Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

JournaMarketing has a post called " Why Your Blog Is Worthless without Connectedness " which harkens back to an ongoing debate we've had in this space -- is a blog just a web site or a community? Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NpTech Summary. Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks. JournaMarketing points to a blog post from Kayta's Nonprofit Marketing Blog called " Don't Speak Doglish " about clear communication guidelines. I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

To keep up with what the arts community is doing in technology and the social web, follow the blog. Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Social bookmarking in plain English! Once You Start Dancing The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. From the IT Manager's Journal, " Like it or not, Web2.0 Lee Leefever does it again!

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Do you read the summaries? How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Third C: Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

I’ve been noticing that I tend to get more engagement on technology posts than social engagement posts, although when I worked hard at stirring the pot, there have been a few productive conversations. The problem with Google + as it stands right now (and it will be changing) is that lack of community features and mainstream adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. There is a fairly large educator community on Second Life and the lessons learned are starting to appear in the blogosphere. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I use Evernote to bookmark those items to look at later. So I listen to weekly summaries or read news roundups about important news items to stay in the loop about what’s happening in the world. That you are already using your gifts and talents to serve your organization and the communities it supports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. Do you read the summaries? He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

NetSquared Community. Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Momentum is building. Eric Leland is the first person to introduce themselves!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Update your bookmarks: [link]. Mind Bloggling is blogging community designed to provide a safe space for poeple experiencing the effects of mental ill health. NTC is just days away! It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. This can inform. Del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix. Digg it here ).

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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. And, if you want to participate in the Nonprofit Social Media community, WeAreMedia , there's a Webinar next week - more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." Here's a summary: Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. I'm so excited! s associated with an organization's web site or blog.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

To me, this confirms as viable the strategy of finding those community leaders who will carry your torch for you, and then messaging them with content to distribute to their friends. However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. Isn’t it time we began to realize the power of community-owned and driven software that no one can buy ? { at 9:24 am Excellent summary. There basically are three types of software acquisitions that companies make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Bookmark the permalink. The ’six things every charity must do to stay relevant in the 21st century’ summary near the end of the slides sums up what organisations need to do perfectly! link] I’ll be bookmarking you! Bookmarks for March 8th through March 13th on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 9:01 am [.]

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

By working together, we can change policies and programs to ensure issues of importance to the African American community are addressed. Ask Your Lawmaker : Enables you to question lawmakers on the issues that matter most to you, your family, your community. You should too. helps you keep tabs on the U.S. Thanks so much.

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