Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

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APRIL 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!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew. .&# This was in the solidly web 1.0 ″ (and yes, I’m subverting the dominant paradigm.) Mitchell 04.08.07

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

The Circle View Doorbell has a 5-megapixel camera with a tall aspect ratio that lets you see visitors from head to toe. The video feed is a tall 160-degree view, which is meant to let you see a person from head to toe or be able to see if a package was left on the stoop. It also functions very well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. But the stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

social network and community sites. " Michelle Murrain hints at a possible solution: "I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio." " What do those guidelines look like?

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

All told, the report spans more than 2,500 pieces of content, posted across seven languages and more than 300 different forums, websites, and social networks. “By It has definitely felt way more like a news app to me than ever before since Black Lives Matter protests took over the stories feed this month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Platforms that encourage user-generated content often have an abundance of content and users need a mechanism, like search or personalized news feeds, to sift through the noise. Craigslist scores very high on liquidity and network effects. Curation of content: The platform should have a mechanism for separating signal from noise.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played out across across Instagram, Twitter, and the upstart audio-only social network Clubhouse. Trending up : Facebook pinned a box with information about voter registration on the top of the News Feed for every US user who is of voting age.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Reddit’s content moderation scheme differs sharply from the Facebook News Feed or the Twitter timeline. The error represents a breach in the policies the social network implemented following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. So I’m not holding my breath.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

It fools the social networks algorithm into showing the post to more people because the system thinks it’s trending. Its very difficult to distinguish between authentic activity and inauthentic activity, says Adam Sohn, CEO of Narravance , a social media threat intelligence firm with major social networks as clients.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

I spent the weekend watching three stories unfold at the intersection of social networks and politics. During the initial George Floyd protests earlier this month, a big question was whether the social networks would take action against President Trump for one of his bad posts. Let’s take them in turn.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

And then social networks came along, and the calculus changed. But buy an ad on a social network and its reach is potentially infinite — and it can acquire massive scale in an incredibly short period of time. And so starting soon, you’ll be able to remove political ads from your Facebook feed.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The president of the Coalition for a Safer Web is calling for a new “social media standards board.” Marc Ginsberg says social networks should lose Section 230 immunity if they fail to comply with its regulations. ( Interestingly, I haven’t seen any legitimate cancer care ads in my News Feed,” she writes, “just pseudoscience.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Directed by Jeff Orlowski, The Social Dilemma explores the effect of smartphones and social networks on human behavior. I started writing this newsletter in 2017 after coming to the belated realization that social networks really did have an outsized impact on modern life, and deserved to be taken as seriously.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

And most intriguingly, Mayer said TikTok would do something that lawmakers have often asked of other social networks, but so far none have even suggested they would consider: allowing regulators to inspect the company’s algorithms, which select which videos and accounts to promote throughout the app.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. Trending up : Facebook is updating its News Feed algorithm to prioritize original reporting.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Instagram is now placing ads at the end of the feed, where the “You’re All Caught Up” notice sits.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A similar dynamic is playing out on the neighborhood social network NextDoor, where a let-the-users-do-it approach to moderation has left many black users feeling fearing for their safety. The Ratio. ?? Aviv Ovadya did ; he has a nice list of problems he faced as a groups admin here.).

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

And sometimes it’s algorithmic, as when Facebook sorts a Trump post about vicious dogs into your feed because it predicts that you are likely to engage with it. Social platforms, for better and for worse, offer only the president’s words. Snap’s decision to remove Trump from promotion comes just as the account was beginning to blow up.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Trending down: A Facebook executive told Politico that right-wing populism is always more engaging, which gives it an advantage on social networks. My Twitter feed melted down over these comments on Sunday. But these criticisms are fair, and worth keeping in mind as it invites more people in. Emily Birnbaum / Protocol ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In 2019 he told Josh Constine he wanted to find “ the next wave ,” in a comment I took to mean that he had no plans to start another social network. It’s also restricting groups that promote violence from search and reducing how often their content shows up on people’s News Feeds. But I sure am glad he took the call.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

For You is the first thing you see when you open TikTok, and it reliably serves up a feed of personalized videos that leaves you saying “I’ll just look at one more of these” for 20 minutes longer than you intended. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Watch The Social Dilemma.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. As on Twitter, the app opens to a central scrolling feed of updates from people and topics that you follow. And as on Reddit, every post must be created within a group, which Telepath calls a “network.”.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

An advertiser boycott of Facebook and other social networks this month , along with a difficult civil rights audit of the company , have brought further scrutiny to the issue. Instagram, however, doesn’t have the same sort of two-tabbed, scrollable feed, like TikTok offers today.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

If a country where the median voter leans to the political left has a News Feed occupied by links from the far right, that could cause concern. Hegeman, who took over the News Feed in 2018 after Adam Mosseri left to run Instagram, showed up on the timeline with a six-part response culminating in a (beautifully designed) graphic.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In fact, they introduced something called “the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act” on Tuesday , the point of which seems to be to stop social networks from doing so much moderating.). That’s a revealing comparison and one that should help guide reform efforts. Moscow Mitch will continue to have to take his lumps.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

The two former Twitter employees, Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Alzabarah, were accused of feeding the Saudi government information about Twitter users critical of it. They were recruited by a Saudi named Ahmed Almutairi, who lives in the kingdom and has worked for the royal family’s social media company, according to prosecutors.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

When Facebook was founded, the idea of a truly global social network has seemed obvious — inevitable, even. China’s decision to ban American social networks clouded that vision, though, and in the years since the splintering of the internet has only accelerated. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I know you’re very critical of Facebook and the other social networks. But I mean, during this interminable election week, we’ve seen the major social networks, to varying degrees, get more aggressive. Sometimes I think I have bad mentions, but before I came on, I went and looked at your Twitter feed.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

If left unchecked,” it warned, Facebook would feed users “more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention & increase time on the platform.” [.]. You can use it in a narrow sense to talk about the way that a news feed full of partisan sentiment could divide the country.

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