Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Are they tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. Wow, better than a listserv! Is reflection in action the way to integrate small amounts of experimentation with Web2.0

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JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. This helps panels understand hot issues, and can help jump start dialogue during the event. Check it out ! The Center for Global Development does this a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Carmen left me a follow up comment. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. If you have an example or any insights, please leave a comment. Anne Gentile comments on Sun Blogging Policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout?

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Social Butterfly has an interesting list of helpful list-servs. The benefit?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The key question is, every step of the way: how can you invite people beyond yourself to help make this step better? How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better? Their input helped shape the entire project, which in turn shaped the call. How can people help make your project better?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

NPTimes " Hot Nonprofit Websites " article highlights the successful "Main" and "Micro" sites of nonprofits, with the editorial help of NTEN's own Holly Ross. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. People became very fond of sunny and were motivated to do whatever they could to help. Leave a comment and pointer to your campaign or web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. We need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. We need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. " Steve and I exchanged a quick comments about online facilitation practice and community design in community blogs. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. The guide helped me understand that I was looking for both specific conferences as well as lists of conferences in those areas by knowledgeable people. My experience is here. My experience is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

My vlog has been linked to from a lot of the Cambodian portals so I have a lot of Cambodian people viewing my vlog and commenting. By chance, he found my blog and left a comment. s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. They get so excited. I get lots of emails telling me ???I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. I think that all organizations should track what people are saying about them, about the issues they are concerned with, about the communities they are concerned with and then they should comment on those when appropriate. The benefits? Greg Beuthin, ext311.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Feel free to email or skype me if you need help getting started - it's a wee bit of a learning curve, but fun. If you are a nonprofit or affiliated with a nonprofit that is already doing something in Second Life, take this survey or let us know by leaving a comment in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions. I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. tag: [link]. Technorati tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My background is in public health, with an interest in using the mass media to help bring about healthy behavior change. My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Allison is a successful social entrepreneur and writer dedicated to helping grassroots organizations and activists implement and sustain social change efforts. James OMalley: How does social media help bring about change? The concepts of openness and connectedness that fuel the spread of social media helps us get back on track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

into the chat line -If you have a comment or observation type ! And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication? How much does this help or hinder effective collaboration? I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Jim: It came out of a book that Kathy Maclean did with Wendy's help, Are We There Yet? ASTC's mission is really to help raise the level of the field as a whole. It will be really interesting to see how the human side evolves--when you see something you question, do you write a comment, call up the person, or.?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Her useful comment is archived and can be accessed by hundreds of other people with the same problem. It helps people feel personally rewarded and recognized, and it aligns them more closely with the institution. Clear content frames help people know where to find what they need.

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JULY 31, 2021

So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants. And then thinking about, okay, so once you have that information, it really helps you think through, are you going to keep? So I hope you are as well.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Looking to other people and channels gives you an idea of what others are talking about and lets you comment on it. It employs volunteer artists who use the arts as a tool for healing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work. Writing is thinking.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. Mitchell based her comment on, but I'm hardly surprised by her findings. Are these places helped or hindered by their non-traditional names? Mitchell said. Sony Wonderlab?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! Feel free to add your ideas in the comments section at the bottom of this page or on the original post. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." That's the importance of the guide I'm helping pull together.

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