Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

.” It’s worth noting that beginning July 31 Google made it mandatory that all Google Profiles be public which means that your first name, last name, and profile picture will be visible when you participate in public Google Products such as Google Places, Maps, Images, Sites, etc. Download the Google+ App.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. So what can we do?

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JULY 17, 2007

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NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Your organization can create a page on your Web site announcing the new App and promote it in your e-newsletter and on social networking sites. A quick search of the term “nonprofit&# in the iTunes App store returns less than 50 Apps, and most of those are miscategorized Apps.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Citizen journalism.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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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. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Do search at site for the first time.

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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!" Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks. Visibility Through Search. One of the messages that came through from this group of experts is that social media can give you a lot of return for your investment.    Where does social media time/money fit within the overall web marketing budget? 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I'd set this up with the mission critical feeds to read, plus perhaps a google analytics report, google notes (for a to do list), etc. You could actually set up a specific gmail acocunt just for your social media activities and this would seperate it from your regular business email account and work flow.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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JANUARY 4, 2010

28% of sites have Google Analytics. *5% 5% of sites link to their Twitter or Facebook profile. *2% 2% of sites display both a Twitter and Facebook link. Danny Sullivan, a search engine expert analyzed another chart by Factual that showed additional stats but without exact percentages. 19% of sites have an RSS feed. *6%

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JANUARY 6, 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!" For this reason, you must tailor your KPIs to your own site and strategy.

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MARCH 23, 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!" Avoid using image or flash-based navigation in your site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. would most likely had revealed itself.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

By now many have read any of a number of articles, including one on our site , about these new features. Like other social sites, LinkedIn is a place to tell your story and connect with others – and LinkedIn’s new and expanded tools make that even easier for nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. discussion on Gustav Information site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Also, a quick search of “ website design trends 2020 ” will add an extra layer of creativity to your process and ensure that by the time of launch your website will include innovative and forward-thinking design elements. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

In the 2000s, it was important to have a website so that people could "find you" on the Web via search engines like Google. But the Web is changing into a socially contextualized information environment, and as that change happens, it becomes more important that people can "find you" via their personal social networks.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Set up Twitter searches and see if people are "tweeting" about your organization or industry. Search for your organization's name on LinkedIn. Start with your organization's name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

As Pudding Relations suggests "Take a look and see if you can use it to enhance your own thinking around social media with, ahem, military precision.". Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is listens by searching for discussions about blood donations in their local area says Courtney Martin. World Institute.

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Care2

MARCH 15, 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!" In fact there are several simple things you can do to improve your sites SEO.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Use search and social media to get better ideas for engagement. I've seen a bunch of presentations and survey research in the last couple of there's been a lot of talk about social listening and search optimization in the NPO space for the last few years. Our Current (Limited) View of Search and Social.

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MARCH 3, 2009

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Talking about time, is there an application which would post an update on all main Social Networking Sites at once? allows you to publish to your Fan Pages as well as many many other social networks. You can also consider using the localization feature of Twitter searches.

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JUNE 5, 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!" Tens of millions of people are doing business online. per matched name.

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