Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

Full Circle Associates » How I use social media - Here is a great post from Nancy White discussing how she uses social media. It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? So, how can you quantify - as close as possible - the amount of time it takes to put social media in practice with good results? Download it here. In A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

This week on the NpTech Tag call, the idea of social search was referenced. Search engines keep improving, sometimes imperceptibly, but my money's on social search. There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. We'll find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Many of us are familiar with the term " Social Graph " defined as the global mapping of everybody and how they're related. That inspired the above illustration - the social life of a blog post. From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. The Conversation Graph Has Gotten More Complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This interactive webinar experience will begin with a plenary session providing an overview of social media strategy, organizational adoption issues, capacity, metrics, and strategy execution. We'll include a live question and answer and a back channel discussion with experts and practitioners sharing their expertise and knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. Social networking matters.

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Care2

MAY 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!" Pose thought-provoking questions that will help spur discussions amongst the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. Will google set it free in 2007 ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. I ran a giveaway of my Pownce invitations to lure -- I mean to encourage -- people to join the group or post on the discussion board. I set up a discussion item there and you can post that you want an invite.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In the TechSoup premiere our new #NPLive interactive series of video events, join us to discuss The Future of Fundraising online in the social media matrix on Tuesday, May 24 at 11 a.m. 2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. " prompted some discussion. Social Housing explores social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. So, rather than have just a few folks filtering the nptech tag stream, to have some way to make the filtering social. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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!" 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

rest of the session will be discussion/questions). The other remix challenge is take the Social Media and remix for fundraising 2.0. It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. These are all on the on the topic of Web2.0 tools and fund raising. cards and presentation ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Recenty, on NTEN's WeAreMedia project, nonprofit technology folks have been exploring the another aspect of Digg - generating buzz.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

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!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

This post inpsired some thoughtful discussion about Facebook profiles and reports from other organizations about their profiles being taken down. social networking sites. Eric Eckle suggests that this points to some larger organizational issues in embracing social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ). As noted by Holly Ross on the NTEN blog, having a conversation in blogs and other social media is a public conversation. Update: There's been a lot of discussion lately. There are other services: CoComment.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 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!" RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker. Reader Comments (4) Great tips, Jen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. The discussion thread goes something like this. Click through to see larger diagram.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! 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. I suggest another one to explore, Rethos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll close with a discussion at some of the more advanced packages - such as ClickTracks, WebTrends, HBX Analytics, and Omniture - that might be useful to larger organizations. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. re already here. And that???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day. Philthanthropy. Do you find Web2.0

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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!" Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

At our last board meeting, we discussed online fundraising strategies and I made a proposal about using the fundraising widget and a campaign. They know the advantages of a college education, can relate to Leng Sopharath as a fellow student, and are tapped in to loads of social networks (Facebook, MySpace, et al). Your goal is $750.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

Do you know who uses social media? Do you know that women are driving social media usage? It demonstrates who uses the biggest social media tools – the gender, age, education and income of the people who engage with your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Digg and LinkedIn pages. It’s true.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or check out the repost below. provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Community sites often maintain this back-channel discussion with users after launch, letting them know about scheduled outages and ways they are addressing community concerns (for example, the Second Life blog and community meetings). In the Web 2.0 Find a way to vet non-traditional primary sources.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.)

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