Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

How did I discover this new blog? Britt Bravo at Netsquared posted on the community blog about museums and podcasting. So what are you waiting for - set up your community blog at netsquared.org and connect with nonprofits interested in the new web technology. A work in progress, it is intended that mode.

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APRIL 9, 2006

My March post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs , seems to have been helpful to folks (it even got translated into spanish by a blogger in Spain, so I thought I'd share my list, originally posted on NetSquared , of 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts. Example: Senator Barack Obama's podcast. podcast nonprofit NGO

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I will use a blog rich in video and audio to share my discoveries and analysis. Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place.

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MAY 7, 2006

The fifth Big Vision podcast is an interview with my friend Abby Rosenheck, the co-founder and Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , an urban school gardening program. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the "Big Vision podcast" link above, or by listening on the Gcast player in the right-hand column of this blog, or on iTunes.

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JULY 3, 2006

During my conversation with Rose, she told me about a panel she was on, that had a mainly women audience, and how surprised she was by how many women had questions about blogging basics. I started thinking, sounds like there are a lot of women out there who would like to start a blog, but don't know how. www.brittbravo.com blog women

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FEBRUARY 26, 2006

A while ago I posted an entry about how to Start Your Basic Blog. I don't have as much experience with podcasting considering I just put my first one up this week, but I thought I would share how I did it for anyone who was interested in producing their own. Audacity is another free software option you can use to edit podcasts.

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AUGUST 22, 2006

On August 19th, this blog turned 1 and I turned 37. Thanks to all of you who read this blog and pass posts on to friends. That is why the Creator gave it to your crazy ass.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

mostly about the process and mechanics of blog conversations. Are blog conversations as satisfying, rich, or stimulating as other methods? Can blog communities be facilitated? What are the similarities and differences between online discussion boards and blog communities? My participation in an online discussion at.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Hanging with Britt Bravo at NetSquared Conference Photo by Schipulites. For the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working closely with Britt Bravo at BlogHer and Netsquared. Britt will be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. in Chicago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog.

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AUGUST 31, 2006

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab. 125 if received after October 9th.

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MAY 28, 2008

I love how blogging connects you with people who have like-minded interests all over the world, but nothing beats meeting people in person. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. blogging conference Beth Kanter If you're going to be at either event, let us know!

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2007

I ran into him again at the NetSquared Conference this week and learned about Rising s: Rising s, the outreach arm of Global s , is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. That's David Sasaki from Global s. The complete information is here.

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MARCH 5, 2010

This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. You can also hear a shorter version of Paul's piece from KQED podcast. . Amy Sample Ward live-blogged from an event in London last week on the topic " Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights?

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JULY 30, 2007

Birtt Bravo on Charity Village discusses Podcasts.CharityVillage®Research: Seven ways nonprofits can use podcasts: "Seven ways nonprofits can use podcastsBy Britt BravoJuly 30, 2007Interested in creating a podcast for your nonprofit, but not sure what kind of content would be appropriate podcasting material?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Through my blog I see what???s

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

You can read Matt's account of the taping on his blog, The Kiva Chronicles. You can read or listen to my interview with Jessica last fall here, and hear Matt's presentation and interview at NetSquared's December 2006 Net Tuesday in San Francisco on the NetSquared Podcast. Yay, Matt and Jessica!

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast. Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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DECEMBER 29, 2005

I'm double blogging these days, here and on the NetSquared blog. That's a photo of me above at NetSquared's last Net Tuesday. A gathering for folks to socialize and chat about how nonprofits can use web-based technology like blogs, podcasts and social bookmarking for change. Here's info.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

I can't tell you how often people ask me if I think their supporters would listen to a podcast. Whatever you do, please don't abandon your out-of-date, un-updated blog, Facebook group, Twitter feed, etc. We have to spend time on the (blog, podcast, Facebook page, Twitter, wiki, fundraising widget etc.). What a pain!"

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FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus. (I learned so much that I enough material for several blog posts, my first post is here – it is about content curation.). What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. This post was written for the NetSquared blog. --Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME. nptech time you net2

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JUNE 1, 2006

The last week has been all about getting ready for, and going to, the NetSquared Conference (thus no new blog posts since last Thursday), but I'm back home now and getting back into a normal schedule. In the first panel, Elisa talked about using a blog as a marketing tool, and Tara talked about her 5 Principles of Pinko Marketing: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

But I did have a desire to learn more about podcasting, including microphones. It was the crumb of knowledge that I had hoped to gain from the session - as a novice to the podcasting equipment in an advanced session: I wanted to know the defining difference in mics.

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JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. I remember stepping into a Netsquared meet-up and meeting for the first time three people who I???ve t that bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

At the conference, I attended a session on video blogging with Ryanne Hodson and was inspired to go play in a vlog sandbox. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " Read what Ken Goldstein, nonprofit consultant blog, has to say about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. But don't ignore the other two areas. Now it is your turn.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So I scribled down some patterns related to blogging, tagging, photostreams, and wikis. Her additional points about the use of Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation spurred some additional reflections (boy I feel a writely document coming on.) This was done quite successfully at netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. Check out the articles, blog, and resources.

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