Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Developers who are more experienced can create customized scripts and widgets on their site to accommodate the needs of their users. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook. Ning is also very flexible. You can even use your own custom URL! t that bad.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

I can't tell you how often people ask me if I think their supporters would listen to a podcast. Sometimes a new restaurant opens and is mobbed with people right away, but more often than not, it takes time to build up a steady clientele. Cross-posted from NetSquared. My question back is always, what do your supporters say?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. The HighTouch Blog points to a survey from 160Characters detailing how quickly people expect responses from various forms of communication. Google Aps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. Ever wondered what people who work in nonprofit technology around the world are thinking?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. There are a lot of people out there reading and writing blogs. Widgets like ChipIn and Network for Good Badges , and services like Firstgiving make it easy for them to support your cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Answer comments that people leave. Comment on other people's blogs. If someone writes something bad about your organization, I'll betcha that they are saying it to other people, and that other people may have the same feelings. Here's the thing: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

" The article uses the term "Social Networking Fatique" and the trend about younger people cutting back their use. A good point made based on research was: " Social networking Web sites are relevant to people at different times in their lives." People will develop resistance to it, and quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0 " If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). mean for you? hard to use ?" And if you???re

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Before you feel like it is necessary to host a community or answer the posts, take some time to really understand what people are saying and who they are. Some people may need to be screened out if they are simply inflammatory, but that needs to be established with terms and conditions or a disclaimer. Are they valuable in other ways?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. Change.org now also sports a widget. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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