Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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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. Thanks for your help!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. This makes me wonder: are younger practitioners creating their own online communities of practice in visually-based social networks?

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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

MARCH 30, 2007

For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Update your bookmarks: [link]. It may be the basics not social networking tools.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If writing up a case study or going to a Net Tuesday feels too time consuming, you can also help by tagging web sites in del.icio.us , photos in Flickr and personal blog entries that relate to NetSquared with the tag "net2" and they will feed into the NetSquared news aggregator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

There are people who are already bookmarking particular resources. Our aggregation page allows people to see what we???ve Use the contact and social networking tools built into the tools to find them and connect with them. I have six tips on how to start a community tagging project: 1 Pick a compelling theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Nate (the blogger) asked for a bookmarking feature, and then I responded by asking him to contribute to the programming of the site. Also, as the site grows, the aggregated knowledge can help us share resources, reduce redundancy, and come together as a museum community. I think there's a real value to volunteer projects.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

SMC Connect is currently linked on the San Mateo County Library system's website and bookmarked on branch library public access computers. The idea behind Johnny Hung's Bond & Me app is that people can more easily find nonprofit and social good events in their area. Bond & Me.

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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? Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog. Social Networking Tool or Service. Aggregator."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. Most often the content has nothing to do with the nonprofit sector or social good, but it does help social media managers get a good understanding of what goes viral on the Web. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. people my discuss or talk about a resource via a blog post or the notes field in a social bookmarking tool. Sites like Ning.com. All that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Our conference planner told me earlier this year about Pathable a company that provides a social network site for your conference. So on to what we tried this year… (this is gonna be a long scroller). Another related tool we found is lo.calize.us

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