Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. What do you do?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Because blogs written by nonprofits don't always have a specific blogging personality associated with them, they can sometimes be overshadowed in the nonprofit blogosphere by individual bloggers, so, let's shine a light on some nonprofit blogs that are written by organizations! Stone Circles Streetside Stories Sustainable Table TechSoup U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. Alex Steed offers his connective predictions for 2009 at the NetSquared blog. They can be personal goals , blog goals , or business goals. They can be personal goals , blog goals , or business goals. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years. Ah, but what format to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Pitel. I'm honored to be on the team of live blogging (that is, blogging about an event during an event) for the NetSquared Conference. The team is being coordinated by Britt Bravo , who must be the most organized person on the planet! see example below) The NetSquared conference tag is n2y2.

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DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook. I remember stepping into a Netsquared meet-up and meeting for the first time three people who I???ve t that bad.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth. You can still add your own red photo to the Burma Free - Birmania Libera Flickr pool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Useful for you personally or organizationally? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. What's your take on Twitter for Nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone. While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. I'm only discoveriing about Flickr. Its pure luck too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said." Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

My personal favorite is: Alan Levine's CogdogBlog - although I have some equally excellent edtech blogs on the sidebar of my blog. Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor. The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into. (I NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." "I think it's been both overhyped and underestimated," Dogster's Rheingold said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I'm just one person. It's more of a personal goal - and it's about thinking creatively and having that reflected in everything that I do. This is a bonus goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. At the netsquared conference , I spoke with someone from a small nonprofit about Second Life. Mixed Reality Event ??? Second Life isn???t

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Source: Robotson on Flickr I don't know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Chris Messina recently made this point at the NetSquared conference as it relates to open standards for managing one's identity online, '.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. Measurement: How will you measure?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. At TechSoup we’re big fans of the Flickr's Creative Commons page to find photos and videos we can use. Images: Image one: Ianaubry on Flickr Creative Commons. Image three: Scribus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. from Kathy Sierra is a good reminder that attending conferences in person provides something very essential - inspiration. Today I Cried resigns ! Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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