Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

About six months ago, we connected via a listserv I posted to and she emailed me privately to say hello. I interviewed educators in five countries on a multi-media conferencing platform, using over Internet. More than ten years ago, I met Janet Salmons the founder of Vision2Lead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

To challenge my set ways of doing traditional Internet research (are ya laughing now Gavin?), I wrote about the results I got from more traditional ways of doing Internet research and my experience with ChaCha - search engine with human guide. Is it worth it to integrate social search into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process. The work in progress is here.

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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. Here's the policy for online persona from Easter Seals: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy SECTION III PART I-9 Approved by board: July 14, 2007. Our goals are: ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. s something we want to give you, along with some online media hosting, to see how you use it. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. from your computer to anywhere. It is very easy to use. Yet to be created).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. On returning to the UK in 2003 she spent some time working in internet security before deciding to go back to school. We access all orphanages via the internet. " AVIF uses the Internet to recruit volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ). As noted by Holly Ross on the NTEN blog, having a conversation in blogs and other social media is a public conversation. What is your technique for responding to comments? How do you nurture conversations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0 I knew this already , but it has been so long since I taught Internet Searching skills that I've forgotten it. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. tools in their web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. The latter is something dubbed "Rich Media" or " Social Reporting " This is a great opportunity to learn from some key learners in the video blogging field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

Of course, not everyone in Cambodia has Internet access. t have computers or Internet access or even electricity. Not many Cambodians are doing vlogs yet and there are some good reasons for that (equipment, lack of Internet access, language barriers, skills, etc.) For example, my family can???t t view my vlog ??? they don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Here's the gist: Underneath the Internet advertising economy is a key metric that dictates how properties are valued and how online media is bought and sold - the page view. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Perhaps you're wondering what type of skills you need on staff to implement a social networking and media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. I can't do that anymore which is a normal part of aging or a by-product of consuming too much information called Internet Alzheimers. I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Carie Lewis, Internet Marketing Manager Humane Society of the United States. 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. This was mostly a myspace campaign. s online journal , without.

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