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JUNE 20, 2011

Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time. We thought we could generate a conversation but it didn't happen. Infrastructure.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

The topic of conversation was social media in organizational communications, and here are a few representative comments: * On social web spaces like Facebook and Twitter: "they're talking about us out there: we need to be out there talking too!" . *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Note from Beth: If you’ve been following my blog lately, you know I’ve been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance. Ask a Curator attracted a large number of questions on a whole range of subjects, the event hashtag became the number 1 trending topic on Twitter and was featured in press around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Participants had digital copies of the powerpoints translated into french and used their laptops to follow along. We used real-time translators and participants used headsets to tune into the language channel of their choice to understand what was being said. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Localized Content Delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. A mix of conversational marketing. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? NpTech Talk.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. 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 give you the press you seek. Blogs can help you reach more people.

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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. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

SocComm will have a mixture of individual talks, on-stage interviews / conversations and a number of “group chat&# sessions. 8:00 - 9:00 - Coffee / Tea + “Real-Time Social Networking&#. 10:20 - 10:40 - (I) Peter Hirschberg, co-founder + Chairman,The Conversation Group (+ Special Guest). Seating at SocComm is limited.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Papyrus, printing press. Forget brochure-speak — this is a world of conversations. There's no expected return when you do someone a favor, or when you take time to share research for free. It's up to you to go looking for the conversations you want to have. No, no, seriously. Write 'em down. That's one of my favorites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can give you the press you seek. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. Blogs can help you reach more people.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

"That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I'm not usually that interested in museum politics, but this soap opera is too big to ignore, especially as the conversation has shifted over the last few weeks to something I care a lot about: populism. It's more about that curator who was fired.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Keep your ear to the ground at all times. If Twitter is hosting a lot of the conversation, then you should start an account and reply to all those who are talking about you by searching for conversation on search.twitter.com. This article was written by Jen Nedeau, Project Manager at New Media Strategies and blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Similar strategy to what the San Francisco Symphony did with its blogger outreach event. Not the press release.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I had a conversation today with a major Jewish Federation about technology change. I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

that Mike Seyfang and I did a couple years back from a conversation about the least restrictive creative commons licensed. How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? A number of folks have sent back thanks for saving them some time in prepping a presentation. The cover is from a remix mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

A good start, a conversation with anyone who could get there, was made today. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues. New York Times article I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. Britt Bravo's Second Life Do-Gooders.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.” ” Think about it. When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

local time). He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. The only advice out there is to limit screen time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative. Blogger's angst. Or do you sit back and read what others are saying and add to the conversation? That saves time and money. When I read Judi's tweet about her blog post , I knew exactly what she was talking about!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. Need time and patience. Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The first step is to listen - and by listening I mean find out who is having a conversation about your organization or issue. The "loosing control" aspect of social media will happen no matter and you need to have the conversation internally to figure out how you will address it. s what makes it fun. Right now, we???re

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes WHY CROWDFUNDING IS VITAL. Tweeting it out, putting it on Facebook a few times, that is not going to create success. Look for bloggers both locally and nationally who are covering your space that may be interested in writing about you. Direct mail just doesn’t yield what it used to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. We wanted to continue to play this role on Twitter.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

At frank, we divide our time among great talks by strategists, storytellers and scientists and casual opportunities to connect with other sophisticated communicators over coffee or cocktails. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you will find benefit in taking time away to attend. Feb 23 - 26. frank / Gainesville, FL / Invite only.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. We started our conversation by David explaining what Spot.us The first is that I was a freelancer myself for a long time, and freelancing is horribly antiquated. for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

And because the conversation is fast moving, you don't really have to respond to comments that are less engaging! I find the transcript less interesting than the real-time discussion was, when I was intently watching the comments and responding to those that caught my interest. Technology: tricky despite my preparation.

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Forum One

JUNE 1, 2009

And because the conversation is fast moving, you don't really have to respond to comments that are less engaging! I find the transcript less interesting than the real-time discussion was, when I was intently watching the comments and responding to those that caught my interest. Technology: tricky despite my preparation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Arab Spring also demonstrated that storytelling doesn’t need a big budget or tons of editing time to be effective. For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips. Signs of the Times: Occupy Wall Street.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. Official” Conference Bloggers Knock it Out of the Park. Geotagging Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). So, if you are just starting up, pick a frequency that you can sustain over time. Calculating benchmarks should not take you more time than it is worth. So I'm not spending time to generate god's spreadsheet of monthly number of posts and words per post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

that spending a lot of time on top-down navigation is mostly a waste of time. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. Conversation Rates.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 7, 2016

She is a blogger, marketer and communications coordinator for Qgiv , an online fundraising service provider. If you’ve been in the nonprofit world for any time at all, you know the importance of a multichannel approach to fundraising. It’s time to start fundraising, right? Abby Jarvis is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The second is conversing. In this post, a discussion about the art of conversation in the groundswell. And the most involved level is to produce a place for talk—to manage an online community in which you are in constant conversation with your visitors. Many of the most active bloggers and Web 2.0 The first is shouting.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2016

She is a blogger, marketer, and communications coordinator for Qgiv , an online fundraising service provider. If you’ve been in the nonprofit world for any time at all, you know the importance of a multichannel approach to fundraising. It’s time to start fundraising, right? Abby Jarvis is a gust contributor for Nonprofit Hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another platform, try the Squidoo Widget Finder Lens. Since widgets installation is integrated with my blogging platform it was one less click to install or unstall -- and not time consuming. It's one click!

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