Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006.

Widget 50

Widget Campaign Reflection Personal 50

NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

But with the ever-changing properties and tools on the Internet, that door has evolved into countless spaces, conversations, and opportunities that can seem tough to tackle. You need to join the conversation where it's happening. Start a Conversation. On the Web, the best way to engage people is to ask a question.

Place 78

Place Tools Social Media Online 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Five Hot Conversations. Bev Traynor builds on the list here and reflects on how it isn't quite a yes or not question. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. tools in their web sites. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use. Change the World!

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Tag Conversation 50

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

What you want them to see is the answer to their question. If a stranger lands on your website, odds are they are searching for the answer to a specific question about something going on in their lives right now. What three questions are strangers who land on your site most likely to have? Answer questions for strangers.

Websites 79

Websites Content Create Newsletter 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

It is a little widget that allows live chat on any web site. I'm connecting it to the questions that came up on yesterday's Community Squared telephone conference to discuss tagging communities and got onto the topic of how online communities are changing given Web2.0. The metaphor is a web walkie talkie.

Teen 50

Teen Widget Wiki Audio 50

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook.

Knowledge 86

Knowledge Share Network Community 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She talked about the Panorama project on their site. It gives an opportunity for the audience to have a conversation with audience around programming. This PBS station just started their social media experimentation less than a year ago and is already seeing increased audience engagement and visitors to their site.

Twitter 56

Twitter Los Angeles Social Media Feeds 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! Mmm.that's a great question how do I stay sane.

Social Media 51

Social Media Media Work Social 51

Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. It recently overtook Yahoo.com to become the United States' second-most visited site. A common question is whether to invest time in a Facebook Group or a Page. Ask questions.

Facebook 55

Facebook Social Media Widget Flickr 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2008

These services let you track conversations that are important to your organization and issue. Questions To Ask Before You Dive In: What do you need track? If you are reading many blogs and entering in many conversations, how to track where you've left comments? Answer questions. How will you respond to negative.

Comment 50

Comment Tools Plugin Screencast 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. Kara Carell shared her experience, much of based on her personal passion for social networking sites. Described her organizational's first conversations - our audience is on Facebook and why aren't we there?

Chicago 50

Chicago Social Network Network Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0?

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Water cooler conversations around shared objects. NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them. My response to the question: are we moving on from traditional social networking? Is social networking doomed?

Digg 50

Digg Stumbleupon Slides Slideshare 50

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. It's important that these remain a part of the overall report, but the graphs and charts themselves should be discoverable on your site on their own, as well. Don't let your data fall victim!

Policy 36

Policy Data Content Share 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The plenary sessions were a gift and were focused on answering the question how we can inspire with these tools. The site streams volunteer opportunity content from sources like the Idealist, VolunteerMatch, and others. It also has widgets. I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday.

America 91

America Social Network Challenge Reflection 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

  Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). Additionally, PostRanks are calculated one of two ways, either comparing a site's content against its own past performance only (feed-based PostRank). Is there a formula or set of sharper reflection questions? Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

Metrics 71

Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

Achieve

MARCH 1, 2021

With a volunteer-friendly website, you’re sure to capture more volunteer conversions and keep your current volunteers engaged. You can even include a calendar widget to make clear when the opportunities are and to facilitate volunteer signups. Don’t miss out on their engagement because your site isn’t mobile-friendly.

Volunteer 98

Volunteer Design Site Web 98

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ask these questions: Is there a project you want to get funded for immediate use, before the end of the year or early into next year? Your answers to these questions should help you to determine the type of campaign you want to create, and how you do it. Or add a Twitter widget for all hashtag mentions of your campaign.

Guide 73

Guide Giving Campaign Social Media 73

Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Listen for hot topics or questions. Keep up with trending topics and conversations that happen in other communities. If your content can address some of the common questions being asked, then it will be a useful resource for your audience. Some will question the impact of this type of engagement to your mission, and rightly so.

Websites 37

Websites Strategy Content Nonprofit 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

A good start, a conversation with anyone who could get there, was made today. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues. " Here's an update on the round up of coverage: Event Announcement from Jonathan Fanton, President.

Virtual 50

Virtual Platform Second Life Teen 50

Byte Technology

JANUARY 31, 2017

And for those who are launching a money-making venture via an e-commerce site, the importance of choosing the best theme for your needs is even more vital. Will it work in an intuitive way that speeds conversions and positive actions? All good questions to ask. Will your customers respond favorably to the theme you choose?

Platform 100

Platform Plugin Tips Widget 100

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

Tweetup widget from TWTvite 2. Twitter Followers Widget from Widgettropolis 3. Widgetbox Widget displaying all tweets from the official conference Twitter feed 7. Widgetbox Widget displaying all tweets containing the conference hashtag 8. Trivia questions and giveaways via our Twitter feed. Cross promotion.

Conference 28

Conference Create Widget Social 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. I don't even know what it is, but she also posted the question with more details on her blog.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Facebook Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

Screencast 50

Screencast Widget NTEN Badge 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I’d like to extend my thanks to Emily and Beth for participating, and to all of the audience for your good, insightful questions. Beth : That is a question that is not easy to answer in a couple of sentences because there are so many "it depends" variations. It depends the context, who is having the conversation, etc.

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Media Blogger 20

Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Making the Most of the News Cycle In September 2008, NWLC launched a voter education microsite that included a register-to-vote widget, and we started running Google ads on keywords like “register to vote.” and had a CTR was 2.17% and a conversion rate of 4.40%. However, our Google ads offer us a way around that.

Google 31

Google Grant Adwords Social Media 31

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

Blogger 41

Blogger Causes Support Nicaragua 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement.

Metrics 56

Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2014

That is the number one priority, and there’s no question about the action you’re supposed to take when arriving at the site. Not your mission statement, but rather an elevator pitch – more conversational – something relatable. The site has tons of information but it’s organized very well. Google’s Purpose.

Google 54

Google Websites Nonprofit Design 54

Forum One

OCTOBER 28, 2009

As conversations came to a close, a session's focus turned toward creating something of lasting value. They asked themselves, "How can we help Hill staff make their internet sites and services more useful for citizens?". Questions of interest to Congressional staff will be posted and answered.

Unconference 52

Unconference Widget Wiki Collaboration 52

Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. The site's strength lies in how anyone can create, promote, and grow a cause, but Jen also points out that this can create weaknesses as well. Confusing site architecture.

Causes 64

Causes Community Online Fundraising 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. I set up a drop.io

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away.

Reflection 50

Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. Social Network Sites: In an effort to court the younger voter, candidates have built presences on My Space and Facebook.

Social Media 62

Social Media Lesson Develop Media 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Unfortunately, I had to cancel and asked Scott Henderson if he'd do on my behalf. I met Scott online over a conversation in the comments when I wrote some reflections about David Armano's personal fundraising campaign back in January. Leading indicators: Unique site visitors, Tr.im Twitter found that out in 2007.)

Causes 52

Causes Marketing Interview Pledge 52

Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

For those trying to make the most of their WordPress—or, more importantly, the most money off their WordPress site—it can sometimes be difficult to ascertain just how to go about marketing your blog, products, services and so on. Virtually everyone has, at one point or another, needed to access the FAQ section of a site.

Plugin 100

Plugin WordPress Marketing FAQ 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2014

We have profiles on our site of the different borrowers, their stories, the amount of money they need and why, and a barometer of their progress. If you set up an email for people to send questions, make sure you personally respond in a timely manner.

Activities 127

Activities Active Activism Campaign 127