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). Understand how the model works , but don't get distracted. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. It’s a model I hope spreads beyond the CMS space, into other areas.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:16 PM Labels: Asset Based Community Development , Chandler , community , Hannah Humphrey , nonprofits , Public Allies , social media 1 comments: George King said. I agree we need more of these model communities. Our 15 year old son is severely autistic. Thank you for the post! Keep up the good work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. …• Increased FLOSS use may provide a way for Europe to compensate for a low GDP share of ICT investment relative to the US.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. This breaks the whole thing open. I’m not so clear about how this helps users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

at 8:42 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 02.29.08 I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. &# With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. {

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

We welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions! Partnerships, fee-for-service models, social enterprise models, and networking are just a few avenues nonprofits can take to help navigate around the economy's traffic jam. Weve had a great response thus far to Research Friday, our weekly series on nonprofit research.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Technorati Tags: linux , linuxchix , nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tory 11.19.06 You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. at 4:03 pm Thank you for furthering the presence of women in technology… 2 John Powers 11.29.06 at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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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? That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

These model collaborations were selected from a pool of over 800 applications from around the country. Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 2:57 PM Labels: AIM Alliance , collaboration prize , Jill Watts 1 comments: Travis Butterfield said. Congratulations to the 8 Finalists and best wishes to all nonprofits doing this challenging work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

I’m a huge fan of Harold Jarche’s “ Seek, Sense, Share ” model. The discovery tools help you discover the best stuff through the use of RSS feeds and persistent search. Let me know in the comments. A Few Good Starter Tools. Robin suggests that you need two sets of tools: discovery and curation tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 06.29.07 But it needs addressing. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. Vivek Kundra, Chief Technical Officer, for the District of Columbia, discussed the District’s radical transformation a model of the to the digital public sphere model. It also allowed the U.K.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It was really hard to try and write new applications building on a framework I’d written a while ago, while simultaneously improving that framework, and keeping up with new things such as Ajax and RSS, mostly by myself. And I also struggled with the consulting business model. It just wasn’t happening very well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06 Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. So, the ASU Lodestar Center survey, modeled on the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Panel Study , emphasizes several major prompts. A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. This simple prompt turned 2.4

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc. We are working with our clients to engage constituents on sites like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. … sucks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) at 9:18 am { 18 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tracey Grant 08.17.07 In your above comments, you have quoted our standard, list rates for ReadyTalk services. It is commercial, but it has a kind of pay-as-you-go pricing model. Wish I were!

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. Hoffman says. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment restr » Blog Archiv » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories [.] du kannst die Kommentare zu diesen Eintrag durch den RSS 2.0 Feed verfolgen. You can see it at [link].

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. Hoffman says. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment restr » Blog Archiv » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories [.] du kannst die Kommentare zu diesen Eintrag durch den RSS 2.0 Feed verfolgen. You can see it at [link].

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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. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups ! TechSoup has RSS feeds too! the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The contemporary organization is the wrong model for civil society, the corporate structure in particular is dysfunctional, and human beings fit more naturally and are more empowered in communities, movements, and networks. " Q: Many "blogs" have a comments or trackbacks section. I'm glad you liked the article.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. and post an average of five comments. But this comment rate is typical for a blog. The format (I write a lot, you get to respond at the end) is a standard push content model.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 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!" We arent an exclusive platform - you can post here and anywhere else.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

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Care2

MARCH 13, 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!" Panelist: Charlene Li, Thought Leader, Altimeter Group 4.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , plone , salesforce { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 03.16.09 I don’t know how much code tweaking is required to really get this going.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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 many comments do nonprofits have? The average was 797 comments, while the median was 74.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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 many comments do nonprofits have? The average was 797 comments, while the median was 74.

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