Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm just back after a ten-day business trip beginning with Blogher and ending with NCDD (Dialogue and Deliberation). Joistke is tested Option 4, guest bloggers. So, if the Internet connection holds out, I might get a elder member of my extended family to be my guest blogger. So, maybe this is be an intergenerational vlog.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

I've finally posted my review over at blogher. " I love the idea because it is such an effective way to learn these new tools. Informal learning from your peers is one of the best ways to get comfortable with using these new tools. Check it out! I know from first-hand experience. Thank you everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. The program is lead by blogger, environmental activist, and TED Fellow Andriankoto Ratozamanana. You can support the effort here ) Cross posted at BlogHer.

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MAY 16, 2012

The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy). Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing. Meg is a writer, speaker, storyteller and a certified Holistic Health Coach.

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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. Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers.

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MARCH 2, 2011

The second guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Wendy Harman. I spend my time experimenting with social tools to help the American public prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. You can connect with her on Twitter at @wharman Wendy Harman, Social Media Maven, How I Have Fun, Do Good I am the luckiest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) Through introducing ourselves to other mentors in the this project virtually, Britt and I discovered that we had a lot more in common than nonprofit technology and blogher interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

Cyberstalking and Cyberbullying is a real issue, impacting many women (and men) online - not just the high profile a-list bloggers. Lisa Stone at Blogher has responded to the situation here with a post called "Hating Hate Speech: Safety for Kathy Sierra and All Women Online.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to nonprofit author Allison Fine, “Social media [in particular] fits into the lives of working women much better than traditional communications tools. Buddy up with women bloggers. The Internet affords myriad opportunities for connecting with women. You can work the night shift and respond to email in the morning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Ecto is a great tool for live blogging. Live blogging is easier if you're drinking, next year we will have live blogger hip flasks. Tags: blogher bloghercon Don't opionate - capture the content. Use word and cut and paste into your blog - for spell check and abbreviations. Here's structure to avoid giving Technorati the link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box! There are other blog editor tools , but if you're on a PC and already use FireFox - the performing can't be beat. publically.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

Luckily, a group of local activists started a blog, Drilling Santa Fe , as an organizing and communication tool, and have put together an organizing event and petition , but it got me to thinking, why don't we all know how to organize our communities? Idealware has a review of other petition tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Each social media tool that I've been introduced to, I've try to remember that it's about the weaving, conversations, and linking. In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space. Who were your early people you admired and followed?

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JULY 3, 2006

. * You are looking for a new communication tool for your organization or business. Use your blog as a marketing or advocacy tool. She was a mentor to young women bloggers as part of the Young Caucasus Women project and the blogs for African Women project. By the end of the workshop, you will: * Be ready to set up a basic blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ? Website grader - useful tool to search trends. She introduced me to a utterz , a micro audio blogging tool. I love getting a chance to meet bloggers I've been following!

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AUGUST 29, 2006

According to the Womens Way press release , "The correlation of women’s professional growth and development with their philanthropic involvement makes a strong business case to employees and employers about the importance of investing in community involvement as a professional development tool."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

While browsing the blogher schedule , I came across Lisa Meyers Brown's blog " The Rhetoric of Me " which is focused on: "What I think about everything.especially nonprofits and social network technology. I started to wonder about what an appropriate metaphorm for the nonprofit sector of blogosphere might be.

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AUGUST 31, 2006

If you: * Have something you want to say and share with other people * Want to join an online community of like-minded people * Are looking for a new communication tool for your nonprofit or business * Enjoy learning in a supportive, low-key environment This workshop is for you! Each student will create a Blogger blog during class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? and I knew where I could find it.

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MARCH 27, 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!" Chris Anderson and Guy Kawasaki also shared a keynote dialogue on the topic of adding value.

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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. the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of other bloggers writing specifically about social marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" "A blogger's influence should not be measured by in-bound links (like technorati), but out-bound links. Are blog metrics all about traffic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. This is just a sampling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

First off, I want to thank Andy Carvin for organizing this day and the ning site and leading by example - showing us how to take an issue and integrate the use of new social media tools! Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! REPORT - Every little BIT helps. The Human Genome project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Should there ever be a disaster (god forbid), how could a blogging network like BlogHer be of assistance? I have been given the tools I need to have that flexibility, so I don???t t stress enough how important being self-sufficient is to your safety. In 2005 I lost my home to a fire. Since then I???ve t mind the odd hours.

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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

JULY 26, 2006

This is a summary of what women bloggers have been talking about in the nonprofit technology space this past month or what I'm dubbing the nptechersphere. Maybe it is part of the gearing up for the upcoming session at Blogher called " Get Deeply Geeky." Marnie Webb's Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer. Hyper connectivity among employees has the potential to increase security risks due to lost hardware, software, internet transfer of files, etc.

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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." Telling people about these tools doesn't really do a lot for us.

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JUNE 30, 2007

When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. Women have really stepped to the forefront of environmental and social justice work.

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JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area. Christine Cupaiuolo is a Chicago-based blogger who created MsMusings.net , Ms.

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