Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

So, when we talk about social media and being open and embracing the conversation, one of the most comment questions that comes up is: To what extent do you need to moderate the discussion in a socnet space or blog so it isn't antithetical to your mission? You moderate comments or leave it open. Why or why not? by Ken Fischer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. I’m sure I’ll miss some, so please add more in comments.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The job board will present a change as we’ve currently pointed people to our NTEN Discuss group to post job opportunities. With the new job board, any job postings made to the Discuss group or other myNTEN groups will be deleted. Head over to the Job Board FAQs , drop us an email or comment below. Got questions? Suggestions?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 In a six month period ending last month, 655 comments were submitted to this boa rd.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

This blog post is not meant to explain the nuances of accessibility, nor will it explore all of the dimensions of building a social site, but it will discuss key considerations when working to make your online presence social while remaining accessible to all users. User Accounts & Profiles.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 22, 2009

years that post has gotten 610 comments and counting. Most of the comments here are from people just like me. I haven’t done anything except approve comments as they come in. I added threaded comments and comment pagination in an attempt to make the comments a little easier to read, but that’s about it.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 22, 2009

years that post has gotten 610 comments and counting. Most of the comments here are from people just like me. I haven’t done anything except approve comments as they come in. I added threaded comments and comment pagination in an attempt to make the comments a little easier to read, but that’s about it.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. commenting on any item. Some are successful, but messy.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Could mean that users don’t have a way to manage the amount of posts (read: spam) that could get through to them… I got an error that said only letters, spaces and punctuation were allowed… no numbers?! As Debra Askanse posted in a facebook group discussing Jumo this morning, how do follow people, and not just organizations?

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. It is considered a wise practice to not post too many updates on your page in one day as it could be construed as spamming and drive followers away.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

You’re more likely to get noticed and receive comments and likes as well when you post authentically. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying. Make an effort to post authentic updates at least once a week. Be sure to monitor your LinkedIn referring traffic to your website and blog.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

That's the warning coming through the NTEN Discuss list this week when someone asked the list for advice about their domain, which someone from China emailed them they should "protect" by registering other like-domains through them. Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Was my spam score low? As an email marketer, it’s your job to know the words that service providers are flagging as spam. A sudden drop in open rates could indicate your email was flagged as spam by one or multiple ISP’s. It will improve all four rates we’ve discussed as well as, most importantly, your action rate. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. As far as ads and Spam, that just a part of MySpace and the price to pay for having a social networking site with very little rules or censorship.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Link to other blogs' posts within your posts, even if they have a different opinion to yours, it could start a great discussion. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. Respond to comments. Number of comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

You’re more likely to get noticed and receive comments and likes as well when you post authentically. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying. Make an effort to post authentic updates at least once a week. Be sure to monitor your LinkedIn referring traffic to your website and blog.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Please add your own ideas in the comments too. Include a mix of individual activities (often writing or drawing), partner/small group work, and whole group discussion. Build on their existing expertise/experience/perspective as opposed to asking them to comment on yours. Now how the heck do you do it?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. As a charitable donor, Ive become so fickle its almost embarrassing.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. Maybe folks are discussing your industry on Twitter and you're ready to add your two cents. Sign up for Facebook and search for your organization's name there, too. You can also find people you know on Facebook simply by importing your email list from Outlook. Don't worry.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. That’s equivalent to sending an email to your supporters and 98% of your emails going to spam folders.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Discuss the fields you will introduce in the form and keep only the essential ones. 2. Stop spamming. Having access to donors’ contact information doesn’t mean you have to send them daily emails and weekly newsletters plus a few comments on social media. In this way your marketing can be fluent and efficient. 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Discussed the differences in perspective between generations. They also prepared them about how to respond to comments. Remember Alice in Wonderland - watching yourself in a mirror which you write and you receive comments. It is interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! This post inpsired some thoughtful discussion about Facebook profiles and reports from other organizations about their profiles being taken down. We need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page? They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. The great thing about any really strong community on the net—we’ve never ever had to remove a comment on Flickr or even worry about it.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I tried to give them a framework in which to think about this kind of change and we discussed different models to explore and teach this subject. Share and Enjoy: 3 Comments comment Shai Gluskin Wow, that Beery piece was long. The change taking place with technology isn’t simply about operational efficiencies.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. If you're interested in this topic, check out this experiment to root out the people behind big companies on Twitter, which recently included this comment about museums: " When museums tweet to each other in first person, I question why the museums don't include the names of the people tweeting."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. While plenty of museums say “We want your feedback,” I have yet to visit a museum with a comment card that says, “we want your best idea to make this museum better.” What do you want?” Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. " Q: Many "blogs" have a comments or trackbacks section. I have mixed opinions about comments or trackback.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? This was a great way for EAC to create a meaningful channel into the discussions and to maintain transparency. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from" subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

You may also want to listen to a 30-minute radio interview I did about the book on May 17 which also discusses how social and mobile media has changed since the release of the book. ” As discussed in the book, Twitter Lists are a powerful way to organize the chaos of following a lot of people. and Web 3.0. The Broadcast Web.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

You may also want to listen to a 30-minute radio interview I did about the book on May 17 which also discusses how social and mobile media has changed since the release of the book. ” As discussed in the book, Twitter Lists are a powerful way to organize the chaos of following a lot of people. and Web 3.0. The Broadcast Web.”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. We want to hear your questions and we want to see your comments. Thanks for the comments about my girls. We can see your chat comments here. Loving your comments, by the way. I don’t mean spamming people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

I'm noticing a lot of "edited by guest" changes coming through - so as long we don't get spam or mischief I think this good to encourage participation. The wikispaces discussion feature on each page is great for brainstorming ideas, problem solving, or pre-writing. There are two ways to give feedback - onshore and off shore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2008

YouTube has tons of trolls and comment spam. What are people commenting on? What discussions are they having? From video to audio to photos. YouTube has like 7 hours of video uploaded every 3 minutes. A firehose of information. We want to be the gardenhose of information. I believe our community does just that.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

An active account that interacts with followers and replies to comments. Another thing to note is that is common, even advisable, to ‘hide’ your hashtags by putting them a few lines down in your post (so followers have to click “more” to expand the caption) or in the first comment. Book A Free Consultation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. Even though this comment was made on digg.com and not on our nature.org web site, I???d I feel that someone who???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Their reach metric exceeded their most popular post by 11,000, they got the more meaningful comments and more likes/shares since they started their page. In addition, the newspaper used their toolkit content to write a feature. Report spam: user thinks your page is spam. This used to be known as “unsubscribing.”. ?

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