Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). And as Marnie notes, the conversation in FriendFeed is valuable.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

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. – Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

" Also quoted is Sean Stannard-Stockton, author of the Tactical Philanthropy blog was also quoted and he shares his expanded predictions here , including "Charities recognize the potential of social-media tools and finally get serious about integrated online strategies. How to make these summaries more useful to you all?

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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 In addition, no visuals either.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 19, 2010

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. " Add your thoughts or blog posts in the comments! Marketing for Nonprofits: Want to Build Community Online?

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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. Set up a twitter account. Go to the nonprofit twitter pack find and follow ten people who may learn something from. Photo by SpacePotato.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Can’t wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

An online conversation led to a phone call, and in March 2009, Beth arrived here for what was originally envisioned as a nine-month Visiting Scholarship. Maybe you saw it (#thebetheffect was trending on Twitter). And now, with Google Hangouts and Twitter Chats and hackathons, even the most technophobic among us are starting to fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. - It doesn't work. Here's how.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

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. JustGiving blog: Seven-year-old Charlie raises more than £100,000 for Haiti!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. 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. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0

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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.). Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream.

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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 !" Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference. Google Blog Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

on the Philanthropy411 blog. Kivi's Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a summary of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith's book, Trust Agents. I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who are joining its ranks are there to be social. We like the fact that humans are social. It's good for society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the the conversation is about the application deadline. ” 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

This is a summary: Make the Time, But Get Started With Small Steps. Pick something small and an easy win and repeat for 3 weeks. Maybe you want to get started with Twitter – start by summarizing an article you have read and want to share. Don’t say you have notimetotweet. Model the Model.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Steve Heye is doing IT Alignment right: check out Steve's guest post on our blog, LOLnptech.org which provides some great ideas and take-aways you can apply to your organization's mission today. Jordan writes a great summary of the debate this kicked off, and her own thoughts about the issue. Join the discussion in the post's comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. The conversation provides a lot of good lessons for companies wanting to embrace selfish giving without cause washing.

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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. Twitter Advocates. Use Twitter to Bring More People Into The Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

It means communicating through a network model, rather than a broadcast model—finding where the conversations are happening and taking part. As Debbie says, it wasn’t about just using the tools and platforms like Facebook and Twitter – even for herself as the CEO or her organization. It means sharing by default.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). You’ll want to create a Twitter hashtag for the event and make sure it isn’t already being used. Rowfeeder is terrific for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking.

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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. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. ” A quick tutorial on how to use it.

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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. We very successfully used Twitter and Facebook during our Telethon to post updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

The first and most important step is for organizations to put on their listening ears and monitor conversations, get feedback, and continuously improve. Social media listening (or social media monitoring) is the practice of paying close attention to digital channels when conversations relevant to your cause are being discussed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

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. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you missed it, you can listen to the recording here , or join us for one of two upcoming conversations on Giving Days: the #FundChat Twitter chat on the Playbook at 12 EST Wednesday Sept. Below is a summary of answers to some questions during the webinar and related resources on the Giving Day Playbook. ET Thursday Sept.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Such as comments fields, Twitter interactions, or in-platform social profiles). Establish perceived importance and shape an approach to continue the conversation well beyond the initial formal learning. In summary, avoid becoming social just for the sake of the new features. What components are you hoping to add? (Is

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

With all the blogging and video making you do, I'm surprised you had time to take this quiz. They've built a profile tool over at the blog that lets you plug in some very general demographic information and get a summary of the percentage of profile types that fit that demographic. created a quiz.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The nonprofit sector needs to have an honest conversation about the effectiveness of social media. Twitter: 238 million monthly active users – organic reach is estimated to be 4%. Elon Musk’s Twitter is chaotic, and if it continues on its current path, many nonprofits will be forced to pause or leave Twitter.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

In addition, this is how we let people know about new places to contribute: Blog Posts: I do an overview post giving context and the questions. I may follow up with a summary of what's been posted and point to specific holes. The NTEN Blog also does a post. Twitter: I also use twitter to asks for specifics content chunks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

The array of tools available for inward facing work incorporates many of the same social media tools one could use for external communications such as blogs, wikis, and podcasting, but also includes online collaboration tools including teleconferencing tools , email list tools , and others. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It’s been almost 2 weeks, but conversations around Giving Tuesday haven’t stopped. Here’s Your Giving Tuesday Roundup: Mark Hrywnda and Patrick Sullivan’s article - #GivingTuesday Trending and Cashing In - on The Nonprofit Times is one of the best impact summaries I’ve seen.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog post yesterday entitled “ The problem with non ” that has definitely sparked a bit of conversation. Seth writes “Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. The problem is same as the twitter resistance: The internet represents a change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Geoff Livingston gave an overview of mobile trends , mentioning that the adoption rate of mobile phones and tablets are higher than Twitter now and mobile is now part of our lives. Making your web site readable on a mobile phone can be as easy as picking low hanging fruit , especially for blogs using WP platform.

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