Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by lyzadanger. Rubel talks about the issue of &# content decay&# or the amount time content has to get attention from our networks. It is also a good idea to avoid automatic cross posting of content from social network to another. Hubspot points to a recent study from Bit.ly hours on Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you're just starting out, paying close attention to the aforementioned tools on the rise section is key to informing the direction of your visual strategy. So how do you decide what social networks beyond the mainstays are for you? Social networks can be ephemeral (remember Friendster?) Image: Shutterstock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

With all the attention on other social media tools, many people forget about the power of flickr, its wonderful community and rich photographs of the world. Take for example CARF, Children At Risk Foundation, which has just launched its " Reaching for a Star " Flickr Xmas fund-raising campaign for 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites. Subscribers are much more likely to pay attention to your text messages and take action if they are sent infrequently.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Pay attention to Internet TV trend and consider launching your own TV station. VIDEO: How to Write in Cursive. Apple TV , Google TV , Sony TV … no doubt about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I marked my 20th anniversary in Flickr and on YouTube with this video (darn the gown doesn’t fit!). After sharing our wedding photo on Flickr in 2009, I received an email from an Esquire Magazine writer asking for permission to use the photo. September 14, 1986. We’ve been together for 32 years!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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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. Is social networking doomed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. And, in this day of social networks — feedback can come from a variety of sources and unsolicited. So, I thought this matrix was highly useful to help sort out when to pay attention to feedback based on who the people who are offering it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. In recent years, funders, practitioners and academics have been paying more and more attention to the role of social networks in addressing issues of public concern. Collective impact, funder-supported grantee networks, and cross-sector collaborations are all part of this trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2011

As Facebook reaches 600 million users in January 2011, social media continues to attract attention from nonprofits internationally. Tip(s): Always make sure your online communications materials (such as eNewsletters) can be shared via social media easily. By Erica Grigg, Chief Marketing Officer, Carbon Outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable, and easy to use. A Ning site was developed in order to answer this specific need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

I even discovered a Cycling Advocacy Network blog. He also asks a great question on that I was pondering over with a reporter today: Beyond the big MySpace and Facebook social networks, how are nonprofits getting their message out and finding supporters on smaller, niche networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place. There is a huge gap in understanding between what young people are doing with social media spaces and what adults perceive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. We wanted to be creative and capitalize on the media attention to bring dogfighting into the spotlight. We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. I run the org???s and online advertising campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

Danah Boyd One issue came up over the fact that women don't network. Actually, women are traditionally the maintainers of domestic social networks. They tend to network more than men. The gender difference concerns the style of networking. My argument here is that we need to pay attention to the network structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Trying to create a culture that encourages commenter to commenter interactions through your own responses in the comments section--maybe by drawing the attention of one commenter to the thoughts of another. Flickr Photo by Lynnetter. Michele's commenters: 6. Lisa Juniker ) The Intensity of Sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I joined LinkedIn in 2004, but I only recently actually completed my profile and given some attention to adding people to my network which now has what one friend say "a crap load of contacts." While the plugin makes it easy to expand your network, you have to think about your contact acquisition behavior.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. Ed Batista, Executive Director of Attention Trust and Seth Sternberg from Meebo will be presenting. 18th Street) at 6 PM. You can RSVP on Upcoming , or just show up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. What you see above is a social network analysis I created with Gnomedex schwag (and some pennies I borrowed from Chris Brogan ) to illustrate the type of report I would like to be able to generate automatically. Suddenly, my needs changed and I needed my profession to be validated. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Social Web and PR/Marketing An excellent post from Chris Andreson on Long Tail PR: How To Do Publicity Without A Press Release (or the Press) Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. He urged everyone to pay attention to this closely. Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. Seth Godin - Flip the Funnel concept -- get our supporters to leverage their networks. They won't be reading your emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Peer-t0-Peer Fundraising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, KickStarter, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 Hours Weely. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. Updates no longer exist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Peer-t0-Peer Fundraising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, KickStarter, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 Hours Weely. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. Updates no longer exist.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

has focused on "interactive" and "collecting" museums, with much attention paid to the ways adults engage therein. Parents want cute pictures of their kids (and if you search "children's museum" on Flickr , you'll find over 20,000 images). Why compete with a social network giant that can do everything bigger and better than you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Peer-t0-Peer Fundraising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, KickStarter, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 Hours Weely. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. Updates no longer exist.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Effective social media managers enjoy engaging with and responding to comments on social media sites. They are attentive to their communities on an almost daily basis. Overconfidence about their social media skills prevents most social media managers from getting the necessary training. Please get training!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). Shelley: This is not about social media. Will: Right.

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