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! And while he is talking primiarily about commercial sites and metrics to determine ad dollars, he goes on to tell us more about why the pageview is dead: The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. Wow, better than a listserv! Is reflection in action the way to integrate small amounts of experimentation with Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Nonprofit Technology. Technology. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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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. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel? Details here.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

Which tool is best for your group will depend on your goals, your members level of engagement, and the group’s comfort level with social technologies. If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

I stopped for yet another a latte on the way home, checked my treo and discovered this email from Ryan at PicNet about the big news in the Nonprofit Technology World -- Convio Buys GetActive. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday. The listserves are hopping with this news. GetActive???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The concept of digital curators has been around since the beginning of the Web - at first they were called "Cybrians." " In 1999, after working 6 years on the web, I wrote this piece on how my online work had changed based on different job labels. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?

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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. It's the wisdom of a Technology Steward. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. without becoming slaves to technology. Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. Alexandra Samuels has a terrific post on Best Practices for Nonprofits Using Web.2.0. Edge4Dev blog aims to help. " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using.

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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. " AVIF is a virtual organization that uses free and low-cost Internet technologies like VOIP to manage its programs and development work from the UK. We also advertise the Volunteer Centres in the UK web sites." Trade not Aid !"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 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). Robin Good - Who is talking about me on the Web today?

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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. it will come I'm sure!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

on using the web to highlight important information in situations where. writing on the web regularly to communicate with their audience. of great technology and access to crowd wisdom. Curation starts with listening : "Scan and monitor the web for relevant content every day. information overload may be a problem.

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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. I know I should do this, but here's a direct link to the chapter on technology tools. tools in their web sites. Jon Stahl gives us a good reading of the Tea Leaves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 Generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." " Quote from Stewart Brand from this Worldchanging Article.

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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. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 Clearly, this is not my area of expertise.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The Purpose Prize is a project of Civic Ventures , which has an impressive history of awarding lifetime achievement awards to people like Joe James , who is bringing the economic power of green technology to farmers in the rural south, and Barbara Cervone , who is empowering youth to tell their stories through the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Hiring people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

" So, does it make sense to roll your own network to appeal to those 85% of existing donors who do not participate on social networking sites, but may be engaged with the organization through other channels like email, face-to-face, or web site forums? Is this wave of the future? Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Nancy takes us through a gradient of modalities and technologies for synchronous meetings. 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. 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. This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. What's a wiki? What makes them succeed? over email.

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Care2

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) Who does it well?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. by years: customer support forums.

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