NTEN

MARCH 27, 2009

Ramya Raghavan announced the new call-to-action video overlay for YouTube nonprofit partners. Well, it helped Charity:Water raise $10,000 in one day! Don't forget that voting for the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge, in partnership with TechSoup 's NetSquared Initiative, ends today, 3pm Pacific. Go vote !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The youtube video is from Star Bucks Campaign. not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Six Sudsy Soapmaker Blogs And 2 interviews on The Extraordinaries blog: Chat with an Extraordinary: Lauren Bacon of Raised Eyebrow Web Studio Chat with an Extraordinary: Jimmy Santosa of Applied Materials And 6 news posts on the WE Volunteer blog: Love Making Videos? Become a YouTube Video Volunteer Is Volunteering Good for Your Health?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. I did a campaign video. I don't know what I mean yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. UNF has a YouTube channel and uses Twitter to engage support online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The newswires were filled with stories about Google/YouTube Marriage yesterday. Check out this popular YouTube user. YouTube keeps the copyright, some others don't. Atlas Corps posted an excellent example of their video on YouTube. It's called Web Video for the Social Benefit Sector. Then check with a lawyer."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe. Jordan Viator, YouTube on a ShoeString and ask the expert at NTEN with Ramya Raghaven from YouTube. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. I'm sitting here in awe that you all have helped me raised $261 from 11 donors (Thurs. I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube. Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. (There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. Need a chuckle?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. At that time, most of NetSquared’s content came from the community blog, where anyone working at the intersection of technology and social impact could create a profile and contribute to the blog with stories, case studies, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. SaveGuimaras is a group of individuals who are dedicated to raising awareness on the recent oil-spill tragedy in Guimaras, Philippines. YouTube is also good in finding videos about Guimaras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Here's some inspiration if your organization gets a camera from YouTube. And if you???re

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FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. NetSquared badges to put on your blog, web site or email signature. • A YouTube video about the Challenge. •

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

All we needed to say was I heard they were using facebook; or my son has a YouTube account so I’ll have him set up ours. Show how much money is being raised! Well, during the digital period we viewed the use of a tool for a given or sometimes un-defined purpose as a self-contained strategy. Is it an event to get out the vote?

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DECEMBER 1, 2006

For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. Watch a movie about mountaintop removal on YouTube. The campaign raised $17, 000. What makes us want to act for social change?

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