Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2006

Joistke tagged me with the 4x4 game activity. 4 Web sites I visit regularly. 4 Web sites I visit regularly. Full Circle Blog Netsquared Nten Blog Blogher. 4 People I tag. And, no, Joistke, I haven't done this before. So, here goes. So, here goes. Britt Bravo Tharum Seserak Wanna.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. If you're an NTEN member with some news, let me know! One tactic is going online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Here is a copy of the application narrative; you can read it and vote for me on the competition site here. Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. Please support me by voting and commenting here. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). You may be familiar with the NTC ( Nonprofit Technology Conference ) hosted by NTEN. I got to work with a colleague and provided on-site training for a local environmental group on how to use excel, word, and powerpoint! Tags: 09ntc. Day Of Service View more presentations from Peter Campbell.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Claire Sale, NetSquared. So, I turned that question to my friends and the NetSquared community, and got some really great responses that I'd like to share with you. Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Any suggestions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics. Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

That's social media for social good, and that's exactly what NetSquared and NTEN want to highlight with Beth Kanter this spring at SXSWi. We'll choose three to highlight in our session, and we'll share all the stories we can on our sites and at We Are Media. > Tags: beth kanter haiti net2 Social Media Program.

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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. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2010

That's social media for social good, and that's exactly what NetSquared and NTEN want to highlight with Beth Kanter this spring at SXSWi. . We'll choose three to highlight in our session, and we'll share all the stories we can on our sites and at We Are Media. > Tags: beth kanter haiti net2 Social Media Program.

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Care2

APRIL 7, 2010

What an incredible line up of panels the folks at NTEN programmed for the 10th annual NTC - scheduled for April 8th - 10th in Atlanta. Architecting Your Site For Search Engine Performance: And We Ain't Talkin' Just Keywords Time: 10:30 AM. Ivan Boothe, Rootwork.org, and Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Click here to RSVP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Peter Dietz gives us a video walk through of his site, Social Actions which focuses on micro-philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." UPDATE from Katrin Verclas at NTEN: (I'm elevating this comment into the post) Facebook is deleting organizational profiles now.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Be sure to visit the site and press "Play" on the map. The system has three components: The Image Tagger -- Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” How can we do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. Another online social networking cause-related fundraising site !

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But if little ol' NTEN can pull off a BI strategy -- and we do our best over here -- so can you. Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. Here at NTEN, we confused the two for a long time. Let's bust a few BI myths. Myth #1: BI is Super Complicated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable. I am remember something that Ethan Zuckerman said at the first Netsquared Conference, " Don't Speak, Point " He was talking about citizen journalism and advocacy in the age of read/write web. Managing Technology To Meet Your Mission Book from NTEN will be published in 2009.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Why not ask your supporters how many of them have a blog or web site where they would be willing to promote your fundraising campaign? Chez Pim raised almost $62,000 with her Menu for Hope Campaign in 2.5

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Reach a broader audience: More than 500M Google Earth users today; Drive people to your site; Gain members, volunteers, donors, media coverage. Laura: Joomla can work for both a simple site and a complex one. Tags: socialmedia. The sessions are short (only 50 minutes!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The sites attract millions. Tags: sxsw. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The sites attract millions. Tags: sxsw. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun!

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. The sites attract millions. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Come hear how we’re changing the world. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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