Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

But, none used RSS readers or knew what they were. Not sure if this matches demographic studies of RSS users or not because this group was under 18) They were aware of tagging, but in the sense of how it is used on Facebook - to tag your friends in photographs or notes, etc. No surprise there. re using it to do identity work.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? I try to do this for blogging, RSS reading, twittering, flickr, email, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

2 Learn: The learning happens through interacting and commenting. Someone will share something, and you can ask a follow up question or read the comments of others. Given the accelerated pace and competition, will the trough of disillusionment come sooner versus later? I usually try to set up a small learning project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

, I decided to do an action learning experiment on these questions: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads than traditional techniques? What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate? What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. I think I can write something up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. I read her blog for great tips on professional development and technology. { Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. I succumbed. So what’s the story? Michelle twittering?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Also, they have a very interesting ROI calculator for social networks that is worth a look. { He even asks “What would Jesus do?&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# are *yours* to do whatever you want with.

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JULY 17, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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JULY 26, 2007

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. If you have been reading this blog, then you would not be surprised. Share and Enjoy: 2 Comments comment advertising » Nonprofit Video – Going mainstream [.] That’s HUGE.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? What questions and answers would you add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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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. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Harry: A Green Geek.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? No doubt, the listening also provides great content ideas for their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

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

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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? This made think about my whole system captured in the MindMap below: I thought a lot about my “system&# for professional learning that incorporate social media.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. In homage to her show, which I very much enjoy, today I decided to do a "Sally's favorite nonprofit-strategy-and-technology blogs roundup." It's Friday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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JUNE 22, 2007

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MAY 22, 2009

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