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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JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it.

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MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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JUNE 21, 2007

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!" Post these videos on your main page as a unique, interactive way to share your nonprofits message.

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? Answer these questions: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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MARCH 22, 2006

As I was getting ready for this blogging panel I'm going to be on tomorrow, I started to think about the different ways that nonprofits can use blogs. Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. Alan Levine also wrote a reflection about wanting to see a resurgence of blogging but also admitting how much fun it is share information via twitter. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed.

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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. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. Making sense of it is just important.

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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? Click on the RSS button in the results page. Ego searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. A nice little utility that lets you embed google mymaps into your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Connecting nonprofits to youtube users like blog brothers who have thousands of viewers. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. YouTube audience is a lean forward audience says. Youtube users and environment lends to active participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This makes me think of something Gavin Clabaugh said recently in a brilliant post about RSS. With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t non-profit blogs??? over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. everybody must get blogged??? ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Tracking Blog Conversations. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. Technorati. Ice Rocket.

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APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared). With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed. What do you think?

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DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts. NpTech Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. So, I'm remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0

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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. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! Follow the links from here. Also announced 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

Perhaps I can coax them to share a little bit more of what they're doing over at the discussion about nonprofit tagging for netsquared. This is what I'm wondering: What was the planning process around tagging to produce the RSS feeds? Who in the organization is doing the tagging? What is the tag design? How are they using tagging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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JUNE 15, 2007

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Do you have an opinion? How do you use the NpTech Tag?

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MAY 1, 2008

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!" I hope to see you there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. I remember stepping into a Netsquared meet-up and meeting for the first time three people who I???ve t that bad.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

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FEBRUARY 26, 2006

A while ago I posted an entry about how to Start Your Basic Blog. One of the podcasters at NetSquared , where I work, uses the Olympus DM-20 digital recorder , which isn't cheap, but is more affordable than the options above, and I think it comes with a microphone. This seemed like the most accessible option.

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JUNE 21, 2007

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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. solely on only written blog posts. already have?

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As the founder of Social Signal , one of the world''s first social media agencies, Alexandra helped to create some of the web''s most ambitious online communities, including NetSquared and Tyze.

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