Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. What websites and blogs do they read? You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. She made her point by doing a quick poll of people in the audience. At SF Goodwill they created a Blog Squad to kick things off. Putting that into approach into practice is not always easy or fast as Debbie explained in her talk.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

You can add flash animation, audio narration, YouTube videos, and polls to your presentations. You can also share your live Twitter feed, Facebook page, and Flickr. Get iPad Presentation tips on SlideRocket's blog. Like PowerPoint, SlideRocket lets you create customized slides with text, images, and media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. Download it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

Photo in Flickr. I The group will be between 50-125, so it will be more of lecture, although I will definitely use the back-channel and instant poll features. I also got a few leads to more blogs by Extension Professionals. What words of advice would you offer to other Extension professionals who are just starting to blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Geoff’s posts were removed because they were to yes or no oriented, and Quora does not allow for polling types of questions. At minimum asking a question and linking to it on Facebook and Twitter, and possibly even a blog post. Note from Beth: Geoff Livingston contributed to this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget? This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. I was curious about how hard or easy this step was for participants in the peer learning group at Packard and polled them. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. Black Activists Go Blogging To Challenge the Status Quo Yet despite their demonstrated influence, black bloggers???many Twitter Poll - ???Which

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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 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. I’ve taken a little break from blogging to enjoy some much needed family time. I’m lucky because my colleague, Joe Waters, offered me a guest post for your to read while I’m away from blogging. Joe Waters writes the web’s leading cause marketing blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. As a trainer, a best practice for any training is to get participants to do an icebreaker to get to know each other and to think about what they already know about the training topic.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Link to relevant news stories or blog posts. Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies. See pictures on our Flickr stream”. Ask thought-provoking questions , ideally ones that relate to your issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? Media coverage - Tv, blogs, newspapers Was it worth it? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. to quantify engagement PROCESS / STRATEGY Measuring buzz -link love ???

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. A few important questions to ask before your consider adding a widget to your blog or web site. Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Parents want cute pictures of their kids (and if you search "children's museum" on Flickr , you'll find over 20,000 images). How do you create a blog around the excitement of sitting on a giant concrete dinosaur? These personalized websites are not heavily trafficked; 10% viewership is considered pretty darn good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With the exception of mobile pages created specifically for group text messaging and QR code campaigns (donate, petitions, polls, and so on), most people will browse through only the fresh content on your mobile website. So, make sure you feature your fresh content first (your blog feed) and calls to action after that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. So, if you are already using one of those services and want to integrate content onto your blog, check on their web site first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

Flickr Photo by Julia Smith. It is also wonderful to have other people blogging about the session, like this post from the Pew Center. I used this for my own preparation as well as for resource blog posts or if I’m really prepared, I share the list of links in a google documents or delicious with live Tweeters.

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