Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2009

Tveskov from the United Way of America letting me know that UWA has caught social networking spring fever! Their blog is called " Speak United ") Meghan used the materials in the WeAreMedia Wiki (and my blog ) and customized it for the United Way. . The handout explains the process of listening and how the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. That was the call for blog posts. I received a rich selection covering this topic – from changing mindsets, new tool sets, and lots of tips on how to manage your social media, email, and work flow. Personal Productivity in Practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2011

What blogs do you looove to read? How can you incorporate what makes those blogs wonderful into your blog? Schedule blogging time into your week, just like you'd block out time for something else that's important to you. Share your posts on your favorite social networks (e.g. Learn from the best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." " So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). The Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

David shares why he decided to respond to the blogger outreach - a counterpoint to my advice about what not to do: I went along because an email from Svetlana was a model of how an organization can reach out to bloggers. Meet the patrons - benefits and risks of social networking in fundraising. But once you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Tell me about your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Anonymous Blogging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

2) Ask for a social media budget. While we are on the subject of money, your going to need some to improve your social media campaigns in 2013. Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. We’re now 10 years into the Social Web. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter Demographics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

LinkedIn is a professional network for business and (and nonprofit professionals.) It is often described as an online social network for job seekers. You can add your blog content, slide shows, reading lists, files, business travel, and more. But applications alone don't make well designed and effective LinkedIn profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. In fact, I discovered his post via Facebook where I left a comment on his note and followed the links to his blog post. She is thinking deeply about how to encourage a blogging community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Her blog is a must-read and I hope someday that she writes a book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

I can't imagine how helpless Jeff must feel, but he has been using social media and social network tools, along with phone calls to search. Here's what he has tried a combination of networking with NGOs, disaster organizations, friends, and strangers participating in different Facebook groups or Twitter hashtags. (1)

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali. I especially connect with #4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people. Broadly, I'm researching how museums are using micro-blogging. If followers already subscribe to your blog and you only tweet blog posts, there is no reason for them to follow you on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. Exportable OPML feeds for all blogs and hot posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data. Finally, you'll need to start to engage with your network and have a conversation. Find Bridge bloggers alltop.com.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Ask others to share personally, one-on-one, or socially, through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Blog, Annotate, and Let Your Supporters Help. An organization’s blog is another overlooked platform – a digital story can be embedded in a post with an appeal to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Convio or Causes? I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

The criticism was that Owyang's advice was not sophisticated enough. Charback's witty post describes a fictional (but ripped from the headlines) situation of a corporate blogger who has to address a customer's negative, vocal, but accurate criticism on the customer's blog. and by definition not quite ready for social media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

How do you analyze your social media data? Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? blog posts from Geoff Livingston and Valeria Maltoni about one popular influence measuring tool.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about. Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. Donorpower Blog tells us to learn how to write differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. Network for Good estimates that 5% of your donors might be superactivists who would champion your cause and recruit others.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

TechSoup Blog. Blackbaud guest bloggers share expert fundraising tips and simple steps for creating a Facebook page that rocks. Learn how to become a social organization with tips from Yammer 's director of community. Get practical advice on live-streaming an activist event and making an all-star meme for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Through my blog I see what???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content. Everyone wins!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

nonprofit leaders , including Daniel Ben-Horin, founder of CompuMentor who predicts, "Successful nonprofit players in the social media space will those who understand the opportunity without being seduced by it." The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Hundreds of bloggers. Whether you want to blog, vlog. Whether you want to blog, vlog. collection of resources, advice you want to share - whatever you want. Cyberbullying social network ( [link] lying.ning. You can learn more by participating in the social. network, or you can visit resources like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Much of the advice is transferable to other social networking spaces. (I He interviewed Scott Goodstein, who has worked on the Save the Internet, Save1800Suicide and Military Free Zone campaigns, and Ivan Boothe of the Genocide Intervention Network. Or publish them on your Web site and ask bloggers to link.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

At less than 6 minutes, there are some key nuggets of advice and information in here that every nonprofit should know and take to heart (props to See3 on the great production). Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media. Effective Blogging. Blogs in Plain English. Is Blogging Right for Your Organization?

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Weve outlined three key take-aways below.

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