Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 Over the years, I used this exercise for different audiences, from filmmakers to university professionals. Not so much how to use it, but how to use effectively.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. The project could have been an exercise in guilt and public humiliation, but instead, it felt like a game. But it’s also fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She started her blog this year in May, 2007 because it was an opportunity for self-expression. She is also a terrific live blogger! I am grateful for her detailed notes from the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. So, I want to use my blog to exercise my right to freedom of expression or otherwise we are self-censoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

I've got a little exercise to get you warmed up. What about blogger outreach? Charlene Li has a great graphic on measuring blogging impact from her 2007 report, and I can't say it any better than the Q&A that concludes this blog post that announced the report : Q: Is there a standard ROI for blogs? Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. For me, the web and 2.0

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