Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to sharing our experience and knowledge, and learning as organizations is the belief that we are all so different we can’t actually share or learn from each other. A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Defining Community. Using Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace." which then helps the organizations do the work that creates the change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. I have them organized into folders by topics I'm tracking, including my "ego feeds" and "circle of wise" (the blogs that I get the most value from reading like Amy's for example). ego surfing???

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? There were other questions and some good conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

So, I wrote a post organizing all the questions and providing some short answers in a follow up post. This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. How often should an organization post to Twitter or send out updates on Facebook? Thank you Kevin!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Make sure the CMS you choose lets you moderate comments, ban individuals from commenting, and fast-track certain commenters—staff, for example—by allowing them to publish without waiting for moderation. Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

There is no official organized nonprofit blog census, npo blogroll or a bridge blog like Global s. Examples are few: ItConversations , Gregory Heller???s s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. What are some examples of nonprofit blogging? Some examples: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. Photo by Stuck in Customs. What is Content Curation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Care2

APRIL 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!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. Social change happens through conversations, and the job of nonprofits is to organize themselves in such ways as to catalyze and manage those conversations.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2008

" which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Should all nonprofits have a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This is an interesting process of spreading the expertise and way of working to all parts of the organization. I asked folks on Facebook: “ What is your organization trying to accomplish on Facebook with its Fan Page? We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of that work we get to connect with and learn from organizations using new media in the field -- and this summer we hit the road, attending the International AIDS Conference , CDC's Health Communication, Marketing, and Marketing Conference , the Ryan White All Grantee meeting , and the U.S. Conference on AIDS. Make it known.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Guide your students to conversations and resources. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. In my communication workshops, I still find that nearly every nonprofit organization is rather afraid of the idea of blogging. But I think the vast majority of the sector isn't there yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. In fact, it can help provide content for both.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

I like to be informed of what the organization is doing, but I dont want mail solicitations. When we investigate motivations for charitable giving, we arent only concerned with what motivates a donor to write the first check to a charitable organization, but also what inspires them to become a regular, ongoing donor. More newsletters?

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Friends : People who like your organization or cause. Fans : People who LOVE your organization or cause. If someone knows nothing about your organization and lands on your website, what’s the first thing you want them to see? If your organization addresses a particular disease, one question will be “What is the treatment?”.

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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. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. e.g. is it correct to have an email conversation like this and then go blog about it ? (I I have one blog post here.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Most that I know monitor the blogs, Facebook, and Twitter for people talking about their brand or organization. By listening for the name of your organization you’re likely to pick up on someone mentioning that they love it or hate it. Here’s a quick example. This is a great way to support public relations activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. For example, this nonprofit marketer shares his decision about choosing a software tool in light of the recent acquisitions in the market. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Ego searches. Technorati.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. rating items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Ego searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

It gives an opportunity for the audience to have a conversation with audience around programming. For example, here's the arts programming account. Twitter is being used for conversation, along with tidbits from the show and interesting quotes from guests. " She spends about 30 minutes a day reading blog feeds by RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. He said that things in the field happen in spaces between particles- the analogue is a conversation between people. The important thing is having the conversation. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Fortunately, there are some free tools you can use that make it easy to get an email campaign organized and attract the interest of donors. Another thing you can do with MailChimp is create an RSS campaign. For example, you could send a monthly newsletter to your subscribers that pulls from your blog posts. The Hemingway App.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

The best person to write an organization's blog is the person who is the most excited to write it. Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Participate: Is joining the conversation with your audience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

What’s an impact-driven nonprofit organization to do? Second, and perhaps more importantly, join in on the conversation about CEO compensation. What has your organization experienced? Did you lose a successful CEO to another organization, or another sector, because of compensation? Two things come to mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good. Facebook empowers non-profits by enabling them to mobilize communities, organize events, increase fundraising, reduce costs with free online tools, and raise awareness through viral networks. Profiles are for individuals, Pages for Organizations.

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