Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations. (Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware platforms that are being developed. Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To organize all my contacts that are distributed all over the place in various social networking communities. To remember to listen to my body when my neck, arms, or hands hurt from carpal tunnel or RSI injuries and take stretch breaks and keep from overdoing it. Keep things in draft a little longer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Over the past five years, I've been focusing on social media. In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 or social media was all about. In workshops, I'd play the video and have folks jot down words or themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

The 2007 NTC Conference is around the corner, well in April, but some discount pricing deadlines coming right up. I'm excited because this will my seventh one!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve also taught social media to young people in Cambodia. In 2007, I was the first person to use Twitter to fundraise so I could attend and help sponsor the first Cambodia Bloggers Conference. It makes creating visual content for social media channels a breeze.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Interested in games for learning and social change. Social change is a difficult thing to assess. Assessing social change is the same conversation as assessing learning. What are the implications and ripple effects? We need metrics! Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them. Microsoft Corporation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. We know that very soon, social media will no longer be optional. This year, the retreat theme was social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter. I'm so glad she did because for a while I've been wanting to better understand how a social media strategy can best align with overall communications strategies and where the nuances of implementation may different. This causes a lot of anxiety.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel featured some previews from a recent research study “ How Strong Is Your Social Net? What social media analytics should we pay attention to? And the nuts and bolts questions like, “Given all the Facebook changes , what do I need to understand about the new Facebook metrics and the Insights analytics program?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the key principles for an effective social media strategy is experimentation, learning, and rapid prototyping. Being iterative or rapid pro-typing is the secret to getting tangible results from your social media efforts over time, yet many organizations find it difficult to do. . Often, experiments are done for extra credit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

In 2015, a group of nonprofit leaders, funders, consultants, and researchers passionate about the need to foster high performance in nonprofit organizations collaboratively developed The Performance Imperative: A Framework for Social-Sector Excellence (PI).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! s social media strategy is not the icing but the cake itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Note from Beth: Last May, Mark Pescue published a provocative essay called the "Tower and the Clouds" which talked about the tension between working in traditional, hierarchical nonprofits and the "cloud" like behavior of working with social media. We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Want to see an online documentary from 2000 that shows scenes from the first ever Day of Service held in Kansas City in March, 2000? Click here. One of my clients is NTEN and for the past five years I've been hired to help coordinate the NTC Day of Service on April 4thi n Washington, DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2007

It starts on Sunday. The details are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

As I tried to recreate my social media dashboard on my desktop, I realized that I couldn't simply install all the plug-ins and software I needed to be efficient. She offered me a helpful list of tips and Outlook 2007 cheat sheets, the Foundation's email/calendar or productivity system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. It's more than that - it as an API. (It looks very similar conceptually to the pioneering work from Social Actions.) It also has widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The social media game can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

This week on the NpTech Tag call, the idea of social search was referenced. Search engines keep improving, sometimes imperceptibly, but my money's on social search. There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. We'll find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

"How, When, and If to Weave and/or Strengthen Networks Using Social Media." We can answer this question pretty well in the context of nonprofit organization for its external communications. I think some of these are still, very relevant to for organizations or networks that want to use social media for online collaboration. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

You need Powerpoint 2007 and a live Internet connection in order to make it work. This trick, along with being able to Tweet from Powerpoint is definitely going into my Trainer's Bag of Social Media Tricks. It isn't that hard to do and the above screencast will show you how. I'm knee deep in creating some new workshop curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

.&# Although he was blogging about how to integrate social media into education and the classroom, his ideas have always been transferable to nonprofits. He’s a dog lover too – so I could not resist. When I celebrated by big 50th Birthday in 2007, I held social media birthday card contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. But is it fixed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The idea is to harnesses the collective power of the social good sector ecosystem which includes charities, families, businesses and individuals. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. Photo by Dwinton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Photo by D'Arcy Norman. I've had a long relationship with CSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. The white paper is based on a roundtable held last year with a number of social media experts. s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ??? There's a lot to digest here. In Edelman???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The next exercise was to focus on media choices. Although social media was the focus of the how-to trainings that are part of the trainer the trainers, this exercise was intended to help NGOs think through their media choices. It boils down to audience. Mary did a fabulous job!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She is one of the leading voices of ”social learning practice” which is about self-directed and informal learning from your online networks. She’s written a book about this, “ The Social Learning Handbook.” Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

I’ve been participating in the #12DaysofGiving , a 12-day bonanza of giving, sharing, and promoting social good from 12/13 to 12/24. I was lucky enough to meet Leng Sopharath when I traveled to Cambodia in 2007. Each day a different blogger champions a cause. HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE! You can donate here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. Each case study will be presented by the designers and their implementing partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Here's the information he sent me last week: I'm forwarding an excerpt from a survey form one of my clients, Prospero Technologies ( www.prospero.com ), a provider of social media platforms for major brands (I mentioned them in a comment on your blog recently). 35 percent reported positive ROI and 41 percent said that ROI was ??? unknown.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The next session is March 28-30, 2007 in Washington, DC. The details are here. s a discount code especially for readers of my blog to receive $75 off registration: BETH75.

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