Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. Do you follow your blog's technorati? Check it out. for his blog. Does it matter to you? Some transitions at npower and omidyar. Google Aps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Technorati. Technorati. Further you can check out their page rank, views, and technorati rating. It is important to do this type of listening as a prelude to setting up your own profile or placing videos on YouTube - and as an going part of your social media strategy. Do search at site for the first time. Google Alerts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

WHY THIS CAMPAIGN People were buzzing about the issue online and obviously outraged by their comments. We could tell by all the comments and images floating around. t or werent able to participate by creating a video a way to be engaged ??? youtube video views Get original contest ??? to be able to make a video ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Machine Is US/ing Us (video) ( transcript ). A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

But know there are other video hosts. Get Found on Technorati. Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Deborah Zanke ) ( Jason Shim ) 3. For many in the boomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

He shows a video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Apparently, the comments in the backchannel got her angry, they weren't so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called to the mike. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , backchannel , learning. Update: September, 2007.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You're ready to make a few videos to post on YouTube. Conceptually, commenting on other sites signals your institution's willingness to engage with others on their own terms. Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. Where should you start? Where should you start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Blogging: It's all about podcasting and video podcasting. They can listen to the audio, follow links, and leave comments. You Can Use Your Phone or your digital camera with video: He demonstrated how to do an audio podcast with your cell phone and a video podcast with his camera using hipcast. (I Here are my notes: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Key skill is pattern analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions. It was also a success in terms of an "intermediated conference" between the people who were in real-time, physical space and the virtual participants who were on the IRC or video conference connection. Technorati tag: [link]. Technorati search: [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Search for bloggers who write about topics related to your cause on Technorati , Google Blog Search and Ask.com's blog search engine. If you have lead time up until you'd like them to write about your story, comment on their blog. Bloggers can sniff out a fake commenter a mile away so steer clear of comments like, "Great stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

The screencast is done MTV style - that is it is like a music video - visuals and music - no narration. So, the screencast is like a promotional video for the musicians. Leave a comment. Technorati Tag: scotw Editing is done to the music and works well. Instructional. There are call-outs to highlight features. Production.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Start out small by leaving comments on your favorite blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. Especially in this economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. What is your interest in viral video and why did you start that feed? I'm still working out the kinks on the video feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Do you moderate comments or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

(I've been wanting to do audio and video for a long time, but it wasn't until my blogher experience that I actually got moving and picked up the knowledge to try my first one. Anina, who vlogged me at blogher, left a comment and so did Village Girl , a khmer vlogger, who told me on the phone last week that vlogging was easy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. If we get 1,000 video views that is good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

video blogger??? Eath is video blogging her life story. My vlog has been linked to from a lot of the Cambodian portals so I have a lot of Cambodian people viewing my vlog and commenting. By chance, he found my blog and left a comment. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech or vlogger. s cultural treasures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Technorati. (It reminded of Gary Turner's Webmaster Traffic Art and his batman creation.) Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Impressive to read that some videos were downloaded 100,000 times! RSS, Technorati, Google Alerts, etc). The art and practice of blogging for nonprofits (planning, policy, writing, commenting). How can you use different tools to listen effectively? How can move from individual listening to organizational listening?

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MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Leave comments on blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. Learn more about the comments. Can someone please leave their names in the comments? Technorati Tags: cloggersummit2007. Helped with her IT assignments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I create two versions of the campaign video , one for YouTube and on Revver. I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. And give those blog posts good technorati tags so people can find them. What do I need to think about?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. You can also use reader comments, or posts by volunteers or constituents in grant applications. So here it goes.10 Include bloggers on your press list.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This included putting all videos of procurement bids on to YouTube to releasing real-time data sets in a catalog of 261 data feeds , the DC government has quickly become a leading example of data transparency. Technorati Tags: wes08sep. This way, if the syndicate violated their terms of use, pulling the cutoff switch is easy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Search for your institution of TripAdvisor (for reviews), on Technorati (for blog mentions), on Flickr (for photos), or on YouTube (for rare but coveted visitor-generated videos). Read the comments. An easy place to start is the web: get out there and see what people are already saying about your museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). If I'm an engaged spectator in the groundswell--using Yelp!

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. Lesser results I see for Technorati, which to me is pretty much passe ( [link] ) — google blog search picks up a bit more [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

After joining, post hyperlinks or review and comment on the resources of others, join the conversation. SHARE - Plan to show this video to your students. You can also see a wealth of other videos collected at the Stop Cyberbullying Network). Often we DON"T see it because of comment moderation.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

and digging out from a flood of emails, comments, unread posts in my reader, etc -- and it looks like I'm not the only blogger with insomia related to Katrina. This goes for photo bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers as well - there's no reason why this should be text-only. I'm baack from vacation. People need help now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio? I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting. Avinash suggested Technorati.

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