Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? Do you use or champion innovative uses of ICTs to work or network more efficiently? Do you work in an organization whose mission includes social or economic development? The Women???s

Mentoring 50

Mentoring Nigeria Project Network 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

Reflection 97

Reflection Professional Learning Network 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) New(to me) Blogs Good Works Grapvine covers social media and strategies for Non-Profits.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Tag Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Understand how the model works , but don't get distracted. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time.

Metrics 81

Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - It doesn't work. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com. Chris Brogan for starters.

Twitter 50

Twitter Practice Bookmarking Profile 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Great work. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Good for you!

Social Media 98

Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. What About You?

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Here's some demographic breakdown: 49% sole proprieter/independent consultant; 29% work for a business; 21% owner of small business. Social bookmarking sites are still the most mysterious for social media marketers, but those who have been doing this longer and put in more hours/week tend to invest a lot of that time into social bookmarking.

Social Media 54

Social Media Lesson Marketing Media 54

See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

We are working with our clients to engage constituents on sites like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. link] 17 Dec 2007 social bookmarking With all the junk email we receive it seems to me that rss and social networking sites will become the primary way we communicate with each other. Read the rest of this great post here [.]

Social Media 40

Social Media Somalia Myspace Marketing 40

Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. Six months later, and despite being delayed again by work, a new template for GBK, and eventually several additional green sites, is almost done. All rights reserved.

Blogger 28

Blogger Social Media Site Advocacy 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. To date, the Transfair USA Change.org widget reports bringing in the most money ($942), which works out to be about 22 cents per friend.

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. To date, the Transfair USA Change.org widget reports bringing in the most money ($942), which works out to be about 22 cents per friend.

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. There basically are three types of software acquisitions that companies make. The first is to acquire a company that does something that you do not. In those situations, generally, the product remains largely the same (with some branding changes over time.)

Open Source 100

Open Source Blackbaud Time Fundraising 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. Bookmarked saves for value of content.

Metrics 50

Metrics ROI Measure Content 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

They have a roundup of what they are calling the 10 best Facebook apps for work. bookmarks, and all of the varied data on the varied Facebook apps. Will it help my work with clients? It introduced me to a new blog, called Read/WriteWeb , which I’m liking a lot. I haven’t tried a number of these apps yet.

Facebook 100

Facebook Open Source Social Network Linkedin 100

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Since 2008, non-profits have cracked the $1 billion mark for online fundraising. In 2010, the average online gift jumped up to $91.94."

Egypt 122

Egypt Web Tunisia Model 122

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Bookmark it, share it, love it, and download it for Google or Outlook. Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. 10/24/2016.

Conference 111

Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

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.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us 6 Jun 2008 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits.

America 40

America Social Media Myspace Second Life 40

Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:16 am | Permalink Laura Whitehead wrote: Thanks for sharing! Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized. Am I missing something?

Flickr 40

Flickr Charity Social Media Hurricane 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things.

Social Network 100

Social Network System Network Management 100

Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Attendees learned how to work with specific data sets (FEC), track congressional activites using GovTrack.org , and keep tabs on state legislatures through projects like Knowledge As Power , which enables citizens of Washington State to track that activities of their state legislature. Sounds fun right? You should too. Thanks so much.

Government 31

Government Social Media Open Advocacy 31