Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Blogs, wikis, photo-sharing and other forms of online dialogue (unless posted by authorized Easter Seals personnel) are individual interactions, not corporate communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. One of the key points is listening. tools successfully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Insight Harvesting: What are the topics? What's the tone, formal or informal? Do they have round up a lot outside resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? I've added a wiki to my Facebook profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting). do or organize a flickr walk and other collaborative photo sharing project that documents the NTC conference in some creative way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Gentilly Project using geographic information technologies and organizational theories to accelerate the residential and economic recovery of Post-Katrina New Orleans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

It all translated into electricfying conversation -- both formally during the Summit and informally during social interaction. (I I vlogged some of the friday night informal dinner - global dining partners - Download globaldinningpartners.wmv. Angelo grabbed flickr photos that were uploaded in real-time to add to the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I'm continuing with this informal research of the nonprofit blogosphere by pretending to be Terry Gross and conducting "Bloggerviews." The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Many have implemented phone trees that slowly and torturously give visitors every piece of information except the one they want. The reason museums resist peer-to-peer visitor support is fear of erroneous and unvetted information. Consider what happened when the Library of Congress put some of their photo collections on Flickr.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Could you share your story, whether it’s you know, with the people at your dinner table, or whether you’re delivering the keynote, but how can you always be thinking about opportunities to talk about the organization, formally and informally? You will also see some photos of my adorable toddler.

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JULY 11, 2007

But I’m here to tell you that mastering interactive calendars or sending photos on cell phones isn’t rocket science. They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

The problem is that many people use the text bullet points templates to communicate their information, rather than the power of visuals to tell their organization's story. Where can you find photos that aren't outrageously expensive or under copyright protection? You could pay for banal photo stock, but there is another option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Flickr photo from AussieGal. I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "BY" license. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "by" License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! I just noticed on the NTEN site a great post about a pointer to survey that is collecting information about web site benchmarks (slightly broader than metrics).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

on using the web to highlight important information in situations where. information overload may be a problem. same time, information pollution is an increasing problem for the. trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2013

The genius might have a quote, photo, or object on display to give context to the story, but the majority of the content will be developed and produced by the museum, not the scientist. Thank you to the ISEN listserv for helping spark this post, via the controversy over Richard Dawkins' denigrating remarks about informal science.

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