Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. Collectively we will inform each other when when the lines too long and ensure that media and watchdog groups know where problems exist.

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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. Some of the best info I come across is flowing through Twitter and I stamp it for later, but I am missing an easy means to get back to it. Enter Hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done. Next, we need to identify useful Twitter accounts so I can begin aggregating them using the new Twitter Lists feature. He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

Content curation can provide visibility, but before you can reap results you have identify the opportunity — a campaign, announcement of a new program, or release of policy information – to curate news and information around your topic. The secret to good curation is the selection of the best and most relevant material.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Over the past few years, the use of social technologies during disaster response has become a central component to news and information delivery. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

Yesterday, Marnie Webb asked an interesting question about choice of tools - specifically the choice the question of "Twitter or Blog?" Twitter is easy to use because of its simplicity. And beyond quick information exchange -- if you want a deeper reflective conversation, twitter is not the place to have it.

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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

MAY 9, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It’s a no- to low-cost database that is a rich source of information about potential major donors, board members, employees, and strategic allies."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2010

2) Via Twitter and #crisisdata hashtag. There will be a formal Twitter chat at 1 p.m. You can also add or comment on the Summit’s aggregated information via the Emergency Social Data Wiki. All of this information is also available at our Emergency Social Data Summit on the American Red Cross blog. EDT/10 a.m.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This is well and good for the information-consuming public; however, these results can spawn curiosities that are fun to dig into.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2008

Twitter counter. On Thursday, a colleague, Rob Cottingham , asked me via Twitter. Or does Twitter do periodic sweeps for spammers and wipe 'em all at once?" " It made wonder what happened to Mr. PharmacyMan who used to follow me on Twitter and seems to no longer be amongst my followers, along with 300 others.

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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

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In December, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 8,000 nonprofit folks have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. You pay per export and right now you can pay with a Tweet.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. 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.

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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

JUNE 18, 2010

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. Information flows. 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. Sort the information to find influencers and people to get to know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center. He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. discussion on Gustav Information site. It aggregates feeds from many sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

If we (NPOs) are investing in social media, then we should be measuring it to make sure it drives action – this presentation shows a way for just looking at Twitter using Google Analytics. Twitter is a very simple social network, messaging is all about story and flow. o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools.

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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. It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. Experiences?

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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!

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Marshall to discuss the report and the insights RWW discovered through the process of aggregating and distilling so much information from experts and Web users. Like people generally do, we thought about the impact that Twitter and Facebook were making on the web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You know why I started to twitter. But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. I was underwhelmed, and forgot about it.

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

Little information about the community of teams formed during a particular year was available – to teams or to the public. Team profiles with a “follow&# feature, embeddable video, location information, comments, and feedback. Increase efficiency and transparency.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2014

I didn''t do anything fancy; I just shifted my informal news diet. I eliminated some blogs and podcasts from my reading list that reinforced information I already knew. I started by: subscribing to some mainstream aggregators, like Huffington Post Latino Voices , Latino USA , Colorlines , Codeswitch. That''s it.

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MARCH 1, 2009

Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. It's a great gathering of policy wonks, transparency advocates, IT geeks in from in and out of government - all excited and busy with shaping a whole new day in how government information will be made more accessible, valuable and transparent.

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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 Were there conversations taking place between Twitter users that extended the learning or were people mostly parallel online note taking? Some Reflections.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

Submitted by Susan Tenby, publisher of Online Communities for Social Change Today I had several discovery moments of serendipitous learning via Twitter. I am noticing lately, that I am hearing all my news before it even hits the web, let alone TV, via Twitter. suzboop on Twitter. I guess that will be another post entirely.)

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. Its simple-to-use API has allowed others to build on top of its functionality – which is why there are so many Twitter-based apps. HelpAttack.com is a prime example of building on top of Twitter and other APIs.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

And Twitter? Find sites that provide information directly related to your nonprofit’s cause and then use Delicious to quickly find content to post. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Vine is the first video sharing app, owned by Twitter.

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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 28, 2009

The actions in our database are aggregated from across the social web and include everything from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans.&#. You can follow UniversalGiving or Social Actions on Twitter, follow stories on their blogs ( UG blog or SA blog ) or visit their websites to learn more: [link]. Connect & Learn more.

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