Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Be A Celebrity for Your Cause Katya Andresen from Network for Good has been busy working on the launch of the SixDegrees.org site with Kevin Bacon. tools in their web sites. Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Check it out. for his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director."

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2009

Last week marked the launch of the newest resource site and treasure trove for the nonprofit community – Socialbrite.org. Lasica, creator of the site, at this year’s NTC and have been anxiously awaiting the launch since then. Contributors to the site (at this point at least) include: Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Why not ask your supporters how many of them have a blog or web site where they would be willing to promote your fundraising campaign? Chez Pim raised almost $62,000 with her Menu for Hope Campaign in 2.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Different tools have different ways to measure their impact from site and page views, to subscribers, to "friends," to links back to you, to donations, to anecdotal evidence. We have to spend time on the (blog, podcast, Facebook page, Twitter, wiki, fundraising widget etc.). Cross-posted from NetSquared. What a pain!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. " 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). hard to use ?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. You will definitely get more commenters if they don't have to create a login and password on your site to participate, at least in the beginning. One of the most popular tools for raising money on blogs are fundraising widgets like ChipIn , Network for Good and Global Giving.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

They have published their commenting policy on the site. One of the best sites on digital activism advice is Mary Joyce's Digitactive - look through her archives to find her advice or email her. Q: What is the best way to acquire or create a widget for a Facebook or MySpace page? I did an interview with her about this.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2007

Change.org , the social network where users can find like-minded do-gooders based on shared issues that they want to change, or nonprofits that they support, has launched a fundraising widget (pictured left). The widget can be placed on a blog, MySpace, Facebook, or a website. Cross-posted from the NetSquared blog. Pretty cool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. The Scoop: Indiegogo stakes the claim of being the first "perks-based" crowdfunding site. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 " She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Cross-posted at Netsquared

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Here's more about the site and the name. Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. Change.org now also sports a widget. Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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