Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The photo opportunity in the orphanage was a very low keyed and orderly event. Vutha wearing t-shirt I ran around trying to get as many photos and videos of the Cambodian bloggers wearing the t-shirts. There was a group photo at the end and we sang Arapee Yah and there was some Khmer dancing. Great fun! Click To Play.

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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. Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. Do you follow your blog's technorati?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Interviews (written, audio, video). Notes, photos and presentations from events. Notes and photos from your work in the field. posts, photos, video). Don't be afraid of white space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2005

The Before Photo. The video clip is here: Download joe.wmv. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , vlog I'm here at the NTC Conference, it hasn't started yet. I interviewed Joe Baker. He told me of a new evaluation project that N-TEN and Npower will be working on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing. Libsyn , Hipcast ) Video sharing (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Machine Is US/ing Us (video) ( transcript ). 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Tell Technorati you have a blog. Tags your post with Technorati tags. Have guest bloggers post on your blog Include videos in your posts. Flickr photo credit: Daily Traffic uploaded by Nam Nguyen. Include images or graphics with every post to catch the reader's eye. Blogs are a visual medium. Tell Google you have a blog.

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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. Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks -- then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!! rethink, reinvent. For many in the boomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Photo by DrumsWhistles Next week is going to be a busy, busy week of work and travel and a little bit of a fun.  The session description: Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be?   Enjoy the video.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Blogs You can find blogs by searching on Google Blog Search and Technorati. Check out the photo "comments" on this Free Burma photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. So, here's a stab with lots of caveats. Let me define the categories for you.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2006

Editing The best pieces I read so far about video editing that gets a novice up and started quickly is in the book Secrets of Videoblogging by Michael Verdi and Ryanne Hodson. I'm stuck for now on a Windows XP platform (can't afford to invest in Mac but will eventually), so the free video editing program is MovieMaker. Next tasks: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. If we get 1,000 video views that is good. This particular photo campaign had many technical glitches and ultimately the number of submissions was less than impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.) Alas, no photo as my computer just couldn't handle anymore stress at that moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

It was also a success in terms of an "intermediated conference" between the people who were in real-time, physical space and the virtual participants who were on the IRC or video conference connection. Angelo grabbed flickr photos that were uploaded in real-time to add to the blog. Technorati tag: [link]. tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

I've created a book with lots of photos and will do circle style on the rug - the interactive lecture. Show Lion Dance Video Clip on computer - 1-2 minutes (others can be found here ) Adapt movements for 4-6 year olds. Technorati Tags: chinese_new_year Here's the lesson plan, approximately 1 hour: 1. Lion Dance with Masks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). Watch the protest video. We have to show the Egyptian regime that when you imprison a blogger, you don't silence his , you AMPLIFY it! By taking action!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You're ready to make a few videos to post on YouTube. Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. When I search for "Boston Museum of Science" on YouTube, I find 83 videos. Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0.

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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. Impressive to read that some videos were downloaded 100,000 times! RSS, Technorati, Google Alerts, etc). Alligator on the St. John's River in Florida. I also took the kids to Seaworld and we road the Journey to Atlantis Roller Coaster.

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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 create two versions of the campaign video , one for YouTube and on Revver. And give those blog posts good technorati tags so people can find them. It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. In this photo, Pagna is on the left. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff. Technorati Tags: cloggersummit2007. I observed her sharing her knowledge with other women at the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. There's also dogooder.tv

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

They left and wrote over 100 positive reviews of the evening, 12 positive reviews of the museum, and shared over 300 photos of their revels on Flickr. Again, hundreds of mostly young people shot hundreds of videos and photos featuring or on location at the museum. Don't look at the number of videos, photos, or reviews.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. So here it goes.10 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Go to Technorati or Google Blog Search and put the name of your museum (or exhibit, or program, or.) Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. Do you see yourself moving into video blogging?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Search for your institution of TripAdvisor (for reviews), on Technorati (for blog mentions), on Flickr (for photos), or on YouTube (for rare but coveted visitor-generated videos). An easy place to start is the web: get out there and see what people are already saying about your museum. Read the comments.

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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 We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. Previously, On NMC….

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

This goes for photo bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers as well - there's no reason why this should be text-only. When you've posted to your blog, be sure to include a link to this Technorati tag: International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day. Technorati Tags: International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

David Cutler takes a photo of @pistachio live streaming "Where the Hell is Matt?" Cadbury Gorilla Youtube video - had many, many remixes Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando - only told 7 people, but exposed 350,000,000 people. Gave example of an Internet ad on Technorati. These are my notes. Used to do yellow pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. Avinash suggested Technorati. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. Life was good.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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