Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. At that point, I researching and organizing resources for artists on Arts Wire on how to use the web. One of the tools that was mentioned was RSS readers. Oh, and my point was.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

For the WeAreMedia tactical module on Listening we need a few nuggets, anecdotes, or stories in a few sentences about how your nonprofit has used a listening tool (technorati, google alerts, or RSS readers, or summize/tweetscan to listen). Your organization and social media goal/strategy? What happened? I'll make one up for you now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Letting them subscribe to your site content through RSS feeds or email can help them ensure they’re getting the most-update information from your organization with ease and convenience. Most of the CMS tools we reviewed can support this, but surprisingly few allow you to moderate which of the items from that RSS feed are displayed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

It's free, but if you want to grab the results in a RSS, it looks like that will be the pro service. Powerful listening is done through Radian 6, but I also have a Ruby Goldberg like set up of RSS feeds from about 25 different sources that search on my name, my blog url, and the various mispellings. I listen in many different ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

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. Another Tip : Not sure how to get RSS from the Blackbaud Sphere CMS. Not sure what RSS is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Think about what is most effective for your organization's goals, mission, and capacity. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

" which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. I need get rid of clutter, revise, and re-organize. Organization. There's not enough hours in the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

This means that a crucial element of the Facebook presence must be the ability to 'pull in' content from elsewhere using RSS. He has also tried to set up a Facebook page for his organization, but discovered there are some bugs with adding applications that are installed on his personal profile. Delicious -- I use del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. Photo by Stuck in Customs. What is Content Curation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content curation is the organizing, filtering and making sense of information on the web and sharing the very best content with your network. There are benefits for both nonprofit organizations and the people who work for them. The discovery tools help you discover the best stuff through the use of RSS feeds and persistent search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. Source: Pew Internet and America Life Project: " Networked Workers " Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. In fact, it can help provide content for both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Social change happens through conversations, and the job of nonprofits is to organize themselves in such ways as to catalyze and manage those conversations. Organizations that can really adapt and use social media need to simplify. Network the rest It's about letting go - the staff or the organization doesn't have to do it all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

LifeStreams: Individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

RSS readers worked for us in the early phases of social media, but as more people are connected through social networks and sharing and publishing information, there is more and more information out there. Robert Scoble outlines different categories of filtering tools that can help you swim through the ocean of noise to find the good stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

One trick that I’ve used on every social networking site was to set up a “ Circle of the Wise &# — (on Twitter it might be a “List of the Wise&# or in my RSS reader it is the “Folder of the Wise&# ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

They know how to use social media to engage people inside and outside the organization to improve programs, services, or reach communications goals. Everyone in the organization understands that social media is more than an external communications tool, and they use it adroitly for their professional learning and even their personal lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

This is an interesting idea for organizations with similar missions or programs to band together and distribute content in a Web2.0 Curated podcast RSS feeds anyone? It looks like the widget was created in grazr. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

What I mean by that is a question as to whether your organization is following others blindly into the chasm of social web participation or are planning and preperations being made first? Adapting your social media effort or organization based on your learning or experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

How do your supporters (and potential supporters) view your organization? What are they saying about your organization? How is the conversation around your organization, issue area, or program changing? Who in the organization will do the listening? Are you currently using RSS Reader? Is it positive or negative?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

If I had better discipline, I might be able to do with folder organization. I train people on both RSS readers, so I like to keep my fluency on both. There are a couple of reasons for that --. Easy to manage multiple projects with lots of feeds - and I don't get distracted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

You can updates through RSS. You can find the paper along with some draft prescriptions for organizations. Look at it as part of your organization: There have always been good reasons to build your social network, but now it is a matter of strategy and applying the techniques of network weaving. Drill down to see the details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This makes me think of something Gavin Clabaugh said recently in a brilliant post about RSS. With things like Blogs, Wikis, and social networking in general, institutions and organizations don???t The fact is that many organizations already have an ???institutional t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

What's the purpose of your organization's blog? This is a blog that provides information about the organization's programs and services.  These blogs distribute news related to the content of the organization. Does your organization's blog fall into one of these categories?  AVA Opera Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2005

One of my personal resolutions for 2006 is to be less sloppy with tagging and organize my rss feeds. I use newsgator for my Cambodian feeds and wanted to consolidate and organize in bloglines. One thing I hate about these two RSS readers is that you can easily organize on the fly which means I need better discipline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2008

While I was reflecting on the question, searching my distant memory of how I began working for nonprofits almost 30 years ago, The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers popped up in my RSS feed. The Idealist also sponsors a series of Nonprofit Career Fairs with between 50 and 150 organizations participating in each city.

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