Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

In the comments, Sue Waters ( who was nominated for a Best Blog at Edublog ) points to some tips she wrote on her excellent blog in response to Michele's query. Usually, my morning ritual of RSS reader, email, and twitter and social networking dipping turn up some sort of pattern. This post may be even be a demonstration of that.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. installs a button on users' web browsers, which they can click when they find content to add to their newsletter.

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Care2

AUGUST 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!" " No matter how much killer content you have, if people arent looking at, its doing you no good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc. It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

8 Great tips and the resources to educate you on each of them. More and more people are reading content, your content, via RSS through tools like Google Reader so make it easy to find on every page of your site. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email. Not sure what RSS is?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, I think that a lot of Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. You can also easily invite all your connections on LinkedIn to join — a tip that should be shared with other staff members and volunteers. Instead, post news and new blog posts manually.

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APRIL 14, 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!" RSS feeds are your friends. Do you have other tips in handling crisis communications?

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JUNE 30, 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!" On Monday, Madeline and Jen will share their best tips for converting these new recruits into donors.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Thanks to OnPhilanthropy and Marc Andreessen for tip. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us technologies to see about rates of adoption. 8 Oct 2007 Mike Wow!

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MAY 1, 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!" I hope to see you there.

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JULY 15, 2008

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. Tips from Thomas Hawk. Community-Powered Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Here are their best tips and advice ??? 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. whether you???re Build off your existing brand. We then invite participants to join.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

link] 17 Dec 2007 social bookmarking With all the junk email we receive it seems to me that rss and social networking sites will become the primary way we communicate with each other. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us Deadline to submit your post is Dec.

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MAY 22, 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!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic.

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JUNE 26, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. We then invite participants to join.

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JUNE 16, 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!" 1 Comment | by Share Article in Online Fundraising Reader Comments (1) Interesting tips, Allyson.

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APRIL 15, 2008

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MARCH 28, 2008

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 17, 2006

They provide RSS feeds about human rights issues classified by region, country and theme, and e-mail newsletters in several languages. Finally, the site directs bloggers to the Electric Frontier Foundation site for tips on how to blog anonymously , if necessary.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 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!" Reference Sheet: Keep the benchmark rates at your finger tips with this handy reference sheet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. There are different tools and methods that you can use to listen , including free tools like google alert, technorati, RSS readers , and even Twitter. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

In general, a blog is a different communication tool than say, a newsletter. Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. I wrote about this a while ago: 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

in combination with the other delivery methods tailored to your particular audience and message, such as reports, newsletters, fact sheets, etc., Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

For example, my Google home page has RSS feeds from many different news and blog sources. Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. I could read all day on the same page.

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JUNE 5, 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!" Here are some quick and easy tips to start building up your online lists.

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JUNE 22, 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!" Just such a place is a webpage or email newsletter. Sans serif fonts do not have serifs.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

She "tweets" various tips for getting kids outside, links to new Green Hour blog posts and information on events and more. Blogs, social networks, social news and bookmarking sites are easy to monitor through RSS readers. Tip: Did you notice a spike in traffic from any particular blog? Save Yourself Time.

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