Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Since 2005, I've been murmuring that the future of blogging is not with individual blogs like mine, but with well-designed web sites that feature clusters of blogs by diverse authors who are focused on a coherent mission. We launched it today, and I'd like to invite you to take a look.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

A lot of the organizations we work with and others we see in the policy-issue, advocacy, "intellectual-commerce" realm, are interested in their work being more influential. These are drawn from some work we did in an evaluation ( see the report ) of the ReliefWeb web site of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black.

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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. #4change is a regular chat about social media change. Another example is their use in a policy debate. What is a #HashTag?

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

And true to her good form, Beth doesn't simply announce her new site , she reflects on all the steps and experiences that got her to the new site, which is pretty informative and inspiring in itself(but that shouldn't surprise anyone who regularly reads Beth's Blog). Check out their project -- it's a great example !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

Managing Multiple Twitter Staff Accounts For Work Identifying Twitter Accounts, Linking to Web Site A year ago, maybe it was just the marketing director who was on Twitter or some organizations had one general, branded account. It is also important to identify your staff twitter accounts on your organization's web site.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. Look for a new "About Us" page on this site soon. Tags: alissa black Collaboration Data dimitry kachaev Leadership noel hidago Open Source Policy sxswi transparency.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

At Forum One, this kind of list illustrates the core concept of an internet strategy as distinct from a web site strategy -- not just how to design or build a smart web site, but how to use the entirety of the internet in a very powerful way to help achieve your mission. See the Darfur scores for example.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Speak With Numbers.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Speak With Numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

If you have written a post on this topic and would like me to consider it as a guest post, please fill out this form or if you know of a good resource on the topic, add in the comments and I'll aggregate. For more information about ThinkSocial, please check out the About section of this site.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. With such a clear policy for response, it is obvious that the blog generates valuable information to shape and improve a marketing strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Here's the call to action from the web site. As the Obama administration ushers in a new era of foreign policy, this nation has an opportunity - an obligation - to aid our global neighbors in Darfur. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. Stop Genocide. Team Darfur.

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Forum One

AUGUST 2, 2006

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. The social media, disaster response, non-profit and government leaders had a working lunch to brainstorm ways to better aggregate and respond to information on social media sites.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter, a micro-blogging site makes it easy to create short posts known as tweets from anywhere, using almost any kind of wireless device – perfect for users with little time, but have something to say. As an aggregator of postings based on followers and search terms, Twitter has become an Internet magnet. Good article, Allyson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing. But while these new stories are now visible they are not yet mainstream. .

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, online video, and text messaging to accomplish their own goals. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 Increasingly, however, grantmakers are swimming towards the deep end of Web 2.0,

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, online video, and text messaging to accomplish their own goals. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 Increasingly, however, grantmakers are swimming towards the deep end of Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. It’s also allowed them to find a new audience that are not as familiar with their policy issues.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Conceptually, commenting on other sites signals your institution's willingness to engage with others on their own terms. By posting intelligent, insightful, value-adding comments and responses on pre-existing high-traffic sites, you can drive more visitors back to your own site and nascent Web 2.0 First, find yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

Two years ago my wife and I decided we needed to get out of the rat race of the Bay Area, so we moved to Hawaii where I am now working at The Nature Conservancy starting up an international trade policy and invasive species program. I created NPOblogs as a means to aggregate the many socially progressive blogs that were appearing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. I’m aggregating the Tweets for #50smt here. Do an analysis to improve or create content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

If you've clicked on a link to the site from this post, congratulations--you are a ScratchR spectator. I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. ScratchR is not 100% safe, as I'll explain, but they have created a site that is fully functional for both kids and adults. I'm one of them.

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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] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. KnewEm ( [link] - a quick place to see if your brand name is registered on hundreds of social media sites.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2007

The Forum convened these groups and they agreed to work together to do what no single organization could do on their own - build a large online audience for action on youth policy. Capitol Advantage iced the cake by donating the software to run the site. And the site rocks. The strategy is working. All rights reserved.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

One of the biggest problems with all external giving sites is that lag time between the gift and the nonprofit being able to act on the information. Couldn't someone build a NPO aggregator "clearing house" that did all of the dirty work Apple doesn't want to get involved in? Is Apple's policy the worst threat to NPOs today?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Our monitoring includes: Tweetdeck for iPhone Dual office monitors -- one for work, one for Tweetdeck "As it happens" Google Alerts for name, acronym, CEO's name An iGoogle dashboard aggregating web alerts Make your commenting policy known and fair. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

But I don’t labor under the illusion that my clients are going to raise money through these or other social networking sites. Cheers, Cristina Fundraising Director, Greenpeace China June 1, 2009 | Cristina San Vicente Ive raised $215,000 for the Sharing Foundation through social networking sites. I tweet from time to time.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

One way to do this is by tracking your keyword rankings and by extension the overall traffic coming to your site from that keyword. This helps me understand what users are searching for when they land on my site. This tells me that users who come to this page may be: Uninterested in the rest of the content on my site.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy. 11NTC for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference, for example) in our communications to all speakers and attendees and encourage their use of it to help us aggregate community content around the conference. He uses Twitter to curate information related to his.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Facebook As the fifth-most trafficked site in the United States, Facebook is a great social network for nonprofits to build a community and brand their campaigns. Id also like to add the importance of being Googleable - having a Web site with fresh content that users (and, therefore, search engines) like.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives. They are building a centralized site to store and share Latin American public data. Their network will help with trouble shooting and data training.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

5 As for Uber and Lyft, these companies maintain policies that reward workers for low ride- cancellation rates—policies that are so tightly enforced, drivers are pressured to continue their rides even in the face of verbal abuse or physical assault. In fact, drivers’ share of the fare for each ride has instead decreased over the years.

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