Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

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. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? tags: blogging nptech ).     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg. 

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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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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

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

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. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics.

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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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NTEN

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.). Anne is having a lot of success at doing this on Green Hour's Twitter page.

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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 community using Twitter. 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 The results?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Leave comments on blogs. Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags.

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Usually that includes Facebook and sometimes Twitter but little else. He blogs at [link] on successful community building. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Examples of niche social networks include: . What are the drawbacks? .

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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. How can we use Twitter? Who owns the blog? Is that Twitter follower also on the direct mail list? This is just as true as when I first blogged it. I thought it would be useful to blog about how to. What's going on?

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Tweets on Twitter. 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. Word of mouth, etc.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Familiarize yourself with blogging lingo. Know words like Blogroll , Permalink , and Tags.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). This idea came to me from Twitter. One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. And, if nothing else, Twitter can be a terrific muse and stimulate creative thinking.

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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. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. There are two sets of social roles here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. But unlike the commune, the insiders are constantly, ruthlessly spearing each other on blogs and message boards. Tags: web2.0 General Web skepticism.

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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. Many took issue with the logic and metrics he used to make his case: Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Twitter & Digg?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site.

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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. We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. What worked?

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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. Get them on Facebook and Twitter. This started a twitter hashtag #squirrel. I shared some learnings from my Birthday fundraiser on Twitter and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

I'm writing this post for the benefit of our "Twitter Backchannel Moderators" who will be live tweeting the panel and posting these URLs to Twitter. To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter? Oh my god, take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! Kikono - Digg for NpTech. The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? Opinions about Twitter are divided. There are Twitter critics in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. technologies.

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