Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

John's River that I live streamed with my N95. I could have created guest author accounts, but I could not figure out a way where I could approve a post in draft and have it also include photos. The google spreadsheet allowed me to easily grab the text and code for the original post, include a bio and photo, etc.

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. David Eckoff and Chris Brogan Photos by Steve Garfield. I got some good feedback and will post some reflections in a bit. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ? Photo by Jonny Goldstein.

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AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Flickr photo by Beth. Click to see the larger image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. see flickr photo ].

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JULY 7, 2011

I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Analysis here.

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JUNE 30, 2011

With all of that as a grain of salt to this post, I want to share a few reflections focused on security and control - the items touted ahead of launch as the elements positioning Google+ on the other side of Facebook. What are your concerns or reflections with Google+? Check your settings now if you want!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

You may be wondering if that means that your executive director and CEO needs to write a blog or have their own Twitter account to share their wisdom. It has to be authentic, reflect the CEO's personality. She uses Twitter to share what's going on at NTEN, announce new initiatives, and have conversations with NTEN members.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Pew surveys point out these benchmarks: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. People are using social and Internet platforms – many of which have immense amounts of unstructured and often shallow information.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. My reflections are here. My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Agenda with Twitter IDs.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Lucy brings up some points about metrics for Twitter. So, how might this work? (1)

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

NPtech Colleagues: @zanarama Zan McColloch Lussier @ericamills Erica Mills @seattledrury Peter Drury photo by Akhtar. Seattle Symphony created flashmob and promoted it with Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter effectively. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. Twitter Advocates. It directly increased ticket sales.

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MAY 16, 2008

Photo by Jeff Pulver. He wrote a post called " A Day Without Twitter " which is an excellent reflective process to figure out what value a tool or technique is doing for you. I plan to do some live blogging and possibly streaming from OZ - so stay tuned. Chris Brogan is Social Media guru who I follow. (No,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Always had suggestions for someone to interview or a paper or book to read. When the book was published, she was one of the first people who posed with a photo of the book. Stephanie was among the first in philanthropy to explore Twitter and its possibilities for working a networked way.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Matthew had more than 40 volunteers to plan shifts for, along with a method for encouraging participants to reflect on and share their experiences the next day. Members of the Online Community and Social Media team also captured impressions of the day, keeping a running stream of photos and videos on Facebook and Twitter in real time.

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APRIL 27, 2009

pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Photo by Markpolous I am one week before the NTC , Day of Service , and Penguin Day and it's pretty crazy to say the least. One of the reflections to come out of this week SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it real time. Tuesday, March 18.

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JUNE 9, 2010

As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them. I also share my Slideshare content in my other social streams. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. While automatically streaming content can give you some gains in efficiency, you can't be an absent landlord. Photo Views. Tagging photos. I look at the following metrics: Total Interactions.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

During the event we took full advantage of the Summit's virtual presence to post session notes, encourage ongoing collaboration and discussion with discussion boards, blog entries, and live chat, and to feature conference media such as podcasts, video montages, and photos. If you shoot video, make a reel of outtakes.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

He shared some thoughts about an organisational presence on Facebook in the comments on a post I wrote last week on Facebook pages/ads and wanted to elevate it from comments so we might reflect a bit further. I've tried two other Flickr to Facebook apps but they are glitchy and also don't integrate with your Facebook photos album.

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DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Details here. Not at all?

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JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it.

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APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. Why not send us your own photos and join the discussion here at The Great Tate Mod Blog? Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections.

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APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. The event used social networks like Twitter and Tumblr for real-time updates on the event and had the ladies of Sleepover 2.0 As my colleague David J.

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APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. John's River in Florida while live streaming with my n95 last week while on an all too brief vacation. In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. Alligator on the St.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Twitter was definitely on an upswing (but not near the use we saw this year), and we had a TwitterCamp display set up. twitter-summary.xls.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Amanda Rose at the London Twestival Photo was taken by @mikebutcher The Twestival combined online twitter fundraising with a groundswell of offline self organized events in 202 cities around the world on February 12th. Almost all the previous fundraising campaigns using Twitter were organized by a single person or organization.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Photo by Mark Horvath. On the stage with me were two of my favorite free agents, Mark Horvath (next to me on stage) and Shawn Ahmed (virtually through Twitter and video). The sold out event was also streamed live here. This Tech@State addressed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Civil Society 2.0 initiative.

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MAY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by edtemeles As Holly notes, it would be silly to try to sum up the NTC in one blog post , so I'll give you something digestable. There are some great photos from the Photo Sharing session ! The 09NTC Flickr stream says a little about how much fun was had -- especially at the After Party! Ignite Sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. Set aside an hour a week for learning from your data and reflecting on how to improve. Simply repeat it.

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MAY 14, 2009

When you enter, you start the visit by "logging in" at a kiosk that records your name, your voice, your photo, and your favorite color and music genre. They constitute a kind of mini-profile, frequently updated, which reflects the author's self-expression over time. and the result is a stream of personal thoughts and feelings.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Photo by BirgerKing. I’ve developed this 10 question assessment that can help you reflect on whether you are developing good focus habits or whether you are becoming an ADHD goldfish! Keep an eye out for photos, especially useful for Twitter. Take a guess.

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