Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Exploring FriendFeed. One of the first topics of discussion that came up was how to efficiently use FriendFeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Some bloggers, like Skelliewag, highlighted the best of best of their blog posts , while CogDog blog took the opposite approach and look at the Top 0 list. The main reason I'm still tagging is for retrieval when asked for a resource on and to write this summary. How to make these summaries more useful to you all? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share Resources and Useful Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. Convio or Causes? This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2015

You must also ensure that a well-written title and summary automates when shared on social networks. Finally, use keywords that describe the infographic and the word “infographic” in the page (or blog) title and summary to maximize SEO in Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 The easiest way to conduct these interviews is through e-mail or over the phone, but for the enterprising blogger with a penchant for journalism, in-person interviews provide the opportunity to get action photos and video interviews. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0 and Associations thoughts from Acronym: Experience Web 2.0 Some very useful posts in there!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. The summaries are released on cc 2.5 nonprofit technology. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each. You can find the columns here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

These are events where a group of bloggers write about a particularly topic on a particular day. Blog Carnivals tend to be topic driven with a smaller number of participants compared to blog action projects that are advocacy or marketing driven and may include larger groups of bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. This guide on the Total Cost of Technology from the ICT Hub may also be useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. I've been looking for something like this where I could create feeds based on a category.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2011

On July 28th, I'll feature links and summaries to some of the best submissions. For bloggers : You can enter your submission in one of two ways. I’m hosting the July Nonprofit Blog Carnival. I hope you'll submit your post for consideration! I'd love to hear your time management tips for nonprofits and nonprofit consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Here's a few (formally) connected conversations and roundups: The nonprofit blog exchange has posted pointers to the last round of blog posts for the virtual event, along with a summary of nonprofit blog exchange blog posts. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr , Tactical Philanthropy , Worldchanging and Lucy. What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers? Expo Ignite!

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 The easiest way to conduct these interviews is through e-mail or over the phone, but for the enterprising blogger with a penchant for journalism, in-person interviews provide the opportunity to get action photos and video interviews. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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APRIL 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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. The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 See below).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Earlier this week, I posted a summary from this month’s #4Change chat that focused on social media in the Climate Change movement. Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. If you haven’t seen it, check it out here ! What’s Blog Action Day?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 22, 2010

Invite guest bloggers in – clients, staff, Board, volunteers, and donors. Post summaries of events or activities with photos. Listen to what front-line staff are talking about and write about that. Be specific with them when you ask. Ask them to write a short paragraph or two of 250 words MAX.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Here’s a summary. Many of the submissions from bloggers included posts that shared their personal approaches, tips, tools, and secrets to productivity: Nonprofit blogger and consultant, Marion Conway , shares some gems in her blog post, “ Be More Productive Online – Blue Chips and Monkeys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2015

Global Voices, a network of bloggers around the world, reported that social media has become a lifeline for earthquake victims and Ushahidi published this summary about online volunteers.

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JUNE 24, 2011

In light of Facebook's ever-changing terms of use policies and the recent Twitpic controversy, SocialFish challenges you to r educe your terms of use to a one page summary. Katya Andresen put together a roundup of the bloggers who attended the event. Can you make your policies concise enough that your users will really read them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

2. To capture summaries of the 2010 conference to show the richness of the content as a means to promote the event for 2011. 1. Seven bloggers and seven Tweeters are identified and recruited to cover the event. To create “buzz” about Independent Sector with “non-attending audiences” through attendees’ social media mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

That's is when a live blogger - who is not on-site - is monitoring a dedicated IRC channel where someone in the room or at the conference is typing summary notes, monitoring the conference tag in flickr, technorati, and other places and live blogging a summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

like about the blog and one tip you have for each blogger. and I'll add your permalink to a summary post on my blog. idea is that you pick three blogs to highlight, stating three things you. The concept was. started by Easton Ellsworth at Business Blogwire ( [link]. I thought it would be yet another way to build connections within the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video. Photo from Ian Kennedy. I love laptop stickers! MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Jen Lemen is a writer, illustrator, blogger and immigrant advocate living in Silver Spring, Maryland. Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices asked people if they would consider donating their schwag for the Cambodian bloggers conference. Here's a summary of her plan. Odette and Jen met on a schoolyard playground one year ago.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

This week’s guest blogger Stephanie Spindell has the answers for us. A financial analysis is typically a summary of key organizational financial data from the most recent 5 years of the Form 990, including calculations of growth rates, profitability, liquidity and asset ratios. Thanks Stephanie!

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