Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo!

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JULY 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JUL 12, 2007 How many site visitors do you have?

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This is more or less the case with the so-called "Mobilegeddon," Google's April 21 change that gives a boost to mobile-friendly sites in mobile search results. This algorithm change means that sites that aren't considered "mobile-friendly" by Google could sink to the bottom of mobile search results.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Get the Social Media Fire Hose (using Yahoo Pipes). It’s a great catch all that monitors numerous social sites. It won’t look the same on every site, but you will see something very similar. You may have some questions. What questions do you have about effective online listening? Pretty simple eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. Yahoo News Google News. I've never been referred to as an comic strip character. (It Ego searches.

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MARCH 13, 2008

If you don’t know about Flickr , it’s a popular photo sharing site that can be used by nonprofits. The concept is simple: you choose a photo of a baby seal, create a caption for it, and upload it directly to their Flickr account (using Flickr’s interface that is built into the Humane Society’s site). Why do this?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Off page SEO factors – factors that are behind the scenes and used by search engines to communicate with your site (e.g. In other words, when people search for a keyword that is valuable to your brand you want to be the one ranking on the first page to drive more traffic to your site. So how do you get those first page results?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! Which brings us to an important question: Who should build that strategy? Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

It’s a fair question, easily answered by another: What is Local? You receive the next PTO meeting invitation via one or more of these methods: email, a group text message on your mobile phone, a Facebook Event invitation, and/or a listing on the PTO’s chat group (such as a Yahoo or Google group). I respond: Local is a Mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Some questions: What kind of camera should I use? We also pointed to two review sites: Digital Camera Review and camcorder information. There were questions about signing a release form. We gots questions about blogging platforms, feeds, distribution, video hosts, compression, editing software and more.

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MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Pose thought-provoking questions that will help spur discussions amongst the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Bev Traynor builds on the list here and reflects on how it isn't quite a yes or not question. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Be A Celebrity for Your Cause Katya Andresen from Network for Good has been busy working on the launch of the SixDegrees.org site with Kevin Bacon.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Citizen-Powered Response. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments? Hard Data Points: Do an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. This one point caught my eye: RSS subscriber metrics : For some sites, this information is very useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. m going to look exclusively at Flickr and our experience with the American Image site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." What is Openness?

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

What this means is that you can do more embedding YouTube into your site, allowing people to upload video to your YouTube channel from your site and having people leave comments on your site that will end up in your YouTube comments. So that is a big question mark. YouTube is now a platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? Asking questions about who people knew and for contact information. This is not yet formed, just thinking outloud. What happens when fundraising meets social networking? We wanted a well-known celebrity as a draw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

That stream was fast-running and wide, but I learned as much as I could, asked questions, and connected with people and ideas I would have never known otherwise. This was interesting to me -- that people joined the Facebook social networking site specifically because I (Lend4Health) was there. Is there a risk involved with this?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Even as we wrestle with questions about migrating data and applications from our servers to the cloud, the cloud is the norm for our mobile computing selves.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook. Even as we wrestle with questions about migrating data and applications from our servers to the cloud, the cloud is the norm for our mobile computing selves.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it. So, all browsers keep bookmarks – it helps one easily go back to and find sites that you go to regularly. These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.)

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If you’re new to SEO, it’s helpful to first understand the basics of how search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo work. Regardless of how well you’ve optimized your site, search engines prioritize valuable and trustworthy content above all else. One way to build up credibility is by having other domains link to your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

I learned about it from the site Changing the Present , a donation portal that also lets you set up a wish list of causes to support in lieu of gifts for the holidays or other occassions. They are still building out the content on the site and there is a growing list of nonprofit recipients. This one records a message or music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. The parody sites are sprouting up like mushrooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why how can we get them to do that on our site as well???? When Web Sites Become Web Services from the Read/Write Web.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

This is an honest and valid question. We engaged in chat rooms and consumed content selected by AOL or Prodigy or Yahoo. It's not hard to imagine a near future where Facebook (and sites like it) also replace a lot of the ways we use atomized search. But my organization is functioning just fine without it. Here's why.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Here’s what Yahoo! That application, which tracks and publishes the items bought by Facebook members on outside Web sites, was introduced in November without a transparent, one-step opt-out feature. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo! Personal Democracy Forum 's blog, techPresident, launched something this week called 10 Questions where you can post a video question to the presidential candidates. Users will choose the 10 best questions. and OurMedia. If you aren't sure how to do something, Google it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Groundswell focuses on peer-to-peer support mechanisms—ways that institutions answer customer’s questions by connecting them to each other. If you have a question about whether an exhibition is appropriate for your eight year-old or how long the line is to bike across the tightrope, why not get your answer from someone in a similar situation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

good for time-sensitive response (answer questions, defense, etc) -do a regular google search for related terms - Pr / newspaper coverage Friend recruitment (TAF) - bulletin reposts on myspace Not just number, but quality of blogs look at technorati and alexa rankings PROCESS / STRATEGY Top 10 referrers were all from mail programs ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

It was way back when you could click through the entire Yahoo directory and web sites had gray backgrounds. I also have some questions about to best organize my collection, but I think this will come as I use it more. I would follow links to links to links and discover, by serendipity, a fantastic resource. Oh, and my point was.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2007

These (free) IM clients combine your contacts from AIM, yahoo, ICQ, all kinds of clients, so you can universally IM. I can just IM you the question, and you can send me the number. IM also has an unusual capability to transfer large files, a task that is sometimes onerous over email or FTP sites. Visitor to Staff IMing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

From Yahoo! The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Why not ask your supporters how many of them have a blog or web site where they would be willing to promote your fundraising campaign? Don't be afraid of RSS feeds. First of all, what are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. I've been advocating this approach for a long time and offer you a set of data points and questions. Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments?

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