Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The classical view suggests that people learn all of the time through meaningful experiences and through immersion in a community of practice. 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. 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. " and "How much time?" It's a talk show!"

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. I have them organized into folders by topics I'm tracking, including my "ego feeds" and "circle of wise" (the blogs that I get the most value from reading like Amy's for example). ego surfing??? And when I???m

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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? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 Download it here. In A Museum?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I’ve used a variety of email clients of one sort or another over time, and I have recently just decided to ditch them, and use gmail exclusively. I have definitely noticed that I’ve been migrating a lot of functionality of things that I do to web-based apps of one type or another, and this is one example of that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Yesterday I did one of the Chronicle's Live Chat Discussions that was billed as "How Can Charities Figure out How Much Time and Money To Invest in Social Media." The transcript is here. This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Thank you Kevin!

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. A great example of this is when we talk about working with our communities. Defining Community. Engaging Community. My NCME webinar focused on community-driven engagement. Using Social Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

Where’s the Action : There’s lots of opportunity to improve the real-time-ness of the site. The RSS Connection : A comment from Emily got me thinking about the different experience readers have when they follow the blog via RSS opposed to visiting the site itself. Look for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Make Time for Reflection. Take Breaks.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

use your RSS reader. at ARC, listening has been the core value of our last three year’s of social media (mentioned online over 400 times a day), learn what people want and expect from us. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? How much time is spent listening? use monitoring tools. know your keywords.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Make sure the CMS you choose lets you moderate comments, ban individuals from commenting, and fast-track certain commenters—staff, for example—by allowing them to publish without waiting for moderation. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Twitter Search.

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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

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. Content Curation on Twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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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. It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). The event itself has been fab. How do we replace proprietary tools? How does this all get paid for?

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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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). But it was an exhilarating time. Citizen journalism.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2008

tools, highlights successful examples where cross-posting has been used for advocacy. The guide highlights how to use RSS tools like Twitter Feed and Feedburner to automatically post content from your blog and other sources to Twitter and Facebook.  It reviews different web 2.0   You may wonder why do this?

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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!) Maybe it’s time for me to go out and find some blue and yellow clothes. 4 Elisa Ortiz 11.21.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x Look at the “download&# page (or “releases&# ). When was the last release? Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Focus on producing great content all the time. You may not know exactly what to do with this data all the time, but to be without it is to let opportunities slip through your fingers. What content is being viewed for the longest time? Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email.

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MARCH 26, 2010

For example, one of the promises the Obama administration has come through on is making as much government information publicly available -- thus, transparency. Like RSS feeds, when an agency updates its data, so does the website, auto-magically. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Twitter: @brucewolfe.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

Last year, I wrote a post explaining what Twitter is and how it might be applied in museums. At the time, I was a Twitter non-participant, a lurker on the edges. Now, a year later, I’m using Twitter on a daily basis, and it’s brought up some new observations about participation on websites and in interactive venues like museums.

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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? What are some possible tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

We have lists of nonprofit technology and nonprofit bloggers , we have the nptech tag , a NpTech Blogs Twitterfeed Twitter account , and several excellent lists on AllTop ( fundraising , nonprofit , social change , and social good ). That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? My problem has been retrieval. Communication. Organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

At this point, I still have to futz with the configs every time I start up, and it still isn’t right. 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. { But plugging in a new monitor just should not be this hard. .&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This idea came to me from Twitter. One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. And, if nothing else, Twitter can be a terrific muse and stimulate creative thinking. Especially in this economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

.   And, while some research indicates this slowing down is often to the brain's long-term benefit, one wonders what the impact is of too much Internet information that comes through our RSS readers.     As it turned out, it was direct messages from scores of Twitter followers thanking me for the follow. 

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. Such is life. Should staff of a nonprofit blog?

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