Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Photo by Stitch. " It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. " It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. Tools: Monitoring. Tools: Monitoring.

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MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2006

But the fruits of my labor has gotten so much richer with the integration of social networking tools, particularly social bookmarking services. Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. I also look at the bookmarks of first taggers of resources that I find particularly useful.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. It''s surprising (and a bit embarrassing) to realize how little I engage with tools that appear ascendant broadly and are in constant use by my colleagues.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Are they already tech savvy, or will they need training to use the tools? Many social media tools are free, or low cost to use. A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." tools into your PR messaging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag. and I knew where I could find it. and I knew where I could find it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Johannes).

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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. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. From Flickr User EJK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Because of the volume and using free tools, Wendy had to do a lot of heavy cut and paste to analyze, summarize, and distribute the information. Identifies influencers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

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. Install web analytics tools like SiteMeter , StatCounter and Google Analytics. Ask a question in your title. Post a list (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. 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 impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

re out there in the wilderness doing our grassroots thing, using tools like Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, etc. There are people who are already bookmarking particular resources. Use the contact and social networking tools built into the tools to find them and connect with them. Connect with natural behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

Her focus is on "the ways that digital tools, particularly social media, are enhancing our connectedness to one another and our ability and willingness to work for the collective social good." I recently discovered a blog by a colleague, Allison Fine, called A. Sometimes it is very useful to have fun examples of new technology.

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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. I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. Here's a neat tool to help you design your profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. We're going to use an Interactive Presentation where we will walk folks through what, what, how, tools, and tricks. Top Three Takeaways.

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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!" Word of mouth, etc. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks. They were excited about it and I jumped into doing a little how-to training -- it was the first time I showed someone else how to use blogger or delicious having just learned these tools myself a few days ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. The list can be general, looking at strategy, tools, and developments like this one from Paul Gillin or go narrow like Mashable's " The Year in Tweets." It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. Bookmark your hour each week and start wading in. You'll see all the mentions of you in recent blog posts. If something looks interesting, click through and read the post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. Previously, On NMC….

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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 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

A basic banner at the top, nonimage links for navigation, and text pages with few photos were all that the Internet could handle. 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. Feature Fresh Content Prominently.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

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 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. e-Newsletter.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

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 resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It sharpie.???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online 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 for Good 2.0 Wordle is an online tool that allows you to easily create word clouds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. There were some good points made about the need for context (outcomes and audience), some assumptions made about bloger RSS reader behaviors, and a very short list of tools. So, let's start with the familiar before we depart into the twilght zone. don't click here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. Photos Robots [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? The photos are amazing, and the craziest thing is that 20 minutes ago I never knew it existed. but now that we???ve

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

If your database has a web component for receiving donations and selling tickets and memberships , start directing your audience to those tools through email links and steady reminders. Take full advantage of that to save time accessing tools used regularly. photo courtesy of Flickr.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Thing is, once you have paid the admin, the cash value of the flickr ‘donation’ barely makes it worthwhile – even for the 5 account max per charity. Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink Ross McCulloch wrote: Loving the photos, some amazing colours in there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

But, cartoons can be terrific infographics or used as technique for sense-making. Cartoons are good communication tool. Online charting and data visualization tools like Easel.ly You can search for them on Flickr , or just Google “creative commons”, “cartoon” and various keywords.

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