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. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Know Your Goals.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. Getting Social. They're all specialized networks targeted at an older audience: Seniors Meetup Groups - This is a list of meetup groups for seniors by seniors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. Tags: Books. This post, from David Venn, was one of the responses. Look at me!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. Social networks. How to Listen on Social Networks by KD Paine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How can your organization effectively brand itself and get on the radar?

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

While paid advertising is a very effective way to increase your list of supporters and help brand your organization to target audiences, earned media is another key tactic to deploy in your overall online communications strategy. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. What is Earned Media?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

As she puts it: With an audience of mostly young children and families in primarily non-collecting hands-on museums, most of them small, what are the best web strategies? Take it to the next level, and museums could network these personal sites to create an internal, safe visitor social space where kids could view each other's work.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. Bookmark your hour each week and start wading in. ventures?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. There are still many people out there who don't think it's a good thing to spend lots of time in front of a computer, who are perturbed by the idea of virtual social networks and online communities. Does my virtual pet really need a social network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It starts off with a brief introduction to what social media is, follows with how to set goals, gets into the specifics of what to do, and finishes off with how to measure your results. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? You need to know from where your audience is coming to your blog. Consider your audience when you select a particular widget. Social Networking Tool or Service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? There were some good points made about the need for context (outcomes and audience), some assumptions made about bloger RSS reader behaviors, and a very short list of tools. Context to me means outcomes, intent, and audience. Are blog metrics all about traffic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. I routinely bookmark and comment on environmental news, green blogs, and stories about sustainability and alternative energy technology. I feel that someone who???s Stop: Hammer-Time!

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