Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers. Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As Geoff Livingston further notes on Social Media Club blog : "The time to for action is now, and in a year when many of us are suffering financial hardship, we can still make a difference. Blog Components There is also a bloggers kit and blogger outreach effort underway. In addition, it puts a story in your needs feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Our biggest challenge as bloggers was getting off the soap box and into a facilitation role. This diagram, credited to the “ New York Times via Ed Philp ,” (original source ) illustrates the flow of comments on a blog. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well. It searches for links on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

ll come away with a basic understanding of and context for the words that are buzzing around us, along with references for continued exploration. This sent me to flickr to search by the tag steward to see if there was visual and found the above, plus some religious references from google. What is the middle ground? for nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

In reference to a nearly insurmountable financial challenge from 2010, one respondent shared that, "We survived almost 4 months without our major income source from the [local government] by laying off 2/3 of the staff and operating on minimal expenses. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

Since that time, as a share of total giving, religious giving has decreased from approximately one-half of total giving to just under one-third today. These data are provided by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (hereafter referred to simply as "the Center") in Giving USA. Giving USA began tracking U.S. giving in 1955.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. It's SO easy to just give money/time easily and walk away feeling good about donating what you have, and it takes time and effort to do the research beforehand. In case anyone is interested.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

Obviously, you can stray from that focus once in a while, but your readers want to know what kind of stuff they can expect when they take the time to read your posts. I use Blogger , because it is free! If you use Blogger, there are a couple settings you'll want use: In Archive Settings: click "Yes" in answer to "Enable Page Posts?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

There's no expected return when you do someone a favor, or when you take time to share research for free. On Facebook: According to Non Profit Social Network Survey , 80% of respondents have a staff person dedicating 25% of their time to social media. How about repeat performance — is this their first time dealing with you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

My mental image of him for a very long time was the painting of St. It's more personal than e-mail in many ways when someone takes the time to leave a comment for instance. How much time do you spend blogging? I started to spend too much time browsing around for ideas and I found out that that was just a timewaster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles. Is this wave of the future? Don't have your strategy and plans in place yet???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Two or three times a year, I publish a president's update for Benetech. Craig Wing An electrical engineer, MBA student, South African of Chinese descent, founder of not one but two companies, world traveler, former missionary, and current blogger, it's pretty hard to keep up with Craig Wing, let alone categorize him.

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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. that spending a lot of time on top-down navigation is mostly a waste of time. Only 40% of the direct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). So, if you are just starting up, pick a frequency that you can sustain over time. Calculating benchmarks should not take you more time than it is worth. So I'm not spending time to generate god's spreadsheet of monthly number of posts and words per post. Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Now, they may not be calling it a widget, some refer to as "badges." RSS Widgets: I installed grazr which easily puts my bloglines feeds that I'm reading on my sidebar in a nifty little directory. FeedBurner has recently partnered to offers customizable widgets for your feed. It helps automate your blogroll.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Almost twice as many users got news from a mobile device compared with 2010, and almost three times as many got news from a social network."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

s experience (good and bad), the NTEN Affinity Groups , particularly Emerging Technology, Nonprofit Bloggers, or Nonprofit Webmasters, are good lists to connect with your peers on these topics. Now, they may not be calling it a widget, some refer to as "badges." click to install or unstall -- and not time consuming.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

My friend Michelle Murraine took me to task for the presumption that all coders are male in the pronoun choice in my last post, How does a programmer spend his time? To atone, here's a set of links for this week, all from female bloggers. Open API's. What does she mean by Girl Code? And there you have it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The next level is to produce your own talk, via profiles on social networking sites, a twitter feed, flickr group, blogs, podcasts, or online video. Many of the most active bloggers and Web 2.0 If you want to go down this path, be prepared for a big financial and time investment. initiatives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Google Analytics is one of the most important tools in your arsenal as the platform feeds real-time data from your website into a user-friendly dashboard. Or, are only interested in the statistics at this time. Needless to say, I spent more time researching references over writing the actual content. Bounce rate.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Set up Yammer to host an internal, private free Twitter feed for your institution. This is true for operations teams, which often include part-time staff who don't intersect, as well as for development teams, which often involve outside contractors or remote staff. Many museum teams don't see each other in person every day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. Tweriod gives you the best times to tweet. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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