Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. There needs to be discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. She is the third person to mention a remix. It gave my seven year old a good laugh!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

So, fellow nonprofit communications professionals, I remixed David's scenario and replaced the word "corporate" with "nonprofit." " And I changed the word blogger to social networker or facebooker. What do you do as the social networking manager?

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MAY 25, 2007

My workshop is called the "Social Media Game: Market yourself and your film using blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing and social networking sites." " I've remixed David Wilcox's Social Media game -- I've focused it on more individuals versus organizations and of course, on media creation.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Today I got a comment on an older post, my interview with Carie Lewis about using social networking sites for campaigns. Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Inspiration may come from outside our silo and together we'll remix it. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0 Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be A Better Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections. And it is counterintuitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . On Eugene's site, you can see a much better video of the exercise with participants in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? The sites attract millions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I recently read an article about fundraising on social networking sites. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. And given that the network is increasingly going to be the point of contact. And given that the network is increasingly going to be the point of contact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. What the heck is the Cute Dog Theory? of Wired Blog).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

For example, you can in a couple clicks go onto a site like Slideshare and see ideas on a topic from some of the best thinkers on that topic and recreate your own meaning of it. This melting of boundaries will happen from inside out through individuals working in nonprofits using social networks to connect across silos and organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Networking ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Flickr Photo Remix Party Well, a few weeks ago, I read a blog post by Amy Sample Ward about Birthday Causes, This new feature lets individuals on Facebook create a birthday fundraising campaign as part of a Cause. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did !

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. If you've clicked on a link to the site from this post, congratulations--you are a ScratchR spectator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. "Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!" " Greenpeace UK is about to launch a new drupal site. " and tells exactly why.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. Beyond the dollars raised, there is also value in growing your organization’s network. Ask your network to make a donation. 28% of donors are repeat donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Increased Relevant Visitor Traffic and Page Rankings: You're using social media tactics to drive traffic to your organization's web site or newsletter sign up or improving search engine results or using social media channels to spread your web site or blog content. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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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. A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Mike Seyfang, a nonprofit technology consultant in Austraila, tells us to avoid YouTube if you want to get remixed and mashedup. Social Networking Random Thoughts on Life and Works has a post called " How Connected Are You? " Looks like MySpace is also getting sued for copyright violation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

But I'm a member of the Social Media Advisory Board for SmartBrief, Inc , a terrific daily summary of social media insights and they asked me to do a roundup post for this week. As June Holley, a thought leader in networks, would say, " Be Rhizomatic.". A Platform for Self-Organizing. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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