Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Managing your organization’s Facebook page, particularly tracking, content, and engagement can be a time suck, particularly as your network grows. For example, we know that identifying and engaging with super fans/influencers on our Facebook presence is important. Aggregating Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

One of your first tasks will be to find interesting and valuable people and brands to “circle” and follow to support your goal to become familiar with the Google + landscape. I look for people in the nonprofit space, but also those who work for the platform or have specialized in blogging about the platform.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

With events shifting from in-person to virtual and now to hybrid formats, the way attendees experience and interact with event content has also changed. . Table of Contents. **. Attendees came together in a physical location to consume event content while networking with other attendees and exhibitors. The Shift in Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Now, the content from We Are media is available to you in a brand new “ Choose Your Own Expert &# format. Curated by NTEN, the community will work in a networked way to help identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to be the media.

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Classy

MAY 6, 2021

Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework prohibits certain data collection and sharing unless people opt in to tracking on iOS 14 devices via the prompt. It seeks to protect users’ online privacy, limiting the ways advertisers and site owners can track users across domains to personalize content and advertise goods and services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools. There are many ways to create and cultivate great content with limited resources/time. For example, there is a simple way to use Flickr and a custom email address to aggregate photos from your constituents to then create a photo of the day similar to @CharityWater.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Your content still needs to be valuable enough to justify the cost. Enough providers are now doing it that it’s talked about enough to be at the peak of inflated expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I like to have fun experimenting and that’s just what I’m doing on my Facebook Page , a place for learning, and sharing insights about best practices in social media for networked nonprofits. I learn so much from the conversation threads and people sharing what they do. Spredfast is a listening/content distribution tool.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

We've long believed that being able to exert influence comes down to becoming a trusted voice, to building strong relationships, and - having done those - to shaping how people view an issue and the possible solutions. These are all things that can be done amazingly well online, and at a scale that cannot easily be replicated offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. Twitt(url)y. pronounced Favored) is a service that channels the most "favorited" tweets on Twitter.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

When we refer to products here, we are talking about products, services and content. Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. What is the trend in sales over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

After some time on our list, Mathew pulls the information by source and aggregates what they gave, factoring in the cost of acquiring them. At our last analysis, our Facebook recruits had donated a total of $3,793 in the last 12 months, with an average gift of $79. The same logic holds true with Facebook now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. I'd like to see some wiki screenshots -- the first iteration, the second (when people added content) and the last or later when the wiki facilitator did some editing or weeding or organizing. Heavy Metal Umlaut ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Ted Roden, the founder of artsy social sharing site Enjoysthin.gs , says that ever since he started pushing new shared items live to the browsers of people on his site - the time people have spent on Enjoysthin.gs

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2008

"Are they real people being dropped? Here's the official update from the Twitter Blog and more analysis from Read/Write Web. re creating, or critiquing a lot of social content on the web (or are a creator/critic/collector/joiner ), you???ve content is spread all over the place. Twitter counter. s disjointed ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 You should reach out to both audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. This feature enables a group of people to join and share items they have discovered from their FriendFeeds (or elsewhere) and have micro-discussions. Want a fuller description of FriendFeed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. " and tells exactly why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

In this post alone I've listed 14 links to sources of potentially helpful content. Help us deliver the best content to you every week. I believe that more " content curators " will need to surface to muffle the overwhelming informational noise. I am not talking here about aggregators of information. How's our blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. Why nothing about social aggregators ? The HighTouch Blog points to a survey from 160Characters detailing how quickly people expect responses from various forms of communication. What is mobile content and to create it - found out here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Over the past couple of years, one way that I synthesize blog content has been to do presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. So, if your nonprofit web site has complex tracking and analysis needs, you may need to work with a specialist consultant to set up your account and train staff to use it.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

It’s got to be said—their use of people to spread their message is what they do best. They counteract this by telling the stories of people both past and present who have connections with the American Red Cross. People like hearing about people, and you can use this to your advantage. What We Can Learn. Neverthirst.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa calls the virtual museum a “living organism linking the people, visions, interpretations, and values” of various locations and stakeholders, and we sat down to poke that organism a bit and see what makes it squirm. How are you selecting the people who will record the sounds? My favorite pieces of this conversation dealt with 1.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

static content delivery machines) to 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." And people aren't just thinking about this stuff; many museums have taken real, exciting action in the last year. But this blog is mostly push content. I started the Museum 2.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. What is Click? The internal team is led by a non-curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. Do an analysis to improve or create content. I’m aggregating the Tweets for #50smt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning. Some struggle to find an attainable number. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

But that would be a lot of content! I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. Take your pick!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Beth is hoping that people will sign an online petition letting Apple know that people want to give on their iPhones. Nonprofits would also reach far more people and have greater impact by optimizing their website for mobile devices instead of just building iPhone apps. Probably not. You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. It pays to spend a few hours reviewing the demographic or “technographic” details (what people are doing online). by Beth Kanter.

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