Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 13, 2012

Janet Fouts from Tatu Digital Media and Kyle Andrei from Idealware shared tips on how to prepare, design, and execute online trainings to make them more intriguing and dynamic. and shared tips for planning an online training. Kyle shared tips for how to make online training engaging and interactive. Janet Fouts. Crystal Schimpf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2008

I shared some screencasts by Andy Roberts that provide some practical tips and also explain why FriendFeed is useful (combines object sharing with friend of friend). He demonstrated using a client called Twhirl, but Marnie and Ruby noted that they were having trouble with some dupes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. I really miss making videos and screencasts. Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera. Tags: screencast vlog. For example, storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

and provide some practical tips to a non native English speaking audience. Mini Screencast: How to have a conversation. Strategic Blog Commenting A Screencast by Amy Gahran. Let me know in the comments below. I'm doing a workshop in Cambodia called " Five Steps to Khmer 2.0 " for the Bloggers Summit.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time. We recognize NTEN’s 501 Tech Clubs (local in-person groups) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) (online affinity groups) organizers are one clever and innovative bunch!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Harry's last green tip introduced the Charity Contest that allowed readers to submit a comment that included a suggestion about how to save energy or be green and the name of a charity. We're pleased to announce that Joan Razafimaharo was the winner, offering the above tip about light bulbs. Here's the screencast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. I've summarized a couple of the tips he offers about methods for testing. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2011

It’s where I found the above really useful screencast. That’s about when I also started following folks who were doing social media for animal welfare organizations, like colleagues Carie Lewis and Jon Dunn – and when I discovered ASPCAPRO. Many nonprofits have set up individual profiles instead of pages by accident.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

FundHub Live allows you to screencast your fundraising thermometer during events and show an activity feed that features your donors’ messages from their text donations. Pledge relies on an optional tipping model to cover operational costs and other fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I also got some great video shooting tips from Nick Booth and observations from David Wilcox which will be coming soon.). Screencasting Panel. Screencasts are a great new way to answer simple how-to's and record the answers to those frequently asked questions for posterity. A definition of screencasting, with real examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2007

I'm working on the second screencast of a series, sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce.Com Foundation. I'm focusing on the campaigns function and so I'm on the hunt for some stellars examples and tips. The first one is here ). Leave comments). Anyway, I had a chance to pick the brain of Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting on the phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I love the troubleshotting tips: "If you've been sitting still and your equipment turns off, just wave your arms to it back on again." . Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera. Now back to the FLIP camera. For example, storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

Hat Tip Jd Lasica. So, this is another easy to implement screencasting technique if you don't need to show details of a drop down menu. Diigo announced the preview of a new application that lets you create a slide show out of your bookmarked pages. I haven't yet tried it, so not sure of the claim "without a hassle."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I created a 4 minute screencast with Jingproject that will give you a sense of the workflow. The stuff that people like to contribute are: their own links and brief descriptions, resources, and quick tips. I noticed that people may be having trouble knowing how to add rows to the table, so I made a screencast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Mari Smith's post goes on to give you the step-by-steps for setting up a Facebook Page as well as some tips for success. And she made the screencast below - great for visual learners. Jenny Ambrozek, Ten Tips for Getting Business Value Out of Groups. Jesse Stay - What You Get From Facebook Pages Series. Facebook FAQ on Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

   The example of above comes a collection of screencasts about Facebook. ( Hat tip to Kari Dunn Saratovsky of the Social Citizen's Blog for find the one above).  In addition to links to the various site, we would like you recommend the best of the best how-to posts or videos for the specific social network.  

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2011

Each of the solutions, such as online conferencing, recorded seminars, screencasts, and learning management systems, utilize the Internet to take the common job training seminar and keep it on location, saving time, energy, and money. Share your experiences, favorites, and tips in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

I discovered a new blog called Blogging Jewish Philanthropy by ( hat tip Tactical Philanthropy blog). I would add for blog posts, you can let the author know via track back - which I have done with this post and the one with a screencast from Harry about how he uses Creative Commons. Photo by Cambodia4kids Creative Commons License.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. It’s curation of real-time learning. or ow.ly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

" Reasoned Audacity has some good tips on how to prepare for a radio or TV appearance. I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. David Maister asks " What do consultants know?

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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. Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

It took me a long time because I also made a series of screencasts using jing. I've included some tips for getting good clips in small video files. It was actually quite liberating not to be carefully scripted and staged. I should do that more often. I always like to start with the why. Note the cameras are very inexpensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up. I always include a good list of resources, particularly how-to steps, videos, and screencasts.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

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. It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? Hard to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

That's a screencast (with time speed increased) of what is I think -- is a twitter group coming from SXSW Festival , a major new media/emerging technology event happening in Austin, TX. Click To Play. Liz Lawley says it's the presence that's important. Joe Casco talks about remote attendance experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Jason Zannon at DIA points to Commoncraft's brilliant " RSS in Plain English " Screencast. Hat tip to Paul Hyland. TechTalk is produced by the University of Minnesota and appears on a number of public television stations. RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits. and nonprofits trainers' toolkits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

I am working on a screencast about nonprofit blogs and widgets. The whole podcast is about 2-3 minutes and I will use that as a soundtrack for Act 2 in the screencast. If you pop through the browser to my site and look at my side bar, you'll see I've set up a few more widget experiments, including the tip jar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'm working on another screencast (sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce ) about the SalesForce/Google Ad Words Integration. What are your tips and advice? Ten Tips for Getting Started with Google AdWords. Ten Tips for Getting Started with Google AdWords. Keyword Tips for Writing Powerful Google Ads.

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Qgiv

MAY 10, 2023

We’ve put together some helpful tips to help you make the most of your text fundraising software. At Qgiv, our text fundraising platform includes a live screencast option, which means that you can use text fundraising to reach fundraising event goals and guests can see their gifts applied toward your goal in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Blackbaud, Inc. Nonprofit Times covers it here.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

However, we are a big fan of screencasts. Want more tips? Make sure you have a detailed support and training process in place to help users. There are many tactics for doing this, and no one right answer. Here is a quick one we created for our winning DataMasher site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. So here is my current survey of the landscape. I’m starting this series off with just a list of the server-based DBMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. So here is my current survey of the landscape. I’m starting this series off with just a list of the server-based DBMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009. A few blog redesign resources I need to sink my teeth into after I share my goals, audience, etc. Critique Your Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter. Feedburner.

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