Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Gustav Wiki. Gustav podcasts from NOAA. Andy Carvin of NPR's Social Media guru, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Online social networking was just being born. Podcasting. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 Social Networking Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A big hat tip to Nedra Weinreich for a link to this study about nonprofit social media adoption: Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson at U Mass Dartmouth surveyed the 200 largest nonprofits and found that they are adopting social media. Makes a lot of sense, given that these tools are mostly free or low-cost, and yet so effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2006

It will offer a continuing look at how new technology such as wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites, and the always-on culture of the Internet are impacting teacher and students' lives both inside and out of the classroom. Andy is an amazing blogger, podcaster, and vlogger and a very talented writer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. One the recommendations is: Invest in Social Capital. You need social capital to help in difficult times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

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. Podcasting. Social Networks. Check the top of the WeAreMedia wiki for places where we need some specific help. Photo Sharing. Video Sharing.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Some users are more savvy with Twitter and wikis, while others need help just accessing the conference wifi network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Basically, a couple months before your book's release you contact bloggers, podcasters and vloggers whose audiences are a good fit for your book and ask them if they would like to interview you, review your book, have you guest post, or host an interactive event with you using a service like Gabbly. You may also want to start Twittering.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. Digital Savant Podcast #3: David J. organizations. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I have some examples that I often use, but would love to hear some of your favorite examples of nonprofits, NGOs and green businesses that are using the social web (i.e. blogs, podcasts, vlogs, wikis, news aggregation, social networking, social bookmarking) for marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Last week, I wrote about the tension between individual and organizational use as it relates to individual staff members representing their nonprofit organization on Social Networking sites. Social Computing Dresses Up for Business " which answers the question, "Why should our company or organization care? The Shed 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy. Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact. We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. Social Networks for Fundraising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Democracy in Action has invited everyone into the NpTech Oscar Pool Katya Andresen from Network for Good gives us the lastest celebrity news (what no gossip?) " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. A Couple of Really Good Wikis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

One of the things we're doing is asking nonprofits and NGOs to share their success stories and challenges about their use (or difficulty using) emerging technology like blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds, aggregation, social bookmarking, social networking, tagging, content management and cell phones/SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. However, some of us recognize that conversations are a mere stepping stone for co-creation. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

One of the things NetSquared is looking for is folks to research and write up profiles of nonprofits who are successfully using emerging technology like: blogging podcasting social bookmarking social networking tagging wikis RSS feeds SMS/cellphones aggregation to further their missions (if you are unfamiliar with any of the above categories, you can (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Notes Joitske, "I lost the irrigation technology part long ago when I started to specialize on the human systems, first farmers around irrigation, later farmers federations, NGOs and networks. My interest in online interaction is very recent; last year I asked what a blog and a wiki was. t have a clue."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

You should be able to grab a mic and start podcasting, hit the keyboard and start blogging, snap some shots and start Flickring. Instead of getting overwhelmed by the hefty challenge of creating your own social networking world, there are ways to jump into 2.0 It’s a sad irony that Web 2.0—whose application is not so easy.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

podcasting. Social networking. NPC Carnival. online community. online storage. open source. project management. Reader Polls. spreadsheets. text to speech. Volunteers. Wild Apricot. June 2008 (9). May 2008 (9). April 2008 (14).

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Care2

JULY 11, 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!" Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

There I'm thinking of things like wikis, social networking applications that allow you to eavesdrop on what your friends are doing (this is how I think of subscribing to a colleague's del.icio.us To that end, CompuMentor/TechSoup has produced a lot of articles on blogging and related technologies like RSS and podcasting.

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Forum One

MARCH 27, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It starts off with a brief introduction to what social media is, follows with how to set goals, gets into the specifics of what to do, and finishes off with how to measure your results. Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

First off, I want to thank Andy Carvin for organizing this day and the ning site and leading by example - showing us how to take an issue and integrate the use of new social media tools! Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! Take some of the free lessons at Wired Safety.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Some nice screencasts on how to use wikis can be found at the Commons, a wiki magazine for nonprofits in Silicon Valley. Social Networking Random Thoughts on Life and Works has a post called " How Connected Are You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy that engages your regular readers and enables new readers to discover you? If you're a podcaster and your audience is likely to a microphone installed on their computer, than those message widgets might make sense. Social Networking Tool or Service.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start working the social network sites. There’s a term in podcasting, “podfading,” that describes podcasts that are launched with vigor but fade into non-existence as its producers become overwhelmed or lose interest. Do you want to offer audio or video programming to an international audience for free? Pod or Vodcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ?

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