Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. BlogHer always inspires me and this one did not fail. Content generation. The sessions were fantastic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Don't be afraid of white space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Work out who your target audience is and write your content exclusively for them. I learned about this from a personal branding session at BlogHer I attended this summer. ve just read a value-packed post and are feeling most positive about your content. " It's a three prong strategy: 1. If time is a problem, post less.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0 Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. and teaches yoga in San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Don't opionate - capture the content. Live blogging is easier if you're drinking, next year we will have live blogger hip flasks. Tags: blogher bloghercon Don't worry about capturing everything or being perfect. Use word and cut and paste into your blog - for spell check and abbreviations. Ecto is a great tool for live blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers. Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

that is I love the content, consume way too much, and can spend a lot of time wandering around having a wonderul time. I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Set up a small experiment: It doesn't have to an exhaustive experiment. The Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. In addition, I'd like to thank Britt Bravo who gave her covered AOL laptop bag to schlep home the t-shirts from BlogHer and to Gina Trapani for donating her extra t-shirts. Photo by Shel Israel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." " Nicola M. Wells is an activist for immigrant rights.

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