Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. This is the listening and scanning I do. My “Circle of Wise&# is always changing.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Twitter Search.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Set up Twitter searches and see if people are "tweeting" about your organization or industry. Search for your organization's name on LinkedIn. New keywords include timely industry issues.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. As one woman put it, “spending time on this means time staff isn’t spending on other work.” So in the interest of hers, yours, and everyone else’s time, here’s a rundown on what I see as the real time costs of a variety of Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Care2

AUGUST 17, 2011

You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from. Well your website homepage already features a feed of the most recent posts on the blog, right?

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DECEMBER 4, 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!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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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. BackType Connect extends this to searching for comments, tweets, and other mentions across different platforms.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

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!" What is Earned Media? Word of mouth, etc. Brand Your Issue. Be Everywhere.

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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. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

Flickr Photo by Veesees Elise Bauer , a food blogger who writes Simple Recipes. She has 1,000,000 feed readers. Content: Three most important elements of content - useful, entertaining, or timely. Know the basics of search engines optimization (see the page in her presentation, there are some great tips).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. The reason is twofold: first, it makes sense to align with the holiday season, a time of generosity and giving back.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. Who will set it up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. Here are some notes I took: Take time to ask yourself, "What does success look like?" " Ah, I have no logo.

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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

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. I called them up, let the phone ring 10 times, and nobody picked up. Web searches dont turn up much for this specific organization. Out with the old, in with the new. They reported $1.2

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. In June, I will start full-time at the social marketing firm based in Washington, DC where I've been completing a fellowship, working on the client team representing the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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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! Allow comments and make your pages findable by search engines. Click on the Template tab in your Blogger account again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Google Blog Search. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

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. And that's a hard job in a nonprofit where there are so few resources and so little time to think, reflect, and discuss. We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

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!" Keep your ear to the ground at all times. RSS feeds are your friends. Listen, listen, listen.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

We've always done search ads, blogger outreach, and posts on our social networking profiles, but this year, I was ready to take it to the next level. Widgetbox Widget displaying all tweets from the official conference Twitter feed 7. Conference Twitter Feed. Trivia questions and giveaways via our Twitter feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Before you feel like it is necessary to host a community or answer the posts, take some time to really understand what people are saying and who they are. Beth : Most of the time, if you've built your community, they will correct negatives or incorrect information. Beth : Here's some step-by-steps for finding influential bloggers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 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!" This includes using tools like search to help drive people to your site. Call people early.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. BAM, time to tell the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

that spending a lot of time on top-down navigation is mostly a waste of time. around 80% of the hits are coming from search. Search drives visitor behavior. hits come through search. Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2006

I get this information via a combination of my stats programs and feed stats, but it would also be nice to add data from a blog a audience survey.). The best bit of information I found is from a Pew Internet and American Life Project Report titled "Bloggers: The Internet's Storytellers" from July, 2006. s URL or IP address.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

The other is that Ken joins with other watchdogs and philanthropic leaders in a call to move beyond financial ratios and search for new and better methods of measuring donation-worthiness. Its an exciting time. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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