Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" 20" or "Social Media." So, how does a technology steward strike a balance between being seduced by the tools versus total rejection of the tools? " We???ll

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. It only makes sense that if your nonprofit is going to include a blog in its communications strategy that it includes other bloggers too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Jumo is not the first initiative to use social media in the nonprofit sector and it won’t be the last.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. Exportable OPML feeds for all blogs and hot posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Thinking Strategically About Social Media.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Deborah Zanke ) ( Jason Shim ) 3. And if you???re

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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. Leave comments on blogs.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

​. What Makes Social Learning so Interesting? A Comprehensive Examination of Social Media in Our Learning Programs. Not too long ago, connections were forged outside of technological communications and maintained via sheer will. In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

In homage to her show, which I very much enjoy, today I decided to do a "Sally's favorite nonprofit-strategy-and-technology blogs roundup." For example, this recent post from Mark Rovner about whether social networks are well suited to be used as philanthrophy tools - do we have an impending tragedy of the commons in the works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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!" Being able to engage them through social media is the goal!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Care2

DECEMBER 6, 2007

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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!" RSS feeds are your friends. Monitor the Results.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

on the Nonprofit Community It's happening in TechSoup: a five-day online post-fest October 24-October 28 Join CompuMentor's community engagement program director John Lorance and a host of leading Web technology advocates as they demystify Web 2.0 How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others?

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APRIL 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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? com , Inc.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 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!" YouTube and TV networks), while 41 percent had visited social networks (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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JULY 15, 2008

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Being able to engage them through social media is the goal! Be sure and check out how groups like NARAL and the Sierra Club have used social networking to encourage donations and strengthen community. This article was written by Grace Yi, Frogloop blogger. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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MARCH 27, 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!" Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali. I especially connect with #4.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. Technology. And Netsquared.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

run a Twitter feed. These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). As you look at the nonprofit technology landscape, what is your sense of where nonprofits are in terms of using blogs? Is your ext337.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. A few years ago at conferences I started asking my colleagues in the nonprofit technology field if they had a weblog. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. 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. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

Interestingly, women are very interested in social networking and have evidenced faster growth in the use of Facebook than have men. Both men and women respond well to social networking, depending upon their generation, for it is by age group – not gender – that differences in use appear.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

That’s why stories are important, especially if our goal is to build a social movement: stories help us understand and relate to each other. The Arab Spring changed the way many of us think about civil society, specifically the role of technology in driving social movements. mainstream media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as mobile media continues to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options that will be available to your nonprofit in coming years. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. e-Newsletter [see right column].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 e-Newsletter. Based in the U.K.,

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