouTube Nonprofit Program [link] DoGooderTV [link] Google Video [link] blip.tv [link] Video Camera Flip [link] $130-180 Social Networks Facebook [link] MySpace (..)

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Four years ago, web 2.0 was barely on the radar of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Palo Alto's Facebook have exploded in popularity, drawing new users into the fold each day. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." " His post sparked some comments about social media burnout and reflections from the US perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

" Covers the pros and cons of running your own branded social network or going with Facebook or Myspace. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Eric Johnson shared " Is Facebook Page a Complete Social Media Strategy ?" " Marnie Webb answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Heather Mansfield, Making It On MySpace. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. " Peter Deitz does a nonprofit riff on a report called " Strategy of Giving " originally written for business people to invest their businesses. Digidave of Spot.Us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

If you're looking to engage and inspire new supporters, setting up an organizational presence on one of the larger social networks like Facebook or MySpace is an option. There are different tools and methods that you can use to listen , including free tools like google alert, technorati, RSS readers , and even Twitter.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

60) Search « CASE STUDY: Care2 Recruits 10,000 for CHEJ Campaign | Main | NetSquared Meetup Roundup » Thursday Jun 21 2007 Online Branding Takeaways Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:09PM | by James OMalley Yet another fantastic Internet Advocacy Roundtable took place at the Care2/Oxfam offices!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. Launch Announcements I decided not to broadcast this out to everyone I know. If they get excited by your cause, they can spread the word rapidly.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: What is the best way to acquire or create a widget for a Facebook or MySpace page? Emily : It makes sense to work with partners such as Buddy Media , ClearSpring or Gigya , who are adept marketers and makers of widgets for many advertisers for both MySpace and Facebook. Beth : See [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set. Allison Fine writes an Op-Ed piece on the SF Chronicle entitled " A New Bargain: YouTube Politics."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). Pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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