Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." Craig Newmark: A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media - Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.org, has a great post on Huffington Post - it's applicable to all those creating content, sharing news, and pushing information out via online platforms. "There Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Update your bookmarks: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s social network and community sites. But give it time. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. Getting Social. As my Grandmother became more familiar with the way that Facebook works, she's become more comfortable posting her own content.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Just some more to ponder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

So, I posted the video below as a response to Steve's introductory video, asking him for some tips for success in a community tagging project: Here's the response I got: Here's a transcript of the answers: Hey there Beth. I have six tips on how to start a community tagging project: 1 Pick a compelling theme. Pick your tags carefully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

So, I spent some time reading through the proposals and bookmarked the ones I voted for. I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Reduce/Reuse/Recycle: Repurposing Content for Various Channels. Tags: Conferences. Please vote for it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Social Networking Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Tags: ROI. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Tool Talk Wikis TechSoup's Online Event about Wikis has inspired a lot of wiki links showing up in the NPtech Tag stream ( here , here , and here ) TechSoup has switched to a wiki for its glossary and set up a wiki sandbox for the event which includes lots of other excellent wiki resources and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. The First C: Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Before we go too far, let me start by saying, “Content is King.” Without great content, the following tactics and tools are limited at best. Focus on producing great content all the time. 1) Learn From Your Content If you’re not learning you’re getting dumber! What content is being viewed for the longest time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. Tags: Books. So I dropped the rope and started pushing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. The research is based on brands with a large following, a vast array of visual content, and a significant budget for advertising.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

technologies and illustrate how using new socially oriented technological innovations can help the nonprofit community. What is tagging and how is it relevant? How can an online social network help your organization find volunteers? Eddie Codel , social networking technology advocate and Webzine conference organizer.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

It may take you only a few minutes to create a blog, but doing so means (hopefully) a commitment to frequent content posts. activities you can initiate without requiring frequent content updates. The most time-consuming part of this is not posting content (how time-consuming can 140 characters get?) The time cost of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Michael shared some insights into his writing discipline and practice, content filtering approaches, and observations of blogging by and about nonprofits. I was already very interested in automation at this point and built a small content management system for the purpose of publishing those bits. Q: When did you start publishing?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

It's hard to fool yourself into thinking you define the museum experience when your visitors are jumping on, chewing, and giggling at your content. Children don't have the same social hang-ups as adults and are likely to share their experience with strangers while in the museum. But children's museums are another story.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Does my virtual pet really need a social network? Tags: web2.0 To many people, the culture of Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? Nate (the blogger) asked for a bookmarking feature, and then I responded by asking him to contribute to the programming of the site. Do you see this evolving more into a social networking site, or a reference that people use as a resource when needed?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

I’m not talking about plastic fish that sing along with your iPod (HIGHLY annoying), electric knives, or a subscription to the latest web-based social network cum parallel reality. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out. When you get someone a gift, you try to find something that fits these criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Does your web site or blog publish excellent content on a regular basis? Do you have strategies for encouraging those conversations and linking them to your content? Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? Group 2: Content.

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