Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

s a free social bookmarking service. As you release your product, find some interesting articles or blog posts on the Web and bookmark them. Even when the articles that you find aren't necessarily positive, you should bookmark those, too. What are the blog software options that offer password protection?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

For example, this might be a good opportunity to read that great article about a professional topic that you bookmarked but never have time to read. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you? Another idea is to keep list of resilience activities or activities that can help you feel satisfied.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

I recently discovered a blog by a colleague, Allison Fine, called A. Her focus is on "the ways that digital tools, particularly social media, are enhancing our connectedness to one another and our ability and willingness to work for the collective social good." What a great way to celebrate the myth with your child!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2005

Her answer: Delicious puts the social in social bookmarking. Now, I'm lying awake wondering whether or the article on social bookmarking tools that we started over at consultantcommons should focus more on the benefits of social bookmarking for nonprofits and less on a side-by-side indepth comparison of tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

Write a blog post reflecting on these questions and tag it with NpTech and we will summarize the key points. I'm constantly looking for information related to work and I a big bookmarker. I'm also remembering some previous obsession about cross-blog conversations and how to facilitate. Post 2 : Facilitating Blog Discussions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2005

After bookmarking Nancy White's white paper on the March of Dimes blog community in delicious, did some wool gathering to see what other nuggets were out there on the topic of blog communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. into my efforts to publish a professional blog." I realize now that I didn't adopt all those things all once!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2007

and stumbled upon this article bookmarked by Michelle Martin called " Some Reasons Why I Nearly Quit Blogging." " The article outlines some reasons why people stop blogging and why it is hard to keep momentum. Lastly, not blogging for a few days doesn???t So, I've been spending some time in del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I recently discovered a blogging work flow tool called Zemanta , that according to its web site. It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad. maybe it is suggesting that I should write a post about my blogging workflow! How do you get your inspiration or ideas for blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

This might be a function of it being new, but with all social networks you can quickly feel overwhelmed. I try to slow to down and summarize the best concepts, ideas in a blog post. But before I can do that, I need to capture or bookmark the best stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

Perhaps I wasn't ready to explore it until I found myself trying to maintain three personal blogs and contribute to three group blogs. Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. And then save to your blog software as a draft or publish. Performing is a great to productivity!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with Scoop.It , a bookmarking and curation tool. It allows you enter your sources – specific blogs or keyword searches and easily add them to nicely formated stream. also lets you easily share the gems you find selectively to other social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Redesign and recharge your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. Write a blog post. Join the cross-blog conversation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

And in the spirit of conversation, you can follow-up and extend your interest in the topics covered in the book at the Age of Conversation blog ??? Here's a more detailed description of the book process from the Shaping Youth Blog Think about it. Nick Rice , one of my blog readers, contributed a chapter.

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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? My system supports my learning goals: One is about product and the other is process. Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks.

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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

MARCH 5, 2008

" An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." Just some more to ponder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. I'm going to bring over video blogging kits - inexpensive cameras, rechargeable batteries, SD cards, and Ryanne's book. I put out a call for a session "Mobile Blogging and Video Blogging: I know nothing, educate me."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. Today I Cried blog announces that he will quit his job ! blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

She said delicious puts the social in social bookmarking. A while back, I asked Alexandra Samuels to answer this question: why delicious ? For months, I've been tagging urls that I found interesting about Cambodia into delicious with the cambodia tag and checking what else was tagged. Usually it was not much or crap. But this has changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I bookmarked in delicious a post by David Weinberger saying blogging is Web 1.0 Leroy's blog a bit more, I found two posts ( here and here ) on Web 2.0 with a rhetorical question, "Do you agree with his point ?" for lack of a better word) can facilitate for nonprofits. Poking around J. Kill Cyberspace?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

We recently launched a new blog here at Blackbaud Internet Solutions. With that in mind I’d like to share 4 Keys to Building a Successful Web Site based on similar tactics we’ve deployed on this blog. You say you don’t have a blog, I say you should REALLY consider starting one. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Blogging Tools. Nonprofit social media techies filled the pages with links to tools, tips, and tutorials for these types of social media tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers. Commenting. Podcasting. Photo Sharing. Video Sharing. Crowd Sourcing. Micro Media. Lifestreams. Social Networks. Fundraising Widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog. (And Live Tweeting: If I am at a conference or meeting, I'm usually live blogging or tweeting. And usually doesn't include the best Facebook links which are shared on my Facebook Fan Page ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2006

But the fruits of my labor has gotten so much richer with the integration of social networking tools, particularly social bookmarking services. Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. I also look at the bookmarks of first taggers of resources that I find particularly useful. But not all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Blogging Tools. Nonprofit social media techies filled the pages with links to tools, tips, and tutorials for these types of social media tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers. Commenting. Podcasting. Photo Sharing. Video Sharing. Crowd Sourcing. Micro Media. Lifestreams. Social Networks. Fundraising Widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Social Bookmarking. Blogging Tool. This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers. Commenting. You can still participate and you might even win a cool t-shirt. The tools we'll be focusing on next are those that can be used for sharing your story social media style. Podcasting. Photo Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. See this review from Mashable ). I figure why hoard the good stuff I find? What's your routine for sharing information on Twitter? What tool do you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Redesign and recharge your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Flickr Photo from Ross Mayfield Still reflecting on the question " Are Fundraising Groundwells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?" Found this oldish post in my bookmark collection called Power Law of Participation for social software by Ross Mayfield.

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