Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

That's a novel way to celebrate a birthday and support a cause. So, have you seen a fan club for the Technorati monster or Bloglines plumber? The idea came from Mike Chapman who was celebrating a birthday. Rather than give him your first born son, he asked that you donate blood. And people poke fun at it. But do they quite?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. Do you follow your blog's technorati? I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Check it out. for his blog. Does it matter to you?

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. Here are a handful of ideas: 1.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

What are people already saying about my cause, or organization? Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

realm – Cause Related Marketing has an interesting discussion about a new Instant Messenger campaign. Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0 It’s a wonderful way of looking at these tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

I'm curious why Tomato Nation that has a technorati rank of 18,779 compared with AVC's (Fred Wilson) rank of 865 and Tech Crunch's rank of 4 has managed to raise so much more money? Does it illustrate the problems of using the Technorati rank as any serious benchmark? Is this a measure of engaged readers? It has to be authentic!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

I haven’t read that blog (yet) because I’m not a librarian, although, I’ve always thought what Deborah said on the ISF list : “I have long thought that nonprofit techies should make a point of learning from and making common cause with tech-savvy librarians.&# at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Use bold, italics, bullets and numbered lists to break up the page. Don't be afraid of white space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. them how to promote your cause. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Lisa Neal ) 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Use Technorati , a blog search engine. 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 Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

The marketplace is packed with compelling organizations and important causes. Technorati Tags: nptech. The other key point that resonated with me from Tony's presentation was that because of the economy, people's loyalty to charities and groups continues to be fleeting, making transparency and openness critical. fundraising.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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MAY 22, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.” Blog Searches: Technorati. ” Think about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

How do you know what tactic caused the sale?  technorati, RSS persistance search, etc) to an automated tool - like Radian6.   On Twitter, a start up company got 100 great marketing ideas for free, women raised $6,000 in a day and a wooden toy maker in NH got a nationwide contract. Where do they get the information? 

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DECEMBER 17, 2005

Now you're not afraid of all of those symbols 'cause you already put your Feedblitz code in there. At the end of you your post, you want to add some tags to make it easier for people to find your posts and for blog search engines like, Technorati , to find your posts. Technorati has a good guide for how to add tags to your post here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

"Blogs are not causing a revolution. " Technorati Tags: 06ntc Blog are just another Internet communication strategy and tool!" " Just in time for our NTC nonprofit blogging panel. I'm taking a break from searching through Flickr for some visuals for our nonprofit blogging panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger. In the past, I've solicited mostly friends and family for fundraising causes. The message is really important and it has to focus on why you are passionate about the cause and the results of raising the money. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature. What do you do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

So, that's why it took me a little longer to respond (apart from the snapping turtle incident and broken air conditioner) With the recent server upgrade at del.icio.us, there were some additional features/fucntionality added to the interface and thus, this caused an upgrade to my cheat sheet. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 22, 2006

An RFP can cause us hours of extra work and nontheless prevent us from really telling an organization why we would be a good choice for them. Technorati Tags: nptech , RFP Organizations who want to learn more about our software and services are our lifeblood. How do RFPs do this? You deserve to hear it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. Go to the places on the social web where you can find people who are passionate about your cause. It's not about the nonprofit, it's about what they do for our stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

In the continuing battle between the forces of neatness and messiness, tagging advances the cause of messiness. (I Technorati Tag: nptech Rather than knowledge ending where the miscellaneous begins, now it's beginning with the miscellaneous. (In In your face, Aristotle!).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2005

And as you grow, the harm caused by this heterogenous network will mushroom. Technorati Tags: nptech , tech_planning , ymca Sarah's laptop can't come up on the old projector; Joe is back on Excel 97; the graphics software won't work with Jack's video card. You hear a lot of talk nowadays about technology planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Technorati ???Authority??? Technorati ???Authority??? Kaushik admits to mixed feelings about Technorati and I know Amy Gahran has tracked and written about the drawbacks to Technorati. Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to more or less go up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Technorati ???Authority??? Technorati ???Authority??? Kaushik admits to mixed feelings about Technorati and I know Amy Gahran has tracked and written about the drawbacks to Technorati. Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to go up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I've used my Technorati rank [it has issues ] and just compared against myself for year before. But for some reason, my Technorati rank hasn't updated in six months. Return on Investment ; This is where we do the math and attempt to make a business cause. Ha, try to measure that or translate into a dollar amount.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Technorati Search Widget: If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. With that said, I get complaints from some of my blog readers about the Technorati Search Widget, so I'm looking for suggestions.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. 60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

It’s simple to do cause it is just a link to a web site. Lesser results I see for Technorati, which to me is pretty much passe ( [link] ) — google blog search picks up a bit more [link]. Official” Conference Bloggers Knock it Out of the Park. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). Avinash suggested Technorati. Here's a brain dump of some key points. This is hard to pin down. Does the number of embeds fit in here?

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Care2

MAY 27, 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)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2006

Basically, it’s a day to do a little something nice for yourself so that when Valentine’s rolls around, and its not the incredibly romantic, meaningful, love-filled day that we know it can’t be, but secretly hope it will be, we don’t feel so badly, ‘cause we had a kick-ass time the day before. Technorati tags: St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

Nancy White recently blogged about a tool called ChipIn which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising. Technorati Tags: npfundraising

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