Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Deborah Finn has written a SEO primer called " Search Engine Optimization for Nervous Nonprofit Novices " and she is seeking feedback from SEO mavens. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2006

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MAY 22, 2009

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

If not, you may be losing out on a useful tool. Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature. You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Last October, I discovered and blogged about this (free) listening tool called BackType. But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. It also returns the search results and you can grab an RSS feed as well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. 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. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

You need to do some listening first - after setting up an individual profile, the search feature is your best friend or you may consider paid research services. Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. Who set them up? Brian Solis points this out in terms of branding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

If you are starting, you need to begin by manually across multiple networks and then automate the search using a listening/analytics tool. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Mentions an alternative tool to Feedburner - Pheedo.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Often in these chats, participants discuss the online tools they are using and new platform functionality, all with the hope of finding ways to increase community engagement. You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

technology tool, but the oldest communication method known to human beings - stories! tools and fund raising. Think beyond your organization's employees when searching. It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. workshops for July. What are they trying to achieve?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. The idea is that you need to think about your organization's web presence, one-way communication like email marketing and search engine optimization and finally the social.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 8, 2006

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. Quite a few of the products are the type of free or low cost tool we've gotten used to in the web 2.0 Writing for CNN's Business 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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JULY 15, 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!" Presenters included filmmakers and producers, who shared advice on best practices for video for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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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!" Being prepared means drilling and knowing how to use your tools. RSS feeds are your friends.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

2) Search is Still King. Although social sharing accounts for 31% of website traffic, search engine referrals account for almost twice as much, or over 50% of all website referrals. Takeaway: Ensure your nonprofit website is optimized for Search Engines. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network. clicks and 1.7 5) More is More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. Want to get started in Second Life, check out.

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MARCH 27, 2008

So, if you use the right tools through LinkedIn, you can get that much closer to a donation–so I’d say that is a better path. Brian emphasized that social networking is not for every organization, and that you must consider your goals, strategies, tactics, and resources, not assuming the use of any particular tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. Learning Goals. To understand the definition web analytics. You won't be able to think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I think its really ironic that I'm often hired to create such tools, but because I have not done a fundraising widget campaign I felt I needed to plunge in. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc.

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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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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!" What tools should they use? link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Google Blog Search. WebWorker Daily Emergency Kit (What tools are in yours?). I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources.

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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!" Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s nearly identical to organic search traffic ???

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. I talked about the importance of finding influencers at the first step and shared a few tips and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Updates made by phones to twitter, are searched more easily than before -. Searched using Twitter Search with no URL to look for -. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Hashtags: [link] "search #nwf" 3. picked tools. WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS. set audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Clicky is essential for short-term campaigns because it provides minute-by-minute visitor information, whereas most analytics tools only show traffic daily. We set up tracking with hashtags and keyword searches. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We made the action obvious. Be transparent and obvious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Many are discovering that traditional web analytics and metrics (like page view) are not appropriate. The Web is changing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

from Web2.0 -- a response to David Wilcox's provactive post has inspired some blogosphere reactions, most noteably Nancy White who concludes " It is still about being conscious of what we are trying to do, and then bringing together the tools that make sense both for the people and the purpose they are serving. Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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APRIL 20, 2009

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NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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