Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. That particular wall post had 31 comments and 15 likes, way higher than other types of posts. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? This requires engaging in a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Then they can comment, share and/or like your wall posts which then shares it with all their friends – now that’s viral. Comment on their wall posts.

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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. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. rethink, reinvent. Johannes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

In Urban Institute ’s work with Feeding America —a network of over 200 food banks across the country—they were careful to avoid collecting feedback in November and December. Quantitative feedback data gathered through surveys can be difficult to interpret without more qualitative open-ended comments or other means of interpreting the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. is an attitude , not a download.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Leave your answers in the comments below. Box is completely in the cloud, so you can share information with volunteers and external partners without giving them access to your network or emailing documents back and forth. It's been a really busy year, with nine new vendors in the TechSoup catalog. Which one is the lie?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Perhaps the users can't find what the information they need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions. and messy information I'm aggregating.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 GEO always seems to be on the forefront.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 GEO always seems to be on the forefront.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. Virtual Village???including

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

We also pointed to two review sites: Digital Camera Review and camcorder information. We gots questions about blogging platforms, feeds, distribution, video hosts, compression, editing software and more. If you have some good answers, please drop a comment in the blog post. Some questions: What kind of camera should I use?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. The blog also kept people informed during the second trial, when media coverage had diminished, and eventually drew attention to the trial when the blog got news coverage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

public information??? A few comments over at Kikono too. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. For me, the web and 2.0 For others, the concept of ???public

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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!" Its basically about storing and retrieving information. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

If you want people to be able to tag artifacts with keywords, comments, or ratings, you need a unique identifier for each artifact, a way for visitor submissions to populate a database, and automated programs for aggregation and display of visitor data. It’s easy to aggregate lots of them into a larger collection. It's messy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

PDF Expert - for commenting on PDF documents on a tablet. Reeder – is an RSS reader or news aggregator that compiles information from several online sources into a single place. Circa – is the news aggregation app I use. Skype - for instant messaging and also video calls. Carolyn Cotney, Marketing Copywriter.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Who stores the donor information and how quickly does the nonprofit get it? One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. The aggregator itself could be an app for the Apple platform. smaclaughlin Thanks for the comment.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Truth Initiative are great at providing information to the public. You don’t want your entire feed to be made up of retweets, but it helps to intersperse them with your own posts. Click an icon to get started: Leading the distribution of information for many nonprofits is social media. It’s direct, precise and effective.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). The best bit of information I found is from a Pew Internet and American Life Project Report titled "Bloggers: The Internet's Storytellers" from July, 2006. off-blog???

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. If you’re just looking at the list, then the value of the information is relatively low. Based on an aggregate of all donors from all organizations. Sometimes that leads to very valuable insights into what’s happening. Just like a report of giving by city.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. Based on an aggregate of all donors from all organizations. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix. Back in the early days of Web 2.0, To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" Receive monthly updates 13 Comments | by Share Article in Social Networking , Trends , Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. Allan Benamer has taken that feed and brought it into Yahoo Pipes. For example, on npdigg you can comment and talk about the resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? Aggregator."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. While we have a number or random staff also creating relationships with people that are interested in what they do, the programs allow for a very specific audience to collect information about what they are most interested in. Session Content 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Mash-Ups: Twitter gives you 140 characters to make your point ("tweet") to an international community of people interested in following your comments. and aggregates them. These posts were literally "mashed up" with Current TV's election debate feeds that aired on their cable channel and web video feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. Wufoo :: wufoo.com.

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