Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

" It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. So, now we've given ourselves permission to get our hands on the tools. Because at some point, you need to learn how to use tools effectively and efficiently. Tools: Monitoring. you work in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. To see another work in progress, go over to MIchael Gilbert's The Authentic Organization blog where he has turned the comments feature on and is writing his next book in a fishbowl! tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. tools into your PR messaging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Share Links w/Brief Comment : This comes from my daily scanning of resources about social media, nonprofits, and philanthropy and picking out five good links and passing them along with a 140 character annotation. These are a few gems that I've bookmarked on delicous and slightly different than those streamed on my blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Second, is bookmarking. But I’m really getting toward the end of doing double or triple bookmarking. Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. It lets you bookmark to multiple sites with one click. at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Are they already tech savvy, or will they need training to use the tools? You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts. Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session. Wikis can also be used in the pre-planning or organizing some of the social events.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

The non-profit community has had a special romance with a variety of collaborative tools that have often been lumped together under the rubric of Web 2.0. This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs. This can inform. An example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Jon's comments on plone comments. is still relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Here's a few tools I'm using: Email: I'm using the comfort blanket that is outlook. Bookmarks: del.icio.us Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. leave a comment and you're tagged! and magnolia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. BackType: Another Listening Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I used the chat as a backchannel and invited people to add questions or comments as we went along. My blog commenters told me I had too much content in my initial draft. " In the comments, a few folks answered -- and I read the responses."You Make a slide at the end with contact information, wiki address, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. Maybe some of these new tools to be leveraged for purposes connected to fighting injustices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

If you'd like to be eligible to win a free copy of Tamar's book, leave a comment explaining why your nonprofit's community rules and your secrets to success in marketing on the social web. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. I resisted using the title of “report card”. Previously, On NMC….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? The best comment line can be found at Emergency Trap Blog. Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. I've aggregated a lot of these and other resources on the topic on my wiki portfolio.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What do these tools allow you to do? It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" Tracking Change Wiki : Provides a platform to get involved in the policymaking process.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. 54 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. link] I’ll be bookmarking you!

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