Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Right before I left for Cambodia, Ranger Rick's profile (the spokesperson for NWF) was deleted from Facebook because it was "fake" and the policy is that only individuals can set up profiles. to open its profiles to Google search. I'm catching up. Nonprofits can use groups).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

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." Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Technorati. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

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." Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free. Technorati. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

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. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were scientists, we'd have documentation of each experiment, each publishable result, each improved-upon discovery. The profiles were the last thing added, when we were getting into the nature of the site itself. I'm a big advocate of the profile part, and want to see it used in other ways for members to contact each other.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Wikis don't explicitly acknowledge individuals with "profile power"--content is prioritized, not identity. While the wiki appears to have relied on a core leader instead of randomly selected scribes, the result is the same: documentation of a very interesting event, featuring keynote slideshows, resources cited, and discussion topics.

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