Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

What we’re witnessing with the hype and geek love swirling around Google+ follows a well established pattern identified by Gartner analysts called “ hype cycles.&# It begins with a technology trigger, followed by the peak of inflated expectations and punditry. And, of course, all the funny comics showing the demise of Twitter (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

For additional use cases of blockchain for social good, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation created an in-depth report, “ Blockchain for Social Impact: Moving Beyond the Hype ,” that can be downloaded here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

After reading the articles while waiting to board my plane in SFO and noticing groups of young people walking around in groups using the Go Pokemon app in the airport, I decided to download the app and see what all the hype was about. This primer helped. I was finally able to set up an account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

" Meanwhile, Clay Shirky, vocal critic of virtual worlds, in general, and Second Life, in particular, writes a follow up post blasting Linden Labs for the hype around their numbers and others speculate about the media backlash for 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The product of this learning journey, Just In Time: Beyond-the-Hype Potential of E-Learning , has just been published. Based on a year of conversations with more than 100 leading thinkers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, this report explores the state of e-learning and the potential it offers beyond the confines of formal education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

In the last six months, as SnapChat hype has escalated, the list of early adopter nonprofits has started grow , it isn’t huge yet. But as John Haydon points out, the nonprofits that are using it are very creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Maybe I'm jaded. But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment. Slope of Enlightenment. Plateau of Productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

She pointed to this video from Chris Brogan about overnight success - and how important it is to focus on the results of the work, not the hype or number of Twitter followers. If we concentrate on our influence, we forget the end goal. We get caught up in our ego. Tara goes on to say: Focus on the big prize. how many followers do we have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

Conclusion Amid the hype around the iPad and apps , there will be lots of potential ways that nonprofits could use iPad apps to support their missions - from engagement, fundraising, enterprise and program delivery as there is more widespread adoption by end users. Take for example this app that allows deaf people to test their hearing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real. Later in this series I'll go into some reasons why the thinking and practice around these kinds of applications are flawed. Focus on friendraising first. It's the most human channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

As she says, “ Go one way, and you risk overstating the influence, go the other and you’re dismissed as assuming individuals in the Arab world incapable of leveraging social media tools for organizing.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

I entered "blog hype" as a search term and came across a recent article on WSJ online. The article points out some recent articles and polls that suggest a cooling off in the hype around blogs. " So, this is the backlash hype. Are blogs a vanishing fad? Are blogs this year's digital Pet Rock?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

No Hype Online Fundraising A panel of nonprofit fundraisers will cut the hype on text-to-give, email solicitations, social media, e-Cards and other interactive fundraising strategies. We’ll let you know what worked and what didn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. As Jon Stahl notes, in reaction to the recent Overbook Foundation Report , I wonder how much of this anxiety is the product of nonprofit sector consultants and pundits hyping Web 2.0 How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The other day I wrote a post called " Social Not Working and Other Social Networking Challenges " riffing on a post by Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges - the flip side of social networking exuberance and really just a normal part of the technology hype curve. Social not -working???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

The "is Twitter a strategy or tool debate" was fueled as Twitter got lots of attention (and hype ) as part of the coverage of last week's protests in Moldova. Ivan Boothe points out in his post " The Fire and Food: Why There's No Such Thing As A Twitter Revolution ," the real-time use of Twitter as an organizing tool is a not revolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The key question we asked is whether digital and social media are delivering on their promise and the hype. Almost 80% of respondents completed the entire 26-qestion survey (all questions were optional) and more than 1/3 provided their contact information, expressing interest in having us follow up with them. What we learned: a snapshot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

You can almost visualize swarms of companies jumping off into the abyss following competitors, self serving social media consultants and momentum created by mainstream media hype, each yelling “weeeee, social meeeeeedeeeeahhhh” and then realizing (maybe too late) with wide open eyes that they’re not prepared (no social media policy, no roadmap).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

This not just media hype, it's part of the Cambodian Government's ICT Policy : Government will promote Open Source system(s) in ICT to cut costs in a long term but also to broaden the skills and capacities of ICT professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Is Jumo Worth The Hype? This post is also published on Steve’s blog. Updates: I’m adding some additional posts by nonprofit folks about Jumo. My Thoughts on Jumo by Steve Hopkins. by Tom Watkins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for Leroy has with this one sentence: The real point here is that human interaction never ever falls cleanly into any category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2006

I really like " Is a Blog the Right type of Web Site for you ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

It has been hyped. I know that there was some criticism of Second Life recently arguing that yes there are two million subscribers but there???s s far fewer numbers at any given time using te space. I think that???s s a fair criticism. To some degree, the educational value is in being able to reinvent the world. And that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

despite the hype that ???everybody Even a recent call for organizational examples of ???non-profit non-profit blogs??? over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. The simple reason ??? everybody must get blogged??? ??? may be that the tools don???t t fit organizational needs. institutional blog???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. I've received LinkedIn alerts from contacts in the nonprofit space who are distributing a job description or recruiting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

I won't try to speak for them, but I do think they aren't blindly following the latest tech hype and hoping it will change the world — many of them have clear social change strategies. I can see how the author might have gotten the impression that some or all of the folks in Joe's roundup are simply shiny-tech pushers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Not buying into social media/Facebook hype. He warns us about getting seduced by Shiney Object Syndrome, a common problem where one does not have a target the audience precisely or use a multi-channel strategy - and just sets up a Facebook Cause or Fan Page. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Koolaid) Michelle offers some advice to both companies, including deliver, don't hype! " ( Although it a bit ironic that the Open Convio site has a blog like section , but no comments or trackbacks. So, the perhaps not everyone at Convio has drank the Web2.0 I will summarize more in the weekly nptech tag summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

tools are the right fit for their organizational goals and if so some first steps to have a conversation and not get seduced by the hype. This session is NOT going to be a web2.0 rah rah session - it is going to provide an introduction and conversation starters to help the people in the room decide whether or not Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

They hype around "Web 2.0" In this issue we hope to "shine a light" on technology stewardship for knowledge sharing and collaboration in development. This issue. It is easy to focus on the technologies. But technologies alone don't create change or achieve goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Here's a quick summary of my notes: In Fanton's welcome, he noted that it is easy to get caught up in the novelty and hype of virtual worlds, but whatever the complexities, "we think they will grow and become integrated into our daily lives."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

" As a marketing person, I would be annoyed if every promotion was successful and extremely hyped but did not somehow lead to a sale. This would fulfill my need "to belong" and be recognized. 3) Then, I started asking myself: "How many people are tweeting and donating?" 4) PayPal was an enabler.

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