Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 13, 2009

When you want to find a way to volunteer, the first step is to search for volunteer positions using services that aggregate volunteer listings, or to search on nonprofits' sites for listings, but what if you could create your own listing of services that you'd like to give to nonprofits, and they could search for you ?

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2015

BoardSource, the country’s leading nonprofit governance consultants, provides some great advice in this week’s guest post. Nonprofit board members should be asking themselves the same questions. Board member performance needs to be assessed at all levels, and then the aggregate data reported back to directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I like how it aggregate the social ant trails of the community. And, how you click on your "friends" profiles and see their social streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

We're going to be on a conference call and a meebo chat for member questions. NTEN Members get exclusive access to ask questions and hear them answered, for free! To kick if off, I'll ask an ice breaker question or too. a great icebreaker question for Chris. This was all about early aggregation! just in time???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

In these forms a donor got both services—a place to manage the financial assets that fueled their philanthropy and professional advice on strategy, grants, and outcomes. And they are built around data—data that can be found, compared, searched, mashed up, re-purposed, questioned, and applied. These are exciting developments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. I asked her for advice: Consider running swarms as a series of smaller targeted tasks (i.e., Any advice before jumping off this cliff? What do you think?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

An investment banker recently incensed the nonprofit community by asking the New York Times, "If you just take your base home, the question becomes, why not just work at a nonprofit from 8 to 4 instead of a bank where you’re expected to work weekends and every night till 10 or 11?" Find an NPTech Job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. The discussion started with Fanton and Linden asking questions of each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Reply to every (rational) question. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? " She points to a post by Caroline Middlebrook with some advice about developing a blog commenting strategy. " Here's some questions to ask yourself as you star at the blank comment form: What did they say well?

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Care2

MAY 18, 2009

The first part of the report features a 75 page collection of case studies, advice and discussion concerning the most important issues in online communities. The report covers the basics, and answers commonly asked questions such as ("Should we be on Facebook? Whether you are using your Web 2.0 Should we have a blog?")

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. or more like web 1.0?) 20 practices.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2016

Sign up to receive the magazine complete with top nonprofit advice and tips here. __. Ask a few questions, statistical or open-ended. The best open-ended question Richard Radcliffe (UK, world-class researcher) ever came up with? See what their best tips are to get started or master your data collection and management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. Dave is asking an question about how to encourage community participation and ownership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Some questions: What kind of camera should I use? There were questions about signing a release form. He has two more indepth powerpoints packed with advice just on making documentaries. We gots questions about blogging platforms, feeds, distribution, video hosts, compression, editing software and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

The post also answers the question: Why would you want to install widgets? If you run a financial advice blog, for instance, a live stock ticker might be useful. As more services spring up to host specific media (Flikr for photos, Youtube for video, etc) widgets provide an easy way to aggregate all your accounts in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." What is Openness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. The question is "When is video a good. ForumOne Communications blog answers the question " How do you engage 5% of your audience that are most important to you ?"

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. In April at our NTC conference panel, we'll dig in and discuss some strategies, advice, and real examples from groups that have had success. Don't let your data fall victim! Get your data out of your reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why Jon Stahl's link list points to an article called " The Question " - The number-one question lurking in every executive???s Michelle Murrain responds as do others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

I asked Miles this question: There's a lot of media attention being paid to "Web 2.0" He gave me such a brilliant answer, although he warned that his advice will most definitely change six months done the road. " or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Last month, student Nicole Robert wrote about the concept for Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it. Below are three things I learned from the Advice exhibit and will take with me into future work. In the end, the Advice exhibit offered four main experiences--two that were facilitated, and two that were unfacilitated.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And so the question then comes into play, is it really time to go back?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2018

tax law, and should not be viewed as legal advice or replace any guidance from your organization’s accountants or attorneys. To identify whether these could impact your organization, ask yourself these questions: 1. If you responded “yes” to any of these questions, then your organization may be affected by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

so you can look at your campaign results in aggregate and see the true value – and hopefully lift – that social media integration gives. If you want more, feel free to reach out, post comments/questions, @ me, DM me, etc. (It’s the budget and stats geek in me, nothing I can do about it.). Connections do not equal causality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. This was a question raised by a recent Stanford Study and debated over on Brian Solis's PR2.0 But that would be a lot of content!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Not everyone needs a web site and a blog - that age old question - to blog or not to blog? What questions will you ask to generate insights?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Maybe I need an SEO makeover and advice from Bill Snyder and Jonathan Coleman. If you're blogging, who is listening? And how has the audience grown overtime?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

and aggregates them. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). In short, Gina Bianchini, founder of Ning.com offers the best advice about how to build a social network -- plan it like a party that people won't want to leave. Planning an event or building a campaign?

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

From grassroots advocacy staffers to Hill staffers and PR folks, the same questions arose during each panel session – what are the top social media tools to use to spread an organizations message and how does an organization effectively use online communications tools. All great questions!

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