Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. In A Museum?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. understand how to design and implement a social media experiment that enables listening, participation, content creation, or community building and is appropriate and realistic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e. Pick 2-3 to track on a regular basis: Subscribers Page views Page visits Downloads Referrals/links Comments Bookmarks Actions taken Money raised Number of donors Campaigns created by supporters Content created by supporters Community growth and strength Individual relationship growth and strength 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info. Video contests can be a great way to give your community something tangible to do and create great content for your organization in the process.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. times, regardless of social network or the number of people who shared the content. Here are some quick takeaways to consider: 1) The Ease of Social Sharing is Important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) The next question is, well, how useful is this anyway? Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. We have great content. We are just providing the container, the mechanism so it can function.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. [link] HootSuite: Allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts in one place. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Session Content 1. link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc.

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