Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

I asked colleagues what nonprofits had good employee champion programs and Chris Tuttle pointed me to Human Rights Watch. In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Please share your experience in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. I was struck by Marnie’s comments on this and ask her to explain them on a FLIP video interview. The presentation is here. She also blogged a few thoughts.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs. A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm working on a small research project for a client to develop a list of conferences where someone who works with and for nonprofits might attend or speak. I'm specifically looking for conferences in these general theme areas: Nonprofit. Nonprofit Technology. Technology. Social Change. Social Enterprise. I thanked her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. Wow, better than a listserv! Nonprofit + Conference produced less than 100 resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good? YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel? Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. Not at all?

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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

If you are a nonprofit or affiliated with a nonprofit that is already doing something in Second Life, take this survey or let us know by leaving a comment in this post. The TechSoup group is collaborating on a directory of nonprofits and we want to make sure your organization is included.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I'm continuing with this informal research of the nonprofit blogosphere by pretending to be Terry Gross and conducting "Bloggerviews." " In previous weeks, I interviewed nonprofits who have jumped into the blogosphere trenches feet first. Why do you think a nonprofit organization should consider having a blog?

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APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. 2) Partner in Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

It is a valuable way to think how your nonprofit's target audience fits into the social media landscape. The other day, Chris Brogan left a comment about how conversations online were becoming more distributed and fragmented. Discover Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile See All Our Quizzes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post. This should be good fodder for debate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. s online journal told the tales of what she saw, so we just reworded her experiences through the eyes of a seal and posted blog comments from him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. " Steve and I exchanged a quick comments about online facilitation practice and community design in community blogs. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So a hat tip to Katrin Verclas and Progressive Exchange listserv. Facebook has been taking down organizational profiles for nonprofits, including Ranger Rick's profile. Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Or maybe Beth Kanter. tools successfully. Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I put it into nonprofits. My experience is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

For example, this nonprofit marketer shares his decision about choosing a software tool in light of the recent acquisitions in the market. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Leave a comment on a post. I'm nervous. Openness - ???? milllion blogs.

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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. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. This would make a great blog post!??? I see that you???ve

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JULY 11, 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!" JO: What have you found to be the biggest barriers to nonprofits using social media tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. into the chat line -If you have a comment or observation type ! I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month. right here.

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JUNE 7, 2012

As part of TechSoup's do-it-yourself month, Nonprofits Live (NPLive) featured a discussion of blogging. Thurman has been blogging about leadership, nonprofits, and social media since 2007. Looking to other people and channels gives you an idea of what others are talking about and lets you comment on it. Vision and Execution.

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JULY 31, 2021

And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then. So really just trying to see how nonprofits have managed and how you’ve really been able to thrive. . And nonprofits are no exception.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I modified his "Mankato Scale" into a nonprofit tech skills assessment. I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. Take this further into the nonprofit tech space.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! Feel free to add your ideas in the comments section at the bottom of this page or on the original post. " - Example from Marnie Webb on Twitter. - "Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." I noticed that you have lots of comments. " Nicola M.

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