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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Contests have also helped inspire nonprofits—motivated by cash prizes —to dip their toes into the social fundraising waters.

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. There’s another benefit.

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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. It does require that someone inside of the organization can help with one-on-one coaching, answer questions, provide support, and do this without loosing their enthusiasm. No downright sick in the stomach.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. I applied the lessons learned from that to the challenge was scaling this for 300 people from different organizations in a way that helped experience a strategy brainstorm and help them make choices about the tool/tactical sessions later in the day.

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Guest Post by Debra Askanase: Fill the Gap Campaign Crowdsourcing for Citizen Museum Curators

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. I realized that this would be the perfect environment for us to solicit the public’s help in filling some of our long-standing gaps. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan

Eric Jacobsen Blog

▼ 2010 (108) ▼ December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. GEN X Employees -- Like having their professionalism and growing knowledge valued.

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How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, June 19, 2010 How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work Research from universities around the country show that employees who "click" with each other at work have more career success. Consider these findings from the research: How much you reveal about yourself to a co-worker helps you click.

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