Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time. Did anything surprise you? It can also influence traffic.

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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. You can read announcements of the acquisition on the Yahoo search blog here , and on Joshua's del.icio.us

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Word of mouth, etc. Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter? First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. The parody sites are sprouting up like mushrooms.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2004

Would you like to be informed whenever there is a new posting to read on this - or any other - site? A study done by Yahoo in October claims that only 12% of internet users know what RSS is, and only 4% are actively using it. The RSS information from a site is known as its feed. It easy - if you know how to subscribe via RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. It takes time to visit those sites and find what you want to read!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

It was way back when you could click through the entire Yahoo directory and web sites had gray backgrounds. I looking at it like my browser bookmark and I like to organize things into folders. I would follow links to links to links and discover, by serendipity, a fantastic resource. Oh, and my point was. Technorati Tag: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Hard data points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn’t make it efficient to grab data over time. Are there patterns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting. At the end, there is a nice 'Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook' that spells out the dos and dont's of using some of the more popular social media sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

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. Bookmarked saves for value of content. Outbound links for influence. What's up with that? Cost (what!).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

A mobile website should not be modeled after your desktop site. Some may even bookmark it for browsing regularly. Write a short blurb about your new mobile website and ask supporters to “Bookmark Your Mobile Browser!” The two have completely different purposes. Opera Mini, and Safari searches conducted on smartphones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Most recently, Marnie Webb created a Yahoo Pipe of the NpTech Feed and runing it through AideRSS to sort it by popularity. Back in the early days of Web 2.0, To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Allan Benamer has taken that feed and brought it into Yahoo Pipes. The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. It's identified as a single user or submitter on the npdigg site, roborssfeed. Sites like Ning.com. s left is creating a site that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Even though this comment was made on digg.com and not on our nature.org web site, I???d What were the concerns?

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