NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. To get the RSS feed URL you’ll want to look for something that looks like what you see to the left.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). They often failed to deliver on key social capital improvements such as improving trust between residents or fostering a greater sense of belonging.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I resisted it for a year because I was concerned about having yet another social media outpost to feed and tune. I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

Because social media may be about networks, communities, and collaboration; but it is only possible because of the dynamic and powerful tools individuals are using. Social networks are built from all the content individuals share. Tags: case studies fundraising cancer health twitter. Then @THON came along.

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Set a consistent schedule for your social media tasks and stick to it. Allocate specific chunks of time for your social media execution. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. Some were social change leaders who leverage volunteers; others were administrators who recruit volunteers as their sole function – often at a large nonprofits or national service organizations.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

This page will serve as the focal point for all your outreach efforts, whether through personal outreach, social media, or email blasts. The event page's form should feed contact data into a CRM (Contact Relationship Management system) or event management software. Choose wisely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

We are also looking for methods that are interactive and help us form trusting relationships with those various constituencies. They LOVED the idea and many of them joined social networks to see first hand what we were doing. 5.) How do you build relationships and engage with your audience with social media?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I finally watched the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network” this past weekend. These are pulled from photos you post on your Wall or in which your Page is tagged. News Feed : When logged in as a Page, you see a News Feed of posts from Pages your Page has “Liked. Receive badge notifications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. Escalate relationship w/periodic updates through Facebook messaging with higher asks. Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). Tags: network effectiveness. o_l activists to offl_e activists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. BTW, Brian Reich will leading a WeAreMedia Webinar on September 23rd on social networking. Feeding America. Tags: Games. Jumpstart for Young Children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

The Social Opportunity. You Need Social Networks. One of the messages that came through from this group of experts is that social media can give you a lot of return for your investment.    And, as Geoff points out social media does take time and it can take away from core operations - if you let it.  

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

LazyFeed consumes both PubSubHubbub and RSSCloud feeds in real-time as part of its topical blog search and YourVersion won't disclose what technology it uses but says the company has been working on real time since before it was cool. Real-Time Relationships (And Up-selling ). These services are fun and useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The array of social media can appear to be very complex. But social media and social networks respond to the same needs that drive people; the need to connect with one another in meaningful ways through conversation. Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Set a consistent schedule for your social media tasks and stick to it. Allocate specific chunks of time for your social media execution. .

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Listen and Build Relationships Some of the best ways to build relationships with reporters and bloggers who cover your issues is to examine their “byline profiles&# , start listening and begin a dialogue. Links shared on Facebook. Word of mouth, etc.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). Shelley: This is not about social media. Both are true.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 While it may be ideal to have a fully integrated setup, a good stepping stone is one that feeds data directly to the CRM but appears to use the same CMS as the rest of the site. 8 Judi Sohn 01.22.09

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

run a Twitter feed. These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

On Facebook: According to Non Profit Social Network Survey , 80% of respondents have a staff person dedicating 25% of their time to social media. You can then save those searches as RSS feeds, or in the application you use for Twitter. Social Media ROI View more presentations from Deanna Zandt. Tags: ROI.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Blogs and social networks fall in this category. Tags: exhibition design inclusion. Experimentation is better, IF there's an expectation that positive web experiments might bleed onto the floor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

It feeds into a variety of publications that I offer, some for free and some for sale. I think perhaps the Social Ecology experience has made me cautious about tool promotion. I mean, RMS is still the most advanced relationship management platform out there, but that didn't make the company successful. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways. Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told. And it is generated partly by social cues. And where are you likely to fine more personally relevant social cues than embedded in a network of your closest friends and contemporaries? Where does motivation come from?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For more trends and insights into how nonprofits are using the Internet, check out the new book Internet Management for Nonprofits: Strategies, Tools & Trade Secrets Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What Facebook Knows Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 7th, 2010 Think about all the things people post on Facebook or any other social networking website. The feed is being fed like a holiday goose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. But the stats.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. This makes good sense from a privacy standpoint but it’s lousy for me if my goal is to build relationships. Walled gardens don’t just create relationship frustrations.

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Care2

MAY 4, 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!" The Twitter community likes to be engaged.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Do you believe the use of social media helps nonprofit organizations to achieve their mission and goals more effectively? Social media is about relationships. At its core, nonprofit work is also about relationships. Organizations should plan to deliver VALUE via social networks, and that will take care of the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Some feel that "nice social media" isn't effective and that we should be focusing on real social change. "Do Gooders," "Feel Good Marketing", and "Nicey Nicey Social Networks" irk social change activists using social media. Obviously this isn't systemic, societal change.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, 1 billion monthly users each, and teenagers spend more time sending DMs, IMs than perusing social networks. So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. So some examples are like Audubon Bird Songs.

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