Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. 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. Set up a twitter account.

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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. Social Actions. Try it out yourself!

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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. Why Social Media?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network. Technorati Tag: GDNET09. Tags: Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

16 “Mobilizing your social network&# panel with this all-star lineup: Andres Glusman of Meetup.com , Justin Perkins of Care2 , George Weiner of DoSomething and Giselle Diaz Campagna of Free Speech TV. Tags: Nonprofit Events Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking. Such is the case with the Oct.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Farra Trompeter wrote up an amazing article about Foursquare+Nonprofits (and other location-based social network tools). Members are in bold. Who's your Mayor?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin of NPR's Social Media guru, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center. It aggregates feeds from many sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

2020 Web Tech Approach To Social Media Analytics View more presentations from Gaurav Mishra. 20:20 Social Media Analytics Blog; A colleague just shared a link to this blog by Guarav Mishra's company. I've been following him on Twitter and have been following his social media/social change blog but hadn't made it to his company's blog.

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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. One the recommendations is: Invest in Social Capital. You need social capital to help in difficult times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Social Capital. Photo by NimagesDR. Does it exist?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

That their web site may be or incorporate a blog as well as integrate, videos, podcasts, and photos. (2) Social Outposts: This is your organization's presence on social networking or social media outposts like Twitter, Facebook, or other places. Tags: wearemedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. While the board wasn’t against technology or social media, it was a little bit of a mystery.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

But how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of Twitter should be. Twitter, a micro-blogging site makes it easy to create short posts known as tweets from anywhere, using almost any kind of wireless device – perfect for users with little time, but have something to say.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Then be sure to tag it "stopcyberbullying" so we can aggregate it. -. Cyberbullying social network ( [link] lying.ning. of everything that's been tagged "stopcyberbullying. You can learn more by participating in the social. network, or you can visit resources like. com ) Since there's.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Here's a few highlights: Social Media and Climate Change : #4Change, the Twitter-based chat, recently tweet-chatted about social media in the climate movement. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information. Tags: Human Rights Communication Collaboration. See the Darfur scores for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. It doesn't work that way." It doesn't work that way."

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. " They've used their website, blog, Twitter and Facebook, Youtube and more to keep telling the stories of those in need, those they're serving, and how people watching the relief effort unfold can continue to contribute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Network for Good has some terrific stories about noisy, angry people becoming champions for their services because of active listening and then open engagement with them on social networks or in the comments of blogs. One example is from the GiveWell Blog which posted a complaint about the Network For Good's fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

It is evolving from individuals leveraging their personal networks to groundswells. Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter." First, let me recap what Twestival is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. How to use twitter, utterz, and other micro media tools to energize your communications strategy and find new prospects. The Socially Networked Nonprofit. What are the strategies for getting others to tell your story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Alerted by "Tweet" (post on Twitter) from Andy Carvin, Michael Stein (East Coast) points to some privacy issues related to color printers. O'Reilly Radar has a post about networking in Facebook. Why nothing about social aggregators ? Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site !

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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

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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

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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. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Today's web management tools will let you treat your data, charts, and graphs just like any other content -- so you should be tagging and classifying them. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

He's an example of one of my loose ties strengthened through online social networks. 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. Individual (a single Twitter user). Let me explain.

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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. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? Who tried GPS Twitter craziness and failed? Also, as the site grows, the aggregated knowledge can help us share resources, reduce redundancy, and come together as a museum community. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out Museums Engaging in 2.0

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

In reflecting over the past three years, the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring&# or “research&# to include several categories: social media engagement management, analytics, influencer identification, and social network analysis. to make it useful for your needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. Chinese Buffet by Drunken Monkey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks.

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