Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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JULY 1, 2021

Based on our analysis, the answer is, it's (currently) impossible to know —but it’s important to get right. . Mastercard ) or issuing periodic press releases announcing aggregate funding to groups of nonprofits (e.g., Among the ten pledges we examined, the vast majority reflect direct giving by corporations.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. Dig Below the Surface to Find Gaps in Member Retention It’s likely that your organization measures retention rates, but are you looking at the surface or digging in below the aggregate level ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Round up of New Year's Reflections, Best Ofs, and Predictions for 2008. Rather than construct your own top ten list, you can aggregate ten other top ten lists - here's Social Citizen's Top Ten Top Ten Lists for 2008. Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. The proposed call agenda is here. January 12, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order. There is interest is seeing the NpTech Site become a central place to go for information, updates, or whatever is happening with NpTech Tag, not exlusively a place to aggregate nptech tagged items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? Tim also wrote a reflection and it is enormously helpful. I'd like to see how you are going to specifically look at success/change and metrics for your blog. I think that's essential and it is a big point I'm making the presentation above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

Supporting social tagging of museum collections, and providing access based on the resulting folksonomy, opens museum collections to new interpretations that reflect visitors??? Small individual efforts aggregate into unique pathways through a complex context. perspectives rather than institutional ones. Help others find this object???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

A quick analysis of the types (create a visual with mindmanager - concentric circles? See also Marc's post w/more reflections. " This is an aggregation of the above. Posts/Discussions on the topic: Jilliane's Post - Tagging for Nonprofits : Reflections on learning to tag and nonprofit capacity to adopt this new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Read this ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Second Life can be the aggregate of public good - we'll give people the tools what they want to see or not see but not control what people see. Following the event, I summarized the reflections and analysis in this post: Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals. and offered an analysis here. We as the stewards of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." For me, blogging is a wonderful way to add reflection and analysis to my design practice, and I'm flattered that you want to come along with me on that reflection. I started the Museum 2.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0 But this blog is mostly push content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Based on the an analysis of previous fundraising campaigns (see " Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Brief History and Meta Analysis of Fundraising With Twitter "), the first time I heard about Twestival I knew it signaled something different. She agreed to do a reflection interview with me, sharing what worked and what didn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

In reflecting over the past three years, the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring&# or “research&# to include several categories: social media engagement management, analytics, influencer identification, and social network analysis. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Some struggle to find an attainable number. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Finally, allocating time for a reflection about what worked, what didn’t based on an analysis of the data is critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics. One reflection exercise is to look at your posts and notice which ones attract more comments than others. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. In June 2008, it has more than doubled. It takes time.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. When the exhibition opens in June, visitors will see the photos ordered by aggregate score, but you will also be able to look at the scores by art knowledge (and geography) on the web and on interactive kiosks.

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DECEMBER 8, 2006

So the value of the mechanisms is to let people find and reflect on what natural heritage is—how it can be defined, represented, and shared. Using social software mechanisms allows people to browse and aggregate content in a way that is very fluid and flexible, but it is also critical that they are allowed to collect the object itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

It looked a little more comprehensive then just asking people to tag and then trying to aggregate (we also looked at other tools like CrowdVine which was very comparable, almost a coin flip). Our conference planner told me earlier this year about Pathable a company that provides a social network site for your conference. Geotagging Photos.

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