Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Whitney dressed up as an OE grant and Stephanie in her "Catbert" costume. If you do any work in the field organizational effectiveness or nonprofit capacity building, whether you are a consultant or funder for such programs, then you know Stephanie McAuliffe, the Director of Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I’ve been reading Social Media Metrics Secrets by John Lovett who is a senior partner at Web Analytics Demystified where Eric T. Peterson is the founder and senior partner. The book is wonderful and before I share some of what I learned I have to tell you a story. I first encountered Eric after I created a screencast for NTEN called “ Web Analytics Demystified for Nonprofits ” and ( wiki ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the pleasure of working on a social media capacity building project with Liane Wong , Program Officer, grantees of in the “ Insuring America’s Children: Getting to the Finish Line ” and Ed Walz, and all the good folks at SpitFire Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Content curation: Best practices. View more presentations from Trafalgar Communications. (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for finding this deck). Dilbert characters are talking about content curation. Scoop.It one of the premiere content creation tools is now out beta. In my own curation of content , I’m discovering many more content curators out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. Guest post by Jesse Noyes. The outlook for the Statue of Liberty was bleak in 1885. Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash. Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Rob Stuart, who passed away recently and who was instrumental in the creation of the nonprofit technology movement always had a favorite question, “What tools are in your tool box?” It was always a terrific conversation starter with nonprofit techies because knowing the right tool for the job is important. As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

HSUS Director of Emerging Media Carie Lewis Celebrates. Answer: When they are engaged and ready to take action for you! Earlier this month. the Humane Society of United States reached 1 million fans on its Facebook Page. Says Carie Lewis, director of Emerging for the HSUS, “Although we prefer not to focus on numbers as a measurement of social media success, one million fans is a huge landmark that we are celebrated with our online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Infographic by RAD Campaign - click to see full graphic. Note from Beth: In this post, Craig offers a few tips on using social media for nonprofits. I’m happy to see the first recommendation to encourage social media in the board room a topic I first wrote about almost two years ago and devoted a whole chapter to it in my book, “ The Networked Nonprofit “ On Friday, Craig Newmark is one of the speakers at The San Francisco Social Media for Nonprofits takes place on Novem

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Click to larger size. Network for Good turns 10 this Saturday! It sent me back to my archives because I remember writing an online article called “Cyberfundraising” that discussed the options for this promising new form of fundraising. They included: charity malls (a primitive form of embedded philanthropy as Lucy Bernholz might say), charity portals (what Network for Good was called); and roll your own e-commerce site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Note from Beth : Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. As I’m sprinting to towards the deadline of my next book on Measurement and Networked Nonprofits , co-authoring with the goddess of measurement, KD Paine , I’m grateful to have some terrific guest posts like this one. The Networked Nonprofit Response to the Concerted Attack on Voting Rights , Guest Post by Vince Stehle.

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