Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet). Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st. Your existing applications become social. Platform???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. We then invite participants to join.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. t or werent able to participate by creating a video a way to be engaged ??? important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???t

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We decided to donate and became evangelical on our social networks to spread awareness. That number inches up with fancier and more interactive units like video and rich media. Here's the rundown: Yahoo! MyDisplay Ads ( [link] ) : This self-service network is the simpler of the two covered. Similar to Yahoo!,

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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. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. 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. Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo! JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

LinkedIn LinkedIn is a professional social network, so it's ripe with job search opportunities. See who in your network knows someone at the organizations you'd like to work for. The post, 7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media , on Mashable suggests creating a video resume.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. Ozer, ACLU of Northern California. More and more, nonprofits rely on technology to fulfill our missions.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 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!" Create an XML sitemap and submit it to Google (and Yahoo too!).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Examples of NT100 projects include: Witness , the Peter Gabriel-founded watchdog charity which uses online videos call attention to human rights abuses. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. See the map here. Netflix for E-books. All Things D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? I did set a pretty high bar a while back for the next social network I’d join. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. Keywords in your profiles in your social networking site, like flickr. Website grader - useful tool to search trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. An earlier post, Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. In this post, I???m

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 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!" If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web. Peer-t0-Peer Fundraising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, KickStarter, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 Hours Weely.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web. Peer-t0-Peer Fundraising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, KickStarter, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 Hours Weely.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web. Peer-t0-Peer Fundraising Networks (Razoo, Crowdrise, KickStarter, FirstGiving, GlobalGiving): 5 Hours Weely.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

During the 2000s, with the rise of broadband, came an onslaught of highly designed websites with Flash and JavaScript, pop-down navigation, and pop-up windows for slide shows, videos, and calls to action. Link to Your Social Networking Profiles. Incorporate Video into Your Mobile Website. content on a mobile website.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

From Yahoo! As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Don't be afraid of RSS feeds.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

USB headset, dynamic or condenser mics, soundboard, mobile devices, video recording, etc. Video - Flip cameras are high quality, easy to use and cheap. You can also use web cams for a video podcast. other packages for video support. Social networking - use it to promote. Sometimes the ambient noise is good.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

is collecting vast amounts of information from social networks and email accounts to look for terrorist activity. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any other social network. The Snowden leaks revealed that the National Security Agency's PRISM program.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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!" needs to have a large following and active presence on online social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

That way, we let Flickr and Yahoo worry about developing the technology while we???re s one of the beautiful things about participating in all of these social networks and Web 2.0 Rather than build our own photo-sharing application, why don???t t we just use Flickr???s I think that you???re t previously exist.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

YouTube is the second most active social media site in the world, followed by Twitter, Google + , LinkedIn , and Pinterest. Tumblr, which was recently acquired by Yahoo, is an up and coming social media site where people share text, photos, links, music, and videos from whatever device they’re on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Here's a back to the future video from NTC back in 2000 when it was called the roundup. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? Yahoo has acquired MyBlogLog , two years from now will the community get pissed off ? Check it out. It's called Moulin.

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