Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Nonetheless, he had to write an article. What do you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Holly Ross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Her selection criteria. Here's here write up on word press.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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