Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

We interviewed three nonprofit trailblazers -- Dave Pentecost (also known as avatar "Usu Ventura"), Barry Joseph ("Globalkids Bixby"), and Evonne Heyning ("In Kenzo") -- all from youth organizations doing projects in Second Life and pictured below! Technorati Tags: secondlife.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Chris Brogan, one of my favorite bloggers, has started a project called The Social Media 100 where he has pledged to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for business, organization, or personal interests. It depends on how you???re s name, your products??? names, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

m co-facilitating a group of people working in non-profit organizations in the Netherlands, working on what we call ???e-collaboration??? Technorati Tags: snnonprofit , nptech , net2. via my nonprofit and online community virtual colleague in the Netherlands, Joitske Hulsebosch , comes word of a new group blog project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2005

Wonder if any nonprofit organizations have used this technique? Technorati Tag: nptech. Also, add the technorati tag : Filipina Add the image to the post. Update: I fixed the link to Filipina and because the recent trackback suggests linking the word Filipina as many times as you can. I'm adding the word, Filipina again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

But when it comes to technology like Technorati, there is a validation of weak ties over strong ties. Words from the three organizers: Elisa 's post on the conference content and a blogher story. The gender difference concerns the style of networking. Each have their value. The first session. Jay Rosen' s notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

And, if it isn't appropriate or the organization isn't ready to blog - that's okay, simply commenting can be a form of participation in blogosphere and perhaps help meet goals. Technorati Tags: nptech. Technorati Tags: Berkman You don't have go it alone -- there can be community-generated content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , is organizing the annual "Night Before The Day of Service Dinner." Technorati Tags: nte2 , nptech " This has been annual event since the conference in Orlando back in 2002. s cheap It???s s funky It???s s got a bar It???s s got a big room It??? Details to follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. You can also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10 So, here's a stab with lots of caveats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

into their organization's missions? Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , inventiveness. Nancy White has a great post about "Blog as Classroom, Playground, Mind Trip" I went directly to the playground, a place to experiment and learn how to incorporate web 2.0 technologies into teaching practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

A few years ago when I was working for the Online Arts Leadership project with the New York State Alliance for Arts Organizations and Cornell University, I met Julia Fabris McBride. Technorati Tags: arts , artsadministration , artsmanagement She has since started her own consultanting company, Community Collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

ScoutSeven is a project devoted to "harnessing the convergence of innovative online technology, grassroots organizing, organizational development and social justice values." " The founder is Leda Dederich whose expertise is technology for grassroots organizing. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

He will be talking about his organization uses blogging to further their work. Interplast is the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery to children in developing countries. (I Technorati Tags: net2 Seth Mazow from Interplast is presenting at Net Tuesday in SF tonight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

They gave instructions in detail about how non-governmental organizations, human rights groups, and individuals trying to speak the truth under dangerous circumstances can secure their communications and data, and minimize the likelihood that people will get caught or arrested as a result of their work. webjustice2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

You want to express the human of your organization. If your organization is not ready for some changes in how you work - blogs tend to stimulate some change. Technorati Tags: nte2 , nptech Your nonprofit should consider a blog if. You want to enable easy ways for people to share knowledge and information. Other ideas?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2005

RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. The organization maintains a blog called " Hanging Together ," the name inspired by the Ben Franklin quote above. Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2005

Although they have yet to hire an ED and are still setting up management/governance for the organization, they've already funded some projects, including $2 million to the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit (not sure if that is MIT Media Lab or the nonprofit that has been set up). Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , nonprofit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

" The description is: How can organizations educate their masses for door-to-door canvassing, fundraising, or advocacy? We'll explore how games can scale up learning to build capacity for thousands of grassroots organizations. Technorati Tags: seriousgames , sl , nptech , net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2005

We want to learn how organizations and their technology support look for appropriate software for nonprofit work, evaluate software options, and decide which tools to use. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 We need your help: 1. Fill it out! It'll take about 10-15 minutes to complete the survey. Pass it on!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

I'm curious why Tomato Nation that has a technorati rank of 18,779 compared with AVC's (Fred Wilson) rank of 865 and Tech Crunch's rank of 4 has managed to raise so much more money? Does it illustrate the problems of using the Technorati rank as any serious benchmark? Is this a measure of engaged readers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2005

I think you need to start with the people who are the most interested and passionate about it and spread it slowly through the organization. Through sessions like this, you would identify staff members' whose jobs depend on having a system to organize information and share it. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

He wanted to work for an organization that facilitates bottom-up approaches to sustainable development and after seeing an ad in the Idealist he jumped at the opportunity to GlobalGiving's team. (I And since I serve on the board of the Sharing Foundation and our organization was recently selected to be included on GlobalGiving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

" Okay, it is a Swiss version of Compasspoint but focused on humanitarian organizations. Technorati Tags: ngomeme Here's more information about how and why it was created: NGO Manager was created by a small group of professionals working in the humanitarian sector in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2001.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Blog communities organized around lifecycles of members versus topic specific work better. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_communities , nonprofit , ngo Steve, I'm wondering if you have any experience with how blog communities integrate offline relationships?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Because their questions are largely about technology, the results of these questions are answers dominated by the logic of technology itself, rather than by the mission or methods of the organization. The article also includes a very useful worksheet to help an organization think thru these important questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts , agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

How do organizations create policies? Easter Seals has always encouraged staff and volunteers to be champions on behalf of the organization by spreading the word about Easter Seals??? Easter Seals encourages staff members and volunteers to use the Internet to blog and talk about our organization, our services and your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The team is being coordinated by Britt Bravo , who must be the most organized person on the planet! You have to be both a transcriber and a reporter, simultaneously capturing what is being said in the form of direct quotes as it is unfolding, summarizing key points and spinning into an somewhat organized narrative at the same time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Successful examples of MOD/ACS - facilitate the use of blogs by people they serve and those people tell the organization's story. Great way to tell the organization's story. Technorati Tags: nptech Some nonprofits have started using blogs internally - talking internally - and then made it public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2005

Organization/newest. Technorati Tag: nptech. Thank you Ruby and Brian (and congratulations on your upcoming open source wedding ! Wonder if they plan to put their blog logos on the napkins?). Definition. Person/Authenticity. Community/Dialog. first, discoverable archive. Database/syndication. & aggregation. Thanks Jim!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

The article points out that adhoc groups have formed on flickr to support photo sharing and organizing around political topics, but MoveOn's use of flickr is on a larger scale. They have been able to review, organize, and make available over 11,000 photos to members and flickr uses. and MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Who should drive the organization's social media strategy? What are the assessment questions and first steps that an organization should take to determine readiness? Can an organization be successful implementing social media strategy without a formal communications plan? RSS, Technorati, Google Alerts, etc).

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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. Technorati. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. marketers use them to get attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. On Twitter, your organization should have a personality. Holly Ross's Twitter account is ntenhross - so it is branded as both her and her organization. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

If not your organization, then you as the marketing/communications/outreach person. Next, do a social media scan of your non-profit and/or cause using Technorati or a Google blog search. if you do not know what people are saying or how people currently perceive your organization/message? But, I suggest, to just jump in.

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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. Technorati. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches. marketers use them to get attention.

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