Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. but maybe to me it's ???ghost

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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JUNE 17, 2010

" Amazon Patents Social Networking System, Winks at Facebook – "The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Amazon a patent for a “Social Networking System.&# Whether you want to watch the dynamic duo live on your computer or just chat with them on Twitter, the party will be a blast."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. 5: Make sure your content has a social life. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls “nodes&# is core of social network analysis. And you need to build some redundancy in your network so you have a few multiple paths to people and ideas of interest to you. This works best if you have small network. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2010

But Aftab, executive director of WiredSafety.com, said people who use social networking and geo-location technologies need to learn what the controls are so they can protect themselves. See any other good articles or blog post with a good analysis and advice? Tags: Networks Tips Tools and Tactics mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. "It seems to me that the tag is not that useful ??? I wonder what we can learn from them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

So I quickly made an introduction, thinking that they both come from different networks, but now could mutually benefit one another. Another master at social network analysis and network weaving, gave me some network weaving coaching from Twitter as well - saying that it was important to let everyone know the value of closing the triangle.

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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. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I shared some thoughts about using Social Network Analysis tools to analyze your Twitter network. Social Media Measurement Tips View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I had a lot of fun doing a panel with colleagues Jordan Viator, Carie Lewis, and David Neff called "The Real Housewives of Social Media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

One of the members of my Fan Page, Marc Van Bree , shared an interesting link to a new and free analytics tool called Fan Page Analytics created by Pete Warden who also created the Twitter social network analysis tool Mailana. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I donated with the hope that down the road the next version of data visualization tools report will include low cost or free social networking analysis tools. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2010

If you want to follow along, we're using the #networkf tag on Twitter. In fact, one of the presenters mentioned how she had discovered the tag from the last meeting and was able to follow along. I asked Nancy White on Twitter and her answer got me doodling on Powerpoint (see above). Philanthropy and working in a network mindset.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Check in on your tags and see if there isn’t any cleaning you can do! If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. dashes (tags for “blooddrive&# and “blood-drive&# ). Social Actions. Communities.

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JULY 8, 2009

The recent analysis of giving through Facebook Causes by The Washington Post was not encouraging. Things haven't improved much since Care2 published their 2007 analysis, The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Social Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

And as a marketer like you, who has added social media to the mix, I struggled with the same issues you face with being efficient with my and showing the results. Here’s how I use Spredfast to help me with these challenges. So Many Social Networks, So Little Time. Doing social media right takes time.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

– "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. nitions and examples for ten trends that we believe are shaping the use of social media in the public interest. " What do you think?

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

are all easy to collect directly from your social media profile pages. For a more detailed analysis of your Twitter audience size and growth rates, check out TwitterCounter.com. Tags: Social Networking Trends.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 Social Networking Web 2.0

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JUNE 2, 2010

Join us for a free webinar on June 17 at 2pm (EST) to learn more about becoming a “Networked Nonprofit.&# * Five lucky registrants will win free copies of the book! She is the 2009 Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation. Tags: Care2 Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I first came across their thinking and work on building social networks for social change via the resources section on the Barr Foundation web site back in 2006. Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve been finding RowFeeder useful to do a quick and dirty content analysis and grab all the tweets into a google spreadsheet. The content analysis gives you some insights into what lines were Tweeted most. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Training Design isconf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Collective Intelligence: refers to the idea that the social web enables us to not only aggregate individual actions, but also run sophisticated algorithms on them and extract meaning from them. TheForefront: Successfully Navigating Social Media View more documents from Beth Harte. Tags: ROI. Here's the slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. It doesn't work that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. A community tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I think these are four qualities to look for: Network: This is a collection of people and organizations that linked together. It's your professional social network or a network of organizations or typically both. My Plancast for SXSW Session: Crowdsourcing Social Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

  It is a very well written and researched look at  how these tools have been are being leveraged for social change in way that is new and will continue have major implications.   The book is a cogent analysis of the past, current, and future of online activism and fundraising using social networking tools. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2008

That's a screen capture I grabbed from the Morgan Stanley March presentation and analysis flagged by Tech Crunch the other day. I was introducing a colleague who is of my generation to social networking and showed him LinkedIn - and it was really appealing. I am a proud member of the baby boomers generation (2nd cohort).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). Pattern Analysis . You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work. Social networks. Keywords Are King.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2009

We know that professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks. LinkedIn is designed for specifically for business professional networking, while Facebook is a bit more casual. Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

In yesterday's keynote, Charlene Li's key point was in the future, 'social networks will be like air.' In other words, it won't get in your way as you navigate across the web and it will feel inadequate (like you can't breathe) if your friends or social network or "social graph" isn't part of your everyday web experience.

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