Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Lauren reports that Posh announced its public launch today after being in beta since October 2020. Capital efficiency is the new VC filter for startups Image Credits: PM Images (opens in a new window) / Getty Images For some B2B SaaS startups, focusing solely on the LTV:CAC ratio is a great way to obscure weak customer metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

My agency, Livingston Communications, is currently helping Network Solutions with reputation management across blogs, Twitter, and forums to significantly decrease the company's 58 percent negative commentary ratio (as of June 30) by more than 20 points. What is your advice to nonprofits about integrating social media?

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. All told, the report spans more than 2,500 pieces of content, posted across seven languages and more than 300 different forums, websites, and social networks. “By

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. The error represents a breach in the policies the social network implemented following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The error represents a breach in the policies the social network implemented following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played out across across Instagram, Twitter, and the upstart audio-only social network Clubhouse. Instead for the most part they were funneled to a public relations person, whose job was primarily to contain any damage to the company.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

I spent the weekend watching three stories unfold at the intersection of social networks and politics. During the initial George Floyd protests earlier this month, a big question was whether the social networks would take action against President Trump for one of his bad posts. Let’s take them in turn.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work. He has since become a public school teacher. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. The question is what steps those networks are prepared to take to stop that from happening. The latter is why some adherents are believed to wear Hawaiian shirts when participating in public demonstrations.)

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

That’s one reason I suspect Basecamp’s public protest of Apple and its App Store policies has gotten so much traction. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. The information will allow the public to track how much each candidate is spending on political ads on the platform.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Or a forum related to thoughts had in the shower might ban the publication of non-shower thoughts. A similar dynamic is playing out on the neighborhood social network NextDoor, where a let-the-users-do-it approach to moderation has left many black users feeling fearing for their safety. The Ratio. ??

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

As I reported on Thursday, the decision sparked an unusual amount of internal dissent among employees , and on Monday it spilled over into public with a virtual walkout of a few hundred employees. Zuckerberg thinks that Facebook keeping the Trump posts up likely damaged public perception of the company. The pessimist may not.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Directed by Jeff Orlowski, The Social Dilemma explores the effect of smartphones and social networks on human behavior. I started writing this newsletter in 2017 after coming to the belated realization that social networks really did have an outsized impact on modern life, and deserved to be taken as seriously.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Trending down: A Facebook executive told Politico that right-wing populism is always more engaging, which gives it an advantage on social networks. But these criticisms are fair, and worth keeping in mind as it invites more people in. And finally.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But with usage of social networks surging and an election on the horizon, the need for moderation had never been greater. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up : Facebook removed networks of accounts run from China that promoted and criticized both President Trump and Joe Biden.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Snapchat is testing a new navigation experience that allows users to move through public content with a vertical swiping motion — a gesture that’s been popularized by TikTok. Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ). WhatsApp went down for an hour on Tuesday.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

The video that captured the public imagination this week lacks a name as catchy as “Plandemic” — it was a live stream of a press conference organized by a group known as the Tea Party Patriots, who are funded by wealthy Republicans — but it was seen much more widely, in much less time. Indeed, on Monday we got the sequel.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. And not just internally — having a social conversation publicly about how society thinks these things should be addressed.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

An advertiser boycott of Facebook and other social networks this month , along with a difficult civil rights audit of the company , have brought further scrutiny to the issue. All of which made the publication of Facebook’s annual diversity report this week especially fraught. Barnes / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Before the Tide Pods challenge was a public health crisis, it was a joke. The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In fact, they introduced something called “the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act” on Tuesday , the point of which seems to be to stop social networks from doing so much moderating.). Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Moscow Mitch will continue to have to take his lumps.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

And then social networks came along, and the calculus changed. But buy an ad on a social network and its reach is potentially infinite — and it can acquire massive scale in an incredibly short period of time. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? The president of the Coalition for a Safer Web is calling for a new “social media standards board.” Marc Ginsberg says social networks should lose Section 230 immunity if they fail to comply with its regulations. ( 250 units of housing.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

To address ownership concerns, ByteDance plans to do an initial public offering of global TikTok on a U.S. Systrom has been nothing but polite about Facebook in his public statements since leaving the company. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. But I sure am glad he took the call.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. It may go without saying, but Telepath is going well beyond the standard social network bans on hate speech and incitement to violence. And it’s just not worth doing it if it isn’t fun.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran rampant on social networks. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Sorry for the errors.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Spiegel’s memo, which Snap later made public, also came as the big social companies were reckoning over what to do about President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose posts about voting by mail and peaceful protesters. Social platforms, for better and for worse, offer only the president’s words. Sorry for the mistake!

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The problems are somewhat different on the two networks — Facebook is primarily talking about ideological diversity, where TikTok is more concerned with promoting different types of content — but I still found the distinction striking. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Hegeman said that the company is exploring ways of making reach data public for the first time. The main reason it has not been public to date, I’m told, is that it could raise privacy concerns — you don’t want CrowdTangle making public how many people saw your birthday fundraiser post, probably.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

And then, over the weekend, the long-standing norm that Facebook employees never criticize their employer in public seemed to shatter, tweet by tweet. One source told me the internal furor over Joel Kaplan’s public support of controversial Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination hearings had been markedly more intense.)

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Despite a recent and noble offer to open up its algorithms for inspection , ByteDance suffers from the strong (and, I believe, justified) belief that the company could not withstand any serious effort from the Chinese government to obtain and misuse American user data — or use it as a channel to manipulate our public discourse.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

An executive order like this had first been proposed last August , after the White House invited ordinary Americans to share stories about times when they felt they had been unfairly censored by social networks. That has led an increasing number of conservatives to sue social networks alleging infringements on their rights.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

the antitrust case could be recast in the public imagination as a partisan fight against content moderation. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Silicon Valley’s new favorite app is an invite-only social network called Clubhouse. Preeti Soni / Business Insider ).

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

And most intriguingly, Mayer said TikTok would do something that lawmakers have often asked of other social networks, but so far none have even suggested they would consider: allowing regulators to inspect the company’s algorithms, which select which videos and accounts to promote throughout the app.

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