Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

If you’d like a chance at winning those, leave a comment below on why you want to attend. This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks.

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JULY 24, 2012

Blackbaud guest bloggers share expert fundraising tips and simple steps for creating a Facebook page that rocks. From NetSquared. NetSquared is organizing technology-for-social-good events all over the world. Tell us about it in the comments! TechSoup is keeping busy this July. From the TechSoup Community. TechSoup Blog.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. We can count our Twitter followers or how many people have commented on our blog post, or could have counted the number of supporters on Causes or voters on ideablob, but that doesn’t mean we connect with them. To some, these events were unimportant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

I will be active in the comments. Some great must-reads include: Why Guest Bloggers are Great for a Blog. How to Find a Guest Blogger for Your Blog. How to Be a Good Guest Blogger. How to Be a Good Guest Blogger. I remember when I was a guess blogger on Netsquared early on - it was an amazing experience.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Guest blogger Grant Howe, VP of research and development for Sage North America's nonprofit solutions, kicks off a series of posts about providing great IT leadership. From NetSquared. Tell us in the comments! Here's what we've been talking about so far this year. From the TechSoup Community. TechSoup Blog.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. netsquared” or “net squared” - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared” is mentioned or “Net Squared” is mentioned, I will get alerted. You can read all the details here. ].

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Susan Chavez is a blogger for TechSoup's Online Community team. And Kontribune is a community newsletter that lets the audience add comments or content. NetSquared Think Tank: Curating Content. The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. The Human Element.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex is a great example of a change blogger. I guess I'm a change blogger too. The meme isn't necessarily limited to individuals as David Neff at Fispace mentions - corporate bloggers like Tyson Foods will donate 100 pounds of food for every comment made here. What's that? s Alex Steed. s touring the U.S.,

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APRIL 7, 2010

With so many informative panels to choose from (such as Diversifying Your Tech and Online Communications Teams by Frogloop bloggers Jocelyn Harmon and myself as well as Ivan Booth and Shireen Mitchell) on topics ranging from online fundraising, recruitment, and social media - it was a real challenge to come up with my top 12 picks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

TechSoup and NetSquared have put together a month of educational opportunities, from local events all over the world to day-long Twitter parties and a free webinar. Let us know in the comments. No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September. Anything we missed?

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger.

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JANUARY 10, 2007

Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. Have an RSS feed and comments. This post was originally written for the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Inviting bloggers to Davos is a good thing as it means those not attending in person can participate in the discussion and it makes the whole thing a bit more informal. Is there a polite way to interrupt a blogger to say hello, or even try and talk? Guess you have to send a comment! I noticed this first at TED. last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." 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. Thoughts, leave them in the comments. bubble would burst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees. As one person in the comments of Michelle's posts notes, "Holly and Michelle are right to argue for context. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Nonetheless, he had to write an article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ). Also on the Google Alert, I discovered that Britt Bravo has posted on the Netsquared Blog too. I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far. I tweeted that too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think? See below).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Nancy White shares some insights in the comments. " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. This is refreshing to see on an "alpha site."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. Wanna check out more tech tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Good discussion in the comments too. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! Need some comic relief? Maybe just some prayers? Welcome to the Church of Plone from LOLNPTECH.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I wanted to start with my blog readers and nonprofit tech colleagues and Cambodian blogger colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. What are the 5 things should get into place while you are waiting for your YouTube Nonprofit Channel to be approved?

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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. or furl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Do you have advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. There's a thoughtful comment from Givewell that points out the work flow involved. nonprofit technology.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: How do we get past our fear of negative comments possibly being posted about the organization from activists etc.? It seems like reviewing all posts and not posting those comments would defeat the purpose. At first you won't get many comments - it takes time to build up a community of people who will comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started blogging in 2003 about nonprofits and social media and started second blog about Cambodia, “Cambodia for Kids” after the arrival of my daughter, Sara and discovering that there was a vibrant community of bloggers in Cambodia. It was terrific to see Tharum who was one of the first Cambodia bloggers.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

Start out small by leaving comments on your favorite blogs. Check out the photo "comments" on this Free Burma photo. Even if you never go beyond this step, at least you'll have a list of new media to send event announcements to. Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. PARTICIPATE: "Web 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Check it out. for his blog.

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MARCH 22, 2006

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. Example: NetSquared's blog is a community blog that anyone can post to about resources, events and information related to how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Nonprofit Technology Pillars: I'll admit these resources are North Americancentric and I apologize (hopefully my global nonprofit colleagues can name the pillars of other continents and leave referrals in the comments.). Also, educational technology bloggers are great resources to read if you are interested in technology for learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

In the comments of Marnie's post, Laura Whitehead points out that FriendFeed may offer ways to widen the conversation, but some of it depends on how we get our information, manage it, and connection. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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