Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Begin by identifying what your community needs and articulate what the purpose of your wiki is. As its name implies, it is designed for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Is there an articulated need that we can help fulfill? Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Here's a few steps: Why are you listening? What are people saying about our organization ("brand")? .

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. Here are some of the highlights: If you aren't articulating how IT relates to your mission, expect leadership to cut deep. See Chapter One of our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I'm going to quote the notes from David verbaitem because he has summarized the key points much better than I could ever articulate at this moment and my text notes suffered because I was attempting to incorporate video capture: All techniques (whether intentional or not) are part of our vocabulary as visual storytellers and communicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. It’s uncommon for a nonprofit to spend time developing and articulating their unique value proposition, but this is one area in which organizations should act like companies. Identify Your Unique Value Proposition & Broadcast it to Your Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Search for your institution of TripAdvisor (for reviews), on Technorati (for blog mentions), on Flickr (for photos), or on YouTube (for rare but coveted visitor-generated videos). People with "leadership, empathy for what people like and don’t like, ability to sooth ruffled feathers, articulate." Read the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The best social media practitioners express their personalities with a dash of attitude and a bit of flair, and are comfortable articulating their opinions online. A good social media manager has passion for his cause(s) and enjoys participating in social media. Please get training!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

While requiring people to build their virtual designs required more work (and expertise) from them, it also allowed them to clearly articulate their designs and to engage on a more professional, specific level about the exhibits. Some museum professionals asked me, "couldn't the participants have just described their exhibit in text?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Flickr photo by Allain Bachellier. You have to put a flag in the sand and articulate what your outcome will be, whether grand or modest. Maybe it is the feeling that measurement requires data collection and that will cause even more information overload and why we put the task on the organizational back burner.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation. Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Consider what you are already doing, what you'd like to expand, and what you'd like to try.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

A couple of years ago, NTEN articulated how broad adoption of open API’s could help nonprofits spend more time on their missions and less time de-duping their databases. API’s and web services have had and will continue to have a large and positive impact on nonprofits.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

A couple of years ago, NTEN articulated how broad adoption of open API’s could help nonprofits spend more time on their missions and less time de-duping their databases. API’s and web services have had and will continue to have a large and positive impact on nonprofits.

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