NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.].

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Where: Twitter (search for #4Change ). And here are some examples to consider: SocialActions – a great example of social media powering the sharing and aggregation (and thus the collaboration and partnership) of social action opportunity portals all over the world. Details: Date: August, 13th. Starting the Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. There’s also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that’s Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “ aggregator ” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing. Bundlepost is my perferred aggregation tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.      They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. t use Twitter and want to go to www.twitter.com, sign up then follow the directions above.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. But wait it gets better.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 21, 2010

For example, there are others creating or sharing content specifically about tech, like ComputerWorld, UKRiders and CharityWebForum. In CTX’s eyes it is the engagement, aggregation, or the weaving of people and ideas, questions and answers. What already exists? But what is missing from everything that exists? peer to peer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Here’s an example: Make Ideas More Visible. Oneshot : Highlight screenshots of text and share on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. The initiative also has a group blog - it's the homebase where the campaign is aggregating campaign coverage in the main stream press and on blogs. WorldBridge, A Refugees International Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. Twitter is a very simple social network, messaging is all about story and flow. What Does the Data Say? Tweets Into Action on Prezi.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

O’Reilly took us through some examples of designing with citizens in mind can radically change the trust equation. ” And, of course, someone set up a spoof Twitter account. He gave the example of ” Vin Tank ” which an example of how ambient data on social channels is being used by companies now.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. That’s the question that the monthly #4Change chats (that take place on Twitter) address, this month focusing on the Climate Change movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. 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. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

Want to see inspiring examples? May 3 – 4, 2016 — Around-the-world Twitter chat (sign up in this Google doc ). Citizen stories, aggregated and amplified by NGOs, deserve to be heard as testament to humanity's plurality and hope. Check out the moving, powerful stories that were submitted. spanhidden.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I stumbled on a new way of organizing the information coming through your Twitter channels. and aggregates tweets from her specified twitter network. Thanks, Rebecca, for the aggregation and example! " when it comes to social media? Then this post from Beth Kanter is recommended reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . For example, I learned that the first ever social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. Have some examples?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. For example, the All Kids Covered has been using the timeline features to create milestones for legislative victories.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

Want to see inspiring examples? May 3 – 4, 2016 — Around-the-world Twitter chat (sign up in this Google doc ). Citizen stories, aggregated and amplified by NGOs, deserve to be heard as testament to humanity's plurality and hope. Our partner See3 has announced the winner of the 2016 GoDooder Video Awards.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Church Tech Blogs is exactly what it sounds like: a blog aggregator site. The aggregator is hosted and maintained by Strange Idea Labs of Austin, Texas. It’s a classic example of hiding a light under a bushel.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Here are a few ways to get you diving in: Twitter. Want to find new followers and receive useful statistics to improve your Twitter usage? It’s easy to use: all you have to do is follow the Mr. Tweet twitter account and messages will be sent to you via DM. Twitter Karma. Try it out yourself! Communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. What I’m most interested is how to use social network analysis and the various tools to better understand your network on Twitter or Facebook or elsewhere. Twiangulate lets you analyze cross over between your Twitter network and another Twitter user.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

A prime example of what APIs can achieve with relative ease is optimizing content for web visitors based on location. Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. HelpAttack.com is a prime example of building on top of Twitter and other APIs.

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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. I've been noticing a new hash tag #npecon floating around on Twitter and just added to my tag list.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

You can see the aggregated Tweets from the NYC 501 Tech Club here. I liked this little tidbit on Twitter : Shana Masterson , at the National Brain Tumor Society , is looking at. examples of nonprofit websites, and gave a nice shout-out to The. Read the article for Farra's takeaways and tips for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

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 It’s free but you can purchase additional data for reasonable amounts (for example you can get Klout Scores ). The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2014

I started by: subscribing to some mainstream aggregators, like Huffington Post Latino Voices , Latino USA , Colorlines , Codeswitch. following a few hashtags and people associated with these sources on Twitter, checking out the lists of who they follow, and adding more people to my Twitter feed through their networks.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

And Twitter? Just take the American Red Cross as an example. For example, if you always want to save photos that you take with Instagram to your Dropbox folder, IFTTT will automatically do that for you. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

• JD Lasica (that’s me) offered a one-stop shop for resources on how nonprofits and cause organizations can use social tools : a landing page that aggregates resources on social networking tutorials, handouts, top fund-raising tools and much more. See Meetup Everywhere on Tumblr for best practices and examples.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

For example, people are talking about viewing their Google+ circles in Tweetdeck or Hootsuite where they can already view Twitter and Facebook. There's also the integration for multimedia like YouTube (though, that's Google property so maybe more hopeful there), Flickr, and things like Twitter and Twitpic.

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