Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I’ve learned so much just watching his curation technique over at scoop.it. Robin recently shared his comprehensive map of content curation skills, dividing them into couple of key categories. Master curator, Robin Good, is the all around expert when comes to the topic of content curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.” What is your techniques or process visualizing data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Increase reach on social media channels. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. How are you using social network analysis techniques and tools to analyze your network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. Is there a tool that can automate this someone asked on my blog’s Facebook page ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. This blog post is my response. A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I’ve been remiss in summarizing some of the nuggets out here on the blog, so here goes. Techniques for More Engagement. NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email. Facebook Strategic Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

How could I efficiently use movement, interaction with peers, and report outs without wandering around Oprah style? [I improvised a technique in the moment that worked for the layout of the room that I will share in another post]. When the people, formerly known as the audience, get to participate, you always learn something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Correcting Misconceptions and Improving Customer/Stakeholder Relations The AirForce Blog : The image above is of the US Air Force Blog Assessment and Engagement process. With such a clear policy for response, it is obvious that the blog generates valuable information to shape and improve a marketing strategy.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I'm enjoying how Robin Broitman aggregate links about social media. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. Photo by Caveman92223. Take her ROI and Measurement list.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

My Evil Plan Will Not Fail : As I mentioned at the NTC session on screencasting for nonprofits , the holy grail for me would be to aggregate and point to screencasts created by other nonprofit techies. Anyway, I've discovered some techniques in making the process a bit more efficient. I have shared everything I know -- for free!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are the techniques for "listening'? Having conversations without having a blog. The art and practice of blogging for nonprofits (planning, policy, writing, commenting). Measuring your blogs success and making improvements. Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

What can we learn from citizen journalism newsgathering techniques that might be useful to capturing collaborative knowledge from nonprofit conferences? The article spotlights NewsCloud , a news-aggregator and discussion site developed by Jeff Reifman, a former software developer who worked at Microsoft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

I also video blogged the session and caught up with a participant for a quick interview about their impressions. Note to self: write on AV set up that sound is needed along with the projector) We improvised the order and covered everything, including this demo of making a video blog post and uploading it to Blip.TV. Click to Play.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Now let me say upfront, this blog post isn’t going to be about those techniques for diversifying an office culture. In the United States, this represents $1 trillion in annual aggregate consumer spending. ( Pretty big and worthwhile stuff. Employees with disabilities relate better to customers with disabilities. Dixon, K.A.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) Conference or Event Blog: A group blog is set up for the specific event or conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. I want to aggregate all the data, synthesize it and share it. More data means more interesting, nuanced conclusions for everyone.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Rather than starting your own blog or YouTube channel, find the sources out there that relate to your topics of interest and respond to them. Unlike the "related videos" list, which is aggregated automatically by YouTube, video responses are self-assigned by their creator. Where should you start? First, find yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Harold blogged about that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. 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. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. Take your pick!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. Results: Money, time, or other tangible tesult that can be converted. Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

I connected with Sean via Twitter when I was researching tools and techniques for listening and ROI. Aggregate (a Twitter user's followers or friends). It's also an example of how online social networks can connect you to people in your professional area who may not have met and open the door to valuable informal learning.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. In a small act of generosity, I made my learning a public act via a blog called Museum 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Stand: This organization may have dabbled in social media or created a blog, but activity is infrequent and not generally viewed as important within the organization. we blog”), content begins to become channel agnostic and is distributed across a variety of channels and platforms. Techniques and Tools. Processes are formalized.

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MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. The measurement techniques by Beth Kanter of Zoetica In covering measurement recipes, my points were simple: Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it.

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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. Or, if you are considering a blog, find out who the key bloggers are in your topic area. Homebase: Home base is your organization's website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

" And, as our networks evolve and the tools to aggregate our friends activity streams - so does the amount of noise increase. Early adopters are not going to stop playing with every new service, but it's clear that we're getting to a point where tools that centralize, aggregate, but most importantly filter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm awlways delighted to discover new (to me) blogs written by women who work in the NPTECH space. So a hardy welcome to Heather Carpenter, Assistant Director of Aspiration Tech who recently launched a blog about Nonprofit Management and Operations. Two really excellent blog posts about why and how nonprofits should use Web 2.0

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