Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors!   We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others. 

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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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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

in nonprofit land. Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. It's call org.2.0! It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0 Or maybe not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. I also made sure that my mini-feed keep my activity on the NpTech Group visible. The first six people to leave a comment got the invites. I also just found a nonprofit with a group that has over 21,000 members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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JULY 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Weve outlined three key take-aways below. Be sure to check it out.

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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. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. Although I did learn from a commenter on Katya's post that I'm not alone - Flower Dust raised 1800 of it in 18 hours, 800 in 15 minutes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" In most cases, you should allow for reader comments. Well report back in a few days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How about Digg ? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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APRIL 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" RSS feeds are your friends. Reader Comments (4) Great tips, Jen.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How about Digg ? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Some recent nonprofit tech posts addressing this topic here , here , here , and here. 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. How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 A few comments over at Kikono too.

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JUNE 11, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Its great to see the proliferation of APIs in the for-profit world, but what about nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest.

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MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. Identify the usual suspects and DNFTT (do not feed the trolls).

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JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? What tools should they use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Tell me what thy wildlife name is on the twitter feed-but be sure! SXSW Poetry Slam Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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APRIL 20, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (3) To speak to your point about passion, Allyson.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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