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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process. The work in progress is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

About six months ago, we connected via a listserv I posted to and she emailed me privately to say hello. I interviewed educators in five countries on a multi-media conferencing platform, using over Internet. More than ten years ago, I met Janet Salmons the founder of Vision2Lead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

The Pew Internet and American Life project released a meaty report last year about Internet use profiles and types. I've noticed this in the nptech stream, we have conversations scattered in listservs, forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, myspace, and other social media nooks and crannies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Here's the policy for online persona from Easter Seals: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy SECTION III PART I-9 Approved by board: July 14, 2007. Our goals are: ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. On returning to the UK in 2003 she spent some time working in internet security before deciding to go back to school. We access all orphanages via the internet. " AVIF uses the Internet to recruit volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0 I knew this already , but it has been so long since I taught Internet Searching skills that I've forgotten it. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

Of course, not everyone in Cambodia has Internet access. t have computers or Internet access or even electricity. Not many Cambodians are doing vlogs yet and there are some good reasons for that (equipment, lack of Internet access, language barriers, skills, etc.) For example, my family can???t t view my vlog ??? they don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. I'm working on a screencast and it might be excellent way to do research or share implicit geek shoudlder-to-shoulder knowledge across the Internet. Yet to be created).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager Humane Society of the United States. I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. I can't do that anymore which is a normal part of aging or a by-product of consuming too much information called Internet Alzheimers. I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics. And now for a chuckle from LOLnptech about twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. GetInvolved Blog shares a summary from the Sunlight Foundation and Berkman Center all day session called "Local Political Information in an Internet Era."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. As noted by Holly Ross on the NTEN blog, having a conversation in blogs and other social media is a public conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Here's the gist: Underneath the Internet advertising economy is a key metric that dictates how properties are valued and how online media is bought and sold - the page view. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. The research was conducted entirely online, using a multi-media platform and over Internet. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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