Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2009

My newest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog. Because of search, it no longer matters how many blog posts I write, because search can find the relevant ones for me or my readers. Enter Twitter. Twitter has created the most up-to-the minute archive of conversations around the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Tags: blogging blog redesign redesign round up strategy website.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

However, just because your nonprofit has an active Facebook doesn’t mean you can automatically utilize Twitter or LinkedIn effectively. Get People Talking on: Twitter. Twitter is an opportunity for continuous and open conversation with your supporters. Twitter’s demographics are commonly under 50 and college-educated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

By liking, commenting, reposting, or sharing, you and your followers can keep a conversation going across your networks. The functionality is just like Twitter, focusing on short, written exchanges and timely discourse. Tag the community partners who have helped you along the way and amplify the voices of your strongest supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I just happen to notice a Twitter follower, David Lipscomb, who retweeted this great find from the McKinssey. This can be done with direct replies @ on Twitter or hashtags. It's a Twitter Guide to the Climate Bill Discussion. Tags: social media. For example, take a look at what EDF has put together.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

I’m really excited to [finally] announce that I’m going to be redesigning this blog/website. Right now, this blog could really be categorized as a blog. But what’s really important to me, is that there are A WHOLE HECK OF A LOT of conversations here: there are around 500 posts and over 6,700 comments !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Note from Beth: If you’ve been following my blog lately, you know I’ve been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance. A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. What was the objective? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts. I counted most on Twitter followers to spread the word. Here is what he learned. Technology.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 11, 2010

Launched today, Association Chat’s new blog helps association folks to connect with colleagues in the weekly #assnchat Twitter chat, and extends the conversation's reach from Twitter to the wider Web. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in Twitter chat series #socialmedia. The beauty of Twitter is that you can do a little bit of network weaving to bring other people in the thread. I was scanning who else was on Twitter, but not participating in the thread and I tweeted a question or invitation to join them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. Tags: twitter. Better yet, I'd like to see a wikispace that included descriptions, links to tutorials, and tips.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Follow him on Twitter. Tag, you’re it. This series of blog posts will focus on methods that allow you to. conversation (HR-appropriate, please). Engage others in conversation. Have a real conversation. add some of this context back to some of your conversations. business, based in Austin, Texas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

published its first blog post. In fact, what I have discovered over the last year is that blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. 10 Most Popular Blog Posts :: Year One: Views. 10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits. Tags: Blogging Social Media. One year ago today Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

The January #4Change Twitter Chat will focus on the use of Twitter and other social media tools in campaigning. by leaving a comment on this blog post. Or, you can tag your resources or posts using Delicious with the tag “4change&# and we’ll pick it up for you. Where : Twitter (search for #4Change ).

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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. Twitter Search. Getting Started.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

A recent comment from Ichi (working on social media for good in Japan w/ SocialCompany.org ) asked after the tools I was using on this blog to bring in comments via Twitter. Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

This post is reposted from the #4Change blog. June #4Change Chat Questions: To keep the two-hour chat on topic, I’ll be helping guide conversation by using some of the questions below to drive us to share ideas, examples and resources. If you want to take a peak at where we may go in the conversation, review the questions below.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Listen first and discover where the conversations are! Tweetdeck – add columns to listen and track conversations or watch mentions. Conversations take place in both places separately and together. Multi-channel conversations. Where are the conversations? Learn what people want to hear. Communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We've been reflecting on all the great conversations we had with people from around the country (and around the world) on how new media is and/or might enhance their work. . Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Conference on AIDS. Plan ahead. Make it known.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? They simply refer to tags that can be added to any URL. Perhaps it’s Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, or your website. Examples: facebook, google, instagram, blog, website, qr-code. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

I was also reminded by one very smart colleague that the Twitter audience card had out-of-date information. In the last few months , Twitter become popular with old people. If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth. The Mashable blog raised the question, "Why don't they tweet?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been asking myself how can we leverage the addition of nonprofits and charities on the Twitter Suggested User List? I followed the ant trails to the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog post today asking the question, Should Twitter Recommend More Charities? saying that Twitter was now a “king maker”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture. There is something about Twitter Lists, the new feature recently launched by Twitter , that allows Twitter users to create their own lists of followers that reminds of the gopher. This gives us a number of ways to look at Twitter lists and their potential.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

The conversations inevitably get stymied around Twitter - which is no surprise, as every nonprofit is trying to figure out what the tool means for them. Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. Clearly it works.but why?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Twitter can be an effective way to engage with your constituents and spread the word about your cause. There’s actually a right and wrong way to use Twitter. Most Twitter faux pas are easy to fix. Here are five common Twitter missteps and what to do differently. No need to worry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. Gahran has a lot of conversation with a lot of awesome people. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. Jonathon D.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Originally posted on the #4Change blog by Tash Judd. Join us for a global conversation, sharing ideas, best practice, links and resources. If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a Twitter account (it’s free). Blog: Brave New World for Volunteering. How to join the chat. Feeling brave?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Originally posted on the #4Change blog by Tash Judd. Join us for a global conversation, sharing ideas, best practice, links and resources. If you want to contribute to the conversation, you’ll need to have a Twitter account (it’s free). Blog: Brave New World for Volunteering. How to join the chat. Feeling brave?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2009

Anyway, this small book about Twitter is packed with simple, practical advice for getting you up to speed quickly. I think of it as a kinda Strunk and White for Twitter with brevity, wit, great examples, and simplicity.Each color coded section covers: Getting Started. Conversations. Twitter for Business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

It isn’t about following thousands and thousands of friends on Twitter. Of course you have to be interested in what information or conversations they are sharing on Twitter. I know I am finding good people to follow on Twitter by the number of great exchanges that emerge on many topics. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Fine Blog Lucy pointed me to this great post on Change.org about Tori Hogan’s video series called Beyond Good Intentions. I’ve been thinking about conversation lately. Conversation is the natural, driving force of social change. Social media speeds up the conversations and allows more people to participate and shape them.

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