Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

In some ways, I found using it counter-intuitive to my thinking and reflection process. " I created a mindmap of Peralty's step-by-step framework to help me reflect on my steps. I found a few features annoying, most notably the lack of flexibility with the templates. For example, I might not start with a specific a topic in mind.

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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.). There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

When I got back from on-site work (reflections on that follow) and finished my mommy shift, I discovered that Nancy wrote a poem with her tags. Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks. Isn't it wonderful how work avoidance sparks our creative juices. I wondered outloud in a comment.

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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. A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Social bookmarking in plain English! Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Lee Leefever does it again!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Start by genuinely complimenting the blogger in some way and point out where you do agree. It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. The reason I think this is a classic Internet story is that 90% of the ongoing cost of publishing that blog is my own cost of staying informed and reflecting on what I learn. As I see it, staying informed and reflection are part of my job. I will elaborate on that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Update your bookmarks: [link]. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day. There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

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. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally.

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APRIL 10, 2008

There are many third party applications like Wordpress and Blogger on which you can host a blog with very little technical knowledge. Some museums are starting to reflect this in their hiring, adding "community management" to job descriptions that formerly were just about content production or distribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. Some education technology bloggers, like Tony Karrer. Bookmarked saves for value of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Official” Conference Bloggers Knock it Out of the Park. For us giving three bloggers a special perch (and actually the table was cramped), electricity, and internet, we got amazing results. My dream would be next year to find a way to know that there is a blogger in every conference session! We will definitely do this again.

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