Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. I have been interested in visualization techniques, visual facilitation, and visual thinking since 1991 when I read Tony Buzan’s book, “ Using Both Sides of the Brain: Mind Mapping Techniques ” that started me down a very slow and leisurely learning journey. This year I’ve been focusing on data visualization and techniques for nonprofits – and working on my visual thinking skills without letting my basic drawing skills becom

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

Pinning Our Lives: Pinterest and Beyond View more presentations from Aliza Sherman. Back in January, I wrote a post about Pinterest as a curation tool to organize and share visual content I’ve collected in a pleasing visual way. As the platform has evolved over the past few months, there are some other benefits including driving traffic and conversions and more recently how pinning helps encourage audiences to “like” the brand more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Day. View more presentations from burowe. At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called “ Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. Shortly after, I decided to start curating resources on data visualization over at Scoop.It and continue to add the best stuff to the resources section on the session

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