Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. It is called " The Art of Social Web " Coolcat Teacher blog gives a wonderful post about how blogging is a work in progress - she concludes blogging is more like football than a once in a lifetime performance at Carnegie Hall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Rik Riel writes about the first professional orchestra to perform in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open.

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. Several small scale discussions via Skype will be had with the teachers and these journalists. Social Networking. Mobile Phones. Virtual Worlds. New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. A Couple of Really Good Wikis. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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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

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. NpTech Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. young people??? " I agree. All the candidates. Using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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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. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Video Blogging, Web Video, and Screencasts The Gurteen Knowledge Community has a great curated collection of social change web videos as well as some excellent ones on web 2.0. Some nice screencasts on how to use wikis can be found at the Commons, a wiki magazine for nonprofits in Silicon Valley.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. All of this is sweeping many new questions into my mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. Today I Cried resigns ! The graphic. of Internet visits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

At first, I thought it might be about this recent issue , but it was the name of event " Hacking Philanthropy " to discuss philanthropy and technology today. According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. The results differ from a study released earlier this year.

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