Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator.

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Summary Nptech YouTube Cancer 50

Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

See a recent tweme from our Marketing & Online Community conference 2008. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. Blog about the event before, during, and after. And then Tweet about your blog posts on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. When people share their photos of your museum, they promote and spread your content to new audiences in authentic ways.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy. All of these tools are cheap and easy to use.

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Social Media Authoring Media Advocacy 28

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. But people who read a listserv aren't necessarily incentivized to contribute to the wiki.

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