Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

After months of wandering you’ve made it to the (nonprofit blogging) promised land! You convinced the bigwigs to let you start a blog for your organization, you recruited peers to join you as staff bloggers, you’ve set clear guidelines , and shared some creative blog post ideas for your staff to draw from.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Writing quality blog posts that are engaging, unique, and optimized for search engines can organically improve your ranks for specific positive keywords. Use web tracking software to track mentions of your brand on various social media platforms. . He is especially interested in marketing, blogging, and IT. Author Bio.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Stacey Monk and I exchanged messages last week, brainstorming the idea of pulling bloggers together to support Beth’s birthday campaign. And we wanted it to be easy to do – write a blog post! If you’re interested, just: 1) Write your name and blog address on the signup form here: [link]. Amy (& Stacey).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

You need to know basic HTML to utilize the Static FBML App on Facebook, to correctly design your Twitter and MySpace profiles, your YouTube channel, and to create and maintain a blog that is visually appealing and professional. Launch a blog. I launched this blog in September 2009. I was a reluctant blogger. I was wrong.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Byte Technology

MARCH 21, 2017

Whether you’re a simple weekly WordPress blogger or a seasoned webpage administrator who updates and edits every day, having a video component on your site is a stellar way to draw readers and keep them coming back again and again.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield. Blogs fall under the category of "social media" because they are, well, social. So here it goes.10

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Google has been slowly merging Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, Blogger, Wallet, Photos, Location, Mobile, Videos, etc. 8) Your blog is missing social networking icons, an e-newsletter subscribe option, and a “Donate Now” button. This blog and @ NonprofitOrgs would have gone silent years ago. into Google+.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Micro-Influencers are thought leaders in a specific niche, write books and blogs, deliver keynotes, create original content, and are consistently doing research. The Engage Blog has a different way to describe nonprofit influencers. Now it is time to track your campaign goals against actual results. Step 5: Measure Results.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

From here you can do virtually everything you need for your site directly from a phone or tablet, such as compose posts, upload photos, edit pages, manage comments, track stories and even get analytical information on your traffic and site activity. And it connects directly to your WordPress site so you can publish posts from anywhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

This month’s Net2 Think Tank question asks, “How do you stay up-to-date online?&# There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. get started, just visit [link] and create an account.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2007

To track Burmese bloggers, at home or abroad, keep your eye on Global Voices. Among other things, he points out the YouTube channel of video's from the Burmese struggle. The Mizzima News is a site specializing in information, photographs, and multimedia coming out of Burma.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. And, on the sidebar, there are some links to young people's blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The origin of this phrase was a blog post announcing BackType Connect , " a one-stop destination for retrieving comments on just about any topic across a wide variety of blogging platforms and social services." The conversation graph is the mapping of conversations and how they're related across social platforms and blogs.

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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!" Leave comments on blogs. Word of mouth, etc.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Basically, they want people to return to their page again and again, whether it’s to buy their merchandise or engage their services, read the latest blog or just comment on topic-specific trends. The post Be Engaging: Four Plugins That Foster Audience Loyalty appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog. Loyalty.js

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Guest blog posts. How to lists.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. ” When engaging your fans, followers, and friends on social networking sites, on your blog, and in email, it’s amazing what a “Please” and “Thank You” can do. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities. Good luck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2008

  It solves the problem of monitoring blog comments where people specifically mention you.     People can make comments about you on other blogs and if you only track links from blog posts, you won't see it.  Questions To Ask Before You Dive In: What do you need track? Ask what if?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2011

"It's important to never lose track of leveraging the strengths of the people that we serve. He is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post and SFGate , and serves as a lecturer on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. 15: Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers (Berkeley, CA) Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change?

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Creating a ton of great content is a wonderful thing for a blogger utilizing a WordPress-based site. As the name suggests it tracks how many times all your posts are viewed but also lets you display a list of the most viewed posts. But what happens when—heaven forbid—you create too many stellar posts?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

." Traveling Geeks - "The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks." " Facebook Users Are Getting Older.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. What is Earned Media? Media outlets both online and offline. Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Tweets on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 10, 2010

We’re hoping to inspire 53 bloggers to publish a post today that shares how Beth has impacted his/her work and shares Beth’s birthday wish with his/her blog audience. (Of Publish a blog post about how Beth has impacted your work (be sure to include a link back to her birthday wish post: [link] ). How does it work?

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Byte Technology

JULY 28, 2016

Transactional emails are also great for user’s wanting to track their product to their front door: by sending updates you keep messages flowing to their inbox, which cements your brand in the user’s mind. The post Attention Getters: Tips for Effective Email Marketing appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 3, 2017

When it comes to designing, launching and running a WordPress site, there are so many critical elements to consider for achieving success, from stellar content to an easy-to-navigate theme and templates to keeping track of updates to plugins. of other sites on the shared server. VPS Hosting.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There's so much going on my blogging has just gone by the wayside. Let's get back on track. Needless to say - if any readers of this blog are anywhere along our itinerary, we'd love to get together. I've been absent from these pages a long time. What have I been up to?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Kasha at Rest by Cogdog Blog. I've been a fan of Alan Levine's blog and work for years now. So no wonder I tied for first place as one of the most frequent commenters on his blog. So no wonder I tied for first place as one of the most frequent commenters on his blog. comment blogging??? This is the notion of ???comment

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. How can BLOG (technology) help to make the situation better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. In addition, we track key purchases on a weekly basis (Tuesday through Monday).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Assuming our fictional organization has done this, let’s say that they chose to create a blog that the middle and high school students who volunteer in the after school program author, with stories form their work, things they are thinking about, events, friendships, and so on. In this example, we are using a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. In fact, I discovered his post via Facebook where I left a comment on his note and followed the links to his blog post. His questions are: How can blog conversations foster a cloud and not just a hub and spokes effect?

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