Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. It has nothing to do with the tools, have you avoided getting distracted from your to do list or work flow or too much multi-tasking-- social media can be ADD producing. In A Museum? Key skill is pattern analysis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Blogs can help you work faster. In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Blogs can help you work faster. In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. That said, many tools work well together. How will you know if the tools you chose are working for you? There are no guarantees that using social media will help you achieve your goals, so when choose your tools, think about how you could stop using them gracefully if they don't work for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. Set up a Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Now, after his work on Theory of Relativity Einstein spent many years developing a Unified Field Theory. You don’t want to create an extra program or extra work, it has to support your existing marketing goals. It was not a success - at least not yet. However, I think what he did say is very apt and important for your topic.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

This is something we have been working on at See3 – methods to build a network of influencers in the social networks who will carry your torch. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? at 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. The next question is, well, how useful is this anyway? Its great for lunch hours!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. We are just providing the container, the mechanism so it can function.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

Are you interested in trends relating to specific topics your nonprofit works on such as health care reform or human rights? link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. link] HootSuite: Allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The description: What works and rhymes? Session Content 1. link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. launched pilot program in 2007 to see if it worked. Yes we did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). I'm going to give a very brief overview (15-20 minutes at most) that will serve as a conversation starter for small group work.

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