Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

A couple things about this article " Cambodian ex-monarch joins blogger community " in the Taipei Times caught my attention. The King's Royal Blog (which is written in french, english, and Khmer) and ability to make the article into wikipedia links.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to Wikipedia , giving circles are a form of philanthropy consisting of groups of individuals who pool their funds and other resources to donate to their communities and seek to increase their awar eness and engagement in the process of giving. Buddy up with women bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. How Bloggers Can Use FriendFeed Effectively - This post includes some great tips on how to contribute value to FriendFeed, keep your "signal-to-noise" ratio high, and use "rooms" effectively. It is intended as a rapid and engaging way to present information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Listening to Bloggers You'll want to identify and follow key bloggers in your nonprofit space, especially if you are planning to blog or doing any blogger relations program. Find Bridge bloggers alltop.com. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Wikipedia sums it up nicely : "A blog carnival is a type of blog event. Many carnivals have a home page or principal organizer, who lines up guest bloggers to host each edition. Do you have a blog about making the world a better place that you want more people to read?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I I was musing more on the human impact -- what skills or changes do nonprofits need to adapt to use these tools? I hope to post an interview with SJ soon.) Hi Beth -- thanks for linking to my blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. Check the web site for the application and more details.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. While there are some sites, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, that are fairly easy to understand, there are hundreds of others with no clear differentiated value. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

Wikipedia Public Domain Images – Wikipedia uses public domain images and has organized a collection with information on how the photos can be used and attributed. Wylio – This is a searchable archive of public domain or creative commons licensed photos that bloggers can use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? You don't need Wal-Mart's permission, just an API and a source for the data.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content.

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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." Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned. human aspects of technology. That generally gives people a good idea what's going on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I was going to write a review and do a book giveaway, but I stumbled upon Wiser Earth blogger Angus Parker's excellent review. Second, she goes into a lot of details on what she calls 'Informational Social Networks' like Wikipedia , Mahalo Answers , and Yahoo Answers which get a lot of traffic and can generate significant ongoing referrals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig Wing An electrical engineer, MBA student, South African of Chinese descent, founder of not one but two companies, world traveler, former missionary, and current blogger, it's pretty hard to keep up with Craig Wing, let alone categorize him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer. And how our connectedness is resulting in new collective behavior that can't be controlled.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

Its not the only change at Microsoft - alpha blogger Robert Scoble, who has been the face of Microsoft in the blogosphere, departed for start-up PodTech.net. The post attacks the enthusiam for massively collaborative web projects, in particular, Wikipedia: The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Well, I haven't been much of a blogger lately, what with how busy it's gotten around the office this month. Wikipedia takes center stage Nicholas Carr has been bemused for a good while now by the growing popularity of the publically editied Internet knowledge compendium Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers. It's called Moulin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results.

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