Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

If time is a problem, post less. Put your feed button above the fold. We inevitably associate a professional design with how seriously the blogger or webmaster takes what they do. Laura Scott adds a 5th point - offer full feed posts. " It's a three prong strategy: 1. Pack your articles with as much value as possible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

There are so many blogs, news sources, and conversations happening at the same time, every day, and the chances that you’ll be able to find them all without trying is pretty unlikely. Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. Twitter Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This is a draft for a listening curriculum that I will be doing for the first time as part of WeAreMedia Workshop later this week. Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If not, why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? In the early days, it was a small company focused on making it easier for publishers to manage their RSS feeds, and for people to use them. Tags: RSS.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

I think its time to further my nonprofit education! What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. I scored an 8 with no help from the test maker, who was sitting right next to me refusing to give me any clues. I got a 4. May 7, 2011 1:58 PM Latte Machine said. I got just 3 points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

However, times have changed my perspective. Technology now makes it possible and even requires me to be all over the place all the time. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

This organization uses sports, specifically basketball, as a vehicle to help youth get motivated in school and learn life lessons while at the same time producing some seriously great athletes. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2011

You can take Modules 1 and 2 at any time online. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. The ASU Lodestar Center offers two great resources to get you on your way. The workshop will help give you a clear understanding of how to proceed in achieving your nonprofit goals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2011

McKinney , Project Specialist ASU Lodestar Center Attending this years Annual Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness for the first time, I was really excited to see the communication between grantees and funders. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

However, there are times when simple surveys produce very meaningful information — and can provide the basis for deeper research projects. No time to meet with me. And the most frequent amount of communication is 1-2 times a week, by phone, text, or in person. Stay consistent in prioritizing time with the CEO.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I asked my friend who is a High School teacher if he knows about DonorsChoose, and he said he uses it all the time! What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. February 24, 2011 2:38 PM Raphael Card said. I think more people should learn about this donorschoose program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. A natural person to be the staff blogger is whoever writes the organization's newsletter or e-newsletter.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Contrary to what the bloggers want you to believe, email is not dead. Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. I’ve been using Campaign Monitor to test new templates, but there’s a small per-test cost and it’s time consuming.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

On the other hand, proponents of social enterprise have a lot of good things to say about earned income strategies, especially in lean times when grants and contributions are hard to come by. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. I called them up, let the phone ring 10 times, and nobody picked up. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

Requirements not only include courses towards their degree program, but also 30 additional hours of coursework and 200 Career Field Exploration (CFE) hours — designed to assist students in "trying out" different nonprofit organizations and the jobs within them before they make any decisions about full-time employment.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

It was started in August 2005 on Blogger. This blog/project has grown alot over the 5 years and it was time to move to WordPress.The new url is [link] and the new rss feed is [link] Nonprofit Blog Exchange: "The Nonprofit Blog Exchange has been around for 5 years!

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers. Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

These programs, including TweetDeck and Seesmic , can be incredibly helpful for managing many of your nonprofit organizations social media outlets, but youll want to make sure you spend time playing around with all of their various functions before you start sending out official tweets. Have you ever had a social media nightmare?

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Care2

MAY 22, 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!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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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. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. It's been said that people need to see an advertisement seven times before they will buy. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. My colleague, Evone Heyning, calls this “ more sticky interactions.&# It will also be interesting to track how Jumo helps organizations and causes attract new supporters and what is required in terms of time commitment and strategy to be successful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Our laid off staff put in over 1000 hours of volunteer time during that period… " Although stories like these are incredibly inspiring, we know that sweat equity is not sustainable; nonprofit professionals can not be volunteers on a permanent basis. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 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!" 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

I must agree that communication is such a key component in every aspect in life but at the same time it is not practiced enough, especially in the nonprofit world. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. May 1, 2011 11:34 PM Paulsaid. Great post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. Here are some notes I took: Take time to ask yourself, "What does success look like?" " Ah, I have no logo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. It's SO easy to just give money/time easily and walk away feeling good about donating what you have, and it takes time and effort to do the research beforehand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader).

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