Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. Leave a comment »

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. I was struck by Marnie’s comments on this and ask her to explain them on a FLIP video interview. She also blogged a few thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Interesting enough, she found a blog post from someone who works in nonprofit tech space who was writing about what conferences they attend and a web site for a specific nonprofit conference. The work in progress is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. My blog post generated a referral. Wow, better than a listserv!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful. Details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Please share your experience in the comments below. Murphy served as the point of contact, answering staff questions on the fine art of tweeting. There’s another benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. Wikis and wiki spreadsheets are so much more efficient than sending back word and excel spreadsheets with comments or track changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

With all the blogging and video making you do, I'm surprised you had time to take this quiz. They've built a profile tool over at the blog that lets you plug in some very general demographic information and get a summary of the percentage of profile types that fit that demographic. created a quiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. also coordinated and integrated the content and blog postings with our hsus myspace page and rebecca???s

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Blog about the event before, during, and after. And then Tweet about your blog posts on Twitter. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. See a recent tweme from our Marketing & Online Community conference 2008.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog. You can grab the slides and read her notes and commentary on her blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

You can read the presenter's reflections on the event or what he calls "info-edu-tainment" here and a participate blogs about their experience here. I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Nesson describes it on his blog: I n the final week of the class we will doing a first-of-its-kind Second Life event. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. We will be holding a moot trial of Bragg v. This should be good fodder for debate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. A Few Web2.0

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

If the list doesn't answer your question or if you have further questions please post them in the comments and we'll make sure to answer. The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. How will the CoP members interact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Tracking Blog Conversations. Allison Fine and Lucy Bernholz take a foundation's investment policies to task. Ego searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

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. Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

Eath is video blogging her life story. My vlog has been linked to from a lot of the Cambodian portals so I have a lot of Cambodian people viewing my vlog and commenting. By chance, he found my blog and left a comment. s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. or vlogger.

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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. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile. I've been busy trying to cram over 150 tech shirts into a suitcase to take to Cambodia so I missed this one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. " She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Why did you start blogging?

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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. So, in the spirit of thinking outloud, I'm sharing these works in progress here and welcome any comments or reactions. #1. 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits. Screencasting Panel. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. " came from a comment left by Gavin and summarized in this post. I would fill in the missing pieces and refine with chacha, serach engines, private email, or listserv queries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

If you are a nonprofit or affiliated with a nonprofit that is already doing something in Second Life, take this survey or let us know by leaving a comment in this post. It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. Well, at least I wasn't saying catty things about the people who were there.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

And even blogs, which allow for comments, can be brochureware, just pretty words that are meant to tell the world how great and invincible the group is, not letting people inside to help figure out strategy and even struggle with the hard questions all organizations face. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

As part of TechSoup's do-it-yourself month, Nonprofits Live (NPLive) featured a discussion of blogging. Blogging is a great way for organizations to communicate and establish themselves as thought leaders. Thurman has been blogging about leadership, nonprofits, and social media since 2007. How a Small Organization Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

To learn more and stay in the loop with Data Analysts for Social Good, you can join the LinkedIn group and subscribe to the listserv. Andrew is already cooking up some big changes for next year’s conference, so don’t miss out. right here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. Vicky has written a brilliant post answering the question "How do you write for your blog?" Vicky says that writing a blog, like music, is more than a single solitary note, but a composition.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! Feel free to add your ideas in the comments section at the bottom of this page or on the original post. Why Curate? already have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." She blogs at Standing Firm for Fair Immigration Reform Movement.

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