Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your budget is limited, you can distribute the responsibility for using various tools among different staff members, but implementing an effective social media strategy that is dispersed among multiple staff members will require strict organization and disciplined leadership. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Age Segmentation in Social Networking | NetSquared – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your thoughts and best practices for using social media with or for a particular age group. Great slides. Check it out!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Post Calls to Action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The rise of social media and mobile technology has changed the way people process information. Your supporters also now expect a more social experience from your website. It’s crucial that your social media and mobile technology campaigns are integrated into your website. Include Social Media Icons or Graphics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 received 13,000 visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Using Social Networking to build your YMCA career View more presentations from steveheye. My takeaways: Slide 31: Some great points about balancing the line between individual presence and organizational presence on social networking sites: Read the policies in your employee manual. Use of YMCA equipment.

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2012

84% of internet users 50 and over use social networking sites. Importance of Meaningful Online Engagement Experience Pagliaro discussed how critical it is for nonprofits organizations to provide Boomers and Seniors (and frankly any demographic) with meaningful online engagement experiences. It’s an app on their phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. There are benefits for both nonprofit organizations and the people who work for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. I’m reminded of this slide from Mary Joyce from the E-Mediat Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” First start off with who is everyone using these tools outside of the organization and is interested. Does everyone in your nonprofit participate in social networks including the board?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Everyone at your organization thinks the new website is fantastic. Plan for any additional staff and budget needed for technology, design, content, online advertising, and other implementation costs for the year. Look for opportunities to test different calls-to-action and other key content that is important to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. An Impressive Week-Long Learning and Networking Event for Nonprofits. NetChange Week is an impressive event that explores the intersection between social technology and social change started a year ago. The week is built in partnership with over 35 collaborators.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 received 13,000 visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I’ll be posting my slides and speaking notes on Tuesday for my session on the topic of “the future of online revenue generation for charities.&# More to come on this question then! For more: Messages, Stories, and Conversations: Creating a Strategy for your organization and your supporters. Dealing with Resistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For those of you who are wondering what the heck is an ignite presentation, it is a style of presenting where the speaker has 20 slides, mostly visual, and spends no more than 20 seconds explaining each one. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Technology for nonprofit development and fundraising is quickly changing. In the TechSoup premiere our new #NPLive interactive series of video events, join us to discuss The Future of Fundraising online in the social media matrix on Tuesday, May 24 at 11 a.m. Pacific time. Join Us Online May 24 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits. Blogging for Nonprofits (Shirley Sexton).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

That's my all time favorite slide from a powerpoint deck called " Sowing the seeds of enterprise2.0 in a global organization" by Corporate punk. I was reminded of that slide today when I read Read/WriteWeb's piece Fear of Web 2.0 I understand why this keeps senior management at high profile organizations up at night."

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

20 slides. 1 slide every 15 seconds. If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. How can we protect yet empower ourselves, our kiddos, families, and communities among the multiple data streams social/media converge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

In yesterday's keynote, Charlene Li's key point was in the future, 'social networks will be like air.' In other words, it won't get in your way as you navigate across the web and it will feel inadequate (like you can't breathe) if your friends or social network or "social graph" isn't part of your everyday web experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth. On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Hurry the deadline is May 19th to submit your idea. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For example, Executive Directors of nonprofits could use the new Subscribe Button where members of their organization who aren’t their FB friends could subscribe to their public newsfeed. You can also check out the slides below. Click here to listen and view the webinar. Keeping up with Facebook's Changes (and 'Liking' it!).

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. The campaign.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

There's been a lot of excitement in the last year about social networking in general, and about Facebook in particular. And a lot of talk about the value of social networking for non-profits. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a 501(c)3 organization that works in the U.S. Here's a success story.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off tomorrow and one of the key elements to Community Day is the Science Fair. This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out nearly 100 exhibirors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

My colleague Colleen and I spent weeks working closely with the three convening organizations, helping them identify key ways to share their messages and summit activities in a virtual space. The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools. ReadyTalk — This standard for webinar production offers integrated slides, screensharing, live moderated chat, and high-quality recorded audio.

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