Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Process-driven learning is about seeing patterns and the identification of these patterns may or may not lead to a learning product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. Social change happens through conversations, and the job of nonprofits is to organize themselves in such ways as to catalyze and manage those conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. The online conversations that are starting around those issues are very exciting. that really deepen my own understanding of social bookmarking. What are the key barriers to the above?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. He finds blogging valuable for the same reasons I do, although I love the way he phrased it: I'm really hooked on the idea of blogs all being linked together into one big mega-conversation. I have one blog post here. I probably will anyway!). it will come I'm sure!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Discussion about other services to transfer social bookmarks to sparked up immediately, and users petitioned Yahoo not to sunset the service. Soon after Google acquired PostRank, a powerful RSS tool, without warning the service stopped accepting new accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. If you want learn the fine art of having a conversation on Twitter, follow and observe the masters. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff. Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

We've organized the tools into different categories that are loosely based on the Conversation Prism from Brian Solis. RSS Readers. Social Bookmarking. Participate: Joining the conversation with your audience. And, we'll be awarding special prizes for participation. Want your WeAreMedia T-Shirt? Help us build the toolbox!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond.

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Care2

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!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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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. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. This was over two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. And, as stubborn as it sounds Mr. CEO, you don’t get money out of a conversation. Outbound links for influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Robin Good recently interviewed Marshall Kirkpatrick about Mash-ups and he asked Marshall to define widgets in the context of the conversation. Do you ask good questions that lead to conversations online? Do you have strategies for encouraging those conversations and linking them to your content? Conversation [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2006

Summarzing from the article: Benefits to Consumers Reason 1: Can categorize and organize collections of bookmarks. conversations, the right terms might not even exist at the time of tagging! While this may cause most readers to think of RSS feeds, that???s Anyone who???s items into a shared folder. what tag should.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. link] I’ll be bookmarking you! Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized. Lots of good stuff here.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" said Greg Elin of the Sunlight Foundation. You should too. helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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