Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam. In her recent book, Beth Kanter talks about a ladder of engagement, with smaller actions laying the foundation for larger ones. How big of a difference does this make? Tactic 1: Audit your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Their reach metric exceeded their most popular post by 11,000, they got the more meaningful comments and more likes/shares since they started their page. In addition, the newspaper used their toolkit content to write a feature. Report spam: user thinks your page is spam. This used to be known as “unsubscribing.”. ?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Historic Geneva frequently digitizes and posts photos from its collection of tens of thousands, and residents chime in with their own memories of bars , church groups , neighborhoods , and businesses , sometimes connecting with former neighbors in comment sections or following up with Historic Geneva to share details or artifacts with the museum.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. Other times, I only want to see status updates or comments around a particular subject. Only tell me what I want to know when I want to know it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. at 10:26 pm { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.02.07 It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that. goodiness. at 9:46 am Web 2.0 at 9:53 am lol!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Go to “People” and search individually by name, or import your contacts from your e-mail address books. Make Connections. Once you have set up your profile, you are ready to go public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. Those funds allowed us to pay for the pre-prep for the wordless book that’s the centerpiece of The Born2Fly Project—illustrations, design work, professional scanning, and a lot more. 3. Don’t focus on your goal.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

Please share your memories of reading that book, and its impact on you. In a six month period ending last month, 655 comments were submitted to this boa rd. The comments largely address Anne's courage and talent and the comments have a theme—heartfelt, inspired, and personal. (For Or do they? Because we can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

b) marketing piece is not rocket science - get Katya's book. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Generally I wrote an honest comment and respond to what the blogger wrote. I don't promote our organization, but I do leave an authentic comment. Do you moderate comments or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Q: I read your article about writing a book in a year. You recommend two things for personal accountability: maintaining a log book or journal of your writing discipline and a weekly process of reflection and decision making. That raises a question: Are you working on a book? (BK: and found it very inspiring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. . Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. They also prepared them about how to respond to comments. Remember Alice in Wonderland - watching yourself in a mirror which you write and you receive comments. It is interactive.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. The experience, the director commented, was so painful that they would never repeat it.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

To be clear, this was not because I was a shy and introverted child who was generally happiest sitting in a quiet room with a chess set, some books about dragons, and no friends. The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. When in doubt, change it — or flag it in a comment to ask an outside editor for a gutcheck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation habits in the comments in the blogs - it's what makes them a social media. Conversation Rate = Number of Visitor Comments / Number of Posts. I did not include spam comments or my own). and simply want to improve the quality of the conversation taking place in the comments. A time consuming pain.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page? They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. The great thing about any really strong community on the net—we’ve never ever had to remove a comment on Flickr or even worry about it.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2016

I recommend making this part of your regular communications as a best practice, just as you would inform people to add your nonprofit’s email into their address book to ensure that it doesn’t go into Spam. Please share in the comments section below! Carol Luong is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Please add your own ideas in the comments too. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Build on their existing expertise/experience/perspective as opposed to asking them to comment on yours. Part of this is rooted in a legitimate desire not to spam people.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

An active account that interacts with followers and replies to comments. Another thing to note is that is common, even advisable, to ‘hide’ your hashtags by putting them a few lines down in your post (so followers have to click “more” to expand the caption) or in the first comment. Book A Free Consultation.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. {In

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

We had books of sample nominations, and sometimes we’d prompt them—“oh, I see you’re wearing a Wellstone tshirt. It’s not enough to say someone’s famous, that you like spam. If we didn’t get thoughtful comments, we were just going to do it ourselves. So we got back written comments and ratings 1-10. It really worked.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Share and Enjoy: 3 Comments comment Shai Gluskin Wow, that Beery piece was long. Maya 31 Jan 2008 Maya Norton Dear Michael, Don’t know if you saw it, but my last comment posted here last week was supposedly marked as spam. or a fundamental shift in how people connect and communicate and create networks.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

Yang did not respond to a DM requesting comment; a spokesperson didn’t respond to an email requesting comment, either. One guy they met with — who was about Musk’s age now — threw a phone book at him and said, “Can your tech do all this?” “In Goofiness is an inherent part of ETHDenver.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. However, lack of data never stopped me from commenting, so here are a couple of thoughts: First of all, I suspect nonprofits play a different role in many countries.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. However, lack of data never stopped me from commenting, so here are a couple of thoughts: First of all, I suspect nonprofits play a different role in many countries.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

5) The furor about “junk mail” is mild compared to that about spam—as it should be, because online communications is prey to all sorts of fraud. June 4, 2009 | Ted Grigg Mal - I generally agree with your comments. Think about it. Second, I agree with you that direct mail isnt going anywhere.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Pramila Jayapal ) to comically self-interested inquiries into why members’ fundraising emails are going to the spam folder ( thank you, Rep. Remember books? Send us tips, comments, questions, and unanswered questions for the CEOs: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Greg Steube.). It was not nearly enough. Here’s one.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) In just the last week, Google Docs has emerged as a way to share everything from lists of books on racism to templates for letters to family members and representatives to lists of funds and resources that are accepting donations.

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