Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I also use Google desktop search and search when I need to retrieve. changing habits is another story).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If inactive donors clutter your search results, code them so they don't appear in searches. Here is a compilation of responses to the same question from the APRA's listserve, PRSPCT-L : "I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

Find a volunteer opportunity on Serve.gov using the search engine powered by All For Good. They have toolkits available , and will be building more, to help you create your project. Share your story about your summer service project.

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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. I also searched around for some additional advice on Facebook Pages and I've summarized the key points below: Why have a Facebook Page? Well, she just posted something and it rocks.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. I have to keep clicking "Show Older" and I haven't figured out how to search for a specific update that appeared on my profile at some point. It doesn't auto-update.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. The meme then spread to France and the US, and was picked up by media such as Mashable, Huffington Post, MSNBC, ABC, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Each CoP has space in the NTEN groups platform ([link] You can search for current CoP’s by entering “CoP” in the search bar on the upper right hand corner of your browser window. The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. Where does the CoP “live”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. to open its profiles to Google search. Doc Searls has some commentary about the Facebook/google search policy, " Why Facebook Should Be Called Buttbook "

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. You might also consider throwing in some key words to make sure you show up in searches.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. s popularity rating on blog search engines like Technorati. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Carmen left me a follow up comment. Include Links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. ll search my own blog to get that reference." I need to get my act together for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK and a session I'm doing with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0

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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

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0 I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post. That's the only thing missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Technorati search: [link]. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki. Flickr tag: [link]. Rebecca MacKinnon has just posted a synthesis of the GV Global s Summit: Emergence of a Conversation Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

If there is time there will be more boxes to search for. He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences? Rosie will give you another group's notecard and you will need to go and look for their box.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

In fact, approximately 75% of nonprofit jobs are filled by strong candidates before the search ever becomes public.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

The other thing we found early on is that the profiles pop up very high on a google search for a person's name. Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. You can also click from people's profiles to send them an email. That's all very deliberate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

Where do nonprofit leaders, managers, volunteers, donors, and other stakeholders go when searching for information pertinent to their roles? Beyond the Center, there are also dozens of listservs, blogs, and electronic "hallways" devoted to philanthropy, nonprofit leadership and management, volunteerism, and other facets of the social sector.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Google searches on problems often come up with good answers on this site. Google searches on problems often come up with good answers on this site. Attend conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. To get started using Flickr to share and search for photos, you'll need to register for an account. See here , here , and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work. Writing is thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? Yet another paradigm shift, emerging field, and something else to research. What rankings and influence?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. But people who read a listserv aren't necessarily incentivized to contribute to the wiki. There's one primary way to navigate to pages: the search bar. You want to search, find, and go. Think back on the WikiDemo example.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. Salesforce Content: "How much time have you wasted searching for presentations, thank you. I've been trying to think of ways to integrate. content creation into work and events already happening. I've also.

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