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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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. www.digg.com.

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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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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. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati.

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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. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. We could have allocated more time for the hands-on tactical small groups. Experiment with StumbleUpon. to take in two of the technical topics." This way people could attend two.

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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. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site.

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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. Blogs can help you reach more people. As an excerpt in your e-newsletter, and clicking through to read the rest.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) It should be interesting to see how this plays out. Does it really connect me to people?

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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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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 times, regardless of social network or the number of people who shared the content. clicks and 1.7

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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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. sites were the right way to grow our constituency and awareness online that I dedicated a lot of personal time to pursuing them both before- and after-hours. Stop: Hammer-Time! StumbleUpon. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the realm of social media, this infographic , Storytelling One Frame at a Time , explores just how photos and videos are ruling social media, and why you should jump on this social bandwagon if you haven't already. What this infographic reveals: On Facebook, videos are shared 12 times more than links and text posts combined.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Bit.ly: A URL shortener that tracks information such as number of clicks, traffic sources, and at what time the clicks occur. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. Eight social media tracking tools: Act.ly: New tool to launch petitions on Twitter. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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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. offer real-time valuable information for people affected and their families. saw that we were recreating the wheel each time and needed to adjust to one URL. set audience.

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