Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

We provide candid information to allow nonprofits to choose the software that will make them most effective. For an organization doesn't have skill in HTML and other technical stuff, TypePad and WordPress.com (the hosted version) are likely a good fit. a Consumer Reports for nonprofit software, if you will.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections??? How about weather information or flight schedules for a travel blog? If you run a financial advice blog, for instance, a live stock ticker might be useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

Step 1: Use Newsgator to read and clip posts you want to stream Step 2: Grab the URL of the RSS feed for the clip folder (you have to scroll down to the bottem of the page to see it) Step 3: Cut and paste in RSS Digest Step 4: Edit the formatting (assuming you understand it) Step 5: Cut and paste the resulting javascript into a linklist for typepad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

Will work with the instructors or lab volunteers on these areas: Step 1: Identify Useful, High Quality Internet Resources Tech Skills: Internet Search Skills, Information Literacy. The instructors will need to create some worksheets that help the students cull information from the pages or we might find some great existing resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information. My first blog was on a colleague's movetable type server in 2000 and when typepad launched in 2003?, (I hand coded from scratch and my claim to fame was that I committed all RGB codes to memory). t have hand code 2.) I signed up.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

Services like TypePad and Wordpress tend to be top-of-mind platforms for new bloggers, but the session covered a ton of features about what makes Blogger different and great for nonprofits such as: Free hosting (use your own URL!). Outreach and communication to the public. Increase pub understanding of conservation and social issues.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Its basically about storing and retrieving information. If youve ever kept a list of information in Excel, you will be relieved to know that under the hood, even the most sophisticated database contains tables that look exactly like a simple list in Excel - with rows and columns of data. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible. I try to take this very seriously, and I'm just beginning to learn ways to engage in an informed manner.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2005

If I had known I would like blogging so much, I would have set up a Typepad account, because it has more features, but Blogger is just fine and it's a bargain! That will allow each of your posts to be archived as a separate page making it easier for people to find your posts when they search for information on a particular topic.

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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

MARCH 20, 2007

Can help you "listen" by gathering feedback and other information from your blog readers. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the. I went through the typepad collection and installed (unstalled) a lot of them. If you're not using typepad, don't despair, you can.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. Maybe one of my readers will point me to some third-party typepad plugin that does this? I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad. Thank you readers! Authority???

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Museums don’t have the lock on hands-on informal education experiences. The reason we chose typepad [wordpress] is because we could be notified immediately when we get a comment in, we can monitor in live time. Museums aren’t competing with other museums; they’re competing with corporate America. Museums have a dual challenge now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

My blogging platform, Typepad, does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits! I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2006

For those of use who blog on technology, politics, marketing, fundraising, and other issues, the public image of the blogger as a teenaged diarist or bored young mom giving the whole world way too much personal information is one we combat daily. By far the largest single group of bloggers are online diarists.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

After continuing, fill out your contact information and agree to the terms of service. You can view more detailed instructions for installing Google Analytics on Drupal , Joomla , Typepad , Wordpress , and even MySpace (yes it works!). Follow the on-screen instructions. The next step is the most important one.

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