Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

At the conference, I attended a session on video blogging with Ryanne Hodson and was inspired to go play in a vlog sandbox. I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits. Here's a synthesis. The Issues.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I will also be talking with students in a marketing class at The New College of California's Green MBA program about how nonprofits and green businesses are using the social web for marketing. blogs, podcasts, vlogs, wikis, news aggregation, social networking, social bookmarking) for marketing. Thanks for your help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It is written, edited and produced by students and other volunteers in the valley. Podcasting The ABCs of Podcasting from PND covers how Web sites of public radio stations, museums, and other education-oriented nonprofits are turning to podcasting as an increasingly popular and inexpensive way of delivering audio programming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). Go read it.

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