Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When you link to someone else’s post it’s good practice to mention their name, link their name to their blog, and then link to the post you’re referring to (it’s also a good way of getting people to visit your site). 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

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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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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. You have to be nimble and that can be hard.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Don’t forget, if you get calls or letters that reference an online campaign, the online campaign needs to be credited for those gifts in your database so you can accurately measure the impact of the campaign.) 19 Sep 2007 Michael Hoffman Tim, you are right. Yes, you do good work. Yes, I care about these issues. OK, you got me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The subject of nonprofits and blogging was very popular in 2006 and 2007. MySpace and Facebook weren’t being utilized by nonprofits in 2007 (except for a few early adopters) and Twitter did not exist. In recent years Google, Bing, Ask.com, etc. 2) To improve your search engine results. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” I always refer aspiring social entrepreneurs to the article when they ask me how they can win a Skoll Award. But, it’s always useful to explore the framework of one’s work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Yahoo and Microsoft have Google Envy. So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard Is this referring to activation? Anyone for "Nonprofit Reader"? Is this news? { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Anonymous 10.25.06 If so, this is FUD.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2008

I screen captured it for later reference. 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. This was just a glimpse of a portable social graph.

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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. Does an abundant production of posts with more words per post make for a better blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 fondly refer to it as the firehose. I decided, perhaps stupidly, to disrupt my work flow by switching to Google Reader for a variety reasons.

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