Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. cogdog you need to use the flickr fdtoys and add something [ on the flickr photo ]. see flickr photo ]. So, was glad that Stephen Downes provided pointers to a few and some reflections: Good summary of the proceedings from yesterday's Eduserv conference on Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. We don’t really care about views as much as we care about comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Hopefully, you will find any posts that we've missed and add them in the comments, so we can create a comprehensive list together! We'd love to check it out, so please post the link in the comments, or add it to this open Google spreadsheet. Shai's #12NTC Summary , Shai Coggins. If we missed your blog post, we're sorry!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Photo from Ian Kennedy. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. I love laptop stickers!

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

We have systems in place to help keep us on track, such as an internal summary blog/Twitter/social network updates. These email updates share information on new followers, blog subscribers, comments, retweets, video views, etc., Make sure you allocate the necessary human resources to sustain a consistent level of activity. Plan ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Original Photo by Pearlbear from Nosi Salon 12/11/06 at SF Nonprofit Technology Center. Two days ago, The Tech Chronicles Blog published a post about Marc Canter's "Ahem Society" that used one of my flickr photos. So I complained in flickr , my blog and left a comment on the Tech Chronicles Blog. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Photo/video Views (optional if I’m testing as content strategy). Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. Avoid this measurement as therapy trap. New Fans (Likes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. A few comments over at Kikono too. " Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Engagement Strategie s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. Nathaniel Naskashima, in a comment on another post , shared some insights from his look at the hashtags used by Foundations on Twitter. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #. He observes that the hashtags are general, not unique.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. Fail formally - protesting Wendy’s with a photo sharing with a protest sign but only got a few people doing it, heard so much about how hard it was for people to participate, etc. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly.

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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 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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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. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs. Her points: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Marnie Webb is on a road trip.

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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. Jon's comments on plone comments. The big question, what about that other 41% ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it. This inspired quite a lot of comments in the backchannel chat on Second Life. NMC Consortium Summary.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos. You can also use reader comments, or posts by volunteers or constituents in grant applications. Perhaps your staff makes a lot of international trips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. into the chat line -If you have a comment or observation type ! Now, if I could just find a flip chart in SL that let's you type in the summary of key points - I'd be a happy. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2011

Flickr Photo by Brett Morrison. Note from Beth: After a brief conversation about new ways to access web-based “visitors&# in the comments section of a recent blog post on dashboards, Dan generously offer to write a post about developing an in-house dashboard as part of his work at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Here’s summary of the key ideas: Avoid A Once and Done Approach, Think Of Your Content As Pieces of A Larger Whole. Flickr Photo by drachenspinne. 1=Daily: Tweets, Facebook updates, responses to comments. 7=Weekly: A series of blog posts, event photos, updates to your web site. Learn How To Repurpose.

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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. Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? The best comment line can be found at Emergency Trap Blog. I'm so excited!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. " Here's a few widget/badgets that I ended up installing and keeping: Flickr Widget/Badge : If your organization is using flickr to say run a photo content or a community tagging project, it makes sense to add a flickr badge to your web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. I knew many of the people in the room face-to-face, some for many years, or I knew them from online, having exchanged tweets or blog comments with them. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. Here's a summary of the different viewpoints in the nonprofit sector about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. The session will provide a brief summary of the recent thinking on this topic by thought leaders in the field, but mostly provide an opportunity for small group discussion and sharing about current practices on this important topic. (Raw How many people comment on posts?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

The problem requires pretty much all of us to change our passwords on Google (including Gmail and YouTube), Tumblr, Yahoo, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Intuit, Dropbox, Netflix and Flickr. Find a 48 page summary of the big report here. We’re not stopping it, but we’re preparing for it.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

A like here, a comment there, and a link back to your site can, with time, have a huge impact on search rankings. The conclusion of your article is a condensed summary of your major points and if possible should be no longer than 2-3 sentences, or about 50-75 words. Conclusion. Outline And Research Before You Start Writing.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. 54 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. Totally agree with the flickr one. Bookmark the permalink. Much appreciated.

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