Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia. There is also a $50,000 bounty program for OpenID integration in major open source distribution.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

In today’s technology-driven world – and with nearly 300 million Internet users in the U.S. You probably keep an eye on your site’s visitor statistics, and you most likely have some kind of keyword-driven SEO program in place. Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? Thanks to Public Internet Registry (PIR), you can.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” ” These can be active [the stuff you want to share about yourself with the wider world on the internet] or passive [the data collected about you without you doing much].

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 23, 2005

Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2005

Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Read More » Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World Sarah Hassaine in Influence 17 May 2010 When President Obama took the stage in Cairo, Egypt last year, millions tuned in to hear his approach for improved U.S. In this case.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). Busia, Kenya: Beyond Today’s Internet Experiencing: Smart Future Conference Kenya. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. NetSquared DC's Roshani Kothari on why she loves NetSquared. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Thursday, March 26, 2015.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

What "support" means exactly varies from browser to browser of course, but the point remains — with the advent of HTML5 the internet is fundamentally changing all around us, giving non-profits new and exciting ways to engage constituents online. Practically every browser other than that one released ten years ago now supports HTML5.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The Internet affords myriad opportunities for connecting with women. According to Wikipedia , giving circles are a form of philanthropy consisting of groups of individuals who pool their funds and other resources to donate to their communities and seek to increase their awar eness and engagement in the process of giving.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

Facebook, iPads, Blackboard, Wikipedia (don't judge me, but there's good stuff there). AHA was struggling with how they could reach this new tech-savvy generation, so by combining forces with Convio, AHA met the youth market on their play ground - the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He selected some definitions from the Internet. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. Internet is difficult to stop.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago. The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. Del.icio.us , as the article points out, is the mother of all social bookmarking sites.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). What Can You Do?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. NpTech Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. There is controlled access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 how can we get them to do that on our site as well???? s heart: boils down to this: Just what should I be doing with my Web site to engage with my customers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

In response, many web sites are going on strike. Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Our content is free to use, and free to share. How the Strike Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) There is a tour on the site, free trial, and some case studies. . A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. The nodes on the edge can infuse the network with new ideas or energy if they brought into the fold.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. A network cloud is just a collection of servers living out on the Internet providing various services -- much like how websites are served from a web server, but in a much larger, scalable fashion. They may be infected. Well, it's back.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Because of the dynamic and changing nature of the internet this conference serves as a good barometer of new and innovative approaches in the museum world. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare?

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Were quite interested in traveling the globe to find good relationships that also help us become better global internet fundraisers. Were excited about the potential of global campaigning which makes perfect sense since the Internet is a truly global medium. We now have clients in Canada, US, UK, Australia and the Netherlands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). It takes time to visit those sites and find what you want to read! and without having to consume a lot of time clicking through to each web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It isn’t a good idea to just grab an image from Internet, tweak it, and call it your own. Flickr Creative Commons – Flickr is a photo site but it offers creative commons licensing and you can use it combined with keyword searches to find an image. Here’s a round up of resources and advice.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites. Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Thanks to sites like Cameo.com, you can now find and pay for a celebrity to create a custom message for your campaign.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

While the execution isn’t always so clear, content marketing can increase visitors to your site and help to convert them into online donors. Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. What Is Donor Intent? Charity Watch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I set them up with a nice looking site, ancillary services like a traffic monitor, email-subscribe service, RSS feeds and explanation, syndicated headlines from elsewhere, etc. I noticed that you recently posted on the nptech community site , how did you discover it? Then I train them how to blog well, to the best of my ability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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