Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. Source: Skelliewag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter." " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. What is your thesis about?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Pick Two Social Networks: My two favorite social networks are Twitter and Facebook (Fanpages). I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Pick Two Social Networks: My two favorite social networks are Twitter and Facebook (Fanpages). I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. Think about what you love about Twitter or Facebook, and it's mostly all here. It's awkward to navigate.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

This can include social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin) and industry publications and websites. An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. This will also be your ticketing site. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

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. Twitter and Nonprofits On January 8th, the next NetTuesday meetup will focus on Twitter and campaign organizing. Details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. This means that whether they’re coming from Facebook, email, Twitter, or anywhere else, they’ll go to a central webpage to read more or take action. You’re likely using more than one channel to communicate.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Blog for content. Email listserv signup. Twitter and other social media feeds. You don’t need to have all the bells and whistles, but start with what works best for your mission and purpose of your site. Here are some possible features you could include on your site: Event registration. Shopping cart. Volunteer Information.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. But I live in a digital world in which text is still king.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Set up a Twitter ' Tweme ' feed so that you can consolidate all of the Tweets of participants at the event. Blog about the event before, during, and after. And then Tweet about your blog posts on Twitter. They can also be a place for participants to post information as it comes to mind during the event.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

UNF has a YouTube channel and uses Twitter to engage support online. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog. Lovette Ajayi discusses Facebook's "Kindergarten" year and the recent Terms of Service uproar in a post on the Community Media Workshop 's blog. One tactic is going online.

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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

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. LauraatNing was listening and just pinged me to point me over to this blog post about nonprofits that are using Ning with their donors and supporters.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

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. I'm also maintain our social media outposts on Twitter and other social networks."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

I mention Andrew because he is seeing if there any Twitter t-shirts that I can take to Cambodia. I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. Alan also points to a blog devoted to Facebook apps.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

As part of TechSoup's do-it-yourself month, Nonprofits Live (NPLive) featured a discussion of blogging. Blogging is a great way for organizations to communicate and establish themselves as thought leaders. Thurman has been blogging about leadership, nonprofits, and social media since 2007. How a Small Organization Blogs.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

In a more museum-focused environment, check out the wiki for the Tate Handheld Conference held last week in London (for more on this event, check out this blog post by Nik Honeysett ). There are other places on the Web (like Beth's blog) to have discussions about the content, but the wiki is specifically a place for putting it all together.

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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. friends or colleagues in my Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds."

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