Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month. right here.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

M+R shares 6 Rules for Online Writing that just might shatter some old grammar rules. AASP''s listserv, Fundsvcs, won the grand prize in the 2013-2014 LISTSERV Choice Awards. Wondering what that web lingo you hear actually means? Mark your calendars for 2015!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Bonus points! Easy to Moderate* 9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office. Wikis are just great for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

So, here's a quick summary of good stuff that was shared on the N-TEN discuss list today about conference calls. Here's a few vendors mentioned on the listserv: Live Office Conference Call ReadyTalk Conference calls and web conferencing. Free Conference Calls - for simple needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Photo of Iavor Ivanov , Web Experience, United Way (national) Meet Iavor Ivanov, the Director of Web Experience for the United Way (National). So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. He tracks content to share about local United Ways. Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I Recently, there was a thread about online donation tools and I shared Laura Quinn's Idealware report with a caveat that it was probably more useful for NGOS in the US. She asked me for some nonprofit and french friendly web hosts. Does anyone know?

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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. To share the expertise of Easter Seals??? Share your knowledge, your passions and your personality in your posts by writing about what you know. Our goals are: ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Ivan Boothe helped start the Genocide Intervention Network in 2004, and was responsible for communications, web development and social networking strategy. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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APRIL 22, 2009

When I left my position at Easter Seals , I had seven-plus years of research covering the field of nonprofits online flowing (more like gushing) in daily via email newsletters, listserve digests, etc. Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen’s column on Web usability: Not for nonprofits only, his lessons on Web (and email) usability are universal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. In the meantime, this post from Marc Sirkin sharing his YouTube Nonprofit Channel experience is worth reading as people contemplate a YouTube strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Flickr is a web application that allows anyone to share and organize photographs online. It's touted as one of the Web's best examples of social media software. To get started using Flickr to share and search for photos, you'll need to register for an account. But not all. Creative Commons Licenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. The concept of digital curators has been around since the beginning of the Web - at first they were called "Cybrians." I think I'm a digital curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. I'd love to see some workflows shared too. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. Recent advances in web development make data sharing much easier. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 For example, this nonprofit marketer shares his decision about choosing a software tool in light of the recent acquisitions in the market. 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). Once you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

I need to get my act together for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK and a session I'm doing with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I have one blog post here. I probably will anyway!).

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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 Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. but for the most part people share freely with their knowledge in a sort of gift economy way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. Here's the description: The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video???from

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 Heather from Aspiration shares her process for securing a venue for Penguin Day. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If Flickr/Photo Sharing, Video, and Games for Change An interesting comparision between photos on flickr and Getty images.

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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. Or will Convio innovate less due to their massive new market share and potential perceived lack of competition? tools in their web sites. Some commentary on methodology here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

what is kept within the community, what is shared with the wider world). listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). Relationship – getting to know each other (i.e. the annual potluck dinner!). Context – private, internally-focused or serving an organization, or the wider world (i.e. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Similarly, as an online learner, I find it exciting to share ideas and learn from and with others. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

This is where things like web meeting tools, co-browsing, and such can be useful. What I notice about web meeting tools is that most of us don't know how to make the most of them. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. How can we take advantage of the medium of Second Life?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This post explores the mysteries of Web 2.0's Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0. In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. They require more of their audience in terms of participation than other Web 2.0 What's a wiki?

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JULY 11, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All of these tools are cheap and easy to use.

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