Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? They are posting their introductions and photos here. If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group!

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APRIL 9, 2006

My March post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs , seems to have been helpful to folks (it even got translated into spanish by a blogger in Spain, so I thought I'd share my list, originally posted on NetSquared , of 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts. Example: Senator Barack Obama's podcast. Example: This Week in NetSquared News.

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MAY 7, 2006

The fifth Big Vision podcast is an interview with my friend Abby Rosenheck, the co-founder and Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , an urban school gardening program. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the "Big Vision podcast" link above, or by listening on the Gcast player in the right-hand column of this blog, or on iTunes.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2006

I don't have as much experience with podcasting considering I just put my first one up this week, but I thought I would share how I did it for anyone who was interested in producing their own. I chose Gcast because you can easily embed your podcast into your blog or webpage. I hope that helps aspiring podcasters.

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JULY 30, 2007

Birtt Bravo on Charity Village discusses Podcasts.CharityVillage®Research: Seven ways nonprofits can use podcasts: "Seven ways nonprofits can use podcastsBy Britt BravoJuly 30, 2007Interested in creating a podcast for your nonprofit, but not sure what kind of content would be appropriate podcasting material?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Hanging with Britt Bravo at NetSquared Conference Photo by Schipulites. For the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working closely with Britt Bravo at BlogHer and Netsquared. Britt will be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. We rarely get any face time.

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APRIL 7, 2009

I have also written for The Extraordinaries , NetSquared , the Stanford Social Innovation Review Opinion blog , WorldChanging , and The Huffington Post. I've been a creative career coach for 10+ yrs, and am the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact. I'd love to add a third blogging gig to my schedule.

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APRIL 22, 2009

This is the very last of my 2009 NTC Preview podcasts. Or maybe you've already voted in the NetSquared Challenge. As Vince says in the podcast, "It's way too early for dogma. It's also the longest, because Vince is a very interesting guy, with a lot of interests and a talent for connecting people and ideas. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. Nancy Schwartz has excellent advice in her 7 Facebook Essentials Nonprofit Marketers Need To Know Radio, podcasting and fundraising? The topic is how to do have fun and do good!

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MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session.

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JUNE 1, 2007

I ran into him again at the NetSquared Conference this week and learned about Rising s: Rising s, the outreach arm of Global s , is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. That's David Sasaki from Global s. The complete information is here.

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MARCH 5, 2010

This month's NetSquared (a project of TechSoup Global ) Think Tank topic is on effective social media policies. You can also hear a shorter version of Paul's piece from KQED podcast. . help from Third Sector New England , Social Actions , and the Boston Foundation, a first. available March 4th. .

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

You can read or listen to my interview with Jessica last fall here, and hear Matt's presentation and interview at NetSquared's December 2006 Net Tuesday in San Francisco on the NetSquared Podcast. If you had told me a year ago that I would watch these two people discussing Kiva in front of millions on TV, I would have laughed."

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JUNE 28, 2010

the Netsquared community in the form of feedback on the idea, experts in understanding the footprint life cycle consumables, game designers to help design compelling social incentives, 3. What help could you use at this stage? mobile application developers to build a robust prototype. How can readers get involved or follow your work?

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JANUARY 26, 2006

Britt Bravo at Netsquared posted on the community blog about museums and podcasting. And in the spirit of full disclosure -- I recently did a small project for Netsquared, a Net Tuesday toolkit. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , art_museums , museums , podcasting A work in progress, it is intended that mode.

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JULY 3, 2006

Britt Bravo, MA, write for three blogs: her personal blog, Have Fun * Do Good , the NetSquared blog , where she is the Community Builder, and for BlogHer , where she is a Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor. She also produces her own Big Vision podcast and the NetSquared This Week in NetSquared News podcast.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

and a listing of physical and virtual events go to onewebday.org and the OneWebDayWiki Blog Action Day 08 October 15 Bloggers, podcasters and vloggers post about the same issue on the same day to facilitate a global discussion. Cross-posted from NetSquared blogday2008 onewebday blogactionday bloggersunite blog refugees poverty activism

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

All of the Nonprofit Boot Camp sessions will be recorded and available on the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp Podcast. Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I hope you'll add to the list: Change/Wire Dining for Women Ella Baker Center Echoing Green Genocide Intervention Network Global Fund for Women Global Voices' Rising Voices Google.org Idealist NetSquared NTEN People's Grocery Save Darfur Social Actions Spot.us Stone Circles Streetside Stories Sustainable Table TechSoup U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

podcasts via their mobile app for iOS and Android and via their website. Head on over to NetSquared and share your election app idea. All also offer mobile versions of their website, optimized for viewing via your mobile device's web browser. Prefer to listen to your political news and analysis? Having Some Fun With Politics.

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AUGUST 26, 2008

Britt Bravo wrote a post several months back defining the term: people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s What's that? s Alex Steed.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Other podcast directories to check out are Yahoo! Podcasts , PodcastDirectory.com , Odeo , Podcast Alley , Podcast.net , and Podcast Pickle.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

I can't tell you how often people ask me if I think their supporters would listen to a podcast. We have to spend time on the (blog, podcast, Facebook page, Twitter, wiki, fundraising widget etc.). Cross-posted from NetSquared. My question back is always, what do your supporters say? How will you measure your tools' impact?

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DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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DECEMBER 29, 2005

I'm double blogging these days, here and on the NetSquared blog. That's a photo of me above at NetSquared's last Net Tuesday. A gathering for folks to socialize and chat about how nonprofits can use web-based technology like blogs, podcasts and social bookmarking for change. Here's info.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools. Last month 80+ folks showed up so come on over and join the fun. It's at Varnish Art and Wine Bar @ 77 Natoma in SF from 6-8 PM.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

But I did have a desire to learn more about podcasting, including microphones. It was the crumb of knowledge that I had hoped to gain from the session - as a novice to the podcasting equipment in an advanced session: I wanted to know the defining difference in mics.

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AUGUST 22, 2006

My dream for the writing I do for this blog, BlogHer and NetSquared , and for the interviews I do for the Big Vision Podcast is to somehow make a difference, to live up to how one friend described Have Fun * Do Good as, "inspiring people by seeing the efforts of others in hopes that they will be moved to act themselves."

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +. He talks about the importance of Google implementing brand pages. What are the potential uses for nonprofits? You can find the information for the meet up in my collection of Google + and Nonprofit Links.

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JANUARY 8, 2006

The triggers: A blog conversation on Jilliane's Smith blog that became a community blog conversation about nonprofit tagging on netsquared. There are others, including e-mail lists, web-based discussion forums, chat rooms, call-in talk shows, and even (to a certain extent) podcasts and wikis. His take: "We shouldn???t

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. This post was written for the NetSquared blog. --Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME. nptech time you net2

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JUNE 1, 2006

The last week has been all about getting ready for, and going to, the NetSquared Conference (thus no new blog posts since last Thursday), but I'm back home now and getting back into a normal schedule. The program gives girls training and paid employment working nine hours a week for 15 weeks on the GirlHealth.org web site.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Downcast – is for downloading and listening to podcasts on your phone without the need to sync with iTunes. Yelp – for restaurant and other reviews. Dictionary.com app – to always have the right word at hand. The app also has a voice-activated search.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here. Need a chuckle?

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JUNE 27, 2008

Other then this practical reason, we also syndicate headlines from our blogs, podcast, and videocast in order to pull them into the Workshops resources and eventually to our flagship website www.newstips.org to purchase our media guide, sign up for additional training, and subscribe to our electronic newsletter. t that bad. It was as if I???ve

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