Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. So sure, let's talk about tagging.

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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

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. A few comments over at Kikono too. The Give and Take Blog raises a question " Are anonymous blog authors as credible as those who write under their real names ? For others, the concept of ???public

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Social networking analysis can track those interactions (replies, commenting, like, etc) and help you make decisions with your strategy. It gives you a 10,000 view of your ecosystem. There's too much unstructured data (comments, replies, likes, etc) - you need to see a picture or map. Share them in the comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Let us know what you think by leaving comments below. If you give them tools for taking more control of their lives, they will pay you back in attention, support and even hard cash. Give up on the illusion of control. Don’t centralise, aggregate. Most people will just listen and view, and maybe comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

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. NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

It’s free, it gives you an immediate way to build a tribe and engage people in online community. Facebook also gives others the ability to share their affinity to you with their friends, family and co-workers. Facebook pages give you a ton of great features that Groups and Causes do not. Comment on their wall posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you’ve created a descriptive drawing. Social network analysis gives you a 10,000 view of your ecosystem. There’s too much unstructured data (comments, replies, likes, etc) – you need to see a picture or map.

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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. There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective. Tags: socialmediametrics ROI. Photo by Caveman92223. Take her ROI and Measurement list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

A number folks offers some insights in the comments or on Twitter, including Amanda. People are more likely to relate and give to something they can follow up on and social media allows causes and those supporting to do just that. . (2) A number folks offers some insights in the comments or on Twitter, including Amanda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

Did I mention I don't give up fast? give people your attention. Tags: movement building. The best way of movement is "let's do this together" kind of experience. Try it, you'll see what I mean. In my usual collaborative, expansive, and generous self I've often encountered tremendous resistance to this kind of behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs. This was all about early aggregation! Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. Now say that five times fast! More on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

As Tom Subak adds, "On social networks, we have a very light touch – we give people the opportunity to respond. It often happens through the wall comments – we go through the discussion areas, comments, photos and videos and we take those stories to share with decision-makers." . Tags: movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

How do you get people to contribute their knowledge - whether it be to a wiki page, leaving a comment on a blog post, or tagging a resource? It is constantly in flux and only by aggregating and assessing the community in real time, with constant new connections and renewed re-evaluation can the curriculum stay ???current."

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Use aggregators like alltop.com to stay on top of the latest news in your field. Gather comments, observe newsletter subscriptions and social sharing, etc. This give you an entirely new take on a great topic. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy. When writing content, go from cakes to cupcakes. Share it in different pieces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., Crowd-based funding for projects – such as Global Giving and Donors Choose. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Curated by NTEN, the community will worked 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. The inspiration for the process is what Michele Martin has done with her 30 days to better commenting challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. Allison points out the numbers for America's Giving Challenge on Facebook sponsored by the Case Foundation. Tags: facebook. Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. here , using the ICT4peace tag. The Give and Take blog has coverage here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

For the two months leading up to my brief vacation, I've been doing a lot of training and presenting - chewing on some lessons learned from the America's Giving Challenge , Social Media ROI , and Cute Dogs. The art and practice of blogging for nonprofits (planning, policy, writing, commenting). It's time to reinvent some more.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

(Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Gilbert commented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. This made curious: How did Twestival get started? What is its relationship with charity:water?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The American Red Cross is now looking into how best to give the public an increased role in disaster response. He also commented on the empowering nature of social media and its ability to let one individual change reality. Tags: american red cross Data NPTech NTEN wendy harman. "One person can take a photo.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Seb Chan of fresh + new, the blog from the Powerhouse Museum in Australia, ran with this idea to comment on the impact of disaggregation on the way that visitors use museum collections available on the web. All museums are models of aggregated content; heck, we're the boxed music sets of physical content. It connects the dots.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Conceptually, commenting on other sites signals your institution's willingness to engage with others on their own terms. By posting intelligent, insightful, value-adding comments and responses on pre-existing high-traffic sites, you can drive more visitors back to your own site and nascent Web 2.0 Let me give you an example.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? Also, as the site grows, the aggregated knowledge can help us share resources, reduce redundancy, and come together as a museum community. I came out of this discussion thinking about Susan's comments about how museum professionals should treat references like this.

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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. Can you give me an example of some advice you've given some nonprofits? Have you been reading awhile before you posted or did you find and post a comment? I did post a comment right away after discovering your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

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. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . Tags: goals. I want to improve my writing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

For more information, check out the Tech Soup article, "Easy Ways to Publish Your Own RSS: Use RSS to Help Your Constituents Stay On Top of News and Announcements," and the Social Signal article, "Make Your Nonprofit More Effective with RSS Aggregation." Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Raise Money Many blog readers have money to give.

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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. I’m aggregating the Tweets for #50smt here. Do an analysis to improve or create content.

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