Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2005

The photo on the left is my contribution to the netsquared iwantchange group. Technorati Tags: net2 , cambodia , sweatshopfree To find out how you can participate, check out. Marnie Webb's post about it. Why are we holding a sign that says "Buy Made in Cambodia Clothes?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me as part of his gig at Netsquared. Seeing the photo of Michael Stein made me remember I had an old photo (almost 30 years old) of me and my flute. Technorati Tags: music flute marcelmoyse classicalmusic Great work Marshall! So, thought I'd get it into flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Photo by SpacePotato. Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause. Use tools like Technorati, Bloglines, and Forum Tracker to monitor what people are. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Here's how to search on Technorati.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Some other do-good social networks you might want to try out are: Care2 , Change.org , Flickr (photos), Future5000 (youth), Meetup (events), Just Cause , myBLOC.net (young people of color), Razoo , TakingITGlobal (youth), Upcoming (events) and WiserEarth.

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MARCH 4, 2007

According to the blog search engine, Technorati 's, "State of the Blogosphere" in October 2006 : Technorati is tracking more than 57 Million blogs. Ask them to blog during conference sessions and post photos. For example, here is a post that I wrote from Aspiration Tech's Nonprofit Developer's Summit for NetSquared blog readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. Technorati. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. In the session that David Wilcox and I did in the UK on Social Media , we included some on the Web2.0 One of the key points is listening. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. 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. But don't ignore the other two areas. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. At the Netsquared Conference, I discovered that there are few organizations in the experimenting with metaverse games -- the early adopters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. Avinash suggested Technorati. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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