Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Details here.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) Let's Talk about You (and Me) If this blog post were all about us (the authors), you would have stopped reading by now -- and rightly so. This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. Although I do have a couple of uneasy feelings about blog spontaneity. ll blog it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. All about the Forums.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Right now, there is an excellent example of this by the team behind the Davos 2009 World Economic Forum. Blog about the event before, during, and after. And then Tweet about your blog posts on Twitter. (We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.) Use video, audio, or text--all work well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. For concrete examples see the Slideshare presentation above. He has since started doing freelance work on his own at rootwork.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Tracking Blog Conversations. If so, let me know. Ego searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. For example, says Murphy, “Twitter has flipped our relationship with media. Murphy served as the point of contact, answering staff questions on the fine art of tweeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users. and Katya A. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. For example, this nonprofit marketer shares his decision about choosing a software tool in light of the recent acquisitions in the market. Tracking Blog Conversations. How do you listen carefully? Technorati.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Use a template : Ask your state library if it has a template, or ask other librarians if they have a template you can use by way of a listserv (such as ARSL) or Facebook group. This blog post was originally published on TechSoup for Libraries. You might need to tweak your goals as you go. Speedtest.net. Education Networks of America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

This a terrific example of in working in networked way. Iavor works closely with individuals responsible for social media and the web at Local United ways, right now via a listserv that serves as a just-in-time support network for social media and web. Here's an example. Iavor is primarily looking for content to tweet about.

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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. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Tell me a little bit about your blogs. I am getting into the swing of blogging with two blogs: elearn2lead and BElearner. Evaluate it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page. It delves deeper into the uses of salesforce.com campaigns tab, " Salesforce Campaigns for Nonprofits " There some kind words over at the NTEN Blog about my most recent screencast. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell. I didn't know the software like the back of my hand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. A definition of screencasting, with real examples. 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits. Seems like video is obsession this year - so the other session is going to be a geekout, hands-on session on video blogging for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. " She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Why did you start blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

Eath is video blogging her life story. By chance, he found my blog and left a comment. For example, my family can???t s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. or vlogger. She grew up in a small village in Cambodia near Angkor Wat , one of country???s s cultural treasures. they don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

An example clue may be: near the towels; or in sea on the South West coast. If you have a blog, write something about this event! He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences? Personally I think I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. This is an example of virtual grassroots fundraising. Also, at the end when I thought I was having a private IM with a colleague to set up a play date with my kids, it was broadcast to the entire group. One of them is " Make A Wish Foundation."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

The authors share several examples of museums responding to current events, such as the National Air and Space Museum, which responded to the 2003 Columbia Shuttle explosion "by bringing a television set on the floor and stationing an expert to interpret the information for the public in real time."

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

This blog is another robust source for ideas, dialogue, debate, and informed opinions that serves as an intersection between research and practice. How's our blogging? Click here to give us your feedback about our blog. Our Center's AZGates web-based knowledge platform is a free service that links grantmakers and grantseekers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

And that’s just one example of how the importance of transparency came up time and again during the event. To learn more and stay in the loop with Data Analysts for Social Good, you can join the LinkedIn group and subscribe to the listserv. Andrew is already cooking up some big changes for next year’s conference, so don’t miss out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. Vicky has written a brilliant post answering the question "How do you write for your blog?" In yet another example of the connectedness of the Web2.0, published in 1999.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

It's touted as one of the Web's best examples of social media software. See Amy Gahran's advice : I also started an affinity group (listserv) over at N-TEN called Flickr for Nonprofits. You could pay for banal photo stock, but there is another option. And, depending on the license, you are free to use many of them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. My second example is more personal and slightly embarrassing. Do these examples mean you should never use wikis? Here are two cases with related examples.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. " - from Will Coley's blog post on content curation. " - from Beth Kanter on her blog. content that relates to my project, I follow lots of blogs of partner. " - from Will Coley's blog post on content curation.

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