Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? So, how can you quantify - as close as possible - the amount of time it takes to put social media in practice with good results? And of course, Einstein's theory of social media relativity. In A Museum?

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Know Your Goals. Everyone wins!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors! Week Three of the We Are Media Toolbox begins!    We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others. 

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. How much time do I have to spend on social media?

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JUNE 22, 2009

This Tuesday The Chronicle of Philanthropy will host another free online discussion about how nonprofits can use social media. Wendy Harman , the social-media manager at the American Red Cross, in Washington, DC.

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JUNE 25, 2009

The discussion featured: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon.

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JULY 29, 2010

Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. StumbleUpon. Social media is a key space to deepen those relationships. Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization. LiveJournal. However, results may vary for your file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. Here’s the official announcement on the Google Blog and review in the New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. Silo Syndrome And just like with Web 1.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. CUAV's blog eventually drew media attention to the trial when the blog was covered by the news. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. A lthough neither Digg.com, StumbleUpon or NetVibe purports to be a social network, replacing a Facebook, each is a leader in new forms of social Internet use. Will google set it free in 2007 ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. CUAV's blog eventually drew media attention to the trial when the blog was covered by the news. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! She asked the audience how many people use formal ROI evaluations with regard to social media efforts. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! But how should nonprofits track their social media? What tools should they use? Lets dig in.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. StumbleUpon. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. SXSW Poetry Slam Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

And, if you want to participate in the Nonprofit Social Media community, WeAreMedia , there's a Webinar next week - more here. We have read a lot of books over the last year that aimed to be the "go to" source for understanding Social Media. Finally, one stands out. Some points specifically stood out for me. Mobilizing Generation 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the realm of social media, this infographic , Storytelling One Frame at a Time , explores just how photos and videos are ruling social media, and why you should jump on this social bandwagon if you haven't already. Photos on Pinterest are referring more traffic than Twitter, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, and Google+.

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