Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. it.org.uk ???real???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

I’ve noticed on Google + that it is useful participate in the threads of other people’s posts where good reflective conversations are happening related to topics and ideas I am interested in learning more about. Ask clarifying questions, provide links to useful links that answer someone’s questions. #

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 1st).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2014

Maybe it was the hype ads or maybe we all just love rooting for the underdog. What about creating hype messages for your mission. The post on the Veritus Group blog urges nonprofit managers and leaders to Stop the Pettiness and Do the Work! But we’re only talking about soccer here. Get crowds on their feet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus. (I learned so much that I enough material for several blog posts, my first post is here – it is about content curation.). Take for example the conversations Jillian York is having on the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

I thought it would be useful to blog about how to create a strategy for using these channels. Who owns the blog? You can avoid having a conversation. You can even pretend the conversations aren't happening elsewhere. This is just as true as when I first blogged it. I thought it would be useful to blog about how to.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! Danah’s research shines a bright light on an issue many activists and organizations have been concerned about ever since the media hype around Facebook VS MySpace rose as a loud voice in the conversation about social media use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Here's a quick summary of my notes: In Fanton's welcome, he noted that it is easy to get caught up in the novelty and hype of virtual worlds, but whatever the complexities, "we think they will grow and become integrated into our daily lives." My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The product of this learning journey, Just In Time: Beyond-the-Hype Potential of E-Learning , has just been published. Based on a year of conversations with more than 100 leading thinkers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, this report explores the state of e-learning and the potential it offers beyond the confines of formal education.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Should we believe the hype? Understand the Context Before considering Jane and Amy’s ideas, it’s helpful to have some context about this bot that so effortlessly hooks users into time-melting conversations. For example, the bot’s ability to create a polished blog post in a matter of minutes is nothing short of amazing,” Amy noted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Kevin Gamble who reads more feeds than I do tweeted about this blog post by Stow Boyd. Read more on this topic by Michele Martin and Rosetta Thurman at Perspectives from the Pipeline about blogging as low-cost professional development and her comes a follow-up post. How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? tool after Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. rah rah session - it is going to provide an introduction and conversation starters to help the people in the room decide whether or not Web2.0 The point is the conversation is important! They need to know what questions to ask and what conversations to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. One of the comments on Joe's blog post was from Texans Against Hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. We’ll let you know what worked and what didn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t non-profit blogs??? despite the hype that ???everybody everybody must get blogged??? ??? institutional blog??? I think of blogs as a two-conversation where I'm engaging or paying more attention to the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

When I read Judi's tweet about her blog post , I knew exactly what she was talking about! Or do you sit back and read what others are saying and add to the conversation? Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums???and Koolaid) Michelle offers some advice to both companies, including deliver, don't hype!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. Allan Benamer, of the Nonprofit Tech Blog points out that "It???s re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Facebook isn't just all hype. Promote your page within your organizational email lists, blogs, and print collateral. By far, the most compelling content is anything that sparks conversation. So although the apps add convenience for adding updates, you'll find yourself returning to Facebook.com regularly to monitor conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. 35% are names of people that I didn't meet at gnomedex, people I know or read my blog - strangers. 35% are names of people that I didn't meet at gnomedex, people I know or read my blog - strangers. Why was it a success?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

For example, I enjoy following the discussion in EDS's Next Big Thing blog. Don't blog about Ajaxy sites just because they are Ajaxy. Conversely, it is the elegance and efficacy of the chosen implementation techniques that matters, not the techniques in isolation. I'm not the only one wary of the buzz. is pure marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle Murrain, Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Blog. Her blog is filled with insightful pieces that cut through the hype of new technologies and often ask the hard probing questions that haven't been asked. Let's talk about your blog(s) - specifically Zen and Nptech which you launched a few months ago.

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See3

JANUARY 29, 2009

What Twitter is, actually, is an adult conversation. Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks, although it has more hype than users at this point. I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Why would I care what people are doing — when most of the time people are doing mundane things.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Whitehouse.gov 2.0: Great post.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

These bots provide personalized support by simulating human conversation. Tars First on our list is Tars, a conversational AI platform that helps scale interactions between nonprofits and customers with conversational automation. A Different Kind of Chatbot: ChatGPT Lately, there’s been a lot of hype around ChatGPT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. They do read and often will read very long captions, even articles or blog posts copied and pasted directly into Instagram. Today, Instagram users have evolved.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you don’t watch Big Brother , The Apprentice , Dancing with the Stars or X factor you probably dismiss these shows because they revolve around people you don’t know in an environment you find uninteresting and over-hyped. Philippa will be checking in to answer any questions you might have in the comments here on the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

ve ever read a post, blog entry or article in a major publication that suggested we were pushing towards divorcing ourselves from reality and physicality, and moving entirely into these immersive virtual spaces. been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. t think I???ve I also have been around this. text, graphics and video?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. I’ve written before about the ways that internal blogs can be used to keep team members updated in a multi-party project. Is this good for anything? The answer is that we all do, selectively.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

If people do not have the capacity to solicit donations online, if they do not have an email newsletter, they really cannot worry about blogging and podcasting. It was all published as a point of departure for broader conversation. And I think that there can be a split. To me that is success.

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Qgiv

JUNE 27, 2023

Use Instagram Reels to hype up current campaigns and show off the important work your organization does. Share infographics with statistics about your cause and organization on social media to start a conversation with your followers about needs in your community.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Said early-adopter-types will embrace it when launched, and will use it to collaborate with other early-adopter-types who blog about things early-adopter-types like to blog about and will have to be continually reminded that the rest of the world doesn’t care (see Friendfeed for what I’m talking about).

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Have a response process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. That was the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2009

I was honored to speak at the Summer of Social Good conference hosted by Mashable , a popular social media and technology blog and a big geek favorite. The event was hosted by the amazing Shira Lazar who currently hosts Mahalo’s This Week In YouTube and is the Editor-At-Large for CondeNast’s Jaunted.com travel blogging from around the globe.

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