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. Broadly, I'm researching how museums are using micro-blogging. Then set up an account for your museum and follow a few other museums as well as people in your target market using a search for location or interest keywords. What is your thesis about?

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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 started off with 5 blog feeds and as I discovered other blogs or resources, I added them gradually.

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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. I also searched around for some additional advice on Facebook Pages and I've summarized the key points below: Why have a Facebook Page? Well, she just posted something and it rocks.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As the subject line says, I want to focus in this blog post on Chatter. 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 didn't get much out of yesterday's keynote. It doesn't auto-update.

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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. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? Ego searches. Tracking Blog Conversations. Once you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Ego searches can be set up very easily - no special geek skills required -- and the services, are, of course, free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. To get started using Flickr to share and search for photos, you'll need to register for an account. See here , here , and here ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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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? to open its profiles to Google search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. Although I do have a couple of uneasy feelings about blog spontaneity. ll blog it. If I have a ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. milllion blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2009

Find a volunteer opportunity on Serve.gov using the search engine powered by All For Good. I'm probably going to be spending my summer of service setting up a blog for a grassroots program in my neighborhood, called Reading Partners, that I volunteer with during the school year. Share your story about your summer service project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Tharum and I have been in communication via our blogs, IM, and email for over a year now. In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London. Meanwhile, people in the room where listening, blogging, or on the IRC as well as remote participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. Vicky has written a brilliant post answering the question "How do you write for your blog?" Vicky says that writing a blog, like music, is more than a single solitary note, but a composition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

I'd love for it to have some javascript so you could embed it into a blog post. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. Alan also points to a blog devoted to Facebook apps. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Each CoP has space in the NTEN groups platform ([link] You can search for current CoP’s by entering “CoP” in the search bar on the upper right hand corner of your browser window. The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

If there is time there will be more boxes to search for. If you have a blog, write something about this event! He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences? The exercise was a great learning experience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

In a more museum-focused environment, check out the wiki for the Tate Handheld Conference held last week in London (for more on this event, check out this blog post by Nik Honeysett ). There are other places on the Web (like Beth's blog) to have discussions about the content, but the wiki is specifically a place for putting it all together.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

60) Search « The Great Debate: DM vs. Online Acquisition | Main | Make New Friends, But Keep the Old » Wednesday Jul 11 2007 A. Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging. Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Clearly marked.

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