Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 and social networking tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference. All live blogging disclaimers apply. Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. People told them that they wanted more social capital.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Title: Social Media Manager. Blog: pancan.org/blog. Who maintains your social media campaigns? I am a full-time employee of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and as the Social Media Manager I manage all the social networking efforts for the organization.

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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. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

nonprofit leaders , including Daniel Ben-Horin, founder of CompuMentor who predicts, "Successful nonprofit players in the social media space will those who understand the opportunity without being seduced by it." The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. rethink, reinvent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). Marnie mentions one downside to FriendFeed - that she is unable to process the information as quickly or as seamlessly as she can with other tools that she is regularly using for social bookmarking, feed reading, and causal interactions.

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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. To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). What do you think? Great slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Maybe Stewart will leave a comment with a summary of the answers.). ll have to listen to the podcast that Matt Moore ( Innotecture , Engineers Without Fears ), Doug Cornelius ( KM Space , Goodwin Procter ) and Stewart Mader (wikipatterns) recorded last week to find out! I haven't yet listened to it so really interested in the answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The technology here will better allow nonprofits to form relationships with constituents, independent of the social network on which the initial relationship is created. The summary is available on TechPresident here and backstory is here. I can't add much to David and Susan's smart comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. Bell was on networked TV apologizing. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. Digital Trends. Ultimately, Ms.

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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 !" Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Google Blog Search. Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0, NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Heather at Aspiration is doing some research on blogging and professional development.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

After catching up on our email and our sleep post-2012 NTC, we started reading blog posts from attendees and speakers, and we've been amazed by the insights and ideas you all took away from the conference this year! If we missed your blog post, we're sorry! Session Blog Posts. Conference Blog Posts and Articles.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. I wish they were as excited about rollup summaries for lookup fields. You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). I posted on-topic comments in Groups and posted to profiles. Leave a comment »

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. To the rescue: LinkedIn.

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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. executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video. " 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Betsy Woods Last month, shortly after Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith was published, there was discussion on nonprofit blogs about how to apply some of the principles to a nonprofit context. They LOVED the idea and many of them joined social networks to see first hand what we were doing.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

At AIDS.gov, we have made a commitment to tweet on a daily basis, and blog at least once a week. We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. When your networks get large enough, it's difficult to have personal dialogues with every follower.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. social network and community sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. Making sense of it is just important.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

They will be social networking sessions with like-minded people, with no formal agenda or takeaways. Here's a summary of the most common responses. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts and ideas in the comments, below! Share them in the comments below.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. The ACLU website has a good summary of the USA Freedom Act. and is getting good comments from users. A New Tech Blog: Re/code. and Android.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Steve MacLaughlin and Claudia from Convio were kind enough to each send me a review copy of this new book on fundraising and social networks called People To People Fundraising. Just leave a comment with you best advice for person-to-person fundraising strategies. You can read a 2-page summary here. Make it easy 2.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Frogloop Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I've been online since the days of early dial-up modems, so I was participating in social networks before the term "social media" was even used. Through Twitter, I became aware of your work with social causes. Statesman blog.). You should also be building your own online network. What didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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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. When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. for his blog. Do you follow your blog's technorati?

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