Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2009

Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Tweetmeme - tells you the most popular tweets about a subject. Twitter Search - shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don't use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately). Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. Digg - shows most popular articles on the web.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Image courtesy of Technorati. We all know nonprofits don’t have a huge budget for a full IT support staff, but some nonprofits look for volunteers to help keep the technology cranking.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Some highlights from our chat: • During the 2007 Blogger Challenge, he said, “we saw that a handful of bloggers who wouldn’t appear on the Technorati top 100 list and don’ have huge readerships were actually capable of raising the most money from their readers because they have a personal relationship with their followers.&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. So, submit those posts by Sunday evening!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 1, 2007

The punch line: … there’s a good chance that underneath the shiny is something that isn’t very interesting. Not always, but often.) And that some of what’s deeply, truly, long-term transformative isn’t shiny at all. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be?    Our session is on the social media metrics track and one of a few that are geared for nonprofit folks.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email. Get set up on Google Alerts to monitor the web at large. If it’s out there Google will probably find it. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Seth Gottlieb (a fellow Western Mass person) has a great post on his blog about how to go about looking at the communities around open source projects. It’s definitely worth a read. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Using Red Hat, as I often do sometimes, feels like doing battle in comparison. Ubuntu took the best that Debian had to offer, and left the weaknesses behind, I think. Anyway, I think it’s worth checking out. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 5, 2009

Each blog's ranking is established by statistics: Technorati ranking, Technorati inbound blog links, Bloglines subscriptions, Alexa rank, Google pagerank, and Yahoo! Eventually the List will be moved to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s site after its redesign. inbound links.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 I think tagging posts w/ technorati can help w/ this to because it can be a way to submit a post to a certain planet… 5 katrin 12.14.06 It’s a mess out there. Onlywire is a great tip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

If it's a blog, what's their technorati ranking? What is the severity of the person's tone - are they totally negative, neutral, seem like they could be talked to? 2 - influence. How many followers, friends, subscribers do they have? How many people are they really talking to? 3 - frequency.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I think it needs some updating, but it’s actually still pretty relevant. That’s a good thing. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , penguindayDC , women , feminism { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 04.12.07 Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out. Do you think the numbers in Angela’s presentation for FLOSS in general are on target?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

And, it is beginning to appear that facebook will integrate better with my workflow than LinkedIn, because of facebook applications. So we’ll see how it works. I’ll keep you posted. And, if you’re already on facebook, add me as a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , tagging N-TEN is presenting a Webinar on Tagging tommorrow. Reserve your seat now! I just did. The informaton is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Technorati Tags: nptech. Creative Commons is running a Flickr Contest encouraging people to use their photographic skills to support Creative Commons. The official rules are here. What a great idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Stephen goes on to critique automated rating services like Technorati. " Nor should they feel that rankings - Technorati or otherwise - are in some way indicative of the quality of the writing, despite what McLeod claims. For one thing, I don't agree with McLeod's argument. " For another, I agree with Jennifer Wagner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

It has a lot of time saving features in it - like automatic Technorati ping tags, ability to bookmark your post into delicious, trackbacks, notes, etc. Technorati Tags: nptech firefox So, you can be reading with one side of the screen and taking notes for a draft or published post. Hat tip to Nancy White. gotta go draw it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

in Technorati. Conclusions Technorati appears to be successful in helping a new blog to be found. Brian Kelly, whose blog feed I've added to my "Circle of the Wise" feed folder, has a section on his blog called ' Experiments. Claim your Blog??? Reasons For Experiment To explore ways in which a new blog can be found.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech I have to blog this: "The most underrated benefit of the face-to-face effect of conferences is INSPIRATION." " Kathy Sierra's post about the value of face-to-face interaction in the age of remote conference attendance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07 &# Yay, there are people who get it. I’m sorry I missed that session! After it’s all said and done, I’ll post my overall review. But the next step is Penguin Day !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

That's is when a live blogger - who is not on-site - is monitoring a dedicated IRC channel where someone in the room or at the conference is typing summary notes, monitoring the conference tag in flickr, technorati, and other places and live blogging a summary. I hope you'll all do the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

Technorati /kanter. Jason over at Democracy in Action has created a job posting widget ! Beth Kanter. Flickr /cambodia4kidsorg. Myspace /sharingfoundation. Linkedin /bethkanter. Twitter /kanter. YouTube /bethkanter. Skype /cambodia4kids. Get your own Widget. I'm so weak. Back to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2006

Technorati Tags: freedomofexpression , freespeech , nptech By order of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Etisalat actively censors internet sites, they are known to block a number of materials they deem offensive. Via Britt Bravo's post about Net2Tuesday on Netsquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Technorati Tags: secondlife. We interviewed three nonprofit trailblazers -- Dave Pentecost (also known as avatar "Usu Ventura"), Barry Joseph ("Globalkids Bixby"), and Evonne Heyning ("In Kenzo") -- all from youth organizations doing projects in Second Life and pictured below!

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

If it's a blog, what's their technorati ranking? What is the severity of the person's tone - are they totally negative, neutral, seem like they could be talked to? How many followers, friends, subscribers do they have? How many people are they really talking to? Is it the usual suspects or does this person seem to be gathering a following?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2006

Technorati Tags: ntc , nptech , net2 He includes an excellent resource list in his post - I like the references to the "soft side of blogging," especially " Why Web Blog? " and Dave Pollard's " The Blogging Process.".

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

Jillaine Smith has a great post where she shares her personal learning journey (and frustrations) about "trying to integrate the use of blogging, tagging, technorati, social bookmarking, blah blah woof woof. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_community , blogconversation , reflection " we had a few months ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

Technorati Tags: techreport , technologyforcommunity , communitiesofpractice , communitytechnology And, if you're really interested in learning more about some of these tools, cpsquare is holding a Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice Conference beginning next week. I've signed up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2005

Technorati Tags: bloglines , nptech , net2 " There's a great hack to add "tag in delicious" instead of a clipping file and a pointer to a windows blogging client called elicit that I must compare with ecto. However, I can't see why anyone would want to read their feeds in Tivo!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Technorati Tags: wes08sep. Post-event feedback shows that Vivek Kundra's presentation was extremely popular. We'll be sharing his presentation within the next week or two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Technorati Tags: nte2 , nptech Details to follow. Curious about the Day of Service, you can read more here. And, if you still haven't picked your day of service project, there are still a few more to choose from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Technorati Tags: 06-g4c The tag being used here: 06-g4c The speaker is making an analogy to the early days of television (how it was bad) and asking us to insert the word "games." " ("Those of us who grew up with television are wearing reading glasses") The article is here. The delicious tag stream is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Technorati Tags: takebackthetech You can see the example on their front page. They are also offering a concrete action per day here which is an excellent collection of tactical ideas for blog/web campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

Technorati Tags: VECoP I was able to at least build a poster with a handle, although I had major problems attaching it. My spatial thinking skills are not my strong suit, so building stuff isn't easy for me. Ruby Sinreich has a write up on the workshop here.

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