Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2015

The devastating earthquake in Nepal has killed more than 2,400 people and injured about 5,900, residents so far (as reported in the NY Times on Sunday). The next thing I noticed in my Facebook feed was a post from Robert Scoble mentioning a new Facebook feature that lets you check on friends in a disaster. earthquake in Nepal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

If you are thinking you want to volunteer your time, Natalie Jesionka has a post on Our World titled " Responding to Burma Crisis " that includes a list of opportunities to travel to the Burmese border and volunteer your time and energy to the underground grassroots NGO activity. a little at a time.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2009

Hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these hard times. Bloggers have helped raised awareness of this important issue. In response, Share Our Strength is asking people to send a text donation and hold food drives to help feed those in need.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? In the early days, it was a small company focused on making it easier for publishers to manage their RSS feeds, and for people to use them. And that's why I read my sever logs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If not, why? If no, why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Other than benchmarking against yourself over time, are there sub-sector averages that we can look at?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." Cherrypicking certain posts/feeds? or do they click through?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. My colleague, Evone Heyning, calls this “ more sticky interactions.&# It will also be interesting to track how Jumo helps organizations and causes attract new supporters and what is required in terms of time commitment and strategy to be successful.

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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. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

If time is a problem, post less. Put your feed button above the fold. We inevitably associate a professional design with how seriously the blogger or webmaster takes what they do. Laura Scott adds a 5th point - offer full feed posts. " It's a three prong strategy: 1. Pack your articles with as much value as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

will save you time and increase traffic. Bringing traffic and saving time were attractive enough lures to get me to install it. That way I can really understand if this tool would help me save time or bring traffic. Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. It recommends links and photos while you write.

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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. She does this talk because she gets a lot of traffic. She has been experimenting over the past few years. Why do you want traffic?

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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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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth Blog shared a story of how she and her daughter played the Freerice game, a quiz-style vocabulary builder that rewards correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children, distributed by the U.N.'s s World Food Programme. Spend it together online, checking out pictures and project descriptions."

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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

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. We crafted a two-day challenge, mixing all-staff sessions with smaller group time. An explosion of EDF bloggers. Lots of great ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. For many bloggers the relevant sphere of influence is not overall popularity, as those indexes express. This is about celebrating the niche, and measuring engagement over time. Via Nancy White.

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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. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. Ruby on Rails Case Study; ChangingThePresent.org.

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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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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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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. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

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. One of the reason's I learned that David was writing about this topic was that I also follow an ego feed. This is another example of a Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Basically you submit a timely Url, summarize your content and post it under a category. When something goes popular on digg it is picked up in a number of dig rss feeds that feed into blogs. Some bloggers will also repost dig stories as well. Slide 12: I know I was just making it sound easy, but dig takes time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Eric posted some excellent thoughts on the problem that Cambodian bloggers have to get past - podcasting without electricity. Also we've been using podcasts with some success on mnartists.org just by making and "audio only" feed in our existing RSS implementation. and the podcast feed is at: Radio mnartists Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

t feel I can ever balance my online life with being a parent and working full time the way I would like to. Culturally authentic material for the foreign language classroom used to be scarce are now readily available, only a click or an RSS feed away. What advice would you offer other bloggers who are just getting started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

If someone technical can help set it up, but you need it to be easy to post, Blogger, WordPress.org (the installed version), and TypePad look good. It surprises a lot of people that we didn't recommend Blogger for organizations without technical expertise. I'm currently donating the vast majority of my time. That is cash ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? A number of folks have sent back thanks for saving them some time in prepping a presentation. Creating a remix that goes beyond cut and paste, takes some time, creativity and higher thinking skills! . The cover is from a remix mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Next time, I think I might keep the video really short so it doesn't take so much time to render. We gots questions about blogging platforms, feeds, distribution, video hosts, compression, editing software and more. Although, if I had been there, Katrin Verlcas would not have made her debut as a video blogger !

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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

JUNE 1, 2008

If you're a blogger, there are also ways that you can craft your posts to encourage more commenting and conversation. When ever there is a new comment, Commentful notifies you via email, RSS Feed or you can install an extension for Firefox. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments. How do you nurture conversations?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

But that really takes up time. The only downside is the additive nature of blogging, and it does consume a lot of time. Start when you have enough time to get a good regular schedule going, think about the topics you want to blog about. s blogs feed (if you can deal with an overflow of posts that is.) And Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. I try to write there at least 4 times a week. human aspects of technology.

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