Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. I also searched around for some additional advice on Facebook Pages and I've summarized the key points below: Why have a Facebook Page? Activity on your Page helps increase ???

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Google searches on problems often come up with good answers on this site.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s the way TAG describes itself: "TAG is a membership organization of foundations that promotes the understanding of how information and communications technology can help its members further their philanthropic goals." Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings. Attend webinars. Get free Gartner research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Social Butterfly has an interesting list of helpful list-servs. First, the help you receive is proportional to what you give. And while you're at it, invite the seminar graduates to help implement what you learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. work in providing life-changing solutions that help all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play. Carmen left me a follow up comment.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. with each other, and to help them and the community easily share and. It also does a good job helping. Salesforce Content: "How much time have you wasted searching for presentations, thank you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. "I use my blog to help work things out for myself. ll search my own blog to get that reference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work. Writing is thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. Cogdogblog points to the DogPeeBook -- (laughing helps reduce stress.) SpeedGranting is a tool for the Facebook community to help spread the good by getting funding for worthy projects. Shout if you need a hand with what to do, happy to help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well. Technorati search: [link]. IRC had two channels, one for transcription and one for the "backchannel" chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

You should note the area of Boracay that you are in and write a clue to help others find the box, plus the colour of your box, on a notecard. If there is time there will be more boxes to search for. Each team will be given a different coloured box; your team's task is to hide your box somewhere on Boracay. Personally I think I???ve

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

If you do not currently have technology professionals on staff who can help you answer these questions and bring experience from prior employment, ask for support from outside constituents. In addition, the TechSoup Learning Center has a great resource designed to help nonprofits conduct needs assessments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit. The research, he says, "made us realize people don't know what these wretched things called relationships are -- and that helps explain why we're so bad at them." Last word from Prof.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. An organization becomes strongly associated with a topic not just in people's minds but in search engines and that translates to more attention. What is Compumentor/Techsoup doing to help support nonprofit blogging? The benefits? Well, attention is one.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

But if you are initiating a larger, less defined project, a wiki can help you organize the content as it is generated in parallel by the team members. Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. But people who read a listserv aren't necessarily incentivized to contribute to the wiki.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Jim: It came out of a book that Kathy Maclean did with Wendy's help, Are We There Yet? ASTC's mission is really to help raise the level of the field as a whole. The other thing we found early on is that the profiles pop up very high on a google search for a person's name. What was the basis for this project?

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

60) Search « The Great Debate: DM vs. Online Acquisition | Main | Make New Friends, But Keep the Old » Wednesday Jul 11 2007 A. Allison is a successful social entrepreneur and writer dedicated to helping grassroots organizations and activists implement and sustain social change efforts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

It helps people feel personally rewarded and recognized, and it aligns them more closely with the institution. Clear content frames help people know where to find what they need. Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. Are these places helped or hindered by their non-traditional names? If you're searching outside the word Museum, why not adopt less ambiguous words with strong cultural associations?

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