Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Press mentions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can give you the press you seek. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

A mix of conversational marketing. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. Have an RSS feed and comments. Post consistently. Blogging is part of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. Do you moderate comments or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Similar strategy to what the San Francisco Symphony did with its blogger outreach event. Not the press release.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.” Leave comments on blogs. Add your comments below. ” Think about it. What is Earned Media?

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I had a conversation today with a major Jewish Federation about technology change. I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

It is essential not only to read the blogs and websites of the influencers in your community, but also become a frequent commenter. If Twitter is hosting a lot of the conversation, then you should start an account and reply to all those who are talking about you by searching for conversation on search.twitter.com.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

put together a "Beltway Bloggers Boot Camp" scheduled for today, November 13 from 1:00 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Update on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 02:59PM by Jordan Wait Well we did it - we managed to tough it out and graduate from Blogger Bootcamp. Issues Dynamic, Inc. to 5:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative. Blogger's angst. Or do you sit back and read what others are saying and add to the conversation? " ( Although it a bit ironic that the Open Convio site has a blog like section , but no comments or trackbacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

Putting a substantive comment out to a bunch of interested people and getting their immediate feedback is provocative and useful. The fact that every Twitter comment is limited to 140 characters makes everyone cut to the main point quickly, which is nice. I have not found any blog or other coverage of the this discussion.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

Putting a substantive comment out to a bunch of interested people and getting their immediate feedback is provocative and useful. The fact that every Twitter comment is limited to 140 characters makes everyone cut to the main point quickly, which is nice. I have not found any blog or other coverage of the this discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

This was also the chance to share news in a more timely fashion, as well as to proactively reach out and form connections, answer questions, and spark conversations. It means monitoring the online conversations about social entrepreneurship and issues we care about and directing attention to news hits and interesting blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Or study bloggers SEO resources in more depth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Official” Conference Bloggers Knock it Out of the Park. For us giving three bloggers a special perch (and actually the table was cramped), electricity, and internet, we got amazing results. My dream would be next year to find a way to know that there is a blogger in every conference session! We will definitely do this again.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The second is conversing. In this post, a discussion about the art of conversation in the groundswell. The simplest way is to be a commenter—to follow blogs and sites related to your institution and share your own observations and helpful tips. Many of the most active bloggers and Web 2.0 The first is shouting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. The timeframe also meant that most blog coverage only hit on July 1st (and thanks to all the bloggers who covered us!). If you tell bloggers too soon, you lose the excitement. How it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I did, however, find another excellent comment line at Emergency Trap Blog (he left a comment in one of the posts). There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another platform, try the Squidoo Widget Finder Lens. Downside, not free. It's one click!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

Read the Microsoft press release here. Its not the only change at Microsoft - alpha blogger Robert Scoble, who has been the face of Microsoft in the blogosphere, departed for start-up PodTech.net. His blog is at [link] He's also well known for his blook on blogging, Naked Conversations , co-authored with Shel Israel.

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