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. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet.

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MARCH 27, 2008

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 Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Hone in on the ones where your supporters are and where they are most likely to engage with your content. Think about the type of content you have to share and which social channels are most appropriate for that type of content. WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I scan the table of contents and the index and jump to the parts that I'm most interested in. For this book, I was like a moth to flame to Chapter 18: A New Guide for Metrics. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Measured by inbound links for blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. The key benefit is that drives traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" There's a lot of work to be done, whether the results go on a wiki or a blog or a stone tablet."

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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.

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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. It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Some reactions here.

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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 !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. Google Blog Search. " and tells exactly why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds. Anonymous Blogging. era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Defining Web Analytics by Neil Mason How To Use Web Analytics , Part 1 by James Maguire Top-Ten Web analytics blogs from Avinash Kaushik. Are there links from blogs? What content do they consume? You want to know what content your visitors are consuming and is this the content you want them to consume?

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MAY 3, 2011

He blogs about community management. You see someone's blog post. One thing Jen works on from the community side is content. The community team at Causes works with donors and nonprofits to provide guest content for their pages. Video content, copy, calls to action. I was most recently at Digg.

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MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this. Amazonfail

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. To me, this confirms as viable the strategy of finding those community leaders who will carry your torch for you, and then messaging them with content to distribute to their friends. Carie opened with an intro to social media. Oxfam now has a very nice custom page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. Life was good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Session Content 1. link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Oh my god, take a look. Yes we did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Hat Tip Stephen Downes. I've been doing a content analysis of " burning questions " that were submitted as part of some pre-workshop information I collected from participants to help design an upcoming workshop. Blogging buddy. Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. Photo by Leppre.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. technologies.

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