Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

" It does take more time in the beginning if you're just acquiring the skill with a particular tool. It has nothing to do with the tools, have you avoided getting distracted from your to do list or work flow or too much multi-tasking-- social media can be ADD producing. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. One of the ways I use online social tools is for learning whether in public or online communities of practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Are they already tech savvy, or will they need training to use the tools? Many social media tools are free, or low cost to use. A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) Ma.gnolia seems better.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss.

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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. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools. There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t."

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

So, if you use the right tools through LinkedIn, you can get that much closer to a donation–so I’d say that is a better path. Brian emphasized that social networking is not for every organization, and that you must consider your goals, strategies, tactics, and resources, not assuming the use of any particular tool.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Don’t count out the smaller sites, as together with Twitter and Email, they account for 62% of social sharing. Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing. 4) Private Versus Public Social Networks. clicks and 1.7 clicks, respectively. 5) More is More.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

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!" What tools should they use? link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.) sites, the Brooklyn Museum's bottom line is not about making money. But in Click's case, that prohibition is deliberate. concepts and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting. At the end, there is a nice 'Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook' that spells out the dos and dont's of using some of the more popular social media sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. Tell me a little bit about you I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites. We have a history and culture and expectation for objective web site measurement. Audience: Who is coming?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. On the social sites that are intuitively fantastic for good rapport. picked tools. looked at site views and hits. Change design to mimic look and feel of official site. WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS. Social media tools made it easy.

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