Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. It's messy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 It’s very widespread.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

" He gives us the pros/cons of Twitter, pointing out when it isn't the right tool. He goes on to give us some great tips and additional resources. There are lots of different applications and tools that you can you to facilitate your listening style, although as Jeremiah Owyang notes true useful business tools haven???t

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are hundreds of millions of blogs according to Technorati, and that’s just blogs! This is a free web-based tool that is totally customizeable and can be used both privately or publicly.To Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Finding Feeds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. .&# I wish all nonprofits understood this! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. .&# I wish all nonprofits understood this! at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I like the wide variety of resources he brings to bear – he’s introduced me to a lot of great writers and thinkers in varied areas. What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions. I like the design of Ed’s blog as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier. It will use up server resources at some server farm which uses electricity (which means, probably burning dirty coal, or natural gas).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Using social media tools and other methods to help people find your videos. RSS feed (of course). ego feed and topic feed via watchlists on technorati - and comment on those. posted to blog, ping technorati. s her presentation and a wiki with tons of resources. 10:00 - 10:30 Mingling. 10:30 - 11:30 Roundtable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? " It does take more time in the beginning if you're just acquiring the skill with a particular tool. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. It’s really worth a read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t."

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Care2

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!" Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed. Leave comments on blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Use tools like Technorati, Bloglines, and Forum Tracker to monitor what people are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.) Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.) Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

s choice award Number of youtube video views of winning submission MEASUREMENT TOOLS - tangible Sourced links for new list names from marketing ??? s linking to you -referring URLs in stats program -google rss alerts (can be set to daily, as it happens, etc.) ??? and have all resources available (related press release, web story, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Schachter didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. He came back an evangelist for social media.

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" What tools should they use? link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

So I developed some information consumption tools and habits that would scale well with the rapidly increasing volume of new material coming my way everyday. Most importantly, it remains a tool for staying informed and for reflection. I think perhaps the Social Ecology experience has made me cautious about tool promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools." I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. Benkler goes further , and I go with him: Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Social Networking Tool or Service. Act 2: Why. The particular Web2.0

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Care2

MAY 27, 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!" Have a lot of additional resources here: [link] and of course on my blog. A great overview!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). Avinash suggested Technorati. What is the trend?

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