Allison hosts a monthly conversation for the Chronicle of Philanthropy with philanthropic and nonprofit leaders about ways that they are using social media to build and engage their networks, raise awareness of their causes and issues and raise money.
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Past Podcasts:
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- A Balanced Look at Text-Message Giving
- A Cancer Patient's Social-Media Crusade
- Are Nonprofit Models the Future of Newspapers?
- Attracting Supporters on Facebook
- Big-Time Video on a Small Budget
- Building a Social Network That Works
- Building an Online Culture
- Connecting With Your Supporters on Twitter
- Crowdsourcing the Meaning of Life Marc Erlbaum was trying to raise $150,000 to finance a series of short films on the meaning of life, he turned to Indiegogo, a site that makes it easy for people and organization to advertise and raise money for projects.
- Developing Online Relationships With Donors
- Escaping the Filter Bubble: Lessons for Nonprofits Eli Pariser, in his new book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You, explores these challenges, explains that as the Internet is beginning to reward things that are “likable,” an article about the war in Afghanistan might not get a reade
- Foundations and Social Media
- Foundations and Social Media: How Grant Makers Are Using Cutting-Edge Tools to Improve Their Effectiveness To learn about some of the most innovative foundations, Allison Fine, the host, talks with Elizabeth R. Miller, senior program associate at the Overbrook Foundation, in New York, and Linda Wood, who oversees the grant-making programs at the Evelyn and Wal
- How Businesses Raise Money for Charities Using Social Media
- How Cultural Groups Can Use Social-Media
- How Foundations Can Use Social Networks to Support Movements In the latest episode of Social Good, a Chronicle podcast about how nonprofits and foundations are using social media, host Allison Fine talks to Ms. Laviolette and Mr. Smith about these and other efforts by foundations to into social networks.
- How Nonprofits Can Use LinkedIn
- How Nonprofits Can Use LinkedIn An interview with Amy Sample Ward, community development manager at TechSoup Global, and Estrella Rosenberg, founder and executive director of Big Love Little Hearts in Chicago and author of the blog Adventures in Philanthropy. Ms. Ward and Ms. Rosenberg
- How Nonprofits Can Weave Stronger Networks June Holley explains ways to facilitate and strengthen networks
- How Small Groups Can Put Social Networks to Use Tracy Viselli and Aaron Steinberg are proving that it is possible for even the smallest groups to create effective online strategies.
- Keeping it Simple: What Nonprofits Can Learn From Steve Jobs
- Lessons From the It Gets Better Project
- Lessons from the It Gets Better Project It Gets Better, a YouTube video made by the sex columnist and journalist Dan Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, is one of those spontaneous efforts that makes a big difference.
- Measuring Social Media's Real Value To gauge the effectiveness of their social-media efforts, nonprofit groups need to dig much deeper and measure more significant data. To find out how, Allison Fine, the host, interviews KD Paine, chief executive officer of KD Paine & Partners, in New
- Measuring the Real Value of Social Media
- More Than Discounts: Groupon and Social Good Groupon is the fastest growing online social network. The site offers discounts for local businesses. It also has a social good arm called the G-Team. Patt Huber, the G-Team’s director, describes how the program works, what she’s learned from the effort,
- NPR's Social-Media Strategy
- Philanthropy in Virtual Worlds
- Podcast: Communicating With Volunteers Online
- Promoting Smart Online Conversations Lessons from the Patterson Foundation’s Expert Network Weaving
- Protecting Yourself When Social Media Tools Disappear Allyson Kapin, co-founder of the Rad Campaign, and Michele Martin, social-media consultant, discuss how users can protect themselves when social media sites transition or go offline.
- Protecting Yourself When Social Media Tools Disappear An interview with Allyson Kapin, co-founder of the Rad Campaign, and Michele Martin, social-media consultant, to discuss how users can protect themselves when social media sites transition or go offline.
- Raising Support Through Online Contests
- Should Nonprofits Dive Into Google+ Ms. Kanter, who has been experimenting with using Google+ for social good, explains how nonprofits can take advantage of Google+ and discusses how groups can decide how much time to invest in the network.
- Social Media from the Foundation's Perspective Lucy Bernholz, blogger and founder of Blueprint R&D and Joel Fleishman, the co-author of the recently released book Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results, join Allison Fine in discussing how age and technology are affecting giving and which found
- Social Media from the Philanthropists Perspective Much of the discussion about social media lately has focused on its usefulness to nonprofits, especially fund raisers. This week’s podcast delves into social media from the philanthropist’s side, as tools like Kickstarter give donors greater access to inf
- Social Media Lessons for Nonprofits from the Middle East IInterview with Ethan Zuckerman, a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and co-founder of Global Voices, and Micah Sifry, author Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency on the role of social media in the Middle East.
- Social Media Lessons Through the Dragonfly Effect A discussion with Jennifer Aaker, the co-author of the Dragonfly Effect, discusses how social media may make it easier than ever for more people to get involved in a cause, Ms. Aaker says, but it takes good stories to motivate people to act.
- Texting for Charity
- The Connection Between GroupOn and Charity Groupon began as an offshoot of The Point, an online-giving platform similar to DonorsChoose.org. interviews G-Team’s director, Patty Huber. Ms. Huber describes how the program works, what she’s learned from the effort, and why it’s important to offer sur
- The Power of the Crowd
- Turning Online Friends Into Funders
- Usiing Social Media for Annual Appeals Katya Andresen, chief operating officer at Network for Good, and Lena Shaw, social media marketing manager at the University of California at San Francisco, to learn how charities successfully used social media as part of their year-end fund raising appea
- Using E-Mail for Social Good
- Using Email for Social Good Kivi Leroux Miller, a marketing consultant to nonprofit groups, and Marc Sirkin, chief community officer at Autism Speaks, discuss effective e-mail communications strategies.
- Using Pinterest to Raise Money: One Charity's Experiment Joe West and Ian Haisley describe the ways pinterst, the fastest growing social network this year, can be used to deepen the engagement of supporters.
- Using Social Media for Annual Appeals An interview with Katya Andresen, chief operating officer at Network for Good, and Lena Shaw, social media marketing manager at the University of California at San Francisco, to learn how charities successfully used social media as part of their year-end
- Video Games for Good
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Nonprofits Online Allyson Kapin talks about how nonprofits should manage online crises, create guidelines for social media use, and deal with hecklers.
- Why Local Social Networks Matter to Nonprofit Groups
