Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

social networking sites. I received an email back stating that only individuals are allowed to create profiles, but that we were more than welcome to start a group (which we already have). So now my personal Facebook profile is the Administrator of the Oxfam America group (which I can tell you, is less than ideal).

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. The campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted? Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Think about it. When the Washington Post writes about health care reform or corporate accountability is your campaign mentioned? Media outlets both online and offline. Tweets on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. Philthanthropy. Do you find Web2.0

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

In this ever-changing and progressing world of social media it can be overwhelming to “keep up with the Joneses”, so to speak. Every day I got several messages from this person about join this group or go see this band play and I just couldn’t take it anymore. She said “Oh, I should try that.”

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

What advice would you give to your supporters so they are successful in a group fundraising campaign? 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). use your social network to help you with the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Yesterday saw the announcement of a new study by ShareThis , in partnership with Starcom MediaVest Group and Rubinson Partners. 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. clicks and 1.7

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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. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups ! TechSoup has RSS feeds too!

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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. Open Content for Nonprofits?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Or rather, why do people group themselves religiously around technology? They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Does my virtual pet really need a social network? Why are people religious about technology? Technology isn't supposed to be religious. Unclear application.

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Care2

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!" link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. Members of the Causes community are eager to connect with smaller groups , which is why a regional nonprofit like the JCCCNC could outperform larger organizations. I was most recently at Digg.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? popularity into other social news networks.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky. We also linked to the Google Group discussion, which added new members and triggered conversations. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. The duration of your campaign affects which social networks you’ll rely on.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

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