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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Everyone is blogging about what is going on in Davos to the point that no one has time to talk face-to-face anymore because they need to rush off and record the last great thought. But by the time I arrived on Wednesday, there were already one million blog hits for ??? Guess you have to send a comment! last March.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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

DECEMBER 29, 2007

" Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. Britt Bravo at NetSquared summarized a community discussion about the "Best of the Nonprofit Social Web." 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. What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? As one person in the comments of Michelle's posts notes, "Holly and Michelle are right to argue for context.

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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. My birthday isn't until Jan 11th, so there is still time to contribute $10 !

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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

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

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. See Social Media Is A Waste of Time, Part 1 and Part 2. ( 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

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Nonprofit Times covers it here. Good discussion in the comments too.

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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! NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. Wanna check out more tech tools?

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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

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. I do this all the time with annotated screen shots to provide "just in time" answers versus typing out instructions.

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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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Connection Cafe

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. Beth : Most of the time, if you've built your community, they will correct negatives or incorrect information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Take 'em one at a time. Start out small by leaving comments on your favorite blogs. Check out the photo "comments" on this Free Burma photo. I think a lot of activists know that there are all kinds of social web tools available to them, but they aren't sure how to find them, or use them, and are intimidated by the technology.

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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. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. 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

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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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. Also, educational technology bloggers are great resources to read if you are interested in technology for learning. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. I added the bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

But that really takes up time. The only downside is the additive nature of blogging, and it does consume a lot of time. Sometimes I think I have an important post, but it does not get comments, so I don't know what people think (and if they even read it :)). And Netsquared. I do say no at times. Practical examples.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2009

I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . I want to improve my writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Spend time building your reputation by digging stories and making intelligent comments. Back in the early days of Web 2.0, And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In response to a comment from David Wolff, I wrote: "When a sector comes together to create a standard, anything from the diameter of a bottle cap to protocols for mobile devices, businesses and consumers in the sector benefit. Sometimes collaborating in one area raises the bar of competition in another.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2006

My friend Michelle Murraine took me to task for the presumption that all coders are male in the pronoun choice in my last post, How does a programmer spend his time? To atone, here's a set of links for this week, all from female bloggers. Kathy quotes from "Morton", who wrote in a comment on another blog. ' Open API's.

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