Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think? See below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. e-collaboration???

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. ideablob particpants are locked out from seeing any comments or feedback on their ideas.

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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. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. If members ask a question on Twitter, respond on Twitter, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo. that is I love the content, consume way too much, and can spend a lot of time wandering around having a wonderul time. I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Shirky specifically about the avenues of participation, content, and convening online. Because the difference isn’t in using the tools per se, we all have the same functionality to upload, tag, comment, etc. How do nonprofits convene groups or create content that fits with the changing online environment? I asked Prof.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. As my Grandmother became more familiar with the way that Facebook works, she's become more comfortable posting her own content. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

Whether I’m talking about my role at NetSquared , my blog , or my network of friends, I am inspired every day and find value in, and rewards for, my participation. Interact, use tools, and create and share content the way you want your community members to do so. This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. [Ed. Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. netsquared” or “net squared” - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared” is mentioned or “Net Squared” is mentioned, I will get alerted. You can read all the details here. ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

I could let the blog go dark for a couple of weeks or I could rehash old content, like the "Best of the Beth." I thought this would be a win/win -- I get to reduce some stress and my friends get share some of the great content about nonprofits and social media while I'm gone. I will be active in the comments. Wish me luck!

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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 To see another work in progress, go over to MIchael Gilbert's The Authentic Organization blog where he has turned the comments feature on and is writing his next book in a fishbowl!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

In our session at NetSquared today, we used Social Actions as a case study in engaging online community participation, and shared two strategy tools that can help you make your nonprofit site more engaging. Luisa, who owns a small deli, leaves a comment on your blog post. Tags: engagement guest blogging n2y4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

As you will see, it has many different tabs to try to help with the information overload of juggling so many great content sources. You can either comment on the News & Resources page , or email me with your suggestions. Tags: guest blogging RSS. Check it out!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We put facebook back in it’s place as a tool, explain to our teams that we have a community engagement strategy that includes various kinds of community groups, various types of content, and will use multiple tools. The tactics are created based on those limited moving parts – overall strategy and goal, the audience and the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Working with cutting-edge websites like epolitics, Future Majority, Change.org, and many others, I plan to share this content with and contribute to as many relevant outlets and individuals as possible. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s I just donated a small amount to his effort! What's that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. How much time, staff and money do you have to put into setting up your blog, writing your blog, answering comments, reading other blogs, and leaving comments on other blogs? Should the content be appropriate to your audience? How do you encourage comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube. When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. feed where he is tagging resources here. And note how he has incorporated the use of his mail comment line into his content).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. What is mobile content and to create it - found out here. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

News : RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog. We want to learn from you about curating content! industry, content curation is nothing new. and an increasing demand for streamlined content access has inspired us! consumers of that content. A buzzword in the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I did two because ChipIn only integrates with YouTube on the campaign (the player can be easily emedded) and Revver because they pay users for content based on ad click thrus. Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. What a dork I am!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. Over the past couple of years, one way that I synthesize blog content has been to do presentations. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) . Tags: goals. I have a confession. What are your goals for 2009?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses.

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