Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I thought the launch of my new book would be the perfect time to make a few changes! I moved from my old typepad blog to a word press blog that was designed to match the cover colors of my book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Alison Fine. The Old Beth's Blog. My blog was way over do for a fresh and new look!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2008

She also happens to be a web designer who works with typepad! Most importantly, how to deal with the categories using a feature on typepad called typepad notes which allows you to be free from some of the templates. Review my existing categories - and decide which ones need to be deleted, changed, or combined.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Be sure to focus in on the problems you plan to address with your social media strategies (we all want to change the world, but that’s not a specific). Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Has the reason changed? I started blogging in 2000 or so - maintaining link lists on html pages and then with a blogger blog before starting this typepad blog in 2003. Morra Aarons-Mele is working on a research project related to her graduate work and she is interviewing bloggers. Questions like. Why did you start to blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Godin used (as Tom Watson said it), " the Ashton Kutcher Metric of Social Change - not yet proven, only a theory!" I am assuming Tom was talking about the number of followers on Twitter as a measure of impact. So, this sent me over to my new typepad metrics dashboard to see what the impact might be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

I caught up with her at the Games for Change Conference in New York for an interview. For an organization doesn't have skill in HTML and other technical stuff, TypePad and WordPress.com (the hosted version) are likely a good fit. I ran into you at the Games for Change Conference, do you have interest in this area? Absolutely!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2007

I ran out of handouts yesterday during my talk about do good blogging at the Writing for Change Conference, and said I'd post the handout up here today. Getcha Grub On Give and Take *A Roundup of nonprofit blogs by the Chronicle of Philanthropy (check out the blogroll in the right column).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms. My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur. Open fundamentally changes the way we approach everything we do. If youve ever used My Yahoo! But widgets are just the beginning.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. That's change - and folding money - I can believe in. Sea Change Strategies. It's Friday! Text ya later! I don't know.

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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??? a big hat tip to Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project for pointing me to these two articles in the business press about widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Social Change Behind the Firewall. Twitter Demographics.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

Services like TypePad and Wordpress tend to be top-of-mind platforms for new bloggers, but the session covered a ton of features about what makes Blogger different and great for nonprofits such as: Free hosting (use your own URL!). It's easy to create, customizable for every video you post, and can be changed on the fly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

have all changed the way they search the Web to archive and list Web pages in their search engines. SEO experts and spammers got so good at utilizing meta tags to manipulate search engine results that Google and others have now changed their search “spiders” to look for keywords in page titles, not meta tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

We're trying to make some changes in our web site based on user behavior. My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. Maybe one of my readers will point me to some third-party typepad plugin that does this? It's around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

The market is changing rapidly and there have been a lot more personal campaigns and activity. I'm not a techy, so I use typepad. Typepad has integrated widgets into the. I went through the typepad collection and installed (unstalled) a lot of them. If you're not using typepad, don't despair, you can. Finder Lens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

My blogging platform, Typepad, does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. RSS reading patterns are changing. " So, I changed the title and the unique visitors when down slightly. I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad.

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MAY 27, 2010

Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration. In Conclusion Social media is an ever-changing area that becomes more exciting, more complex and better understood with each passing day.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2006

What does the fact that so many people are blogging about their personnal lives say about changing concepts of privacy? According to a piece in the Washington yesterday , Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart , the company that now owns blogging platforms TypePad, Movable Type, and Live Journal, sees increasing interest in prvacy options.

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