Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. e-collaboration???

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. Interactions on social media include every click, share, and comment your posts receive from other accounts. Engagement. Fundraising. Interactions.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 6, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Does your organization have a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

"   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog.   Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Two weeks ago I shared a couple reflections that I had on a recent #4change chat about community building – the major output from that chat and the follow up blog post was the call I heard for a regular opportunity to talk about community building.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 24, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

The cards focus on strengths-based reflections and are an easy tool to get meetings started on a positive note, even if you are discussing challenging issues. If you have your own tips for nonprofit success, please share in the comments section below. Sorry about the missing comments, folks! Second, use tools and practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Are they tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Update: See Ben's Comment over here. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. I admit that I don't understand some of the more technical stuff.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Genuine: It reflects their character, behavior, values, and vision. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. Take for example this shot of fireworks and the accompanying reflection. If your CEO’s social media profile is simply duplicating your brand’s feed and voice, it enters the Uncanny Valley.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Until then, when you’re advocating for the nonprofit where you currently work, the professionalism of your profile directly reflects upon your nonprofit. What you usually see there (and what most people ignore) are tweets that have been automatically posted in the LinkedIn news feed from your personal profile.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And they're winning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Each session called shared a best practice, debriefed on the results of applying the best practice shared the month before, and we collectively generated insights. As one participant noted, “The consistent monthly time to reflect about learning was invaluable.” Engaging photos, especially of local places and animals work well.

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

We’d like to share a few of our major aims and reflect a bit on some lessons learned that we hope will guide our approach in the future and prove helpful to others designing competitions, challenges, and prize giveaways online – in particular those focused on social benefit and public service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

If want to separate your personal and professional tweets as much as possible use a disclaimer such as the following, "This is a personal Twitter feed. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. LinkedIn allows you to automatically feed tweets from your twitter account to your profile page. Post a Disclaimer. " LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Alan Levine also wrote a reflection about wanting to see a resurgence of blogging but also admitting how much fun it is share information via twitter. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. In summary, the Chair leads and reflects the Board with full commitment to the organization’s vision and mission; has an understanding of the essential legal, moral, and ethical responsibilities of the Board; and works through policy, guidance, and support.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 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!" A printed page is viewed with reflected light, while a page on a computer screen is luminous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

In some ways, I found using it counter-intuitive to my thinking and reflection process. " I created a mindmap of Peralty's step-by-step framework to help me reflect on my steps. Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. I found a few features annoying, most notably the lack of flexibility with the templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Nedra Weinreich of the SpareChange Blog left a pointer to comic this in a comment on my post about RSS as coping tool for Information Overload ! I've been reflecting a lot on my RSS reading habits lately and how I organize (or don't) my RSS feeds in the reader. It could be useful a self-reflection exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Unique Blog Readers (content consumption - Unique Visitors and Feed Subscribers). Return on Investment (what's in it for you/your business)" Stephen offers a snarky comment that I actually agree with: Would this newsletter be twice as good if I wrote twice as many posts or wroite them twice as long? measuring 'reflective moments'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. Like Amy, I've lost count of how many feeds are in my reader(s) - at least 400-500. folder where I track references to my name, my projects, or new contributions to blog-comment conversations I???ve ego surfing???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? What else would you add to the list?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

We welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions! Its very reflective of America's wallets. For this week’s post, we welcome Angela Francis from Nonprofit Finance Fund to discuss NFF’s recently released State of the Sector survey findings. How can we expect nonprofits to pick up the slack of government cuts?

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. Post a Comment The Magic of Giving › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008, at 10:31 am. Filed under photos , unplugged.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback. Post a Comment ‹ Today something good happened Don José › about steve More about Steve Bridger RSS All posts All comments My blogging journey After Wilma Mexicanwave nfp 2.0 Filed under ideas , video. Bookmark the permalink.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Until then, when you’re advocating for the nonprofit where you currently work, the professionalism of your profile directly reflects upon your nonprofit. What you usually see there (and what most people ignore) are tweets that have been automatically posted in the LinkedIn news feed from your personal profile.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. We also suspect that the online survey allows people more opportunity for reflection and recall than a live telephone survey does.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When nonprofit organizations pay their executives exorbitant salaries, or throw lavish expense-filled parties, it reflects badly on all nonprofits, and increases public and donor scrutiny of nonprofit financial stewardship. It almost feels like administrative costs are to be avoided. We held off on repairs and maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

Yet, if you can't archive and retrieve information that you want to reflect on and share with a community, it's forgotten. Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments. " Corey P of the 501c3Cast uses a rss feed for "nonprofit" search with Terraminds. and tag it. Many times I forget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. Write a blog post reflecting on these questions and tag it with NpTech and we will summarize the key points. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources? How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. 2 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Filed under flickr.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. 2 Comments Rob Bowker wrote: Hi Steve, applied for the ffg accounts only to find a colleague had already registered with ctx and was away on honeymoon. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Filed under flickr.

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