Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Global Voices Online is reporting how social media is playing a role in the latest parliamentary and council elections in Botswana. One blogger in particular, Patricia Maganu, notes that: read more. One blogger in particular, Patricia Maganu, notes that: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Networks are more than random gatherings of people and organizations online. Social networks have specific structures and patterns to them. In order to engage them well, NGOS need to understand the fundamental building blocks of their social networks. What are the different roles?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 received 13,000 visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

We're both bloggers, read other blogs, and tag resources. We are also interested in a lot of the same content areas -- nonprofits, collaboration, online communication, facilitation, social media, social networking, web2.0, This is another example of a Web2.0 for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

So, let me answer Social Butterfly’s question about bloggers that make you think. It was hard for me to answer because I keep a folder in my reader called “ Circle of the Wise &# a trick I learned over four years ago from Vicky Davis whose blog always make me think. What role does social media play in it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

Take Frogloop’s Editor, Allyson Kapin, as your muse and build a community of bloggers. Building Your Nonprofit’s Community on Twitter One of the most important roles of a communicator is to build community around your nonprofit. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. My sense is that becoming a master at networked learning helps you improve what you are doing in world that is changing so fast and is so complex.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Social media can play many important roles in your student prospecting efforts— from knowing what prospective students care about to recruitment to enrollment. Learn why social listening is important and how to find and use the influencers among prospective and existing students, alumni, and parents. Find Your Influencers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. At all three levels of network, and across the formal/informal dimension, leaders need to learn to leverage technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

Listening, responding, and being flexibly are qualities that I observed being modeled throughout the three days of planning from project leaders – an important networked leadership skill. I got to introduce myself and my role in the project, but the most valuable part of the meeting was briefing on social media and activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

A Day in the Life of @Starfocus At Work by Michael Sola Who is this social butterfly? At barely a quarter of a century this remarkable dare I say trend setting young woman has become a role model, an example of how to connect and interact with legions of people in all walks of life. But who is she really?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. As an activist and evangelist for creative commons ' values and tools, I want to play a major role in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. He's only 8 too!

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

They recommended following interesting and smart people, listening and sharing and asking for contributions through guest bloggers. He was ahead of the game on advocacy and education through social media and awareness. Checking analytics will allow you to visualize the effectiveness of your content strategy efforts.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2009

writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. The teams' efforts this week are already paying off with earned media - blogger DCist has already covered the competition. (I And I'm partial to Batwoman, myself - I like her stance on the issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

into gaining web social (networking) skills. What sent me on a trip down memory lane was this excellent post by David Wilcox describing a new role for an online facilitator using social networking and media tools. I like the role/label and think David is spot on. Is "reporter" the right role?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The TechSoup team is composed of Susan Tenby , Online Community Director; Evonne Heyning , Interactive Media Producer; Rik Panganiban , Nonprofit Commons Online Community Manager; Michael DeLong , Online Community Manager; Kristy Graves , Social Media Specialist; Susan Chavez , Blogger; and Alexandra (Ale) Bezdikian , Online Community Coordinator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

What role do video games, cell phones and social networking websites play in the development of today's children? Henry Jenkins , Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Similar strategy to what the San Francisco Symphony did with its blogger outreach event. ASOL gives a write up and some pointers for holding your own blogger outreach event. s Blog about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, HandsOn Network launched The Good & Ready Campaign that leverages interactive technologies and social networking to support their partners, The American Red Cross , Ready.gov and FLASH by recruiting, inspiring and mobilizing volunteers in support of their goals for September, National Emergency Preparedness Month.

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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. There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. They also have an advocacy role on behalf of ngos. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages. Niche content.

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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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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Maybe success is as simple as providing something people want.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. And the rise of mobile could lead to an even more prominent role for email.) All the supporters had to do was copy and paste the message into their social networks and hit send. Fundraising is hard work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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?' " Some statistics about how many young people are using various social media tools. How does social networking/web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. social marketing,??? After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I'm also prepping for a panel session I'll be doing at the Museum Computer Network Conference later this fall on Web Analytics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics. Just so happens, Chris Brogan wrote an excellent post on Social Media Metrics the other day. fast growth doesn???t

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. But thank you also to all the bloggers whose work I read and rarely comment on. I do so rarely.

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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

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. Yes, I absolutely think blogging can and often does play a role in supporting people's larger writing projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Aside from our beloved Beth Kanter , John Haydon and many other top social media professionals have written about the best times of day to post your messages on the world’s largest social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

"Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Her personal blog, EvangeList , focuses on social media, social change, and nonprofits.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Whether you are an events person, a web guru, or a director of development, there are sets of tactics geared towards many roles. I first heard about the platform from mommy bloggers and online mommy forums. Even more so than the “other” social network darling Google+.) Why am I telling you all this?

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