Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. I've created a wikitation site (presentation as wiki) to house the presentation materials and for some basic primers/factsheets I hope to write. All the research is done, you'll find links to my bookmarks on delicious). #2

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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

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

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. Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Doing Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) Conference or Event Blog: A group blog is set up for the specific event or conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

First, there’s the blogging issue. I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. Second, is bookmarking.

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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

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

MAY 12, 2008

Dina has also shared a link to a wiki Nargis Help. Add at least one of the news sites, blogs or feeds into your feed reader or read Marshall's meta feed. Add at least one of the news sites, blogs or feeds into your feed reader or read Marshall's meta feed. But I think Pistachio has a better idea - we can take collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

" We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. I'm remembering some tagging ice breakers I've used both online and offline that incorporate the concept of social bookmarking and tagging that I've used. " "How does it differ from others?"

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. Citizen journalism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). A blog may be a place to start. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e.

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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

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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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

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. I have one blog post here. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint. Although I do have a couple of uneasy feelings about blog spontaneity. ll blog it. All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools. If you are interested in participating, include a few lines about yourself and your professional background (include your website or blog URL if you have one) and send by Sunday, April 27, 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

I decided to use the Ethan Zuckerman advice of point don't write -- and pointed to some excellent screencasts and videos about social bookmarking. The presentation wiki and resources can be found here. The reflection exercise can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

You were all so helpful with posting your favorite nonprofit blogs to help me prepare for a talk I'll be giving at the Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits sponsored by the United Way of Kern County that I thought I'd ask for your ideas again! Thanks for your help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. The non-profit community has had a special romance with a variety of collaborative tools that have often been lumped together under the rubric of Web 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Maybe you saw this teaser over at the NTEN blog last week about the WeAreMedia project activites for the month of October wondered what the term fondle the hammer meant. Social Bookmarking. Check the top of the WeAreMedia wiki for places where we need some specific help. Photo by Stitch. you work in. Tools: Monitoring.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content. OK, enough preliminaries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Bookmarks: del.icio.us Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. I listen to music on my IPOD while I blog. and magnolia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

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. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It's moved.

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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. I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If writing up a case study or going to a Net Tuesday feels too time consuming, you can also help by tagging web sites in del.icio.us , photos in Flickr and personal blog entries that relate to NetSquared with the tag "net2" and they will feed into the NetSquared news aggregator. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. What on earth is a Wiki? The Impact of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

If you read my blog entries here and here , I have an ambivalence about how important some of these developments are for non-profits at the moment. programming techniques, tagging and social bookmarking, blogging and they need to be looked at separately. Wikis or Writely can certainly be more efficient. and nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

My blog commenters told me I had too much content in my initial draft. For example, on the Step 2 which was about monitoring blog conversations as market research. Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc. The first session will introduce tagging and social bookmarking and an exercise.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2007

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 10, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Fine Blog – If you haven't seen the two recent posts from Allison Fine about women and social media, you should join in the conversation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? Can help you extend or enhance the conversation on your blog. Chat and Messages.

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