Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethemedia, bethkanter, blogging, friendfeed, twitter, utterz on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve got very little time to spare these days and for the next little while, as we are fast approaching the date of my organization’s major event on Sunday, August 3, at the same time as we are getting ready to launch our new website (about to launch in beta in about ten days - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alltop, bethkanter, blogs, dropio, guykawasaki, nonprofit, sxswi on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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The new multi-disciplinary blog aggregrator from Guy Kawasaki, Alltop.com, officially went live today. As noted here last week, the Nonprofit Alltop page looks to be a good at-a-glance resource for all the latest blog posts in the nonprofit world (primarily those in the United States, from the look of it, for now at least).
Small [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged americasgiving, bethkanter, campaign, sprout, viral, widget on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that donations to walkathons and other athletic fund-raising events rose 12% in 2007, according to a recent survey.
Despite a bumpy economy, all of the organizers in the survey predicted that their events will raise more money this year than they did in 2007. Projected increases for 2008 averaged 12 percent.
While [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethkanter, blogs, comments, rachelhappe on February 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We can’t promise you good things will happen when you put yourself out there. But we can guarantee that nothing will happen if you do nothing.”
-Oren Sherman, Artist and Marketing Consultant
Beth Kanter asks:
What is your feeling about the value of comments to blogging?”
I responded in her comments, and felt moved to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethkanter, brianoberkirk, jeremiahowyang, jonathancoleman, kevingamble, natureconservancy, socialnetworking on February 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Brian Oberkirk’s recently posted advice to brands considering launching their own social networks (in short: don’t) has made the rounds in the nonprofit technology blogosphere, mostly thanks to the incredibly useful nptech tag (add this to your RSS feed now if you want to follow other practitioners and thinkers in this field).
It’s another volley in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged americasgiving, bethkanter, blogging, twitter on February 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I was glad to see that the New York Times picked up on the final stages of the America’s Giving Challenge. The contest is over, and the cause I’ve been flogging/blogging appears to have (unofficially) emerged victorious. It’s pretty exciting, no doubt, that the Sharing Foundation is likely to receive a decent sum [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethkanter, blogs, marketing, roi, socialmedia, timdavies on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tim Davies wrote this post about the ROI of social media versus the ROI of printed materials, which Beth Kanter pointed to here. It’s an interesting poke into the idea of establishing the ROI of social media, and asks what is the return on printed pamphlets or brochures?
Of course, many brochures, leaflets, postcards, etc, go [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethkanter, blog, twitter on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I met Beth Kanter and her delightful family for dinner tonight in Falmouth! We were going to meet at a Cambodian restaurant that I had never been to before, but alas, I have still never been to it, because it was shuttered for the Dead Season (January-February-March, when all Cape Cod restaurateurs go [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged americasgiving, bethkanter, donors, microphilanthropy, sharingfoundation on January 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Let’s help the Sharing Foundation win the grand prize of $50,000 in ten days when this contest is over!
Here’s the scoop:
The Sharing Foundation helps Cambodian orphans in a multitude of fantastic ways.
The America’s Giving Challenge will give $50,000 to the four top fundraisers in January. That leaves ten days.
Michele Martin has set up the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethkanter, cambodia, microphilanthropy, philanthropy, sharingfoundation on January 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Beth Kanter, nonprofit technology blogger extraordinaire, is celebrating her 51st birthday on January 11!
Happy Birthday, Beth!
You can wish Beth a happy birthday, too, by contributing a small yet meaningful gift to the Sharing Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. In honor of her birthday, Beth is trying to get 51 people to donate [...]
