Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

There are amazing people in this room - a combination of social media rock stars who are based in Hawaii - Roxanne Darling, Todd Cochrane , Lorelle from Wordpress, Neenz from All Top, Colin Devore from Viddler. Roxanne Darling presenting Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Wordpress, which Edublogs uses, provides Heading Styles. Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes)! Make the first sentence of each paragraph make me want to read the rest of the paragraph! #2 2 Use Headings! Use headings and where appropriate bullet points and number lists to break up the post into manageable bit size chunks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Another person does an analyzes keyword searches on nichebot and then googles the keywords to see the numbers. He has a template and starts filling in the shows. It's online and easy to use. He plans about six shows in advance. Then plans shows based on those topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

There are days when all I want to do is blog though and other days when I can't stand the sight of Wordpress' admin mode. Quantcast, Google Analytics, HitTail are what I use but eventually I end up relying on server log stat software like AWStats. I also like to play with stupid statistics crap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of them told us that there was a special plugin for wordpress that display the blog in style sheet that is readable on cell/mobile phones. Marshall shared his personalized Google search engine and we used to identify a few good links which turned out to be very valuable. We had a few "bumble bees" buzz by our table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. So now, go to Google, plug the name of the tool in and the words third party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

But I soon realized WordPress was the better option for what I wanted to create. Set up a Bloglines account, set up a Google Blog Alert, set up a del.icio.us I started in 2005 with installing PHP Nuke on my Web site, which combines several elements, such as forums, photos and articles. George Orwell wrote a piece once called ???Why

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Hard data points: Look at the feed subscribers trends from Feedburner and unique visitor trends from Google Analytics. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. Analyze the types of posts (content and format) that get linked and the impact of that linking in referrals using Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

BuddyPress – Works with WordPress but requires customization for some online groups. Google+ Groups – Easy to use, most individuals have a Gmail address (or can get one easily), but limited feature set and potential for making some private conversations public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics can give you these numbers easily. You can look at Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics (grain of salt about looking at numbers only) and the Feed Subscribers Trends from Feedburner. Also, you need to reflect on the type of post and your goal. What's the value of that? Cost (what!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc. We also use flickr, wordpress, facebook, twitter, ning and we use a cloud based file backup called DataDepositBox, ADP for payroll - using their web interface, Vonage for phones. First, we use a customized build of Salesforce, which the Salesforce Foundation has donated to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

For example, the Non-Profit Tech Blog installed custom search feature using the google coop. There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another platform, try the Squidoo Widget Finder Lens. It searches searches only a smaller portion of the Internet. It's one click!

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