Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Susan Chavez is a blogger for TechSoup's Online Community team. The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. NetSquared Think Tank: Curating Content. Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& He got us together on the phone to discuss and design the panel in a month in advance, reviewed slides, help get us organized on-site and gave us some great last minute tips in the green room.& Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. 10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared.

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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. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk. Looking for a primer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

Use FriendFeed to Keep Up on Nonprofits by Laura Norvig Louis Gray's FriendFeed Blog Posts - key expert in FriendFeed Lifestream Blog - News, tips, resources, reviews, scripts, services, and sites for creating a Lifestream. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared). How Nonprofits Can Use FriendFeed by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

The intent is to leverage the networked effect or the Tipping Point (the title of a book by Malcolm Gladwell that means the given moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass.) " Jeremy Pepper , who spoke at this month's NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup , is the director of communications. And if you???re

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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. Bonus Tip 11. Use new media before pitching new media sources ( CarrieBethH ) Okay folks, can we run this up to 100 tips that you can do in ten minutes using Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Cultural shift afoot - technology companies, media, and bloggers using their influence to meaningful action. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. My hot tip for live blogging and live tweeting: (1) Type your tweets first into your blog post as bullet points (2) Cut and paste them into your Twitter client.

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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! Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Need some comic relief?

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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. Here's a tip sheet on Twitter. bubble would burst.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2007

My only criticism of the campaign is that very few of the photos have a Creative Commons license that allows bloggers and other supporters to share the photos and spread the word. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. Hat tip to the NTEN Flickr Affinity Group for the story. So far, 186 photos have been posted.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. And if you???re

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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. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Here's a couple of GTD tips for processing your email and being more efficient from LifeHacker. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. If you're a blogger, there are also ways that you can craft your posts to encourage more commenting and conversation. Some excellent tips: 1.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. 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. more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Email Newsletters So, What's an E-mail Address Worth is the title of this week's Tip Sheet Tuesday from the Democracy in Action Blog. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. nonprofit technology. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

What are some practical tips for using it? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Exploring FriendFeed. One of the first topics of discussion that came up was how to efficiently use FriendFeed. What were some ways to filter the duplications? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . Critique Your Design.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

That's how I started my blog, by Googling, 'How to start a blog" There are also a lot of nonprofit technology resources out there where you can find more information like: NetSquared TechSoup NTEN Idealware Aspiration NPower Beth's Blog Wild Apricot Blog Four More Tips. Don't be afraid of the tech. Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

account and point to a few good ones I find every week for my NpTechTag Roundup over at Netsquared. In addition, several UK bloggers are focusing on nonprofits and social networking tools are also must reads - Steve Bridger , David Wilcox , and Nick Booth. The Short Resource List. That's about it from for now.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. We''ll also walk you through crucial crisis management tips to keep on hand and how to overcome common social media obstacles as well as learn from your mistakes.

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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. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools). 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

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Also, a great tip that someone had told me is to create your blog or your podcast and think of three people who you want to be your audience. When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share."

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