Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. This is serendipity – not pure randomness, but orchestrated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits.

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JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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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. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog. So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. NetSquared Community. Momentum is building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Now I have found way too many.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

He responded to my question with a post over at his blog, npMarketing. Using a unique tag, the members of the group can contribute articles and also easily find them. Adding RSS tools allows some additional benefits of developing content. How do people use these articles or resources? It's right here. Who is in the group?

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat. Here's an article she's just posted on podcasting. Another nice educational piece: RSS Explained , by D.C. Try out a free beta account!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. t be bookmarked.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 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!" You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. I hope you find the calendar useful.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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!" The rest is history, but in the next few weeks, the story was in several local newspapers and blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. e-collaboration???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

From there, do not use images for navigation, and limit news articles to one image. Fortunately, if you are using your blog’s RSS feed for mobile Web content creation, tools like MoFuse automatically shrink image sizes for faster loading and browsing. Some may even bookmark it for browsing regularly.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" Is the blog used and updated? The social bookmarking sites offer this. At least not yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic? Google Analytics.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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!" Is the blog used and updated? The social bookmarking sites offer this. At least not yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. Also, in reference to the title of this article, “Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought.&# – we’re simply not going away. There basically are three types of software acquisitions that companies make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. people my discuss or talk about a resource via a blog post or the notes field in a social bookmarking tool. That last question is making me think of an article that I read in the Web Worker Daily about five Web2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. ” The Wibbitz Play Button or Player can be easily added to entire websites, single articles, or just on a home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. e-Newsletter. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. clipping articles and links extremely easy. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. clipping articles and links extremely easy. e-Newsletter.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. I’ve finally started work on my Now-to-New book (the book is itself a N2N project and you can see it unfold on my blog) and these words are very encouraging. Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] Posted on at.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2006

Photo Source: Power Law of Participation from Ross Mayfield's Photostream His article is here. The visual was mentioned from article " What are the personal benefits of tagging ?" Summarzing from the article: Benefits to Consumers Reason 1: Can categorize and organize collections of bookmarks. Anyone who???s

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. You should too.

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