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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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. Being the type that doesn't need to be asked twice to be social online, and given that I want to get a handle on what Chatter is really like, I dove in. There's a big Chatter component to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. Why did your organization integrate these social media tools - how did you choose specific tools?

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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

JULY 17, 2007

" She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0 " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Ego searches. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Once you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

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. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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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. Isn't that what social networking is all about? to open its profiles to Google search. Nonprofits can use groups). The group is called Non-Profits on Facebook and anyone can join.

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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. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people. You might also consider throwing in some key words to make sure you show up in searches. Somehow that morphed into my thesis topic.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Social Butterfly has an interesting list of helpful list-servs. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Care2

JULY 11, 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!" James OMalley: How does social media help bring about change?

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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! Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. So, now is the fun part.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2005

It all translated into electricfying conversation -- both formally during the Summit and informally during social interaction. (I Technorati search: [link]. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki. Flickr tag: [link].

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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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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

In fact, approximately 75% of nonprofit jobs are filled by strong candidates before the search ever becomes public. Commongood Careers is dedicated to helping today's most effective social entrepreneurs hire the best talent. Screening Candidates.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Jim: We are really trying to make this into a strong social site. 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. We looked at LinkedIn as a model.

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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? The Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Times , Social Innovation Review , and Nonprofit Quarterly are a few industry specific publications that are considered "go to" sources of knowledge.

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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. It's touted as one of the Web's best examples of social media software. You'll be uploading, sharing, and searching for photos in no time.

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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

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? 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." Yet another paradigm shift, emerging field, and something else to research.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Wikis work best in situations in which content, not socializing, is primary. A great public example of a wiki-based project is WeAreMedia , a wiki with the goal of creating a "social media starter kit for non-profits." Since wikis are about content, not socializing, you have to find ways to motivate people to participate.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. 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. He uses Twitter to curate information related to his. I've also.

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