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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

Stacey Monk and I exchanged messages last week, brainstorming the idea of pulling bloggers together to support Beth’s birthday campaign. We could follow the hashtag on Twitter using Twitter Search ( [link] ) and could use the tracking built into Bit.ly And we wanted it to be easy to do – write a blog post!

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Reflection and Evaluation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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Rumors of Blogs' Demise and Revolution Are Exaggerated!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel. I entered "blog hype" as a search term and came across a recent article on WSJ online. It talks about the disparity of audiences between the so called A-List and other bloggers. February, 2006.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. This is a great method for peer learning. What is the best blog platform for mobile bloggers? And, this was also mentioned on our discussion thread for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit too, but a different blog post.).

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Announcement: TechSoup Web2.0 Event

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

How can you learn from others' Web searches? technologies Phil Klein , nonprofit technologist of Pen and Pixel Alexandra Samuel , online community consultant with Social Signal Michael Stein, nonprofit software developer and technology blogger Yann Toledano, nonprofit technology consultant and TechSoup forum co-host.

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