Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

I've never been referred to as an comic strip character. (It 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. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Technorati.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday !

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

In reference to a nearly insurmountable financial challenge from 2010, one respondent shared that, "We survived almost 4 months without our major income source from the [local government] by laying off 2/3 of the staff and operating on minimal expenses. This survey was very informative about the nonprofit sector's financial status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Start with information tab: be complete, accurate, and honest. Wall Tab - accuracy updates of information. Worst thing you can do with a page is dump an RSS feed into the Page - won't be as successful. Some Good References. Keep your page name short and accurate, can't change after you create it. Standard best practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

I’ve spent the past few years working with the semantic web, referred to as “web 3.0″, Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos. Our application also automatically generates RSS feeds for their supporters to stay engaged throughout the life of the project.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Paul, I think it is okay to blog private email conversations as long as you aren't airing dirty laundry or sharing too private information. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. I have one blog post here.

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Care2

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!" That lead me to hunt and gather demographic information on the various sites and where I found that chart.

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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!" That lead me to hunt and gather demographic information on the various sites and where I found that chart.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. Check this slideshow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 Authority: A measure of your brand's credibility and thought leaders.

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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. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

A reference to gadget in the Delta Airlines Logo. A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. RSS widgets as seen on AFP Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need. We then invite participants to join. t that bad. It was as if I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. ll come away with a basic understanding of and context for the words that are buzzing around us, along with references for continued exploration. (I'm hoping to also meet Nick Booth and maybe Steve Bridger too!) Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Also, approximately 6% of visits to our main site is referred by visitors to our Ning. We then invite participants to join.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 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!" Be sure to limit copy to just the information the readers need. (No

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

MacManus refers to the Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate as evidence of this. s the ability to more efficiently generate, self-publish, and find information, plus share expertise in a way that???s tools such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS, and social networking in their daily lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

Twitter isn't the only tool that is part of the strategy, there is also a video blog that is shot by an intern and shows a more informal side of Tavis answering people's questions. Notice how he refers to how the questions get to him, including Twitter and encourages viewers to send them his way.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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!" A good site gives users the information that they need quickly and efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I wanted to see if Avinash Kaushik had written in depth about analyzing Twitter in Google Analytics - I found his reference in his blogging tips that Twitter was golden in terms of referral. What's cool is that you grab an RSS of the search). Maybe he'll get on Twitter. Does Twitter Work Better As A Listening Tool.

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Care2

JULY 26, 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!" A lot of it comes down to a numbers game. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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!" A lot of it comes down to a numbers game. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Because of the volume and using free tools, Wendy had to do a lot of heavy cut and paste to analyze, summarize, and distribute the information. Listening leads to engagement.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

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!" Todays providers offer everything from communications to fundraising. Understand who owns the data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I hope that information helps you in your analysis. Thus, you can use Palbee for small group video meetings but also, you can use it for presentation, teaching, or any other information delivery. One last thing. You can share the recorded webinars as you do with YouTube. it’s easy to set up. controlling audio etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Delicious feels so social to us, we want to know who else has tagged the information, we want to know who they are.??? t come out with a pleasing way to display the information. Right now, delicious blocks out google page reference and spammers want to get page rank. But they have gotten too busy to analyze the information.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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!" A lot of it comes down to a numbers game. It takes a lot of work to build a quality audience.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" How about Digg ?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 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!" When selecting an online video partner, do your homework and check the customer references.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" How about Digg ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com.

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

Most propose an outline which includes the following: * Summary / Key Information. References. Contact Information. how to implement RSS feeds) yet not provide creative solutions for more global ambitions. Background. Objectives. Requirements. Vendor Details. Evaluation Criteria. This approach is typical and useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. RSS reading patterns are changing. The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Don't get distracted by the data you may or may not have, but look at more than one source of data (both quantitative and qualitative), look at trends and always link information to decision-making. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Who stores the donor information and how quickly does the nonprofit get it? One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. And anyway, they don't do those other things that you are vaguely referring to.

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