Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

You finally finish the post believing it’s your best ever only to find no-one comments. So here’s my first 5 tips for better blog posts: # 1 Use Short Paragraphs I can’t count on all my fingers and toes the number of posts I’ve tried to read that are just one paragraph ! 4 Always Comment Back To Readers On Your Own Posts!

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Please start asking in the comments below. Pretty simple eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. It isn??????t

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Four tips to help you get started. Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Then they can comment, share and/or like your wall posts which then shares it with all their friends – now that’s viral.

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Connection Cafe

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For example, the friends of the Facebook users who’ve posted these photos of rabbits will see a story in their News Feed, exposing them to the mission of the National Wildlife Federation. Turn On Tagging. Let Facebook users tag themselves and their friends in photos you post to your Page. Turn On Replies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Some Tips: Tweet Before the Tweet Up To Build Excitement. Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. What are your best tips for hosting Tweet Ups?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

Please share the questions you’d like to explore by adding a comment here ahead of time and I’ll use those to feed our discussion. Tags: community events 4change chats community buidling community management twitter chats. Perhaps #4change.commbuild or something? Let me know. See you on the 19th!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. 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. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. Jon's comments on plone comments.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

and engage with their posts with likes and/or comments! Compile lists of Instagram handles for your team members, key supporters, influencers, and organizations with likeminded causes so that you can easily tag and mention them in your posts. It’s about reciprocity – many of them will help you back. Who’s watching your content?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 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 28, 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I have one note: I feel a little strange giving tips – a lot of the blogs I really like are way better than mine. My tip (more of a request): I’d love to hear more about your perspectives on how technology can help (or hinder) organizational management, dynamics, and change. My tip: JP, write more !

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

She also has seven more tips you can check out. • Jake of Grant Writing Confidential also emphasizes the importance of storytelling , among other tips, in his post, How to Write a "Juicy" Nonprofit Blog - or a Blog of Any Kind. Tags: blog. Nonprofit 2.0 Flickr photo credit: Juicy! by sunshinecity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. A few comments over at Kikono too. Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names. For others, the concept of ???public public information??? isn't " from Kathy Sierra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

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? What is the quality of the conversation in the comments?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 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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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Here are a few tips that can help: Facebook. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. That particular wall post had 31 comments and 15 likes, way higher than other types of posts. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Not five minutes after I mentioned on my Facebook status how much I love California Farmers' Markets and posted some of the photos, then I got tagged in a photo by a friend who is doing a little network weaving if his Facebook friends feeds. Leave comments on those people's blogs. Every writer loves comments.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Any registered Facebook user may post a comment. Page administrators do not engage directly with the commentators. They follow best practices by including links to all of their presences including their Twitter feed. Comment Policy: This tab makes it clear what users should expect. However, the conversation is one-sided.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Tags: nptech. When someone emails it to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

I'm hoping that we'll end the discussion with a kick-a** tip sheet for video bloggers who want to get started promoting their blogs and shows. Bring your best promo tips to share. ll talk about: -Use of tags ??? Tag your video blog post into del.icio.us - forward to your del.icio.us. RSS feed (of course).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. Tags: friendfeed. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

I republished the post on my blog and offered a free copy to a nonprofit who left the best comment about how their organization is applying these principles. We post content ( safety tips , flu tips , event information , etc.) We don't like to stream content on our Facebook Page or Twitter feed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07 at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Tags: guest blogging npblog. Blogs can be fun!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Based on my own experience, and after reading posts about blog traffic by folks like Seth Godin , Darren Rowse of ProBlogger , and others , here is a list of tips I've compiled: Post regularly. Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register.

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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? Hat tip Miriam Kagan ) Improving Program and Service Delivery.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 1, 2007

Please feel free to add your own tips in the comments. In Technorati you can search for when your topic, in Wendy's case, "homeschooling" and "homeschool," shows up in a post, or by posts tagged with "homeschooling" and "homeschool." Comment on other people's posts about your topic. Read other blogs about your topic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. But some comments on the whole phenomenon. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. joewaters @ kanter Re: @ mary_joyce comments. video [link] MJRovner @ kanter talk to Greenpeace USA -- Marie Michelson -- "online to on the ground" program What are your best tips and practices for activating the activists offline? Please leave a comment.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Leave comments on blogs. You can also setup a RSS feed. Have some more handy tips?

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