Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The report outlines which social media services are used regularly or occasionally by foundation leaders, which blogs are read by CEOs and how often, the perceived usefulness of Web 2.0 in philanthropic work, and highlights the social media activity of two “power users&# in the field.

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JULY 14, 2009

Check out these 10 tools and strategies to market your nonprofit on the web, connect with your members and reach new supporters. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

And a friendly reminder to recycle your old mobile phone if you happened to pick up a Iphone and think about green web host ! Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Check out these 10 tools and strategies to market your nonprofit on the web, connect with your members and reach new supporters. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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APRIL 19, 2009

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I didn’t know a modem from a microwave, but I was responsible for providing technical support to over 1000 artists who were first getting online or building web pages. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter.

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JULY 17, 2009

Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. Build your list of references and qualifications, even if that requires doing pro bono or heavily discounted work. When projects end, ask clients to write testimonials and agree to serve as references. Figure out how you will market your work. Options include. writing articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office. Wikis are just great for that!

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APRIL 22, 2009

When I left my position at Easter Seals , I had seven-plus years of research covering the field of nonprofits online flowing (more like gushing) in daily via email newsletters, listserve digests, etc. Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen’s column on Web usability: Not for nonprofits only, his lessons on Web (and email) usability are universal.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Email listserv signup. Besides doing lots of cool web things, your website should tell your nonprofit’s story. You don’t need to have all the bells and whistles, but start with what works best for your mission and purpose of your site. Here are some possible features you could include on your site: Event registration. Blog for content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Photo of Iavor Ivanov , Web Experience, United Way (national) Meet Iavor Ivanov, the Director of Web Experience for the United Way (National). So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process. The work in progress is here.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. The most successful groups on Facebook are those whose members are passionate about the group’s focus and goals. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. -Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

Here's a few vendors mentioned on the listserv: Live Office Conference Call ReadyTalk Conference calls and web conferencing. What are the best vendors for INEXPENSIVE phone conference calls that can be contracted on a as-needs basis? Free Conference Calls - for simple needs. FreeConferenceCall - for simple needs. You can also.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ??? Eric mentioned in his email: The results were quite interesting, with a number of common characteristics emerging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The concept of digital curators has been around since the beginning of the Web - at first they were called "Cybrians." " In 1999, after working 6 years on the web, I wrote this piece on how my online work had changed based on different job labels. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. Wow, better than a listserv! Is reflection in action the way to integrate small amounts of experimentation with Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs. Pre-internet, people were limited to these passionate conversations with friends in person or by phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. Web Analytics, Statistics, and Social Networking Analysis The Net2ThinkTank: What is The Return On Investment Of The Social Web For Nonprofits? more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. memory lapses, had forgotten it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I She asked me for some nonprofit and french friendly web hosts. So, ramble along with me as I think outloud.and blog it. I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme. Here's my response to her tagging me). Chills you to the bone before spring comes.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The Purpose Prize is a project of Civic Ventures , which has an impressive history of awarding lifetime achievement awards to people like Joe James , who is bringing the economic power of green technology to farmers in the rural south, and Barbara Cervone , who is empowering youth to tell their stories through the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. For many years, I taught web development and building - in the very early days of the web. I would have my students look at web sites based on design criteria and discuss the web sites. I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Robin Good - Who is talking about me on the Web today? The Zoomerang Study of Marketers and Web2.0 also identified the importance of listening.

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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. Web theorist Dana Boyd outlines some fundamental concerns with Facebook and Scoble responds. 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

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. Her main focus is on ways to use web 2.0 That includes the advocacy actions and the web banners. tools for online advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). Content – a focus on capturing and publishing what the community learns and knows (i.e. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.). Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Robin Good - Who is talking about me on the Web today? The Zoomerang Study of Marketers and Web2.0 also identified the importance of listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0 Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I would fill in the missing pieces and refine with chacha, serach engines, private email, or listserv queries.

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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. interest that staff and volunteers understand the responsibilities in discussing Easter Seals in the public square known as the World Wide Web. Be Responsible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

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 " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here.

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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. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. It appears that the lurker to participant may also hold true for various Web 2.0 communities as well.

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