Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

2005) Susan Tenby's response to the question, " Why I use Tags " shows progression from retrieval, to social bookmarking, to sharing with others - on a personal level. Or you head someone speak at a panel at a conference, and you ask for the three best books or articles to read. " Keeping found things found.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Even inexperienced respondents, investing as little as 1-5 hours/week, report positive results in search engine rankings and increased web traffic. Here are some additional resources geared specifically to the nonprofit application of social media: NTEN eNews article: Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from 2008 Elections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs! What do you think?

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. com , Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

It was way back when you could click through the entire Yahoo directory and web sites had gray backgrounds. RSS stands for Really Stupid Syndication and since I'm really stupid I took a trip to Marnie Webb's article 10 Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Use RSS and Andy Carvin's What's RSS and Why Should I Care About It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. For some context, check out this timeline of social networking sites from Dannah Boyd. Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Using a unique tag, the members of the group can contribute articles and also easily find them. Marc notes that these resources are not on any of their "official sites" which presumbably have more formal content development pipeline/process - so they have some more flexibility in presenting and experimenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

60) Search « The ROI of Social Media | Main | Advocacy Online Launches in the US » Thursday May 21 2009 Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 01:20PM | by Allyson Kapin “If you dont brand yourself, Google will brand you,” says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

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. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. ll make so that site can???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. " World Grows Wide blog talks about the Google Custom Search feature. Social bookmarking in plain English! Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. I so need a better system.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2005

technology being talked about on sites like mine is in online community building. Each page adds to the likelihood that somewhere someone sitting in front of a computer will find your site while searching, and say, "Oh, I should get to know them better." People will bookmark your site. People will add comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

In short, the Google Grant provides nonprofits with $10,000 each and every month to spend on ads in Google Search. These simple actions can be potentially life-changing, and they are all made possible by ads posted at the top of Google Search results. How many people are searching for the topics that your organization deals with? .

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Articles on TechCrunch and AllFacebook revieiwng this data seem to focus on Facebook ‘s stronghold on the clickthroughs of shared links, at 38% of all links shared by social means. 2) Search is Still King. Takeaway: Ensure your nonprofit website is optimized for Search Engines. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. Why not just use search?" These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources. She recently posted about a demonstration she gave during a meeting with members of the "Dutch ???e-collaboration???

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

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. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Hard data points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn’t make it efficient to grab data over time. Are there patterns?

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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. A mobile website should not be modeled after your desktop site. Some may even bookmark it for browsing regularly. Write a short blurb about your new mobile website and ask supporters to “Bookmark Your Mobile Browser!”

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. You may have seen this when you’re visiting a site and a little messaging box pops up to ask you if you need any help. Users search by location so adding yours could be useful. . Ahem, have you noticed our GIF filled article? What you’re looking for, you’ll find here! .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

” At this point that’s all we know, but the site is currently allowing users to secure their username on the Zeen homepage. ” The Wibbitz Play Button or Player can be easily added to entire websites, single articles, or just on a home page. To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. Storify :: storify.com.

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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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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

That’s why In this article I’ve put together a list of 5 practical reasons why digital marketing fails to get results with actionable solutions to move you towards success. One way to do this is by tracking your keyword rankings and by extension the overall traffic coming to your site from that keyword.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." My aussie blogger friend Dave Wallace pointed me to this article from Micro Persuasion: The Imminent Death of the Page View. While it's not the only way to measure the health of a site (time spent and unique users are among the others), it's still very popular.

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