Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Because the number of Fans you can have is unlimited (whereas the Friend limit is 5,000 on an individual profile). So I tweeted Mari Smith who told me she had something in the works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. without becoming slaves to technology. Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. and color schemes for your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. One of the key points is listening. tools successfully.

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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. May be created and consumed using mobile technology and distributed using other social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. There are two different profiles: subscribers and visitors. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need.

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MAY 7, 2007

How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? 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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