Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. Source: Skelliewag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). In the weeks that have followed, Ichi’s e-mail provoked a series of responses from all over the world.

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JULY 14, 2021

You will need to have a team of staff or volunteers available to direct traffic, answer questions, and help people navigate the event. An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. More Attractive to Attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

My work was as a trainer, to teach people who to use these tools strategically. Back in the old days, there was a very small community of peer that I could ask questions and learn from — we had a listserv! That small community evolved into the organization – NTEN – the association for nonprofit techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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JULY 14, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Moderate* 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people. Broadly, I'm researching how museums are using micro-blogging. Many people don't follow their followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

December’s theme is “31 Days to Better Measurement.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” Above all, don’t reach out to people who have been directly impacted by the disaster, or it will come across as tone deaf. Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Be specific. Want to know more?

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JULY 17, 2009

networking with people (and firms) who can refer their clients or subcontract with you. networking with people (and firms) who can refer their clients or subcontract with you. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link]. When projects end, ask clients to write testimonials and agree to serve as references.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. I suspect she can be found blogging during her ferry commute, too.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) Let's Talk about You (and Me) If this blog post were all about us (the authors), you would have stopped reading by now -- and rightly so. Many non-tech people (i.e., Many people in their audience will absorb knowledge better from informative (and shiny!)

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. I followed people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. How do you know which of those channels is actually driving people to donate, register for an event, or even sign up for your eNewsletter? How do you know what story—across every channel—is doing the best job of driving people to take action?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I've been doing a small research project pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attenders or presenters. d still say that a sociographic approach would work, but try it solely with social networks of people. The key for me was: I???d person in the know???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Our product donations are well-known, as are our articles, blog posts and community organizing. I got the chance to present on a panel with three other people in an information session hosted by the U.S. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. Our latest opportunity was on February 13 2013. We have participated in a U.S.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. And of course, I use this blog as a reflective space to learn by writing. In contrast, many of the people I work with use visual social media formats as their lead tools for creating, sharing, and consuming information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money." Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience. This is a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Mari Smith suggests these key reasons: More people can find out about your organization because your Page gets indexed and is search able inside and outside of Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. My blog post generated a referral. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

Email your email lists, listservs and social networks directing people to register and search for projects on Serve.gov Link to Serve.gov on your blog or website ( Digital badges are available here ) Think creatively about how to collaborate with other organizations, businesses, foundations, etc. What are you going to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. In it was was pointer to James Davis's Blog post about testing a tool called RTFM (Request Tracker FAQ Manager). (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

The "bacn" from this program was sent to a listserv, and it annoyed people on the list. I've gotten too many messages from colleagues that have the subject line "Do We Read The Same Books" and it encourages you to sign up for a social software called Shelfari.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I asked him to help me find a list of conferences that people who work in nonprofits might find valuable to attend. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

They can house key resources & event materials/background resources, or bulletin boards for ride sharing, or contact information for people coming in from the same city, etc. Blog about the event before, during, and after. Blog about the event before, during, and after. And then Tweet about your blog posts on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

So, I can easily respect other people's tool preferences as long as I don't get too annoyed. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. There was instant rapor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. People became very fond of sunny and were motivated to do whatever they could to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. His post would be the perfect blog post. The conference was similar to NTEN???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. In this post, the GrokDotCom blog picks up the Free Ranger Rick thread and asks: Are non-profits an endangered species on Facebook? Nonprofits can use groups).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The library, which serves about 4,000 people, has no dedicated IT staff and a budget of about $200,000 per year. Julie described the library's community as "economically depressed" and a place where the digital divide is real: most people only access the Internet from their phones. WebJunction: Technology Planning.

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