Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. " He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! rethink, reinvent. Tyler Willis ) 7. Johannes).

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Here's one way you might celebrate. Take my information overload quiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Photo by Lynetter. Like a farmer tending his crops, I'd scan through each folder, each feed, bookmarking and annotating what caught my eye, and looking for patterns and connections. Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? The Wild Apricot blog offers a tutorial and a list of sites currently using the API.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. But I live in a digital world in which text is still king.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Build web traffic? If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Where will people be redirected to if they come to a site that no longer exists? What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I recently discovered a blogging work flow tool called Zemanta , that according to its web site. It recommends links and photos while you write. Sarah Peretz, Read/Write Web has a more detailed description of how it works and the features.). will save you time and increase traffic. Do you follow a framework like this?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Mention the donor on the event web page. Mention the donor in the footer of all web pages for a month or longer. Photo and Bio. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Mention the donor on a dedicated webpage for X number of days. Program-Related Perks.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? As she puts it: With an audience of mostly young children and families in primarily non-collecting hands-on museums, most of them small, what are the best web strategies? Why try to extend that to the web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

The Typepad Hacks blog writes has a great introduction to widgets and describes the community building aspects: Ultimately, widgets, like the web itself are about connections??? between people sharing content and between companies and sites that host content for people. Widgets are a great way to share the things you like on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. For some context, check out this timeline of social networking sites from Dannah Boyd. And while we're looking at Web2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

is a social bookmarking tool. I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved. For those of you are not ubergeeks ( I'm not ), del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

While browsing the nptech tag list for recent bookmarks -- which is sort of like browsing a flea market - you don't know what treasures you'll find -- I found the site: extisp.icio.us created by Kevan Davis from England who is a freelance web developer and surrealist. You can also do the same with your flickr photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Word of mouth, etc. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. While some of the measurement concepts for social media remain the same as traditional Web analytics, there are some new ideas to embrace. Please don't get so obsessed with metrics that you loose site of how you're going to use them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Ah, but what format to use. It boils down to two choices: gaze into your crystal ball and predict the future or look back at the year just ending for the best (or worst) moments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

Our questions were: What do you need to know about web/blog design so that your blog can be read by people on a mobile phone? How do you make your blog/web site mobile friendly? Here's where the coffee cup photos enter. The bookmarks are here. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. Click to Play.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Lately, we’ve watched as images – from photos to infographics – have taken over the web. As photos take over Facebook newsfeeds and Pinterest explodes, I see so many people trying to accomodate an image-centric process into their digital curation. This is why: A Thousand Words Without a Photo.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2005

social bookmarking genre, has been acquired by Yahoo. Yahoo's last big acquisition was Flickr , the industry leading photo-sharing site, which like del.icio.us, uses tagging as a way to classify and retrieve images. Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. 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. Update your bookmarks: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A photo of meeting Jayne Cravens face-to-face after following her work for ten plus years online. I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. I've been a big fan of Jayne Craven's work at Coyote Communications since the mid-1990s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

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. " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. Our goal is to create a gallery of case studies that will provide inspiration and information for other nonprofits. You can check out the ones we've profiled so far here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Toobla is a brand new social bookmarking tool and I was very impressed! As Toobla describes itself, “Toobla lets you easily collect, enjoy and share visual bookmarks to websites and other embeddable content (i.e. widgets like YouTube or other videos, photos, documents, games and widget applications).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

If you think about it, there are two reasons to tag things: to bookmark them for yourself so you can use them later to describe them for a large group of users who might find them helpful in finding things later I tag things on the Web all the time using Delicious. But I do it because it's useful to me as an organizational tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With 90% of your nonprofit’s supporters and donors now accessing the Internet on multiple devices every day , nonprofits really need to prioritize mobilizing their Web content. It’s ironic how Web design has come full circle. A mobile website should not be modeled after your desktop site. content on a mobile website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It 2) Bookmarks can???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Photo by the TruthAbout. There are two different kinds of web viewers: subscribers and visitors. Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Readership growth This means content consumption.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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