Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience. I cover a couple techniques and tools using participants as an example to illustrate that keywords are king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs. This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. And, there was a protest against Target using that technique (holding signs) although it was not on flickr: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2006

There is a panel on nonprofit and tagging taking place netsquared. How do enthusiasts of tagging talk about tagging less transcendentally and more in terms of "you can use this technique to achieve X, Y, Z? There is some interesting discussion threads taking place. on board, and we haven't found the argument for that yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

I'll still continue to blog here during the next two weeks, but will point you over to daily guest posts on Netsquared. I've been struggling with this technique because I can't quite get my face in the frame correctly by holding the camera out in front of me. Video Blogging Learning Journal. Notes on shooting yourself.

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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. NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. " I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally. Here's another one called " Meet Charlie."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me as part of his gig at Netsquared. We started on his 24 melodic etudes - which is about how to express ideas in music versus finger technique. (I Great work Marshall! He also interviewed the East Coast Michael Stein , who I see also plays an instrument (violin). A humbling experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 +. I am also experimenting with techniques for network weaving across platforms and curating content related to effective practice of networked nonprofits. What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I especially liked this quote from Reuters Chief Executive, Tom Glocer: The technique (Live blogging) finally seems to have caught on in Davos. At Netsquared last May Ethan Zuckerman spoke on a panel and blogged brilliantly at the same time - so he did have time for a chat in the corridor. I noticed this first at TED. last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

While there has been some excellent conversations in the past fews months, particularly the Netsquared ThinkTank , I haven't seen a lot of nonprofit case studies that share real life experience with measuring results from social media strategies. The session presenters will include nonprofits using social networks or other web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

Oh, one other benefit of slideshare for me - I am trainer and have taught people presentation techniques -- good powerpoint. Setting up a group to share powerpoints from a conference would be awesome. I know I have seen other groups do that, but no nonprofits yet. it has definitely improved my slide shows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Take for example, the netsquared conference. Flickr streams have also been used to document informal gatherings in a playful and creative way -- see these examples from N-TEN and Netsquared's Net Tuesday gatherings. What do you think are some of the evolving best practices and techniques using these tools?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Eli van Der Giessen , NetSquared community manager, reveals: "One feature I like is Sharing. " Other Password Security Techniques. Anna Jaeger , CTO of Caravan Studios, invented her own technique. Please log in to tell us your technique. What TechSoup LastPass Users Have to Say. Images: TechSoup Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice. Netsquared Meet up 5:00 PM. Photo by Markpolous I am one week before the NTC , Day of Service , and Penguin Day and it's pretty crazy to say the least.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

It was originally published on NetSquared. Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Data Use by Citizens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Some tools and techniques follow below. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Add the feed to your RSS Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Some tools and techniques follow below. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. These help you stay informed, but may also help you keep a strategic advantage in the marketplace. For almost all of them, there are general steps to listening: Do a search. Add the feed to your RSS Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Last week I blogged about an Ipod/Toilet paper holder over at Netsquared. I've come across two personal fundraising campaigns that use the metaphor of wishes, pay it forward, or gift economy and are aggressively incorporating social media techniques into their strategies. This one records a message or music.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Kevin Lo , NetSquared senior program manager, reports: "Since my account got compromised, I turn on two-factor authentication whenever possible. " Stephen Brown , customized programs specialist, has some techniques for his home PC: "On my home machine I use Avast and Malware Bytes to control viruses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? What is your technique for responding to comments? I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. And, finally I attended a session with in-world documentary filmmakers who screened some of their works, and discussed filmmaking techniques, another fascinating moderated chat sesson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. " You read an excerpt here. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

They make it somewhat difficult to incorporate storytelling techniques. Netsquared Net Tuesday also had a session on vlogging and Britt Bravo posted some great notes. It is a two-minute elevator speech by the founder of the organization, a warm and personal telling of the organization's programs. Off to consume those now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites. Here's a Firefox Extension called " Post Wisdom " that acts as a blogging coach. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. account and point to a few good ones I find every week for my NpTechTag Roundup over at Netsquared. Most of these tools are not difficult to learn how to use, but it does take some "play time" or "getting to know you time."

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Q: Also, what are techniques for finding social influencers and what are the ethical concerns/issues about contacting them for research purposes? Some specific groups exist: social media club , netsquared , tweetup , etc. Beth : See [link]. You can find event listings at sites like meetup.com or upcoming.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Use the groups search feature on flickr to find a group and join it. Send the photo the group photo pool. More Discovery Exercises. Step 7: Use Tagging To Share Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

I met Katya Andresen, a social marketing expert and well respected nonprofit leader at the Netsquared Conference. The books also talks a lot about the techniques for 2-way communication and building relationships, "At the end of the day the personal connection, not the grand concept, grabs our attention."

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. Share your tips, tactics, tools, and techniques for effectively curating to serve your audience. For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" The best technique I've seen was at the Global s Summit in London -- where there was a "Chat /IRC Advocate" in the room who monitored the chat/IRC and asked questions on behalf the chat paticipants and typed in the answers. This was done quite successfully at netsquared conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

One article that I found particularly useful was how to recycle your ideas and articles effectively which included techniques and examples. Kivi Leroux Miller's Blog on Freelance Writing for the Nonprofit Community is chocked full of posts that are useful for any writer, including nonprofit bloggers.

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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. I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting. What do they click on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Jon notes, "Both substance-wise, and the idea of doing ultra-short "casual" screencasts like this as a training/demonstration technique." Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. " I agree Jing is the thing for doing micro screencasting.

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