Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. And of course, Einstein's theory of social media relativity. So, here's a stab with lots of caveats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

Of course, one day isn???t Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying " In that post, she points to an excellent piece she wrote back in October called " What to do when you're cyberstalked, taunted, or abused online? " Andy Carvin has taken another approach, declaring this Friday as Stop Cyberbullying Day. s a start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2005

So, of course, I had to set one up for myself. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech My colleague Michelle Murrain discovered Frappr which allows anyone to put themselves on a map using Google APIs. She challenged her Nptech friends to think about how this might be used. Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Technorati. Technorati. Further you can check out their page rank, views, and technorati rating. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. Do search at site for the first time. Add a RSS feed to your reader. Monitor in your reader, engage when needed. Google Alerts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. She asks (I'm paraphrasing): "How Do I Promote My Do-Good Book Online? Here are a handful of ideas: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 I am working on several projects, both collective and personal. And I like and use to do lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

Here's their elevator speech: "NGO Manager aspires to provide a comprehensive range of nonprofit management services to managers of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including training courses and consultancy, and research on how to improve management capacity building." Technorati Tags: ngomeme

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Technorati. And, of course, a little fun! Some tools and techniques follow below. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Ice Rocket.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I was, of course, surprised (that’s mild, I was frankly horrified – wasn’t it the mission of this certain nonprofit to help the client nonprofits raise money? Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 So, guess what? No web development help.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

As I learned from several presenters over the course of the conference, it's more important now than ever for organizations to set themselves apart, leverage people's preferences and interests, and deeply connect with their constituency. Technorati Tags: nptech. fundraising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Technorati. And, of course, a little fun! Some tools and techniques follow below. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Of course that's an extreme you can't play any audio with out electricity or batteries but cell phones are one of the worlds most ubiquitous technologies. Technorati Tags: cambodia , nptech So we opted for cell phones. In some ways this may help with your question about podcasting without electricity. Eric: I have a question for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit. Perhaps there may some scaffolded ways to introduce the use of these tools to realize outcomes like knowledge sharing, organizational learning, or efficiency. What do you think?

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The District, never a beacon for transparent governance, sought to reverse course when he joined the new Adrian Fenty’s administration. Technorati Tags: wes08sep. Vivek Kundra, Chief Technical Officer, for the District of Columbia, discussed the District’s radical transformation a model of the to the digital public sphere model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

Of course, not everyone in Cambodia has Internet access. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech t connect with their family in a visual way. Phone calls are expensive and if they're lucky they can exchange email. But the vlog is almost like being face-to-face and great way to connect back to your culture. For example, my family can???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

He covered the curriculum which has two tracks - the computer skills and what I might call more "human-centered" technology courses. The descriptions of the courses and teaching approach very much resonated with all the work I've done "TechnoStress" over the years. There is also a course on ethics.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 22, 2006

Of course your RFP is built to reflect your requirements analysis. Technorati Tags: nptech , RFP A focus on requirements that you suspect might not be available from all the contestants. Use a shorter grid with items that will really help you distinguish among your suitors. You deserve to hear it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Use a service like HowSociable to search for your brand across many social media sites, or use a more targeted blog search service like Technorati or Google Blog Search to find out what people are saying about you in the blogosphere. Of course, once you join a conversation, you'll want to keep up with it. First, find yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

The exercise went something like this and it struck me that if I ever taught a workshop on how to use tagging that I would definitely do something like this, tailored to the group's interests of course. Technorati Tags: nptech , cp2 , cop2.0 , net2 , delicious , tagging Also, this other chicken/egg idea -- the fact that Web2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine. Probably through the Delicious feed, probably via Technorati Tag search. Technorati Tags: nptech How did you discover my blog? Have you been reading awhile before you posted or did you find and post a comment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Problem, of course, is that I'm not sure exactly how it might support a group call on Skype. Of course, the meetings I'm attending in Second Life are related to planning and implementing projects in Second Life. Of course, you'd need the aural channel for it to work. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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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. And to make changes on those areas, it may require thinking staffing, work flow, and of course, involving leadership and others in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

Attention though -- and attention translates to money, to clients, to promotion of your ideas -- is a problem for all nonprofits and I think blogging -- as an activity -- can help to provide some of that attention, not through PR tricks, but through making yourself and your opinions known in the course of doing your work. The benefits?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Search for your institution of TripAdvisor (for reviews), on Technorati (for blog mentions), on Flickr (for photos), or on YouTube (for rare but coveted visitor-generated videos). Third, the game designers use the influencers' feedback to change the course of the game. Read the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Technorati ???Authority??? Technorati ???Authority??? Kaushik admits to mixed feelings about Technorati and I know Amy Gahran has tracked and written about the drawbacks to Technorati. Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to more or less go up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Technorati ???Authority??? Technorati ???Authority??? Kaushik admits to mixed feelings about Technorati and I know Amy Gahran has tracked and written about the drawbacks to Technorati. Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to go up.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). Of course, this fear stems from the uncomfortable reality that most museum communication is spam—unwanted information about events or exhibits. Use your email lists to listen instead of shouting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Of course, you can't really translate a high engagement score into a dollar amount or look at it in isolation without relating to your blogging goals. I've used my Technorati rank [it has issues ] and just compared against myself for year before. But for some reason, my Technorati rank hasn't updated in six months.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Usually, of course, with the huge technology providers, that sort of thing isn’t possible. Of course, in the end, the client needs their technology problem solved, as quickly and efficiently as possible. Technorati Tags: nptech , techsupport { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Catherine Carey 04.25.07

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MAY 27, 2009

Of course one of the biggest returns is brand visibility. Have a lot of additional resources here: [link] and of course on my blog. Charlene Li and Forrester Research developed one of the other more popular ROI models for Social Media. You can see the metrics in action in the chart below. A great overview!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Technorati Tags: 07NTC , intellectualproperty , nptech { 1 trackback } Where Most Needed 04.11.07 Going green helps readers, of course. (I only wish you had been at the panel for the Journal on Friday where we talked about our larger goals. The licensing issue would have been a good piece of that discussion.)

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. It’s not acceptable to say “we want to do it all.” You would set a strategy that best serves the mission of the institution. Start conservative and build from there.

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