Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Back over the summer, I wrote a post called “ What was your worst social media mistake? What did you learn? “ If you read through the comments, misdirected tweets (tweets sent to an organizational account, not a personal account or private message sent out to all) were the most common. These ranged from tweeting about a favorite television show to much worse, tweeting the “ c-word &#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

When we apply a network mindset to the way we work – whether as an individual or as part of a network strategy, we believe that value is created through our connections, interactions and building relationships. That’s social capital and it does have value. The impact, longer term, is innovation or the result of the network in action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Note from Beth: A few weeks ago, the Leadership Learning Community invited me into their board meeting. Not just to quietly listen, but participate in the discussion about applying a networked lens to nonprofit governance. (If you want to better understand what the term network mindset and what it has to do with nonprofit leadership, check out their recent paper on the topic.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. Crowdsourcing is the process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. The results are greater than an individual or organization could accomplish alone. There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Today, I’m headed to Beirut, Lebanon for the E-Mediat project, a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. I’ll be sharing insights about the project as it unfolds here on my blog and other social media channels, including #Emediat tag on Twitter. The project is a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

My friend and colleague Amy Sample Ward has done an amazing job of community stewardship for the Netsquared community over the years. I learn something from Amy every day. Sadly, this is her last day for this job and she’s moving on. So, this post is an appreciation of her work, one of many voices in the community saying #ThanksAmy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The Colbert Report. Tags: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , Video Archive. On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit.

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