Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. Individual blogs or a section on the organization's website?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. TechSoup Global's Jim Lynch presenting to a briefing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. To challenge my set ways of doing traditional Internet research (are ya laughing now Gavin?),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. My blog post generated a referral. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In August, we hosted a webinar called Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries. Travis Montgomery, technology specialist, Liberty Lake Municipal Library (Washington). More than a third of our webinar attendees do not have a current technology plan, and 14 percent said they were not sure if they had one or not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. Details here. Go vote here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. And of course, I use this blog as a reflective space to learn by writing. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Successful communities on Facebook offer an attitude of openness, transparency and enthusiasm - not a technology platform for advertising. Well, she just posted something and it rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Nonprofit Technology. Technology. I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up. Social Change. Social Enterprise. The work in progress is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

My colleague, John Kenyon , who is a brilliant and talented nonprofit technology trainer just came back from trip to Australia. Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. I have always appreciated other???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. In it was was pointer to James Davis's Blog post about testing a tool called RTFM (Request Tracker FAQ Manager). (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2006

via an email from Dirk Slater posted to Rider-News listserv. comes TechCamp for Organizers brought to you by Progressive Technology Project. Looks like a tad more structured than barcamp

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog. Lovette Ajayi discusses Facebook's "Kindergarten" year and the recent Terms of Service uproar in a post on the Community Media Workshop 's blog. You can grab the slides and read her notes and commentary on her blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Tracking Blog Conversations. If so, let me know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 million users. and Katya A. It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. Although I do have a couple of uneasy feelings about blog spontaneity. ll blog it. If I have a ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator. I learned a lot. We will be holding a moot trial of Bragg v.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Last night, I dropped into the lecture/presentation by Jeff Barr, Amazon Technology Evangelist, in the open-air auditorium on Information Island. You can read the presenter's reflections on the event or what he calls "info-edu-tainment" here and a participate blogs about their experience here. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

That's an important distinction because one key to learning how to use technology is constant and dynamic learning learning from doing doing from learning Now some new labels for of us who are working together to create noncommercial public Arts Web spaces in a globally networked digital environment.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The Purpose Prize is a project of Civic Ventures , which has an impressive history of awarding lifetime achievement awards to people like Joe James , who is bringing the economic power of green technology to farmers in the rural south, and Barbara Cervone , who is empowering youth to tell their stories through the web.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. I had a fascinating conversation recently with a program officer about running an online community for African educators making use of good old-fashioned Listserv technology. Here are a few guidelines to help you along: Do a few things well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Tracking Blog Conversations. One of the key points is listening. tools successfully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. Those of us that provide technology support for nonprofits get asked a few questions over and over (and over and over) again. 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits. Screencasting Panel. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." If you have a blog, write something about this event!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. " She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Why did you start blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

an amazing woman (and mother of two) who works in the nonprofit technology space - for all her work managing the project and making it a huge success. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. But a big congratulations goes to Jo Lee. -

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