Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors! Week Three of the We Are Media Toolbox begins!    We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    This includes FriendFeed and Social Thing.

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MAY 21, 2009

While paid advertising is a very effective way to increase your list of supporters and help brand your organization to target audiences, earned media is another key tactic to deploy in your overall online communications strategy. What is Earned Media? Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Word of mouth, etc.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2006

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!" By: Simon Jackson. Campaign to Red List the Kermode Spirit Bear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. These options might be called " Social Media Optimization " (more here ). Nick asked the question. I saw this on her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

How does he find and pick feeds? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships? How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? How does he configure it to save time? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How can you catch his eye with your posts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement. Laura Lee Dooley's blog post " The Social Media Metrics Lottery " pointed to and summarized Don Bartholomew's thoughts on engagement as well as other posts on blogging ROI from the corporate sector.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." That's tongue in check coming from a babyboomer who has gen y media habits. so our online efforts dovetail with what we???re re doing offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. Google reader has google reader sharing - reblogging - Imagine a power RSS user culls posts that are really useful and clicks share - and creates an exhaust feed of items. After the call, set up an account and tried grabbing the RSS feeds from del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well. It searches for links on Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 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 about Digg ? This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Twitter Demographics.

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APRIL 13, 2009

As someone who currently works in Corporate Online Marketing at New Media Strategies, but has a history of working in politics and non-profits, I often see a big discrepancy how the private sector reacts to an online crisis versus the public sector. RSS feeds are your friends.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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 about Digg ? This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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APRIL 14, 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!" RSS feeds are your friends. Do you have other tips in handling crisis communications? Make the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

As a mention in your Twitter feed, and clicking through to read the rest. As an excerpt on your Facebook feed, and clicking through to read the rest. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. When someone emails it to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. You also might to check out some widgets that combine social networking with stats like mybloglog.com. Tap the Blogs. And here's a good listener's guide. Donations with Squidoo. I'd also take a look at widget fundraising.

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JULY 15, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. I also made sure that my mini-feed keep my activity on the NpTech Group visible. My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. We all have that power to help spread the word on important causes, rather than using Social Media simply as a brand-building machine."

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JUNE 11, 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!" Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ). As noted by Holly Ross on the NTEN blog, having a conversation in blogs and other social media is a public conversation. Williambrook mentions a plugin to follow your comments. There are other services: CoComment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Most recently, Marnie Webb created a Yahoo Pipe of the NpTech Feed and runing it through AideRSS to sort it by popularity.

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OCTOBER 20, 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!" If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Scarcity Thinking Michele Martin's recent conversation starter, " Is the Scarcity Mentality the Biggest Barrier to Social Media in Nonprofits ?" social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Social Housing explores social media. " prompted some discussion. A few comments over at Kikono too.

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JULY 2, 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!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? What tools should they use? Lets dig in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! Social Media Blog points us to column by Walter S. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. People are talking about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. SXSW Poetry Slam Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. Allan Benamer has taken that feed and brought it into Yahoo Pipes. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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MAY 3, 2011

Causes is thoroughly integrated with social media, giving fundraising projects new ways to reach their audiences. You can track your donations directly against your outreach, noting which feed posts cause your biggest spikes. I was most recently at Digg. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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APRIL 20, 2009

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NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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