Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. and tag it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. For example, here's the arts programming account. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. The way functionality changes so rapidly means that what you need to think about the options in so far as they can be helpful to what you want to do today, in case the way you want to use them is discontinued or changed.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. This is great for use in your Twitter messages but also in emails or even text messages. Community Mapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Thank you Kevin! Is that true?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

The comments and feedback really helped clarify thinking, confirm ideas I had, and make clear the opportunities for improvement. We’ll be using these to a much higher degree to help surface and sort content much more effectively. Here are some of the high-level key points. Definitely something we’ll be sure to tackle!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn. Download it for free at [LINK: [link] ] to learn more.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Some are using tools like Twitter or Facebook to invite listeners to a post-segment conversation with reporters, moving them from a passive action (listening) up the ladder of engagement to an active action of commenting and discussion. Using Social Media.

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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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Take Breaks. Avoid getting distracted.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

When I give talks about nonprofit blogging, I often use the Case Foundation's blog as an example of a juicy blog. Each post has buttons at the top for people to share it on Facebook, Twitter, via email, etc. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. •

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? use monitoring tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. NetSquared.org - putting this URL in the search term area of the alert means that if someone wrote out our URL on their blog, for example, I would get alerted.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

These best practices will also be demonstrated live in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn. When your group reaches that size, it’s likely to produce more traffic to your website and new e-newsletter subscribers than 10,000 fans on Facebook or followers on Twitter will do. for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Examples: WorldChanging: knowledge prodution and sharing. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. Examples: National Phrenology Network: asking people to report blooming data in their area. Tweetawatt: will send out information via twitter about energy usage, on Makezine.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Content Curation Primer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. for NGOs there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Be Helpful. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. For example, Summify measures sentiment and a user’s reading history to highlight content. Ultimately, choosing the right tool means choosing the tool that helps connect you with your community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A year ago, I was bear-ish on Facebook, and said I wouldn’t Twitter. Now, I tell my clients that they really have to think about a Facebook strategy, and that nonprofit staff can gain a lot from networks like Twitter. Be Helpful. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Be Helpful. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful. When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Going to a x.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are some technical and design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. More and more people are reading content, your content, via RSS through tools like Google Reader so make it easy to find on every page of your site. Another Tip : Not sure how to get RSS from the Blackbaud Sphere CMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. Be Helpful. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes. Check This List 07.28.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Be Helpful. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Someone in an IRC channel last night who was trying to help me as I tore my hair out said “why does xorg suck so bad?&# With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { Be Helpful. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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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. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your mission.

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