Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. To challenge my set ways of doing traditional Internet research (are ya laughing now Gavin?), Is it worth it to integrate social search into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Social Change. Social Enterprise. I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager Humane Society of the United States. In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. This was mostly a myspace campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0 To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0 What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I have in the past tried to access email from listservs that had RSS feeds. I just set up a few as tests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

About six months ago, we connected via a listserv I posted to and she emailed me privately to say hello. I interviewed educators in five countries on a multi-media conferencing platform, using over Internet. More than ten years ago, I met Janet Salmons the founder of Vision2Lead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Social Source blog (whose new blog template sports Facebook colors and font style) takes issue with Deborah's post. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

(I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. and elsewhere, and on these social networking sites there is at least the basic evaluation of how many others link to the sites. I can't do that anymore which is a normal part of aging or a by-product of consuming too much information called Internet Alzheimers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ). As noted by Holly Ross on the NTEN blog, having a conversation in blogs and other social media is a public conversation. What is your technique for responding to comments? How do you nurture conversations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here. As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. I'm working on a screencast and it might be excellent way to do research or share implicit geek shoudlder-to-shoulder knowledge across the Internet. Yet to be created).

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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. Should A Foundation's Financial Transactions Fully Support its Social Purposes? Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use. tools in their web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

Of course, not everyone in Cambodia has Internet access. t have computers or Internet access or even electricity. Not many Cambodians are doing vlogs yet and there are some good reasons for that (equipment, lack of Internet access, language barriers, skills, etc.) For example, my family can???t t view my vlog ??? they don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. The latter is something dubbed "Rich Media" or " Social Reporting " This is a great opportunity to learn from some key learners in the video blogging field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. The research was conducted entirely online, using a multi-media platform and over Internet. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. On returning to the UK in 2003 she spent some time working in internet security before deciding to go back to school. We access all orphanages via the internet. " AVIF uses the Internet to recruit volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Here's the gist: Underneath the Internet advertising economy is a key metric that dictates how properties are valued and how online media is bought and sold - the page view.

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