Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. Blackbaud, Inc. Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2007

Anyway, when I heard the cool interview that Holly at NTEN did with Marshall, I had to drop everything and install the splash application and it gave me a few ah ha moments. He talked about the difference between his Wired readers and NY Times (wildly paraphrasing here). A Bob Dylan song keeps floating into my head.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Here are some ways to think about the math part of your ROI analysis: Compare the total cost/benefit of different options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

I had comes across the Voters Screencast and was gonna use for Screencast of the Week for last week, but I didn't get a chance to publish last week. (I This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. Use of different mediums - text, multimedia, visual to get the word out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I created a 4 minute screencast with Jingproject that will give you a sense of the workflow. Earlier in the project, I wrote about the different levels of contributions and engagement). The NTEN Blog also does a post. I noticed that people may be having trouble knowing how to add rows to the table, so I made a screencast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. he Hold The Sign Meme : Examples of different campaigns on flickr. Screencast: Using Flickr As A Resource for Presentations. I'm excited that a few of us can meet face-to-face!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

That's a screencast (with time speed increased) of what is I think -- is a twitter group coming from SXSW Festival , a major new media/emerging technology event happening in Austin, TX. Kurt Voelker asked " Twitter@NTEN " and submitted his post over at npdigg or rather kokino and there's some comments there too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! While I'm still very much passionate about screencasting, I've come to dislike the term. That's enough meta for now. Introduction. sharpie.???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

As you know, I'm working on a screencast about Google Analytics and have been collecting real life nonprofit examples. I put a query out on NTEN Affinity Group of Nonprofit Webmasters. site - Proper HTML coding makes a huge difference in Google rankings. Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. Freecharity.org.uk

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'm working on another screencast (sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce ) about the SalesForce/Google Ad Words Integration. If you're just starting, don't enter a million different keywords, landing pages, and ads. (At the time, my son was in the process of earning 50 stickers for NinendoDS and I wanted to be able to play with him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2007

As part of some research for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN, I gave a shout out to folks asking for examples. BTW, if you are looking to learn more about how to use Google Analytics, I highly recommend the Webinar that NTEN is offering next Wednesday with Avinash Kaushik.). Link to Larger Image.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I haven’t gotten my hands on this to try (not being a Plone person, I doubt I will), but folks might want to talk in comments about how straightforward the integration is, given differences in data for different instances of Salesforce.com. I don’t know how much code tweaking is required to really get this going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. He went on to say something that made me pause for a minute: The user behavior on my blog is quite different. are very different. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ). Only 40% of the direct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. I set up two slightly different experiments. Facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. Michele Martin is already exploring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? So, here's NTEN's response. A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. technologies.

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