Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. The sites attract millions. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable. score out of 5.0).

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites." Download the December 2009 version of this list here.

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JUNE 10, 2008

Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), 2 admin 06.11.08

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Though the new Pages aren’t yet live site-wide ( the Brooklyn Museum’s new Page is ), it was quite random that I stumbled upon an example of the new Facebook Pages back in August [Re: a fake Facebook Page merged with a Facebook Places Page called Hubstown ]. The ability to “Like&# and Comment as a brand/Page.

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JULY 23, 2010

With nearly 2,000 posts and over 5,000 comments the standard importer would not have worked. After 5 days of waiting for the uploaded file to import, I gave up and imported the file to a WordPress.com site instead. All the posts and comments are there. Leave a comment » I tried to import all the old posts here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that. Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. I get Democracy Now, ABC politics, the Webb Alert (a daily geek news headlines show,) Bill Moyers Journal, and lots of others. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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AUGUST 12, 2008

There are multiple threads on multiple sites about problems with the iPhone 3G – clearly, some software fixes need to happen, and the faster they happen, the happier I’ll be. But getting them onto the iPhone, or getting them to work, is sometimes a pain.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 Anyone interested?

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JULY 27, 2008

at 6:32 pm Mistakes non-profits make with Web sites « No newsprint here 08.04.08 at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 at 6:32 pm Mistakes non-profits make with Web sites « No newsprint here 08.04.08 at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08

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JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

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MAY 16, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. it takes them to this Quora page where they can comment or ask a question about the campaign. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. That a growing number of consumer brands are transforming their existing static Web sites into interactive online communities is a trend that is not only recent, but also rapidly accelerating."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Alanna 08.13.08 I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting. Something to watch. { at blogged. Something to watch. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

Choosing a theme Migrate the posts and comments (exporting it from typepad, importing into wordpress – all web gui based, very easy. Letting people know Changing the DNS of the old site (and changing the site on wordpress.) I’d recommend it to anyone. Modifying a few things (see this link.) There are a few changes.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data?

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JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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JANUARY 4, 2008

But, a very nice soul at MayFirst/people-link, where we house the NOSI site, set up Limesurvey for us, so we’re using that. I had originally done the survey in Surveymonkey , which is a slick on-line survey tool. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful. It’s a LAMP stack application.

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MAY 19, 2008

Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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AUGUST 2, 2011

million or 1.74% from 2009 levels”. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (and even Google+) are growing like crazy. If you’ve got questions, please ask in the comments below. According to the Run Walk Ride fundraising council “The top thirty “thon” or event fundraising programs generated $1.65

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. Keep up the good work!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Users ages 18 to 54 have reportedly turned away from email, as well — many are instead communicating through social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

I’ll be following this up with an Open Source 101, starting in early 2008, on my own Moodle site. { I’ll be following this up with an Open Source 101, starting in early 2008, on my own Moodle site. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But for much larger/high-traffic sites, or sites that fluctuate a lot, it might be a great idea, especially if you want dedicated hosting. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 And now, there is E2 – Elastic Compute Cloud – use only the storage, processing power and bandwidth you use.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. So first, what is data portability?

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DECEMBER 1, 2007

The thing we have actually done the most of is write the primer , and I’ve got more ideas for types of open content that NOSI could get involved in doing, so these suggestions for business models are quite welcome. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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JULY 6, 2010

Continuing the theme of "busy mom" from last month , I wanted to take a moment to talk about the need for organizations to optimize their sites for use with mobile devices. Compare that to Q2 2009, when just 16% of consumers had a smartphone. After viewing a couple of sites, you'll be convinced. Author: Sally Heaven.

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MARCH 20, 2008

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 Their web site makes no mention of what server technology is used/required for MPower. at 5:38 pm I just found this very interesting blog entry about MPower , which I found via a comment on Alan Benamer’s blog. There will be penguins!! 4 Shawn Towey 03.24.08

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There are an amazing number of new sites that have launched over the weekend (I imagine people sitting in their home offices with lots of caffeine and pizza.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 Folks on that list are beginning to talk about how to implement portability. 2 admin 11.10.07

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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APRIL 3, 2009

When someone posts a positive comment on your blog, can you use it in your fundraising materials? How much of the New York Times technology blog can you quote on your own site? Can you edit the videos your supporters created for your video contest into something entirely new?

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MARCH 27, 2008

And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) Gotta work on that. So, what do I do? OK, enough of that.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Seesmic is a video conversation site. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 It’s an interesting concept. I think like a lot of Web 2.0 stuff, I think it will take a while to figure out how nonprofits can use it.

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