Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Do you have a significant contingent of people networked via Facebook who are not joining your email list but are receiving messages, feeds, events, etc from you via Facebook? I am curious about how the network activity becomes part of (or relates to) the organizational activity. It happens one person at a time.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Because social media may be about networks, communities, and collaboration; but it is only possible because of the dynamic and powerful tools individuals are using. Social networks are built from all the content individuals share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. At hi s organization, he told me, the system blocked anything with the word “Facebook,” and online social networking was forbidden because the boss thought irrelevant for volunteer coordination.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways. What also becomes clear very quickly is that organizations that have embraced the use of social media get a lot more leverage on Jumo. Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. Sure, why not.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If you want to quickly improve how your nonprofit leverages the Internet, then org charts and owners aren’t the way to go. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Focus on the seating chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Cyberbullying social network ( [link] lying.ning. of videos and other resources related to cyberbullying, along with a feed. You can learn more by participating in the social. network, or you can visit resources like. org, www.stopcyberbullyi ng.org, www.ncsriu.org. Follow the feed. www.cyberbullying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

where a group doesn't have the same beneficial news-feed options that a. I wished all of his friends a happy birthday so that they could laugh at Ranger Rick in their news feed (not to mention get him more exposure). However, right now I'm seeing great results from internal cooperation when it comes to social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It's call org.2.0! You also might to check out some widgets that combine social networking with stats like mybloglog.com. Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0 in nonprofit land.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin of NPR's Social Media guru, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center. It aggregates feeds from many sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

but on your site to tell people what the show is about: who’s the guest, who is the host, what are the orgs or links mentioned. upload to Internet Archive and use OurMedia to generate RSS feed, etc. Social networking - use it to promote. Show notes - want to make a summary of your show for both itunes, etc.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). That way you can meet the activist "where they're at" willcoley @ kanter I'm interested in how orgs can use offline content dev among their constituents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking tools like del.icio.us, flickr, blip.tv, Technorati, etc. RSS Widgets: I installed grazr which easily puts my bloglines feeds that I'm reading on my sidebar in a nifty little directory. The particular Web2.0 It helps automate your blogroll.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening. Five to ten years of project management experience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future. ikomatic. @kg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Also, try not to tweet about your own org on an average of more than once every seven or so tweets. Talking about time, is there an application which would post an update on all main Social Networking Sites at once? allows you to publish to your Fan Pages as well as many many other social networks.

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APRIL 20, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

There I'm thinking of things like wikis, social networking applications that allow you to eavesdrop on what your friends are doing (this is how I think of subscribing to a colleague's del.icio.us feed), and tools that allow you to find other people and organizations who are working to solve the same issues you are working to solve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Here's his definition: A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. Social Networking Tool or Service. social networking site.

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MARCH 4, 2009

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 20, 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!" Its a message every org should know I just wish I could tell it to more!!

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

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MAY 29, 2007

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MAY 31, 2007

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

One thing to remember with comments that are off-topic or inappropriate: don't feed the trolls. Q: Should nonprofits have organizational Twitter accounts, or should employees keep their own personal accounts to tweet about the org & engage in conversation? Emily : This depends.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

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JULY 24, 2007

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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JUNE 1, 2009

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Your supporters’ Facebook news feeds just got a quality content make-over, and grumpy cat is taking a backseat to high-performing posts. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell.

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MAY 29, 2009

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2011

A lot of the report’s findings are not terribly surprising, such as the fact that younger staffers and early adopters are much more likely to see value from social network communications. Families USA’s recent campaign is a great example of how an org might go about doing that.

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