Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The NpTech Summary. Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks. I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP. Expect lots of tweets from Netsquared next week and make friends with NetSquared on Twitter if you haven't already! I noticed a lot of "Top Ten" blog posts this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 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). We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. Who Tweets? Which are easiest to use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Technovist tells us how to be a green blogger and Emily's World gives a great list of environmental blogs. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Social bookmarking in plain English! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. From the IT Manager's Journal, " Like it or not, Web2.0 is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Some very useful posts in there! Lee Leefever does it again!

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2007

I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. 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. Do you read the summaries? How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2008

account with a couple hundred bookmarks tagged Friend Feed. I will do a summary as part of this week's NpTech Tag Roundup. He has a del.icio.us Find a resource that resonates with you or helps you think about how FriendFeed might be useful to you personally or to your organization. Share that link in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2016

Pro Tip #1: Check Summary Only to make your results easier to read. As you might imagine, this will take much longer than using the summary validator. What tools do you have bookmarked that help keep your website in tip top shape ? Don’t have time to click through hundreds of links on your site to see if they still work?

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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. - Twitter bookmarks on delicious.com. Laura Lee Dooley's Twitter Tools Bookmarks. My grade is 100 which means that my account scores higher than 100.0 percent of the 714018 users that have been graded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Here’s quick summary of points from the discussion: Nonprofit folks are exploring Google + as individuals and talking about their organization’s work and building relationships with influencers like technologists and journalist early adopters on the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week.

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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. The4Cs Social Media Framework in Summary. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I use Evernote to bookmark those items to look at later. So I listen to weekly summaries or read news roundups about important news items to stay in the loop about what’s happening in the world. And each day, I work on at least one important task I want to accomplish before opening my inbox or social media.

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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. Update your bookmarks: [link]. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. NTC is just days away! It's moved.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

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. I do a " by the numbers " summary, I look patterns and trends in the comments or visuals, and look at what other nonprofits are doing in the space.

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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 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." without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. is a popular social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to organize and retrieve your bookmarks. Explore and discover other bookmarks using this guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

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. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix. And if you???re

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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. by Ben Rigby - a nice summary of social media tools with specifically tailored strategies for the activist / nonprofit community. Mobilizing Generation 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's a summary: Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. Still, there are benefits: Easy to use, don't need technical skills. blogging platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. at 9:24 am Excellent summary. There basically are three types of software acquisitions that companies make. The first is to acquire a company that does something that you do not. David Zeidman 3 Jim Barney 08.07.07

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Thanks for the summary. Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. Read the rest of this great post here [.]

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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. The ’six things every charity must do to stay relevant in the 21st century’ summary near the end of the slides sums up what organisations need to do perfectly! link] I’ll be bookmarking you! Bookmarks for March 8th through March 13th on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 9:01 am [.]

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Like Allyson, I was unable to attend, but your summary opens a window onto the event. TransparencyCamp strengthened my own commitment to support President Obamas tech policy , but also strengthened my resolve to hold him and his administration accountable if they fall short. You should too. helps you keep tabs on the U.S. Thanks so much.

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