Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content. re doing offline.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2009

If you missed The Chronicle of Philanthropy's June 23 online discussion Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes , the transcript is now available. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Social Networking Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

One of the questions: How to address concerns about privacy, security, and avoiding spam overload that comes with social media and social network sites? He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1) He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1)

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

The speakers include: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. Tags: Social Networking Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2009

Carie Lewis, HSUS Social Networking Maven I just discovered that Carie Lewis of HSUS has a blog ! Digg - shows most popular articles on the web. Better yet, she shared her listening techniques. She uses Igoogle which is a really easy, simple way to set up a dashboard. Here's what she is listening for: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I'm going to riff on Ivan's advice, " You Don't Have To Be Everywhere" (like Mastercard) After an organization has identified an audience, objective, and strategy, a question that often comes up: What social networks should we establish our presence on? How many social networks should we participate on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network. These are some links I wanted to share from June 16th. Find me on Delicious for more! Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

Do your website visitors find your content compelling enough to comment on and share on social networks? Postrank will show you who they are on the top 20 social networks. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. Anne was excited, but still wary about how much of her job she could actually commit to this social media stuff.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are interested in implementing a social media program (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg) but are unsure how to measure the impact or know what success looks like, attend this free TechSoup Talks webinar on Thursday, August 13, 10 a.m. Tags: E-Learning E-Learning Social Networking Training Web 2.0 Pacific time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. Online Networking. Goal: To understand how to use social networks strategically for communications and fundraising. Chat Leader: Danielle Brigida. Presenter: Brian Reich. Chat Leader: Rachel Weidinger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. Is social networking doomed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

I was googling to find an article about social network policies, specifically friending policies. I noticed that Google added a new feature where you can comment on a search engine result and like DIGG either promote it or demote it. I'm just getting back and I'm behind. You can customize the search results page too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. a social searching program called lejit. Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. The existing social searches are simply too big for trust - the information flow to huge and overwhelming.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. Digg Reader. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features. iOS, Web) has only been available for a few days, but it is already getting rave reviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? ve laid the foundation, we can get a huge response from these networks for our campaigns. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s t exactly home runs ???

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Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

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!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

You also might to check out some widgets that combine social networking with stats like mybloglog.com. Tap the Blogs. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. And here's a good listener's guide. Donations with Squidoo. I'd also take a look at widget fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities. .    This includes FriendFeed and Social Thing.

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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!" Word of mouth, etc. Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

social networking sites. Eric Eckle suggests that this points to some larger organizational issues in embracing social networking sites. Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. Philthanthropy. Do you find Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. So, rather than have just a few folks filtering the nptech tag stream, to have some way to make the filtering social. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. Social network oversaturation, or just the summer slump? My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. It was invitation only.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Why Has Fundraising Online Shifted so Quickly? He raised $28 million online, of which, “90% [of the contributions] were under $100, with over 250,000 contributors.”

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Harry: A Green Geek.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. The Facebook news is big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. The campaign.

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