Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The most popular snark was this photo of Mark Zuckerberg. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Nonprofit techies organized a protest on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

There has been an explosion in size of nonprofit sector over last twenty years, huge increases in donations and number of organizations, and yet needle hasn’t moved on any serious social issue. Growing individual institutions ever larger has failed to address complex social problems that outpace the capacity of any individual org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. As they explore in their new book, fear of failure holds many organizations back from a networked nonprofit approach.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Facebook is pretty picky about what you can and cannot do on their platform, but the available tools and options are beginning to shift as they test what works for people and orgs, and what doesn''t. Pages can still edit text on photos that they''ve uploaded, but not status updates. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

They also included a photo and "My dream title" (examples: banana queen, marathon master, didjeridooer). Org charts, like maps, aren't given the attention they should be, especially in large institutions. Org charts are not just about putting people in their place. They are the basis for a social network of professionals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Recruit a volunteer or get an intern to help you" Effective Time Management for Nonprofit Managers by Joe Garecht of The Fundraising Authority " Cut Back on E-Mail, Voicemail, and Social Media. Save Time and Energy When Turning Interviews Into Content by Joanne Fritz on the About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs blog. Tweet Share.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This is something to be thinking about when planning your social media actions. Is your org on Pinterest? It's a great tool (that is gaining popularity daily) for fundraising, including that end of year giving campaign that's coming up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

. - ADAPT my existing social media strategy based on the new things I learn and ideas I have as a result of reading the books. GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) As you know, it takes more than access to create a successful social media network.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Once that's all set up, you can start sending vanishing photo and video messages (also known as Snaps) to your contacts. Its function, however, became clear once I realized that it can be used to save your photos before you send them. The nonprofit could then send a Snap back with a coupon code for merchandise from your org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). That way you can meet the activist "where they're at" willcoley @ kanter I'm interested in how orgs can use offline content dev among their constituents. See example of EQCA No on Prop8 [link]. Create something to attend!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. It lets you customize the color, size, format, number of photos, etc. The particular Web2.0

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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. Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s engaged enough to write a sentence or two or to participate in a conversation or to upload a photo with a caption is a person who???s The photos are amazing, and the craziest thing is that 20 minutes ago I never knew it existed. Our Flickr photo contest. Rather than build our own photo-sharing application, why don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2011

When I started writing this post, the theme I set out to cover was how CRM is becoming more social. What that meant (or I thought would mean) was how CRM solutions and approaches are integrating social media and social networking data into their native functionality. Do you use Google Apps for email at your org?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. " Web 2.0, 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. There I'm thinking of things like wikis, social networking applications that allow you to eavesdrop on what your friends are doing (this is how I think of subscribing to a colleague's del.icio.us org as my workish blog. RSS for Nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. * Save the Children's homepage uses mostly photos of healthy, rather than sick, children. * The Mix It Up campaign encourages young people to cross "social boundaries" and sit with someone new at lunch. *

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" Thanks for sharing your 10 Best.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Two-thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media and those platforms prioritize video content because it commands attention. The original DIY video platform, YouTube, is now the world's second largest social network and search engine. You’re able to essentially have a live studio in your house.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Photo by 3E by found via FlickrLeech Britt Bravo encourages us to step away from the computer this Thanksgiving. Social Networking Random Thoughts on Life and Works has a post called " How Connected Are You? Happy Thanksgiving! And, perhaps many took her advice, opting for turkey versus tagging items with the NpTech Tag!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. On Friday alone, there were 78,000 tweets and 10,000 photos shared of him. Now that’s social engagement #SFBatkid and it’s evidence to the power of social media. And I want more. And we talked. People give to people.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

She started chatting with peers and found that — of the eight other engineering authors she’d spoken to in her org — she was the lowest paid. Apple historically dissuaded employees from talking about work on social media — even in seemingly harmless ways.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

Each of those episodes, we found an example: Here’s a social network that does this. Once people know that you can make a social network that doesn’t undermine democracy, it increases the odds that people will make a social network that doesn’t undermine democracy.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2020

It’s the central org for most of the stuff you care about from Apple. Cloak your photos with this AI privacy tool to fool facial recognition. Running your photos through Fawkes doesn’t make you invisible to facial recognition exactly. Essentially, running Fawkes on your photos is like adding an invisible mask to your selfies. ?

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