Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Anne Gentile comments on Sun Blogging Policy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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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 ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Have a Simple, Visually Powerful Web 2.0 Icons and buttons have strong appeal and impact in Web 2.0 Write for Web 2.0! Write Page Titles That Increase Your Search Engine Optimization.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Search Engine Optimization. Needless to say, without good SEO, you’ve got a very slim chance of being found by people searching for things you offer (events, fundraising opportunities, volunteer opportunities, programs, etc). So what do you want to be known for on the web? A Recipe for Search Engine Visibility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Young, tech-savvy millenials text often and increasing prefer social networks and using tablets. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. writing does not permit.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Through a search engine, Open Actions XML micro-format, an open API, and third-party tools and widgets, you can find and share ways to get involved in the causes you care about. Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

So the search continues. Meta announced that Threads would soon become “compatible with ActivityPub, the open social networking protocol established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body responsible for the open standards that power the modern web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2011

Take an ROI approach to the amount of time that is being spent, especially if you haven’t really built up , engaged , and developed relationships with people via your social networks in other places. Don’t just do an ROI analysis with your social time.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Crazy to think that the first web browser came out less than 20 years ago. Since the first web browser came out in 1993 a LOT has happened. Since the first web browser came out in 1993 a LOT has happened. Search Engines. Social Networking. There’s a LOT we can accomplish on the web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 There have been lots of blog posts about Spock, mostly negative. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 Then, for the creepy part.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Expert new media managers have the ability to anticipate the impact of emerging trends in mobile and social media. They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. It’s rare that any web-based activity lasts longer than 30 minutes.

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Care2

JULY 5, 2010

Because conversations about the issues you work on are consistently happening all over the web. Type in a search term and it will generate the latest news, blog posts, videos and even images around the keyword. Topsy: Part search engine, part social web connector. Bookmark it and check it daily.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Executives were terrified by the legal implications of using social networking tools.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Much of a nonprofit’s website traffic came from search engines thus a large quantity of content was placed on the home page. It’s also worth noting that social media, not even blogging, is not yet integrated into their website. View: worldwildlifefund.org Archive 3/15/08.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Also, since Google+ Business Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Under “Contributor to” enter your nonprofit’s blog and social networking profiles if you contribute to them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Finally, Google+ Entity Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , so please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile. e-Newsletter.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

There’s even a map that divides data into “traffic sources,” meaning you can determine how users from various parts of the Web—search engines, social networks etc.—access The post Feel the Heat: Great Tools for Mapping Website Interactions appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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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. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. Blogs Help Drive Jena Protest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

On the Mobile Web, it’s 1999 all over again. Mobile search engines like Google Mobile , Yahoo! They have either not yet had their “Aha&# moment about the Mobile Web, or think it is too expensive and time-consuming to be an early adopter. They are looking for timely news items and recent blog posts. Not at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Geoff Livingston live blogged the Network Solutions Solutions Stars Video Conference -- by a team of Internet marketing and social media rock stars.     The topics addressed include: Building Web Presence. The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks. To Blog or Not to Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? era websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Even more cumbersome is the trend to not only publish your stories on your blog and website, but to also have to publish them on Medium , Steller , as Facebook Notes , on LinkedIn Publisher , and soon directly into Google.com. Your nonprofit blogs or publishes a story on your website at least twice monthly. We’ve all heard it.

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NetWits

JULY 31, 2008

You have probably heard lots about Web 2.0, but increasingly companies are using Web 2.0 is about using blogs, discussion boards, and all the latest social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. It is definitely a scary proposition the first time you post something like this blog, take it from me.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. Her main focus is on ways to use web 2.0 tools for online advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I went searching my harddrive for that visual after reading Katya Andresen's Five Minute Social Network Guide where she used the analogy of travel in a foreign country to explore social networking tools. "to most of us (including me), social networking???using using the web???s

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Online social networking was just being born. What Is Web 2.0?

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