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. Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Then pick one idea to reduce information overload in your life from this list. 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. . Allocate specific chunks of time for your social media execution. .

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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 Social Networking Web 2.0 Tools social media Twitter NetSquared'

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives. You can monitor social networks and YouTube for mentions of your organization and issue. Social networks. How to Listen on Social Networks by KD Paine.

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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. How can you start to make the shift from “me’ to “we”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Birthday Greeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Here's two roundups of links about social media and nonprofits. Social bookmarking in plain English! NpTech Software.

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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. Tags: ROI. However, just because everyone can become a creator doesn’t mean that everyone does. Do share your thoughts.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other. ventures?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. There are still many people out there who don't think it's a good thing to spend lots of time in front of a computer, who are perturbed by the idea of virtual social networks and online communities. Does my virtual pet really need a social network?

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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. Think over the last year or two—what are the most useful technological tools you have integrated into your life? Who else could benefit from them?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? The example I showed in the screencast was on Dave Wallace's blog, Life Kludger. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. social networking site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? Unfortunately, the trusty page view is on life support and I give it four years to live. The tombstone generator can be found here (I have a huge collection of these tagged npflickr in my bookmarks. This eliminates the need to click from one page to another.

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