Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). What's the tone, formal or informal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

" It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. So, now we've given ourselves permission to get our hands on the tools. Because at some point, you need to learn how to use tools effectively and efficiently. Tools: Monitoring. RSS Readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? How-To Resources. Basic Overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. 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. by habit or just the resources you actually need to retrieve? Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The tools are changing, so if you've settled into one way of using a particular social media tool or set of tools, don't set yourself on automatic pilot. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals? Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

A couple years ago, I helped compile a list of " Fifty Fabulous Free and Low Cost Nonprofit Friendly Web Resources." " The idea was to create a list of tools that could be used in the areas of contact management, technology assessment, information aggregators, productivity, research, etc. Is the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Tagging can be used to develop a shared archive of resources for a pre-defined group of people (an organization's staff or community of practice. Adding RSS tools allows some additional benefits of developing content. How do people use these articles or resources? Who is in the group? What have you learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation. Content curators provide a customized, vetted selection of the best and most relevant resources on a very specific topic or theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. Without great content, the following tactics and tools are limited at best. Put these tools in place. 8 Great tips and the resources to educate you on each of them. Check out How to Use RSS in Sphere.

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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. You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This is a fairly small staff, with limited resources. We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. A Couple of Useful Tools To Streamline Workflow. Spredfast is a listening/content distribution tool. So, sometimes, the simple approaches work better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. More >> Tools. My problem has been retrieval. Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar. Communication.

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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. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Armed with a better understanding of social media and the tools, I realized I didn’t need to blast out our message to everyone at once all the time. I was working with an informal network of organizations that had resources and reach beyond our organization’s capacity and were also focused on our same issues. Look at me!”

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2008

a checklist helping orgs understand when they should not devote resources to Web 2.0. So does that mean that our org should not be investing time and energy in social media tools? ve dialed down the tools a bit. A number of insightful comments have led to the creation of How Can Your Organization Avoid Drinking the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2006

Just found Sonny Cloward's post about how he used delicious/tags to get resource content published and organized on the Web site. Here is what the resource section looks like. Sonny's would be using tags to publish a resource directory to a web site. Here's are the tools we use and how we use them: I created a del.icio.us

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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. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. Here's a neat tool to help you design your profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

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. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research. FriendFeed Resources. It boils down to following the few to find the many! What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Learn about both community-driven and corporate tech initiatives that help you make a difference in your own communities, and hear about the opportunities and challenges of taking on cutting edge technology tools. Important because: pace of change, strained resources, and the power of many. Make updating easy and keep it interactive.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

I slacked off on my Sunday RSS reading because I had a board meeting, so I missed this post. They are exploring how non-profit organizations use the Web and the tools available for them in the last three years or since this Wired article was published ( For Nonprofits, Web Is Windfall ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good. Facebook empowers non-profits by enabling them to mobilize communities, organize events, increase fundraising, reduce costs with free online tools, and raise awareness through viral networks. Fan Pages have a metrics tool that has just upgraded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

During a social media workshop, trainers Demetrio Maguigad and Gordon Mayer covered a number of online tools with attendees. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. FairShare allows anyone creating text content to submit an RSS feed of their work and choose a Creative Commons license to determine how it can be shared. My goal in using this tool is not to police my content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. e-collaboration???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. Content Curation Primer. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Chris Hughes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content.

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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). s her presentation and a wiki with tons of resources. m looking forward to the next meeting at Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain on Sunday June 3rd at 10:00 AM. 10:00 - 10:30 Mingling. 10:30 - 11:30 Roundtable. This isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. conference, will help non-profit organizations move into that world -- byte by byte, blog by blog, RSS feed by RSS feed. What is it? This site, and the Net??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. tools and business applications for it. tools already out there. apps risk free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts.

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