Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

I've developed a method of trying to figure things out through a little trial and error, asking other people, or searching the FAQs or online user forums. I'm like many of you accidental techies out there. But that only goes so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

More details on the FAQ. Anyone can post an idea and then it is the wisdom crowds to vote. But it doesn't end with the top ten ideas - they will select a nonprofit sponsor to help create nationwide movement to push the idea forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

It reminds of the early newsgroups FAQs and it is very useful. I had the pleasure to be on a panel back in February with Patricia Aufderheide and hear her speak at the Beyond Broadcast conference. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to participate in the event. However, there is a edited and easy to browse Q&A over at the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2007

According to the official Twitter FAQ , "Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. What I liked is the section that pulls together some phrases that describe twitter. Challenged with trying to describe Twitter to your friends?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The ALS IceBucket Challenge in 2014 that raised over $115 million is well known to all, but this FAQ can help refresh your memory. They will also discuss the many opportunities and challenges that arise from the aftermath of a viral campaign and more importantly the lessons they have learned about replicating the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

FAQ ) and more. We'll find. our best information from other people, not from software filters. There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. the Google Reader Sharing. What do you use? What practices have you developed? What is missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2006

Here's the how-to information in the FAQ Here's the screencast: Geotags. The feature also includes privacy controls so you can make the geotag private independently of the friends/family privacy codes. But it gets better: flickr is now using screencasts! Next thing I did was geotag some of the photos from our vacation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

In the comments, there is also a pointer to NTC's Green FAQ. Britt interviewed Green Mary who was an Event Waste Reduction Consultant to Aspiration Tech for their recent Nonprofit Software Development Summit. Mary offers six good tips for being more green at conferences. Note that one way to go green is to encourage room and ride shares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

I'd suggest the following resources: Beginner Tutorials CoolCatTeacher Blog: Skype for Beginners Laptop Magazine: Skype Made Easy Skype Official FAQ: How Tos. If you need more detailed how to information in using SKYPE. Nonprofit Uses of Skype Skype Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2006

Flickr Official Documents How to get the most out of flickr FAQ. Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Flickr Tools The Great Flickr Tool Collection. Backgrounders Interview with Flickr Founder. Technorati Tags: ngo , flickr , net2 , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

I installed it - it was easy and the FAQ answered my basic questions about my new tool. I got an email from Ed Batista thanking me for becoming a member of the Attention Trust inviting me to download the Attention Extension. It's now time to learn more about the concept, by following the blog and wiki as well as connect with community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

A great FAQ is here. I haven't a chance to finish processing my notes, but thanks to the collective intelligence of the Web, Aldon Hynes had already posted his notes and a machinima. is this what JP is talking about?). Some takeaways for me: I learned how to spell and pronounce this new genre of filmmaking. Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Just read the application FAQ. The plants given by your friends are displayed in a (Lil) Green Patch on your profile. Like a real garden, it requires maintenance and the game includes lots of ways to interact with the larger Green Patch community and your friends. The application is one of the top ten most installed applications on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

The CC Comic - Use some of the images in cards: [link] [link] Legal Terms: [link] Detail FAQ [link]. Resources: Resources from CC site to have handy - will be wireless in the room: To download graphics of license and logos ( here ) The simple how to choose a license - what changes with 3.0? Educause [link]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Facebook FAQ on Pages. Jenny Ambrozek, Ten Tips for Getting Business Value Out of Groups. Heather Mansfield, Facebook Best Practices - Interview. Shara Karasic, Setting Up A Facebook Page. Did you write a fabulous tip sheet for Facebook Fan Pages? Also, I had major brain blip and forgot the name of the polling app that they mentioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

TechSoup recently published a FAQ about " Borrowing Images from the Web. This YouTube video is from Kenneth Goldstein and it's hilarious. On the serious side, I wish there were some clear guidelines about what exactly is fair use in the nonprofit space. While "fair use" is a somewhat nebulous term ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Flickr Official Documents How to get the most out of flickr FAQ. CogDog Blog's Brilliant: What can you do with flickr? Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Getting Attention on Flickr. Tips from Thomas Hawk. Screencast: Using Flickr As A Resource for Presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook Pages FAQ by Facebook [Update: Added on 5.26.2009]. If you don’t get these things right chances are you will have less of an impact on the community of people you are trying to engage and impact. More Resources (I’d go through them in this order): Nonprofits on Facebook by Facebook. By Jeremiah Owyang.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

Privacy and security was consistently the #1 clicked on FAQ throughout Network for Good???s What would be the result if we could mobilize the blogher network? Finding #7: Increased fraud and media coverage of nefarious fundraisers increased donor skepticism. s site during crisis, an indication that fraud is a chief concern of donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

In it was was pointer to James Davis's Blog post about testing a tool called RTFM (Request Tracker FAQ Manager). (I For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software. I remember that term!) James shares his reflections on testing the tool: I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Sometimes this will escalate into a collaboration -- an article, faq, how to piece written on a wiki or elsewhere. A cross-blog conversation is where two or more bloggers post about a topic, but are directly quoting and summarizing and commenting on each other's blogs. In this case, it esclated into a working a conference panel presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Make sure to read through the FAQ and look at last year's winners to get a sense of what they are willing to fund. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. The Knight Foundation is sponsoring The Knight News Challenge and they've got $5 million to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The Official FAQ: How Does Google Analytics Help Me ? Our resource centers (like the Nonprofit FAQ, HR Resource Center, etc.) If you're building a new Web site, or have a bit of HTML knowledge, Google is a great free option for surprisingly robust analytics. Would be great to get a over in Laura's ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Automating the FAQ function 24/7 for stakeholders with questions comments, or requests without increasing staff workloads. Building your contact lists and signing up volunteers for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Protect your privacy and that of others: Click through the privacy settings on social networks, read the Faqs and be sure you understand what the settings mean for your privacy and that of your connections. Connect Thoughtfully: Friending policy for each online social network you use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Have an FAQ–and update it. We drafted an initial FAQ that had lots of information in it, as well as links to Visible Government. But we were missing certain pieces of information (for example, why donations weren’t tax deductible) and took too long to respond to questions and update the FAQ. Vary the message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

For example, you can use them for people to add their names to an RSVP list, add themselves to a directory, or write an article, FAQ, or manifesto together. Think of wikis of a good tool to collect information or knowledge. Wikis are great for cutting down email overload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It might be worth considering an FAQ section on your website so that you can direct misinformed people to it, and myth bust any continual misinformation. It may also be helpful to have a policy where you only respond to a user up to 3 times, and then send a link to further information, such as an FAQ section on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Facebook Pages FAQ by Facebook [Update: Added on 5.26.2009]. Frank Barry contributed an awesome guest post last month called: Four Tips for Nonprofit Success on Facebook. He suggested the following resources: More Resources (I’d go through them in this order): Nonprofits on Facebook by Facebook. By Jeremiah Owyang.

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