Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Tactical Philanthropy Blog notes that the next Giving Carnival will focus on Fundraising for Nonprofits and will be hosted by Gayle Roberts. Please blog amoung yourselves." Fundraising and Philanthropy 2.0. young people???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. often these bloggers discard the handcuffs of their ethnic origins to tackle subjects affecting a range of racial or ethnic groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Through my blog I see what???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid. This works for a small group of 12 or less. (If you have a larger group, you can use an online polling app like Slido that allows participants to use their cells to share their answers and automatically generates a word cloud.) Tips for Good Openings.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Here are the results of one of the live polls conducted during the webinar: Facebook. As we can see, the most widely used social media site is Facebook, and in last, blogs. The 140-character limit to each post means that content has to be concise and much more in "the now," than say, a blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

I knew some of the participants on the thread, well-known bloggers, authors, librarians, educators, and thinkers. This conversation thread was rich, witty, and thoughtful. The site is also becoming popular with technology insiders in Silicon Valley. What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. Once you draft the content for your sustainer page, promote the program in print newsletters and funding appeals, on your blog, and to your social networking communities. It’s true that Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." Do you subscribe to blogs for life or change often?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2009

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. And don't forget to check out these great nonprofit bloggers’ resolutions for 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 In A Museum? Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. Benefits and Considerations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???t to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? google syntax to show you who???s Youtube UGC ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Joe Waters writes the web’s leading cause marketing blog. Co-Disruptor: AdoptAClassroom. Disruptor: Facebook.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

But the initial result on the Internet was a flurry of tweets, wall posts, blog posts, and other rightfully indignant responses that didn't add up to much real change. The movement notably used grassroots tactics to drive voters (and previous non-voters) to the polls in support of Obama. The difficult part is keeping it going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

Create Free Polls. I'm working on a piece about widgets and nonprofit blogs (some context here and here ). If you haven't had a chance to take the poll, please click through your reader and vote now! I've also found another example from the Nonprofit Tech Blog launched yesterday. off-blog??? s readership.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Strategies include cutting down on content clutter, developing an intuitive navigation structure that makes information easy to find and engaging your audiences through surveys, polls and commenting features. This article was written by Grace Yi, Frogloop blogger. What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Act 1: What.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

BlogHers Act Initiative is going to be an interesting experiment and powerful learning experience for what network of bloggers can do to support a cause. And, that's where the poll comes in. We've already been through quite a bit process to identify the issue - Global Health. The next step is to narrow and focus it. Cast your vote.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. Facebook tends to leak information that only keeps bloggers and nonprofits guessing and confused. The answers are always the same: 1) From this blog. asking their supporters to “Become a Fan!&# on Facebook.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Some aspects of content creation could be outsourced to experts and guest bloggers. Infographics, videos, charts, photos, blog posts and podcasts are just a handful of content avenues that can be used as part of an effective content marketing strategy. The issues nonprofits are trying to solve are conducive to engaging content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

It means monitoring the online conversations about social entrepreneurship and issues we care about and directing attention to news hits and interesting blog posts. Each tweet is hand-crafted and relevant to our audience, something we checked by asking our followers want sort of information they wanted from us in a poll.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. So, if you are already using one of those services and want to integrate content onto your blog, check on their web site first. There are also some creative ways to build community (or create silos) using search on your blog.

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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. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network.

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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. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to a recent national poll , when price and quality are equal, 77 percent will choose a brand that supports a cause. Tactical Philanthropy continues the One Post Challenge with a post titled " Beyond Hacking Philanthropy " from Kevin Jones from Good Capital and who blogs xchangexchange. Lee LeFever as done it again.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. For folks who are interested in how you can use blogs and podcasts and other social media things for social change, basically the way I started was, I have always worked for nonprofits and socially responsible businesses, and was not technical at all. Whoa, you must be freaky!"

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. and at his blog, joshua-gee.com. Most of us have some experience with many of the things we consider engagement on this blog. The following post is by Joshua Gee. Joshua is a public relations professional, political technologist, social media nerd, amateur public policy wonk, Eagle Scout, bleeding.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. As the technology for making podcasts becomes increasingly user friendly with Web sites like Odeo and Gcast , they are a tool not only to reach adults, but young people too.

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