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. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

" For example, a pledge might read, "I'll organize a street party in my neighborhood, but only if 5 other people will help organize it" or it might read, "I'll organize a street party in my neighborhood, but only if 50 other people will attend. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

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. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. Participate: Is joining the conversation with your audience. In A Museum? Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Facebook, for example, has Facebook Groups and Messenger which allows you to communicate more directly with your supporters. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Examples of niche social networks include: . Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). You may be ignored at first but after a month of daily half hour engagement you should start to have two-way conversations. He blogs at [link] on successful community building. Related SlideShare. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

He said that things in the field happen in spaces between particles- the analogue is a conversation between people. This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation. Which one worked best? Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. Donorpower Blog tells us to learn how to write differently.

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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 !" The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Google Blog Search. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or check out the repost below. For example, this month’s online chat, normally coordinated via the text chat platform CoverItLive, tried out a new platform, Google+ Hangout.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

He blogs about community management. The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish. You see someone's blog post. Lady Gaga is a high-profile example of the latter option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Seth Godin took a swing at nonprofits today in a blog post “ The problem with non ," saying that nonprofits are afraid of change and that many are lacking in social media adoption. Twitter & Digg? See [link] com or countless other examples catalogued by Beth and others. Photo by THall. and social media. And one (other!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? s engaged enough to write a sentence or two or to participate in a conversation or to upload a photo with a caption is a person who???s a lot of our initial efforts weren???t but wouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement.

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NTEN

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. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This was originally published at the Rednod blog by Alistair Croll who among other things is the co-author along with Sean Power of Complete Web Monitoring recently published by O'Reilly. The timeframe also meant that most blog coverage only hit on July 1st (and thanks to all the bloggers who covered us!). What worked? What didn’t?

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