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APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. The pledge was successful, and Dana Wefer is on the ballot for the 2007 election. those might be. 2) Tell a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It's definitely a genetic predisposition. And then, on December 6, 2007, everything changed when my friend Susan Reynolds was diagnosed with breast cancer. What advice would you give to social media mavens who want to work with or help a nonprofit? And the rest, as they say, is history. Tell me about you.

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JULY 23, 2009

Take a minute and jot down all of the breakthroughs in communications history you can think of. This is why history needs you. You can get the word out, sure, but you can also: Get buy-in or advice on new projects. Q: Our CMO/CEO/CFO won't let us have a blog until we can show him/her the definitive ROI of a blog.

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

A Two-Minute History of Web Metrics: Tim Berners-Lee , a long time ago, invented the world wide web. We have a history and culture and expectation for objective web site measurement. Dave Winer says why rss subscriber numbers alone don't matter and Kaushik has some advice on measuring this. Life was good. What is the trend?

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