Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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JULY 19, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Age Segmentation in Social Networking | NetSquared – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your thoughts and best practices for using social media with or for a particular age group. What do you think? " Add your thoughts or blog posts in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree ! And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits. FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign.

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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. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Here's a growing list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Does your nonprofit have a social media policy? Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. ASHA (nonprofit) social media guidelines. Intel Social Media Guidelines. IBM Social Computing Policy. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. How did you educate people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Cross posted at Netsquared The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? " Web 2.0, Need a chuckle? See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators. Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You have to be organized and know your sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. And if you???re

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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 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

" I also wonder if Davenport would say the same thing about social networking sites in the workplace? See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits. What is the ROI of the Social Web for Nonprofits? Of course, who defines that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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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. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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MARCH 4, 2007

Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. For example, here is a post that I wrote from Aspiration Tech's Nonprofit Developer's Summit for NetSquared blog readers. When we publish the NetSquared e-newsletter, we often draw from the NetSquared blog for material.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. The paper provides a theoretical overview of social networks and important trends. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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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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