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Lee and Satchi do it again! Social Networking in Plain English!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an excellent basic introduction and gives a great illustration about how social networking can be personal learning tool -- getting answers from your network. I love the plain English series that Lee LeFever does. Here's the latest installment.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. She also publishes the Top Learning Tools Index , a crowdsourced list of the best technologies for networked learning.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! them how to promote your cause.

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Varied and sundry before a brief break

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. I keep discovering new and exciting free and open source web platforms. One of which is called Elgg. And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki.

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Social Network Management Systems?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. I especially appreciate both the quality and the personal nature of your posts and learning tools."

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