Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Analyze the types of posts (content and format) that get linked and the impact of that linking in referrals using Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Follow-up reports were published on 11 th and 26 th November 2006 and 12 January 2007. I'm am inspired to do something like this and incorporate the use of google analytics to get some qualitative data. Reasons For Experiment To explore ways in which a new blog can be found. Its use is recommended to others. What happened?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

the Google Reader Sharing. Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 Time: 10:30 PDT, 1:30. There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. FAQ ) and more. so let's discuss: How are people making sense of the torrent of info on the Net?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. People get excited about something — tweeting, setting up Google Reader, signing up for Facebook. Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. In fact, just last month, I took.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization. Information. More >> Year. More >> Tony started with a short list of nptech bloggers and a very beta design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! She is the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, which was named a Top Ten Book of 2007 by the Economist. And the results have been impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

59 percent of respondents reported that social media performance in 2007 met or exceeded their marketing objectives. I like how Bryan and Doug framed using several social media tools (google alerts, tags, and rss) to find conversations. 35 percent reported positive ROI and 41 percent said that ROI was ???unknown.??? unknown.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

This includes many, many schools, community groups, and grassroots nonprofits that embraced the free service since it opened its doors in 2007 and will now be forced to pay, or relocate their communities, or say farewell. Last week, Ning, announced a complete end to free services for its users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. The On-Demand Nonprofit Katrin Verclas at NTEN examines the implications for nonprofits about the recent announcement of the free Google Premier Apps, a suite of on-demand Google services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. He mentioned that I could use Google Analytics to test the click through in my email signature. In gratitude for the apple of her eye (her first grandchild) THE SHARING FOUNDATION became her charity of choice. This post also comes in hopes of a favor. Try these and test them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

see her post about the virtual philanthropy simulator ) She shares some thoughts about what she thinks may happen after June 22, 2007 when The John D. Even a place to bring together Google and SalesForce to create a virtual social-enterprise AppExchange, as I pondered here. (It and Catherine T. these folks can simply fly away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. Young Einstein.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

The google calendar doesn't sync with my treo, although I can read my calendar online if I have an Internet connection. Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, July 20, 2007. " I really miss the ability to sort by sender and subject line. That was how I navigated to what I needed. That isn't a good thing for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology? Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. So, the resulting report should be fascinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Here’s an example of hyperlinking (click on each to see why I used): Larry Ferlazzo says Scribd is a great tool for English Language Learners (he’s voted it fourth best tool for 2007 for ELL ). Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes)! 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed! Those who read your post via a feed reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. You have until April 6th to nominate a project to be featured at the Netsquared 2007 Conference. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! Details are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The interaction component was a new version of the Social Media Game that I first used in 2007 with David Wilcox. The largest group I ever worked with was with the Meyer Memorial Trust in Portland for 150 nonprofits and with Compasspoint for a 100 organizations. Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. It could be as simple as opening up a google document and dropping in a few bullet points or cutting and pasting a comment. I grab a little something everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. The I Pulled My Hair Out Blog tells us how to consolidate google accounts and here are the top ten gmail hacks. Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC. TechSoup has RSS feeds too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!), Katrin Verclas at NTEN is in love with Google Analytics V2 and so is Laurie Quinn. The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search. Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference. More pointers to NTC posts here. And if you want everything, look in these spots: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Google also implemented Google Friend Connect a few days ago - so the battle for access to your online identity and social graph is heating up. (See In November, 2007, Google announced Open Social API. It can pull personal data about visitors from Facebook - and send back activity reports to their news feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. Now, when I go back and look at my "on-site" visitors or monthly unique visitor or visits in my analytics program, Google Analytics, that number is steadily growing. I had less of those in May, 2008 compared to May 2007. What does that mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. We’re also keeping a close eye on our Google Analytics to ensure that enough people are visiting the campaign page and the conversion rate. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. Google social search. Google Wave, however, wasn’t highly praised, as it’s confusing, distracting and might not scale well. That's rare in a conference setting. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

We're not going to debate: Google Reader Stats Are Bullshit - but if you want some tips on how to do that, see Avinash Kaushik's Convert Data Skeptics). These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. I decided, perhaps stupidly, to disrupt my work flow by switching to Google Reader for a variety reasons. I fondly refer to it as the firehose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This includes using email, web site presence, google ads, face-to-face events and reaching out to the online and mainstream media. . In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results. Change.org now also sports a widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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