Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

My rule now is that I set up a presence on different sites and have email forwarded if people want to contact me, but I go deep in only a couple of places. I've seen this first hand -- I don't engage deeply on MySpace - yet some of my donors for the Cambodian campaign who heard about on Facebook and shared it with their friends on MySpace.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. 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.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? Facebook may be the one for you. I told her to filter.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site. We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. What do we want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0 Do you find Web2.0

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MARCH 27, 2008

Another point Brian made was that perhaps Facebook and Myspace are not for your organization. They tried the Causes challenge – seeking donors on Facebook – and her biggest takeaway was that influencers are more valuable than donors. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

" You can use the site to find others to help you get something done -- folks have used the site for a wide variety of projects, all needing broad support to actually work. There are loads of uses for the site ??? 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! They know the advantages of a college education, can relate to Leng Sopharath as a fellow student, and are tapped in to loads of social networks (Facebook, MySpace, et al). s a thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. Especially in this economy. The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Articles on TechCrunch and AllFacebook revieiwng this data seem to focus on Facebook ‘s stronghold on the clickthroughs of shared links, at 38% of all links shared by social means. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network. Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. Why should I use Facebook? And even if you understand what a site does, what can it do for your museum? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

Do you want to track how many people are signing your petitions after visiting your site? According to ReadWriteWeb, they will soon be providing a related API for Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed to integrate, retrieve, and provide further statistics for each users Facebook profile. Understand What You Want to Track.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early.

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