Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2005

So I started trolling the net for new ideas and sample scripts for improving my Blogger site. As I play with these tools over the next while I'll offer more substantial reviews that might be useful to other Blogger-based bloggers out there - but until then, let me leave you with a few useful sites: 1. Blogger Templates.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This example can be applied to many situations, whether it's malicious comments on a blog, bad behavior in a forum, etc. 15, at 1 EST. Submit your question in the comments of this post, or check out the many ways to ask our Giving Gurus." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." 29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter « Nonprofit Tech 2.0 - I'm so honored to be part of this list! "Last week I asked the followers of @NonprofitOrgs to nominate their favorite nonprofit bloggers. You can add to the conversation in the comments, too. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 10, 2010

We’re hoping to inspire 53 bloggers to publish a post today that shares how Beth has impacted his/her work and shares Beth’s birthday wish with his/her blog audience. (Of How does it work? Of course, you’re invited to make a gift to make her wish come true as well!). She takes notes, constantly. I’m working on it.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). Social Citizens Blog | Immerse.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 Thanks again for the post you bad blogger. ; > 4 Alfred Nutile 07.11.08 So what’s the news?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I discover and rediscover bloggers who make me think and add them to my “Circle of the Wise.&# I allow no more than dozen and if I find someone new, I remove one.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. I doubt you’ll look back. { Keep up the good work!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Susan Chavez is a blogger for TechSoup's Online Community team. The most basic and commonly used tools include RSS readers, alerts, bookmarking sites, and Twitter lists. And Kontribune is a community newsletter that lets the audience add comments or content. The Human Element.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening to Bloggers You'll want to identify and follow key bloggers in your nonprofit space, especially if you are planning to blog or doing any blogger relations program. Find Bridge bloggers alltop.com. Finding Bridge Bloggers by Beth Kanter d. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions. Define Your Niche.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. WordPress , Blogger ) Podcast (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Search on Facebook too to see if anyone has already created a Facebook Page for your cause or organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. This micro-blogging tool puts her in contact with warm and welcoming "mommy bloggers" who repost her stuff. She started seeing the pay-off, too.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs. Next they used stumbleupon.com, a social bookmarking site, to 'thumb up' the sites pages to improve search engine ranking by increasing inbound links. They actively engaged the site? The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

I got excited when I read this post on Nancy White's blog about comment tracking tool called CoComment via a post by Scoble. I was excited because the other way to do this is to bookmark your comments in delicious with a tag like comments and use the feed to display them on your sidebar. Write your comment 2.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. To create a new comment, use the form below. 60) Search « Care2.com

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can be fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. The best comment I got was from a long-time reader John Powers on Facebook that reading the posts was like watching me open presents at a birthday party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Some bloggers, like Skelliewag, highlighted the best of best of their blog posts , while CogDog blog took the opposite approach and look at the Top 0 list. I still bookmark items with the nptech tag and I still monitor the tag stream, but on Twitter I feel more of a connection to the actual person, not just the exchange of information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can be fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

It was Emily Weinberg's idea, as far as I can tell, to get folks who are blogging on non-profit topics to take a glance at each other's blogs and comment on them. She introduced pairs of bloggers to each other and suggested they make a reference and a link to each other's blog. This valuable resource is going into my bookmarks to stay!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). As she says, it combines social bookmarking, feed reading, and the casual interactions of Twitter into something that works somewhat like mailing list, but doesn't add to your email overload. (Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I might instead read through some blog feeds or find interesting links from people I follow on FriendFeed or Twitter and then bookmark posts on topics (within my "beat"). Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. that I have an opinion about, something to add, or that I just find interesting. thanks everyone!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

I wondered outloud in a comment. Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks. They were excited about it and I jumped into doing a little how-to training -- it was the first time I showed someone else how to use blogger or delicious having just learned these tools myself a few days ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. Now say that five times fast!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

Use of tags to organize and bookmark Internet Resources related to subjects. I'm starting with number 2 because I found some inspiration at: Emily's World: Tagging Bookmarks with del.icio.us Step 5: Using the blog as a student workbook Skills: Using the comments section to give student feedback. for Educators.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

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. Example: The Case Foundation's Blog includes posts from multiple staff members , including Jean Case , and guest bloggers.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Leave comments on blogs. Add your comments below. Reader Comments (1) Thanks for all this information, especially on tracking earned media.

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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. If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Jon's comments on plone comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Social bookmarking in plain English! Good discussion in the comments too. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0

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