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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It also creates a resource called the Horizon Navigator an online, open-content database of free research on emerging technologies, is a dynamic social media platform overlying an innovative set of intelligent search tools and a comprehensive collection of resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

It was also a nod to the &# Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism &# which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O’Reilly’s E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel of Wired Blog). These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. Back in 2007, I noticed a pattern in the US.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement. … Read More

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008.

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JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. The plenary sessions were a gift and were focused on answering the question how we can inspire with these tools. My notes are here.

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APRIL 6, 2008

The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. The tools used will include (but not limited to) a combination of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. As a member of the planning committee, I became even more geeked out about this intimate, interactive learning opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We see examples in the ongoing success of Kickstarter , in the record number of small donations President Barack Obama collected during his 2008 campaign and, humorously, in the manner Stephen Colbert has solicited funds for his satiric Super Pac.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Makes a lot of sense, given that these tools are mostly free or low-cost, and yet so effective. There is an executive summary available at the site with a couple of charts showing familiarity, usage of tools, monitoring and management. tools to pay attention to. tools to pay attention to. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Source: State of the Twittersphere Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

If you are a newsie, a social media person, a social justice person using online tools to improve the world, a hyperlocal fan, or any sort of interested party (or a previous applicant) come and check it out and look around. The Garage is open as of today; the KNC08 will start taking applications as of September 2nd; close is November 1st.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. The most successful documentaries are having a significant impact on major debates and public policies, from environmental concerns to financial regulations.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Chris Brogan, one of my favorite bloggers, has started a project called The Social Media 100 where he has pledged to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for business, organization, or personal interests. re intending to use the tool, but if you???re

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AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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MAY 7, 2010

When the New de Young opened it did a 32-hour party and community celebration , starting a trend that was then picked up by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Dawn in 2008 and now the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years.

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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.

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JULY 4, 2010

Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. Everyone in the organization understands that social media is more than an external communications tool, and they use it adroitly for their professional learning and even their personal lives. One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool.

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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. The tools are changing, so if you've settled into one way of using a particular social media tool or set of tools, don't set yourself on automatic pilot. Good for you! Great work.

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JULY 28, 2009

Here's how the Red Cross handbook states it: Step 1: Get Social Media Savvy Initiate personal social media use: Explore the tools you’d like to adopt by using them in your personal life first. It’s easier to understand the culture behind tools like Facebook and Twitter when you spend some time posting your own pictures and experiences.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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JANUARY 14, 2009

More >> Tools. Here's what it looks like: Concepts. Communication. 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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MAY 13, 2008

It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. of Wired Blog).

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

I've blogged about his webinars about selecting person-to-person fundraising or working with group fundraising tools.

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OCTOBER 27, 2007

Comparing current tools in use or consideration to expectations for 2008, the following show an expected increase in interest in: Podcasts, Video blogs, Mobile video/image/text submission, Citizen Journalism, Micro-Blogging, and Virtual Worlds. 35 percent reported positive ROI and 41 percent said that ROI was ???unknown.??? unknown.???

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

She is also the co-author of the business bestseller, " Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies ", published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. Her response to the question about "What online tools do you use to help you network?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Amazon, in 2005, and Google, in 2008, learned the hard way. Online seminars that teach non-profits how to use social networking tools is also very helpful as is assigning mentors to projects, which Pepsi will be doing in their program. Just evaluating all the submissions can take many, many people hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. They bring with them new ideas, approaches, and tools to engaging with people. Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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DECEMBER 28, 2007

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" Seek out tools that will help you manage your relationships efficiently, not gather or collect more friends. What would I do differently? Don't just accept them.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. Is Twitter A Traffic Tool, Not. Does Twitter Work Better As A Listening Tool. " Social Butterfly views Twitter as a great brainstorming tool. Twitter As A Conversation Tool.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2008

tools in different cultures around the world. At a massive ceremony that took place on 22 January 2008, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport presented its new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Textbook for all schools that have computers, all universities and all teacher training facilities.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

I haven't yet digested the report, but I was pleased to see that the report wasn't just a series of data findings, but also include some in-depth reporting on attitudes about using the tools. in understanding which tools are critically important to their work. ???I???m m in a perpetual state of anxiety about which tools I???m

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. It is being used less for remote participation and more for people in the room.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change. I tracked Chris down on Twitter ( @lighterfootstep ) and asked him if there were other free feed management tools available. He goes on to critique problems with the quality of Feedburner's functionality. No, but there are fee-based services. Here's the thread.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. If you give a hundred people the tools to lay bricks and get them working off a shared plan, then you can build anything you want. He also had concerns about the apparent disjointed effort underway.

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