Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

" The idea was to create a list of tools that could be used in the areas of contact management, technology assessment, information aggregators, productivity, research, etc. The question was - are there some no-brainer tools that you would recommend to client that didn't require a huge overhead of planning time, investment, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curation is a three-part process: Seek, Sense, and Share. Finding the information or “seeking” is only one third of the task as Mari Smith points out in this video about why curation is important and some tools for doing it. Making sense of it is just important.

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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

JUNE 29, 2007

NetSquared. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

tools successfully. I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Learn about both community-driven and corporate tech initiatives that help you make a difference in your own communities, and hear about the opportunities and challenges of taking on cutting edge technology tools. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. YouTube audience is a lean forward audience says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Netsquared. Red Cross Chat Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This makes me think of something Gavin Clabaugh said recently in a brilliant post about RSS. over at NetSquared failed to turn up more than a handful of nominations. may be that the tools don???t What were my options, what were the available tools and practices? t quite know what to do. non-profit blogs???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. Of course, the folks participating would have to be comfortable using FriendFeed and make a habit of it - but might be a good way to support a team listening effort with free tools.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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MARCH 4, 2007

They are a tool that allows for a conversation between the reader and the writer, and for information to reach people quickly all over the world. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. From Yahoo!

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JANUARY 10, 2007

There are lots of theories about what is the best social media tool to first introduce to nonprofits. Have an RSS feed and comments. The number one mistake I see nonprofits make is to set up a blog that doesn't have an RSS feed or comments. This post was originally written for the NetSquared blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Use tools like Technorati, Bloglines, and Forum Tracker to monitor what people are. Johannes).

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MAY 1, 2008

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!" I hope to see you there. More frogloop articles on video can be found here.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 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!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. Middlebrook suggests setting some goals for your commenting and then use some tracking tools to comment on a strategically selected group of blogs. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. Check this recent interview to learn more about Jonathan's secrets to using social media tools for success.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

for Good has some interesting examples up right now of how their tools can be used for good. has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. This post was originally written for NetSquared. Because Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 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!" Thats what I thought. Friday, July 14, 2006 at 02:15PM | by Agata K.

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OCTOBER 7, 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!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups ! TechSoup has RSS feeds too! bleeding edge tool, twitter. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

During a social media workshop, trainers Demetrio Maguigad and Gordon Mayer covered a number of online tools with attendees. For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more.

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JUNE 15, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. " The term information overload made me think of Marshall's fabulous interview with Robin Good on netsquared: " Mastering Information Overload." e-collaboration???

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. What are the communication tools you could use to achieve that goal? If a blog is one of the tools you think would meet your goal, ask yourself: 4. In general, a blog is a different communication tool than say, a newsletter. What questions and answers would you add?

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MARCH 22, 2006

Many of these blogs have been mentioned on this blog before or on NetSquared. Example: NetSquared's blog is a community blog that anyone can post to about resources, events and information related to how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs 1.

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JUNE 21, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. Smart Social Media Tips, Tactics, and Tools Most of the resource organizing will be taking place over at the WeAreMedia wiki in preparation for the workshops taking place in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. Cross posted at Netsquared It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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 think its really ironic that I'm often hired to create such tools, but because I have not done a fundraising widget campaign I felt I needed to plunge in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

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. What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. Are you really getting off your soap box?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. Share your tips, tactics, tools, and techniques for effectively curating to serve your audience. organizations and allies through Google Reader (RSS subscription. topic, with all of us sharing the tools, methods, and ideas we have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

from Web2.0 -- a response to David Wilcox's provactive post has inspired some blogosphere reactions, most noteably Nancy White who concludes " It is still about being conscious of what we are trying to do, and then bringing together the tools that make sense both for the people and the purpose they are serving. Example Wikieducator ).

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