Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is based on real data pulled from a huge number of Twitter profiles of people who have used Twitter Grader. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers. - It doesn't work. Here's how.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

We have the group set so topics are public, but only members can post and membership has to be approved to avoid spam. I sent out pleas for help on Twitter and Google+. But if my blog vanished tomorrow I know I could get help directly from Automattic. Tagged: customerservice , Google , rant. I looked in every setting.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

During the call we discussed how to manage a Facebook page & Twitter account. Then we switched topics to Twitter. Here's a brief rundown: The first topic raised (as it frequently is) was hash tags: How do I find the hashtag for my area? You can search with a twitter handle or hashtag. For my field? Try TweetReach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

With a “launch and learn” mandate from our CEO, we began an experiment in social gaming for social good 16 days ago which is an online game of Tag. Our hope is that Tag will pull natural volunteer leaders together and seed an online community. About 23% of those tagged are joining the game. Is that good? The burden is on us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won. Tags: sxsw. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter. If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context. Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. But not enough of you.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

So have others – here’s a blog post from Beth Kanter and Steve McLaughlin on Jumo.). Complaining about the errors on Twitter along with @Kanter, @pgjones00 was Mark Mann: It is in beta, let’s not forget! Tags: community networking jumo nonprofits social media social network. Functionality. Persistence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on 9-9-09. It gave them plenty of material to post on their blogs—or write their own stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. design: is it clean?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

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. Twitter as Trigger. You can pre-order the report here.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If More Flickr Photos here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. They've played with Twitter. We were finding that so many people were coming to the exhibition just to tag the wall. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. You don’t know it’s a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

The Twitter Book - A Sneak Preview View more presentations from oreillymedia. Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold points to some research data from Nielsen that more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return the following month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Seth Godin took a swing at nonprofits today in a blog post “ The problem with non ," saying that nonprofits are afraid of change and that many are lacking in social media adoption. Many took issue with the logic and metrics he used to make his case: Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Twitter & Digg?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

He did and gave me permission to blog! He went on to say something that made me pause for a minute: The user behavior on my blog is quite different. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. Is that too much to ask, Google?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2009

Before I continue, let me admit that I am still a loyal Twitter user , advocate, and believer in its ability to help people and organizations share and connect. My first tweet was October 14, 2006 , so I also have some stake in saying that I am not a fickle Twit who just gave Twitter a try and am now moving on or giving up.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures. Cross post. Tools like ping.fm

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. I routinely bookmark and comment on environmental news, green blogs, and stories about sustainability and alternative energy technology. spillover???

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

You can read her awesome advice in many leading industry publications and blogs, as well as her own website. And suppression and tagging is what allows me to be taken off that merry-go-round. . Test the what does it say when they share on Twitter. No spam here. She’s got a lot of really good information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2010

On Twitter, you can “Block&# them from following you. On your Blog, require comments to be reviewed before posting, then don’t post and report the person’s comment as Spam. Tags: Blogging Facebook MySpace Social Media Twitter YouTube. Then delete their comments. They are gone. Stay strong.

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