Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

Jonathan set this up on Sunday night and within 24 hours we have 27 nonprofit technology techies in there - quite the conversation cafe at the moment. So, I've cooked up a little experiment that combines NpTech Punk with FriendFeed conversation and resource sharing between peers. Ready to play? Here's how to participate.

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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. of our connected conversations and resource finds. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video. " 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. I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network.

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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

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - If you want learn the fine art of having a conversation on Twitter, follow and observe the masters. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff.

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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. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. It's a taken a long time but I bet there's enough data in the nptech tag on a combination of bookmarking systems to do a little crunching and get at some of those commonly used terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

" And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. If I'm working with a team versus solo, I'll also share some summaries of the most important learnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Robin Good recently interviewed Marshall Kirkpatrick about Mash-ups and he asked Marshall to define widgets in the context of the conversation. Do you ask good questions that lead to conversations online? Do you have strategies for encouraging those conversations and linking them to your content? It supports a range of.

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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. Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. link] I’ll be bookmarking you! Bookmarks for March 8th through March 13th on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 9:01 am [.] Posted on at. Much appreciated.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

DeepDebate : A framework which makes it easier for a very large number of people to create a structured conversation. Like Allyson, I was unable to attend, but your summary opens a window onto the event. But most of all, I want to find ways to support organizations and individuals involved in the transparency effort. You should too.

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