Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Here’s the official announcement on the Google Blog and review in the New York Times. As my colleague Geoff Livingston points out, nonprofits have limited time. How do we invest that time as wisely as possible to have the greatist impact? It is only five days old – time will tell. Let’s face it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can help you reach more people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? to help you estimate how much time you might need, and compare it with the time you have to give. Also, what is the time line for the project? StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

A lthough neither Digg.com, StumbleUpon or NetVibe purports to be a social network, replacing a Facebook, each is a leader in new forms of social Internet use. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them. NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

So, all browsers keep bookmarks – it helps one easily go back to and find sites that you go to regularly. These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). " Last month I summarized multiple threads about how social networking sites like Facebook can be time wasters for both for-profit and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece. I like to think about this in terms of the amount of time per week ( How much time per week does it take to do social media? ) Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly".

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

It was amazing how many there were, sometimes even two at the same time. But I have seen groups use LinkedIn to form committees that do fundraising, to have people volunteer time from an in-kind standpoint, etc. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. I went to several Web 2.0

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Don’t count out the smaller sites, as together with Twitter and Email, they account for 62% of social sharing. times, regardless of social network or the number of people who shared the content. Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing. clicks and 1.7 5) More is More.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

million people have watched the prairie dog video does not make it a great video or an intelligent use of time. The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.) The fact that 4.3 concepts and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. Tell me a little bit about you I???m

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

Do you want to track how many people are signing your petitions after visiting your site? link] Bit.ly: A URL shortener that tracks information such as number of clicks, traffic sources, and at what time the clicks occur. KnewEm ( [link] - a quick place to see if your brand name is registered on hundreds of social media sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. Should we be spending our time or money on this social media strategy? I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Though I feel the time spent disputing could be better spent recruiting. On the social sites that are intuitively fantastic for good rapport. offer real-time valuable information for people affected and their families. Session Content 1.

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