Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. t make for a good party game?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 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). PDT Beth and Allison will celebrate with a virtual book party on U-Stream and Twitter (#netnon). NetSquared Local Reaches 70 Groups Worldwide! At 4:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Apps for Social Media Management. TweetDeck (Windows and Mac OS client, Android, and iOS) is a Twitter client that lets you customize your various Twitter feeds. Buffer App (Android, iOS) allows you to easily share articles, photos, videos, and status updates to various social networks. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The news ticker on the upper right that is streaming all your friends updates in real time. While I found it annoying and looked for a way to turn it off , I’m hearing from that their networks are confusing – thinking that those updates are public – and asking their friends to “unsubscribe” them.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2012

We're live-streaming the plenaries and specific session content as part of the Online NTC. Highlights include Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager at Feeding America , along with Melissa Roberts & Drew Bearn from Free Range Studios talking with David J Neff of Lights. about nonprofits & innovation.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 10.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 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). Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! " Check it out! Why limit yourself?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

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). And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality."

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Instead of joining 15,000 or so folks for the second morning keynote, I'm sitting in my hotel room watching the keynote stream on my laptop. From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? I started to notice a few nonprofits adding their Snapcodes to their social media streams, inviting their audiences to follow them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Moderate* 10.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using hashtags lets you mark your message as pertaining to a certain topic, then automatically include that message in a stream with everyone else’s that include the same hashtag. Promoting the chat widely via Twitter and other social networks is a great way to find more participants, too. What do those # mean?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

It enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. Marshall Kirkpatrick pinged me about SplashCast.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Most real-time search companies believe that's not enough to power a full index and rely on other sources of additional links to look at, often from the click-streams of users who have downloaded their software and opted-in to exposing their online behavior anonymously. These services are fun and useful. That's a huge win for efficiency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

LifeStreams: Individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream.   This includes FriendFeed and Social Thing. .  This is the place to share all your great Twitter clients and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

He then made a list of all the post ways people can communicate with us online - from social networking sites to Skype and others. However if you bathe in the stream of information you get plenty. However if you bathe in the stream of information you get plenty. He observed that many of us simply want to hide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

One of the most intriguing value offerings of Social Media in direct relation to social learning is that there is an endless stream of content being updated live, clicks away from the learner. In order to make the most of social learning in the social media environment, it is completely vital that we correspond with one another.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It also provides a way for users to learn about the staff and volunteers that make up your organization’s network. Organization’s can add their blog or website’s RSS feed to automatically stream news content to their Company page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

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. The existing social searches are simply too big for trust - the information flow to huge and overwhelming. nptech tag, the feedburner feed, and a few other sources.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

You’re probably already aware that Facebook Live lets any nonprofit live-stream fundraising events , breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. For example, ask them to “Give clean water”, “Feed hungry children”, “Stop human trafficking, etc. How to Use Facebook Live to Raise Money.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2009

You may have noticed that LinkedIn rolled out some new features for groups: Group managers can add RSS and Atom feeds to the News section. I've added NTEN's blog feed and the 09NTC Twitter feed to our members-only LinkedIn group. I'll definitely remove the 09NTC feed after the conference. > My take: good thing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. In Facebook’s new algorithm, content that has negative feedback from some users can cause it to be minimized or pulled from all news feeds. Lists turn Facebook into a media consumption channel in addition to a social network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. It doesn't just take everything from a feed. Beth Dunn shared Social Media Club: Join Our FriendFeed Room and Kill A Mailing List. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

Go to the KCET's landing page for the show and you'll see them promoting the Twitter account,(but not with a Twitter badge streaming the actual tweets.) She also provides internal tech support to other staff who may be implementing social media strategies for programs or marketing. " an interactive periodic table personality quiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

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? We don't like to stream content on our Facebook Page or Twitter feed. We are known for putting a human face on our social media.

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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. Ruby on Rails Case Study; ChangingThePresent.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

My Flickr Stream. 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. Social network oversaturation, or just the summer slump? It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening.

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Care2

OCTOBER 24, 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!"

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