Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even though I was “offline,&# I couldn’t completely escape reminders of how social networks have become a part of our lives. Melissa admits that she clicks through on links from her friends on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere, but finds reading RSS her main way of keeping informed.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader. Feedly.com is a way to follow news thems and track multiple RSS feeds or blogs in one place. Talkwalker Alerts is a tool that tracks news stories, social media activity, and blog posts mentioning your brand or keywords.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

A few months ago, we featured Peter Campbell 's article Using RSS Tools to Feed Your Information Needs , courtesy of Idealware. Since then, Peter has been posting some great followups on the Idealware blog : More RSS Tools: Web Site Integration. More RSS Tools: Managing Content with Pipes. More RSS Tools: Sharing Feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Get the necessary training (HTML, digital photography, video, social media, and mobile technology). Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

For nonprofits, the ROI of e-newsletters translates into online dollars raised through “Donate Now&# technology, event attendees, website and blog traffic, and paradoxically new Followers, Fans, and Friends on social networking sites. That said, here are five ways to do so using social media: 1) Blog, blog, blog!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Making a better, more findable blog October 24, 2007 I’ve gotten some nice kudos for my blog in the past few days, and it feels nice to know that people read the blog, and get something out of it.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ). read more ).

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. It’s a great catch all that monitors numerous social sites. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

For $8 a month, your organization can launch a blog and a mobile website. Here’s How: Step One :: Launch a Blog on WordPress. Over the last year I have found for many organizations that utilize social media, blogging is the missing piece in their social media strategy. Step Two :: Sign up for Mofuse Premium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

But, none used RSS readers or knew what they were. Not sure if this matches demographic studies of RSS users or not because this group was under 18) They were aware of tagging, but in the sense of how it is used on Facebook - to tag your friends in photographs or notes, etc. No surprise there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization, how maintain a socnet presence without it being a huge black hole? I try to do this for blogging, RSS reading, twittering, flickr, email, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Blogging or reading Blogs. Blog Category: Personal. So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. no Rachel Maddow, sniff, sniff).

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Google has just added two new features to help you take advantage of social media: a URL-shortening service and the ability to feed your blog posts automatically to your Twitter account from FeedBurner.( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Twitter RSS Feedburner social media. read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. 2 admin 11.22.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. Allowing visitors to sign in using their Facebook and Twitter accounts can make it easier for them to share your nonprofit’s information with their networks and followers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. Blogging or reading Blogs. Blog Category: Personal. So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. no Rachel Maddow, sniff, sniff).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

This might be a function of it being new, but with all social networks you can quickly feel overwhelmed. I try to slow to down and summarize the best concepts, ideas in a blog post. But before I can do that, I need to capture or bookmark the best stuff. I usually try to set up a small learning project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Guest blog posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector.

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Care2

JULY 26, 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!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

My first taste of RSS Feeds began with a wish on how to find good content without getting RSS indigestion from slogging through a lot of junk. In the comments section, David Geilhulfe and Ruby Sinreich suggested a social networking approach to RSS by checking out their blogline subscriptions.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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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. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Harry: A Green Geek.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. If you have been reading this blog, then you would not be surprised. Avenue A/Razorfish, the high-end web ad agency now owned by Microsoft, did a little study of these so called Web 2.0 That’s HUGE.

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