Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done. Next, we need to identify useful Twitter accounts so I can begin aggregating them using the new Twitter Lists feature. Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2010

Their goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response. MobileActive has an aggregated list of places to donate or find additional information. They also have a list of charitable organizations/ngos doing work in Haiti that need donations - like Partners in Health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Ask a question, listen to the responses and aggregate them in summarizing statement like “Here’s the ideas that I hear in response to the first question, (xyz). Simply summarizing isn’t enough to get to your insights. As I was reading, I looked the aggregated answers and asked follow up questions.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

” Good curators are not packrats or aggregators, the pluck out the best and frame it for better understanding. The debate in content curation circles is that we treat content curation as aggregation, then we’ll miss the point and just create noise.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

But you can also see aggregated information about the voting process on Our Vote Live created by Election Protection , Lawyers’ Committee , NOI , and Ushahidi. It is mapping out all reported voting/election questions and incidences around the country.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

All survey responses will be anonymous and will be only reported in the aggregate. . • The report will be an essential resource for nonprofit video production budgeting, marketing, and distribution. So, stop reading this post and go take that survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W5P8NKH.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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MARCH 19, 2015

On a systems level, the aggregated data can help public health researchers gain more insights about healthy behaviors. But what if the steps and calories we were tracking were also linked to environmental impact data – and it helped us motivate us to change our habits – so we were not only more healthy, but the planet too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Zeef: Robin Good shared this review for Zeef which looks promising if you want to create a more in-depth resource list, that is aggregate several lists and have them showcased on a page. (If they don’t have an export button, many tools do use RSS and you can export your work into Excel.). He points a few limitations though.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

You can also add or comment on the Summit’s aggregated information via the Emergency Social Data Wiki. There are a variety of ways to participate remotely: In addition to the above, in person attendees will update their observations and impressions via the Whrrl Emergency Social Data Society. Feel free to join!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2012

In the left column you can see what would appear to be the ideal traits of a professional curator, while on the right you can immediately recognize the ones of scrapers, republishers, cheap aggregators and other “thin” publishers as Google would call them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Aggregation: These tools aggregate sources/content on a central site. Examples: DataSift and Research.ly. Curation: These are curated sources by communities and networks of people. Examples include: Pearltrees , Curated.by , and Storify. Examples include: Techmeme, Google News, and Huffington Post.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

In addition to the report, the Foundation Center has an extremely useful aggregation site called Glasspockets that among other features let you quickly browse the social media presences of 66 foundations. What I really like is that you can compare different social channels across foundations pretty easily.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It compliments the data that you get from Insights – it lets you aggregate and analyze the comments and posts from your page. You pay per export and right now you can pay with a Tweet. I used it analyze the Facebook page. It is particularly useful if you want to easily get a list of your active fans and follow up.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Nonprofitorgs on Twitter is an aggregator of nonprofits on Twitter and is following over 2,000 nonprofits. These are twitterfeeds of aggregating calls to action by particular issues area. NpTechBlogs is an aggregated feed of blogs written by nonprofit techies. Where To Connect With Other Nonprofits.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. There is an evolving category of tools (some free, some not) that can help make the tasks associated with content strategy, engagement, and tracking less onerous.

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JUNE 24, 2015

A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. He recently shared “ Toolsets for Social Media ,” a brilliantly curated collection of tools.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground.

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AUGUST 3, 2007

Jeremiah emphasizes the need for Digital Lifestule Aggregation (I'm thinking of that People Aggregator T-Shirt Lisa Canter gave me at BlogHer 2006). The need for Digital Lifestyle Aggregation rapidly approaches Jeremiah projects the future: First of all, please don??? ll start to need these tools to, track, and centralize one???s

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here’s a couple of themes that come up from a few of these nonprofit CEOs: Looking at Aggregate Professional Networks of People in the Organization: I’ve been hearing Meg Garlinghouse of LinkedIn talk about “filling structural holes” in networks and shared a couple of those ideas. .”

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This would be valuable data to share with nonprofits - especially the data set for the specific cause as well as the aggregate. I was surprised to see the above exit survey pop up. And, if they were a little bit more transparent - they could get some feedback about to shape this exit poll more effectively.

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APRIL 22, 2014

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. To support your curation efforts, you need two different tools – news discovery to help you find content and curation tools to organize and share it.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Collective Intelligence: refers to the idea that the social web enables us to not only aggregate individual actions, but also run sophisticated algorithms on them and extract meaning from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For the last 18 months, Crisis Text Line has made aggregate data available at www.crisistrends.org. The actor level dataset will allow researchers to answer questions like “For a texter experiencing depression, how do issues fluctuate over time?”. Enclave data will build on Crisis Text Line’s existing open data offerings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. Inspired by the Twitter feed that Nate Ritter set up to aggregate news during the San Diego Fires in the Fall of 2007, Joe Solomon (aka EngageJoe) set up GustavFeed on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design. foundations to aid those affected by the downturn. Drill down to see the details. You can updates through RSS.

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JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. #4change is a regular chat about social media change. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. There's also MyBlogLog's lifestream, Lifestream.fm and Facebook's primitive version lifestreaming , which involves integrating a handful of services into users' Mini-Feeds and News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

If you have written a post on this topic and would like me to consider it as a guest post, please fill out this form or if you know of a good resource on the topic, add in the comments and I'll aggregate One of the guest posts this week is from Think Social and is a conversation with by Jacqueline Novogratz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Does the input aggregated allow you to move forward on a project or move forward in a new direction? Measuring Work. In terms of measuring success when crowdsourcing input, just getting a large number of responses may constitute success so you might set a goal for receiving dozens or hundreds of responses. Does it help you solve a problem?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But, if you want more suggestions, see 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Nonprofits on Google + that Heather Mansfield aggregated. It is a diverse list of different nonprofits and people that have a presence and share information information on Google + that might be of interest to nonprofits. I have two nonprofit brand circles.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Green: Aggregate Content Blog.   Strategy Tip:   Become an expert in news gathering and RSS and aggregate content for your niche like no one else. .   Strategy Tip:   Become an expert in news gathering and RSS and aggregate content for your niche like no one else. Red Cross Chat Blog. Greenpeace Blog.

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JUNE 1, 2012

I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.” ” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

” Scoble did not discuss the privacy implications when there is a human at the other end of this aggregated data and what the ethics policies should be. As Scoble was describing the technologies and their implications on society, I couldn’t help but feel a chill and almost a desire to be “off the grid.”

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JULY 22, 2014

” Is there the potential for greater good from aggregating and analyzing our collective fitbit and other personal health data? And companies like Apple are hoping to become repositories for all this information, giving consumers new ways to track and perhaps improve their health.” Are there other benefits? What are the challenges?

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