Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. As soon as I heard about it, I tracked down Wendy Harman who is responsible for social media strategies at the American Red Cross to learn more about how she did it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), 2 admin 06.11.08

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

The idea behind service is simple: Everyone should know how to use the Internet, have easy access to it, and have a great experience when they’re online. The Internet Health Check offers a couple of easy steps on how to keep people safe on the Web. You can even add a good deed widget for your site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Similar to the early days of Myspace and its users mastering HTML hacks and widgets, Snapchat has an equally dedicated user base of young people that pride themselves on becoming skilled at Lenses, Filters, Stickers, and other Snapchat tips, tricks, and hacks. The same can be said of the new legally verified.NGO domains.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

How Meetup Works: Setup, Planning, Promotion To organize a Meetup, choose your day, decide on a theme or call to action, promote the event using social media and all available communication tools, track your success… and celebrate. Then, repeat. It's been shown that these methods lead to higher conversions than e-newsletter promotions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile. I personally take issue with that, not because I am taking sides in a Google+ Vs. Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn war, but because I think it’s dangerous to give one company that much control over nonprofits, and the Internet in general.

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APRIL 22, 2010

A customizable social network with a wide variety of fun and sophisticated add ons. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Profiles: Dual profiles for both professional and social uses. Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign. I donated $75 so I could get the t-shirt and photograph myself in it - and added it to all my social networking profiles. I hope you will do the same and donate too. Here's what it looks like on Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Over the past three years, Planned Parenthood has built an impressive Internet presence and social media strategy. Cecile Richards, president, paved the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2007

In January, he started writing a blog about Internet fundraising ( [link].com com/2007/01/31/fundraising-20 -il-social-network-che-fa-la -differenza/ ) he also translated part of my widget fundraising case study and he has used it several times in his workshops. Italian Association of Fundraiser. As you can see ( [link].com/2007/01/31/fundraising-20

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They allow much lighter IT equipment to use the Internet, accomplish work, and entertain us. Apps are software widgets that you usually download onto a phone or PC. They often use the Internet in some way but eliminate having to use a web browser. They often use the Internet in some way but eliminate having to use a web browser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. Is social networking doomed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

PostRank has recently brought back its " Top Content" widget " The widget displays you top ranked posts over the last month or so. I did this and noticed some posts from October that received higher ranks but aren't included in the widget.) Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True!

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

It seems your baby steps into the world of user-generated content and social networking have turned on you. Perhaps that innocuous "Share this Page" widget on your web site — through no fault of your own — has been turned to the dark side. Everything is spinning out of control. It's a server gone rogue. What happened?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.” ” The following are Paynter’s steps for growing an engaged online community: Create Critical Mass : Organizations can create critical mass with viral services and content.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

and Widgetized Web " --. Michelle Martin, reflecting on Nancy White's musing on Second Wave adoption of social networking tools, wrote about the nonprofit technology adoption curve and pointed to some theories on innovation adoption curves. means and is: here and here. Think about it. t work out, YOU DON???T

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

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 ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. You did see that I billed myself as the 'slightly insane internet marketer' right? How do keep sane? How do stay efficient?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Web filtering not only blocks pornography and spyware, but continues on to sports, entertainment, politics, and social networking. Restricting computer/internet use is driven by a management and/or IT assumption that the diverse, dynamic nature of computing is either a distraction or a problem.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

After the panel, I caught up with Liz Burr, who started as an Internet at KCET in Los Angeles is now the Interactive Project manager and responsible for social media. She is responsible for developing and implementing the social media strategy for the station's shows. " an interactive periodic table personality quiz.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

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 campaign enabled CI to boost their email list by 50,000, in only two weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0

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Care2

JULY 10, 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!" We now have clients in Canada, US, UK, Australia and the Netherlands.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases. We especially like the idea of curation, which is providing value by letting recognized experts and social networks recommend online learning created by other authors: this is like the community playlists and celebrity playlists on Spotify.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0 Im Rebecca Leaman, and its my pleasure to join the Wild Apricot blog team in exploring how to use the internet and web 2.0 Social networking. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. Social Networking Tool or Service.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

If it’s not on the Internet, it didn’t happen! Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc. I call this Social Engagement because the goal is to have supporters use their influence on social networks to promote your brand. Turn every event into a content opportunity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) in booth 39. Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. thedatabank is giving away a free Social Network Append data service ($150 value) to all organizations who sign up for and attend one of our online software demos. Aqubanc in booth 58.

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