Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Right before I left for Cambodia, Ranger Rick's profile (the spokesperson for NWF) was deleted from Facebook because it was "fake" and the policy is that only individuals can set up profiles. to open its profiles to Google search. I'm catching up. Nonprofits can use groups).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Make sure your profile reveals that you are a real person interested in museums so when you start following people a quick glance at your profile explains why you are following them. Well, all I can suggest is my approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Iavor works closely with individuals responsible for social media and the web at Local United ways, right now via a listserv that serves as a just-in-time support network for social media and web. My personal profile is my work identity. Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). How do you listen carefully?

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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. t have naughty gifts on your Facebook profile if your ???friends??? I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Carmen left me a follow up comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog. more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). BlogDigger. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. There are two different profiles: subscribers and visitors. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. While you are reading the chat, you can also click on each of the avatars and read their profiles. Also, at the end when I thought I was having a private IM with a colleague to set up a play date with my kids, it was broadcast to the entire group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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MAY 7, 2007

The profiles were the last thing added, when we were getting into the nature of the site itself. I'm a big advocate of the profile part, and want to see it used in other ways for members to contact each other. I think a cool thing is that we took a fair amount of push on the personal profiles.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Wikis don't explicitly acknowledge individuals with "profile power"--content is prioritized, not identity. 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. So when do wikis work?

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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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