Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." Social Bookmarking.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) of Maastricht University are conducting a survey: "We are investigating the effects of online social network memberships on your daily life. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 14, 2009

The guide features 12 real-life strategies organizations are using right now to succeed during the downturn, in addition to tons of great tactical advice, creative samples and other resources. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

What a life he has already had! Tags: roundup bookmarks. The Kid at the State Department Who Figured Out the Iranians Should Be Allowed to Keep Tweeting - A great profile on the man (not kid!) who works for the State Department to advise it on social media use specifically around the Middle East.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

"Of all the areas of life that computer and communications technology seems to be impacting the most is its influence on relationships. Tags: roundup bookmarks. How does your organization encourage your online supporters/friends/fans to take action offline, together, or to meet with your organization? Check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Particularly the tagging discussion which included an action learning exercise as well as lot of sharing of resources and information about tagging. What I liked about the experience was the combination of people who were somewhat new to tagging and others who have been doing it for a while. In your my del.icio.us

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

We are looking for business and non-profit venture ideas and will award $50,000 in seed funding to the innovators who can bring the best ideas to life." Tags: roundup bookmarks. " Social Media ROI | Janet Fouts - Janet Fouts has a great post discussing ROI for social media use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Update your bookmarks: [link]. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. It's moved.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

." Social Media is Slowly Changing the Demographics of Political Engagement - "According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, online users with a higher income are still far more likely to participate in political activities online than those with lower incomes. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

." Tech News: How Can Technology Help in Today’s Economy? - "In this online age when people have a multitude of profiles on the Internet, social networking stands out as being the tie that binds, both online and in real-life, professionally and personally. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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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. Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

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." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us without leaving the virtual world!

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

When I’m home, I sync my iPhone with my iMac, and life is good. Foxmarks to sync bookmarks, and now ReadItLater to sync my reading list. The one problem I haven’t been able to solve in my dual-Mac life is my iPhone. Tags: OTA iphone sync Macintosh. LogMeIn (free) if I really do need to “call home.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. Second, is bookmarking. But I’m really getting toward the end of doing double or triple bookmarking. First, there’s the blogging issue.

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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. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Tags: Information Coping Skills. Here's one way you might celebrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

Or, maybe you bookmarked it and still can’t sort through your tabs. It’s a social bookmarking tool that comes with annotated notes, tags and links so you can save, organize and discover new content. It’s an easy way to organize your nonprofit’s life. That’s where Delicious comes in. Foursquare.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0

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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. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions. WeAreMedia Tool Box: Social Bookmarking 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I also set up RSS feeds and bookmarking tools to monitor the work of other organizations I was interested in. David Venn works as a Communications Advisor with the Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health where he is dedicated to enhancing the mental health and well-being of young people. Tags: Books.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Unless you think you're going to log into everything with Facebook or Gmail, lots of accounts and passwords are part of life – and using strong passwords should go with it. Lastpass categorizes and tags your passwords. Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Social bookmarking in plain English! Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST.

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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. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. Do share your thoughts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2007

A couple weeks ago Tara Hunt of HorsePigCow tagged me to be a part of the media consumption meme that has been flying around. The last movie we rented, which I highly recommend, was Shut Up and Sing , a documentary about the Dixie Chicks' life after lead singer, Natalie Maines', anti-George Bush statement at a 2003 concert.

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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. 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. Tags: socialmediametrics. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. All the research is done, you'll find links to my bookmarks on delicious). #2 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Consider the grandfather who points to a computer and asks if it does google, or the college student who downloads killer app after killer app, without wondering (or caring) how the software will affect or support her life. Think over the last year or two—what are the most useful technological tools you have integrated into your life?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

A Real-Life Example. These simple actions can be potentially life-changing, and they are all made possible by ads posted at the top of Google Search results. Have Google Analytics installed on your website (ideally, we recommend installing Google Tag Manage r as well). Example Use Cases: Google Grant Case Studies.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?" Tags: web2.0 Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? Unclear application.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

open collections databases like the Powerhouse Museum's tagging system , where visitors can add their own keyword tags to museum artifacts. Bookmark your hour each week and start wading in. This pretty much requires dedicated staff. open exhibit development projects like The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop. ventures?

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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

JANUARY 6, 2009

suggest looking at the number of views and delicious saves as does Sue Waters in her post, Life is One Big Top Ten. Chris Brogan recently provided some insights about bookmarked blog posts and how they can help increase traffic. And notice that he doesn't just take a list of most bookmarked content, that's only the first step.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. ing someone is akin to tagging them, which sends them a notification that you’ve done so. A/B tests happen in real life too. More “properly” defined as denying access to certain users, stopping them from following or tagging you in the future. via GIPHY. @ (mention) . @-ing

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

The example I showed in the screencast was on Dave Wallace's blog, Life Kludger. Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. The Flickr widget lets you select all your photos, a particular tag or group. Chat and Messages. personal fundraising???

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