Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

I met them two years ago when I did a webinar called " Ten Steps To Extension 2.0 " Kevin and I started to share RSS reader tips and habits and he pointed to Feedly an RSS reader that gives you a magazine layout and makes it easy to share links from your reader. (See What tool do you use? See this review from Mashable ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Did anything surprise you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I attended the " Tag You Are It " session at NTC by Ami Dar and Katrin Verclas and was exposed to a lot of new technology tools. So, I set up a little action learning project ( cambodia4kids ) to play with these tools to see how they might be useful for technology infused curriculum or nonprofit use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The tools are changing, so if you've settled into one way of using a particular social media tool or set of tools, don't set yourself on automatic pilot. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals? Make Time for Reflection.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 Podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

(Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. Here's a neat tool to help you design your profile.

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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. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can help you work faster. When someone emails it to them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Bookmark your posts in del.icio.us, and other social bookmarking services. Have a blogroll. Make it easy to comment. Blogs are a visual medium.

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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. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. "We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. I have one blog post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Armed with a better understanding of social media and the tools, I realized I didn’t need to blast out our message to everyone at once all the time. I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in. Look at me!”

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). technologies to see about rates of adoption. technologies to see about rates of adoption.

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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

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. As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. Blogs can help you work faster. When someone emails it to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

That's not me, but the somewhat off putting clipart that appears on the top page of the RSS Newsreader, Newsgator. I first learned about this tool from Sonny Cloward's post " Going Back to the Dark Side " a few weeks ago when I was obsessing about RSS readers and finding blogs to read. Now I have found way too many.).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat. I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies such as tagging, social bookmarking and online social networks, blogging, content sharing through Wikis and RSS, and new Web widgets need not only be in the hands of well-funded developers; but also can be used by organizations to further their missions. The Impact of Web 2.0 What on earth is a Wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

It's part of my job to investigate the best tools for engaging potential activists and members. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon. When something goes popular on digg it is picked up in a number of dig rss feeds that feed into blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If you know of some fabu nonprofits that are using these tools and want them to be highlighted, just register (if you haven't already), login, go to the "Put Your Voice in the Mix" page: click on "submit your case study" and fill out the form. Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes.

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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. Gmail integrates PowerPoint presentation tool for attachments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. 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.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2007

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!" You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. I hope you find the calendar useful.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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!" As for the newly re-designed grassroots greening website loaded with networking tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

So I developed some information consumption tools and habits that would scale well with the rapidly increasing volume of new material coming my way everyday. Most importantly, it remains a tool for staying informed and for reflection. It feeds into a variety of publications that I offer, some for free and some for sale.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I asked for his advise (he’s the man behind @nptechblogs among other Twitter mutations) as there are TONS of tools out there to choose from when setting up an account. I used the RSS feed of a specific tag, because I didn’t necessarily want every single item I bookmark to be tweeted out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Fortunately, if you are using your blog’s RSS feed for mobile Web content creation, tools like MoFuse automatically shrink image sizes for faster loading and browsing. So, make sure you feature your fresh content first (your blog feed) and calls to action after that. Some may even bookmark it for browsing regularly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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!" Do you want substantive, meaningful comments that you can use in other marketing tools?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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