Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Photo by Eurleif. I was Jill of all trades, assisting with a wide range of technology needs, from training to installing local area networks. (Yes, We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. I've been working in nonprofit technology since 1992. So, if era of free 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Not only does a personalized website give participants a platform to share their story, upload photos, and process secure, online donations, it also helps them easily manage their fundraiser. Upload a personal photo. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Show them your smiling face!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Deborah Finn has been playing with widgets and decided to install the MyBlogLog widget today. MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. s page looks like.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Apps are software widgets that you usually download onto a phone or PC. They often use the Internet in some way but eliminate having to use a web browser. Photo: Jorge Quinteros. What Are Apps, Anyway? They are add-ons that extend the functionality of your mobile phone, tablet computer, or PC beyond its basic repertoire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. If it isn't vacations, it's photos of restaurant and a fun evening out. Read/Write web has the top ten Facebook Apps. Why nothing about social aggregators ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." If you believe the buzz, the latest incarnation of the Web is all about sharing, connecting and community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

Photo of Chrystie Corns Chrystie Corns is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Where.com , a location-based application chock-full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's around you. Tell me about you I am Chrystie Corns, Social Marketing Manager for WHERE.com. Social Marketing and SEO related.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

I know I’m in danger of committing the crime that makes me cringe, but my goal for this blog post is for you to take away some actionable tips to start implementing in your web and content strategy. Make sure you have someone armed with a camera to capture photos and videos of every event to show people what you’re all about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The photo above is an American Alligator that I stared down from an air boat on the St. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? What are appropriate metrics for social media versus web? How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. The Socially Networked Nonprofit.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

When in-person is simply not an option, consider using multimedia to enhance your site and make it visually appealing – videos, photos, images, podcasts and even live streaming video are great ways to share your organization’s culture and engage with constituents using a personal, interactive touch. SlideshowPro Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. more about it here. Edge4Dev blog aims to help. " Nonprofits and Web2.0

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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 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

March for Women's Lives allowed people who couldn't march to post messages and stories on the March for Women's Lives' web site. National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. * Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation created a site for young people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. The Second Thoughts blog, in a post called " We Need A New Kind of Philanthropy " outlines ten ways a new kind of philanthropy could get started with the combination of social media and virtuality in worlds and games. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. tools in their web sites. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use. Some commentary on methodology here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." I'm so excited!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This weekend I went widget shopping! I installed (and unstalled) lots of widgets until I found a few good ones that might be appropriate for nonprofits. Where to find widgets. There are three general types of sources to find widgets to install on your organization's blog or web site: 1. The particular Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

News : RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It’s a much richer, more thought-out experience than anything I’ve seen for nonprofits on social networks. [.] Another added bonus is that content from a Convio-powered Web site can be integrated with a Facebook App. Everyone has been drinking the social networking Kool Aid. Interactivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. It’s simple to do cause it is just a link to a web site. Previously, On NMC….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. don't click here.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. First a little background. Now comes Facebook.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. and aggregates them.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

For example, most social networks are walled gardens. What I post on my Facebook page is only available to other people in the Facebook network. When I write posts on this blog or share photos on Flickr, they are searchable in Google. But anything I write on Facebook is only visible within that network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. Change.org now also sports a widget. Today I Cried resigns !

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