Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

This is Nancy White making a toast at the Saturday night dinner which was going to be nonprofit bloggers, but was a large group of everyone who wanted to eat together. There was a "birds of feather" nonprofit table and I think I photographed most of the bloggers with an interest in nonprofit blogging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2007

There are a lot of answers to that question, but if you want to do outreach to bloggers about an issue you care about, here are a few tips: 1. Search for bloggers who write about topics related to your cause on Technorati , Google Blog Search and Ask.com's blog search engine. Read blogs. Search del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

" I'm fighting the temptation to want to create a digital bloggers quilt. grab a fabric patch, write a post, and stitch it together with a technorati tag like "digital.quilt" This project is one of several where museums experimenting with folksonomies. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

There is a range of experience in the room in terms of live blogging. Live Blogging Tips. Use word and cut and paste into your blog - for spell check and abbreviations. Ecto is a great tool for live blogging. Live blogging is easier if you're drinking, next year we will have live blogger hip flasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

After the second thread , Steve wrote an incredible post about blog community facilitation learning. I asked him some questions about connections between offline/online communities and how to encourage non-bloggers into a blogging community. His response: Steve answered my questions both in a comment and back over at his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask). As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. and no particular order of priority.

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MAY 26, 2005

That was the name of the session for this Thursday's Bloggers Meeting at the Berkman Center. The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Mary Hodder's post Link Love Lost or How Social Gestures within Topic Groups are More Interesting Than Link Counts comes directly out of the discussion at blogher at the Technorati 100. Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 And if you want everything, look in these spots: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

Via the Berkman Bloggers list, Cameron Marlow at MIT is working on some social research about weblogs. The survey asks about demographics and blog reading/writing habits. In addition, it has a section where you are asked to type in your blog url and it generates a random list of urls from your posts. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

Beyond The Blog: Ready For Prime Time Originally uploaded by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006. From one of my favorite edtech blogger, Alan Levine (fellow lab lover) comes this Flickrtation - using flickr for a presentation. You are especially invited to speak up via comments, blog our photos, and add annotations via flickr notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

Meet Anina.net who is a fashion blogger from Paris. She live blogged me while I lived blogged her. Not many folks in the fashion world are blogging. No one knows about blogging. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon I used a pen and reporters pad. She used her nokia phone. I must learn how to do that!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

My friend Abby, the Executive Director of the school gardening nonprofit, Urban Sprouts , has taken the plunge and started an Urban Sprouts blog. If there are any readers out there who want to start a blog for themselves, here are my basic, "accidental techie" guidelines. The best blogs are ones with a particular focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. Over the past year, I've done a lot of live blogging which is basically taking notes at lectures, conferences, and presentations of what was said. Perhaps it may be helpful to others who have not live blogged before. What live blogging tips do you have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. How can BLOG (technology) help to make the situation better?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

Well, I've moved my blog to blogger! But a bit of reading convinced me that our blog would have far better visibility in one of the standard blogging sites that build RSS feeds, support tagging, are indexed by Technorati and other services, and in general are a full part of the hum of internet conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

"Blogs are not causing a revolution. Blog are just another Internet communication strategy and tool!" " Just in time for our NTC nonprofit blogging panel. I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel. Are blogs a vanishing fad? February, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Don't feel like you have to read every post on every blog, use the "Mark Read" option. Technorati. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Technorati.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs. Within eight months pages views doubled (from 8,000 to 16,000), email list doubled (2,500 to 5,000) and they have established relationships with influential 'mommy bloggers' across the country who are representing them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

I'm hoping that we'll end the discussion with a kick-a** tip sheet for video bloggers who want to get started promoting their blogs and shows. ll talk about: -Use of tags ??? Tag your video blog post into del.icio.us - forward to your del.icio.us. Screenshot in flickr with url to blog post or videoblog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 There were more than enough t-shirts for the Cambodian bloggers (probably enough for some bloggers to get more than one). YouthNoise?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

If you're interested in nonprofits and blogging and podcasting , drop everything and go read Brian C. The presentation is excellent -- I like how they defined blogs and gave many examples -- I just combed through the blog definition and selected a few below, but the presentation is well worth reading through the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. for his blog. Do you follow your blog's technorati? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2005

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Dina Mehta , a blogger from Indian and fabulous person. She posted this about the Menu for Hope , a little fundraiser by food blogger, to help people affected by the earthquake in Northern India and Pakistan. I love seeing how grassroots fundraising translates to blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

I only knew a handful of blogher participants, so I was delighted to see fellow Berkman Thursday night blogger , Lisa Williams. Her presentation on audio blogging was fantastic! Here is Lisa's opml blog with blogher coverage , including her presentation. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

One of the most exciting things for me was to finally meet Tharum (a Cambodian blogger) and pictured above face-to-face. Tharum and I have been in communication via our blogs, IM, and email for over a year now. In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London.

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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. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. His organization is excited about the potential for Cambodian blogs to generate more political dialogue. His english language blog can be found here. He recently started a " Khlog " or Khmer Language blog. I am Cambodian.

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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. I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated. Tell us about your blog?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 at 1:33 pm Katyas NonProfit Marketing Blog 03.16.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

My colleague Mary Joyce who writes a blog called " ZapBoom: The Sound That Change Makes " that focuses on the question, "Under what conditions does citizen activism occur and how can it be supported and encouraged?" Post it on your blog: [link] =-017xCZEXFU&eurl=. Re-publish Monem's posts on your own blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. Each week a blog ???mentor??? The week of February 27th, I will blog on the topic of: ??? Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , blogher The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic.

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