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JULY 24, 2012

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. If you can't wait, read Alexandra Samuel's " Best Practices for Social Networking Nonprofits ," a guest post on Katya Andresen's Nonprofit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Here's a growing list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? Convio or Causes?

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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. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words.

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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. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. them how to promote your cause. For many in the boomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

While there has been some excellent conversations in the past fews months, particularly the Netsquared ThinkTank , I haven't seen a lot of nonprofit case studies that share real life experience with measuring results from social media strategies. The session presenters will include nonprofits using social networks or other web2.0

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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. bubble would burst. " Emily offers her thoughts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana. as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." " I agree.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Provide rss feeds to the whole blog, and to individual bloggers' feeds so readers have a choice of how they want to subscribe. The interns can be contributing bloggers, but they shouldn't be the lead blogger. There isn't one code of ethics that all bloggers follow.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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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. at Annual Meeting posted on the blog inviting people to participate in the social web. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Social bookmarking in plain English! Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. Beth Mazur shared Keep Your Eye on FriendFeed It May Be The Google of Social Networks. Reed Stockman shared Is Social Networking/Causes the Next Big Thing? Clay Newton shared What CEOs need to know about the social web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. And if you???re

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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 ! I wanted to start with my blog readers and nonprofit tech colleagues and Cambodian blogger colleagues. I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site ! A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Also, educational technology bloggers are great resources to read if you are interested in technology for learning. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. On the social networking end, I would swim through the various frappr groups that are nonprofit technology related. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. I've been guilty of lapsing into "inside baseball" posts where you have to know about a particular social media tool to understand what I might be saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Now " The Giving Carnival " over at the Tactical Philthanthropy Blog provides a roundup of several bloggers opinions. Cross posted at Netsquared " Web 2.0, Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? It is good to have some experienced bloggers around who can help you out with simple questions you may have. And Netsquared.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

I remember hearing a presentation at a recent PBS Conference where the PBS engaged bloggers talked about this and how concerned they were about negative comments - but that community corrected those. Also CauseWired - which was recently published and is all about online fundraising using social networks.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Let''s be honest, social media is progressing and changing every single day and most people don''t have the time to keep up with the most effective way to do social media. and serves as the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2''s top-ranked nonprofit communications blog, Frogloop. Care2 Webinars Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

According to Read/Write Web , FaberNovel Consulting has released a new research paper on social networks. The paper provides a theoretical overview of social networks and important trends. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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