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. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Deadline is March 2n.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. 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. The Bamboo Project points to two excellent examples of technology stewardship from the World Grows Wide blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

I learned a lot and just beginning to think about how it applies to the NpTech tag discussion. Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. I shared what we are doing with the NpTech Tag and the manual summary or what Jerry called "Human Filter." So, this is a little bit raw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

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). The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Should also note, re.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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JUNE 16, 2009

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. Interested to see if any readers here are part of an association and what you think of this new news portal!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. I also think that in tagging communities we see some nuances of behavior based on frequency or at least based on an unsciencetific analysis of NPTech Tagging data. Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg.    I've done it with a lot of story telling and loads of humor. 

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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 !" There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. 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,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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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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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them? Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Goal: To understand how to use blogging and video blogging tools to strategically tell your organization’s story or get others to share the story. Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. Tags: wearemedia. Chat Leader: David Neff.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). Tip: Did you notice a spike in traffic from any particular blog? She provides a resource.

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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? Nonprofit Blogging Policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The ability to watch someone's tag stream and re-tag for personal meaning. A community tag stream. re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. and the ps3 tag. Check out Nick's post and let's send a little blog buzz his way. I'll also forward his post to some of the gamers I know by using 06-g4c tag and forwarding it to the games for change list.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

In this context I'd say "idea discovery", or "policy discovery" is enhanced by having that content get picked up and commented on, cut-n-pasted into blog posts, snippets linked to from course curricula, woven into other people's work, etc. with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. Technorati tags: 09ntc , nptech. Tags: Events Strategy. They actively engaged the site?s s community using Twitter. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Issues Dynamic, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

" There is a section about tagging. Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

This week on the NpTech Tag call, the idea of social search was referenced. There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. Nancy White just sent me this note about a conference call on Monday about the topic. chaff, the chaff wins.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Read more posts on our blog. Beth Kanter tipped us to this flowchart on how to respond to blog posts about your organization. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. It's also a great segue.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Media outlets both online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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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? This is just as true as when I first blogged it. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. I thought it would be useful to blog about how to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). He blogs at [link] on successful community building. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three.

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MAY 14, 2008

From Sustainablog.Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media : Sustainablog: "f you’re reading this blog, then you’re on board with social media. It’s likely that you Digg stories and even possible that you Twitter. Tags: NPWeb2.0 There’s a good chance you belong to social networks like Facebook or MySpace.

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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. Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Tags: ROI. Do share your thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 The college students and the orphanage children had never heard the word "blog" before! Technorati Tags: barcamp , cloggersummit2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc.

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