Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We both had a front row seat at start of the Web Industry (back then we called it “New Media”), helping to shape how people use new digital technologies. Aliza and I ran into each other again in 2009 at the first Wisdom 2.0 We’re combining forces to learn about how nonprofits are mastering self-care. Stress reduction techniques.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” There are ample opportunities for nonprofits to help inform, shape, and create stories for the media. million in 2009 to $687.6 Shirkey also said, “Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. What I’m most excited about is “networked learning&# – it is part peer learning, part content-delivery, and another part engaging people in the room and not in the room in conversation through the use of social media. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Note from Beth:   I'm always excited to see inspiring examples of personal fundraising and the dollars raised have come a long way since my first experiment in 2006, a testament to how much more connected we are and the rise of popularity of this technique.  What can Nonprofits can learn from this? 5 Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Why the number 52?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. It’s the same sort of discomfort that some people feel about approaching the task of listening for learning using the social web. One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool. Pay Yourself First.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2009

Coming up from April 26-28, NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (or NTC) 2009, is the go-to event every year for nonprofit professionals. From panels, plenaries, and presentations (oh my!) to networking opportunities galore, get yee online to register to attend and join us in San Francisco for the three-day event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

This is a cardigan I plan on making soon, as an example of an active pattern page: I made my first pair of socks ever based on a free pattern and what I learned about sock knitting technique in Ravelry’s forums: Everyone uses their project page differently, but I like creating a running mini-blog as my project is going along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

Note from Beth: In the decade or so that I’ve been doing social media, I’ve always been an advocate of the “Listen, Learn, Adapt” approach to doing social and a decade later, it is still very important for success. Your People Are Talking. Are You Listening?” Get it here: https://attentive.ly/listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? I also contacted Georgina to learn more the campaign’s inspiration, how the Luce Center is utilizing the “ Listen, Learn, Adapt ” methodology during the campaign, and any advice she would give other institutions creating Flickr campaigns. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Trust me.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 set aside $7.2 The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. I learned about the public comment period in an email from Free Press. billion for broadband stimulus. It also requires the FCC to begin drafting a national broadband plan.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. Reader Comments (5) Nice post Allyson!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Now let me say upfront, this blog post isn’t going to be about those techniques for diversifying an office culture. I’m not going to talk about the “how to” of including people with disabilities, people of color, people with different learning styles, or people from different cultures into your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. It was also set up in a way that I could get help from someone else. See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). The solution?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. January 15, 2009 | Samer Excellent suggestions!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. Reader Comments (5) Nice post Allyson!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. Since 2009, online donations made on mobile devices have grown from 9% of all transactions to 24% in 2018. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Let Employees Learn From Their Mistakes Mistakes happen.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Activities like these help your team to bond. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). •how to identify the right tone and content. •what media you can use to convey it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

So I hate to throw cold water on the whole enterprise – but if the core issues that most nonprofits are facing haven’t changed, and the situation isn’t getting better, how is it that have we helped? Mistakes I hope to learn from, now that I won’t be doing implementation anymore. In what ways have they not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Metric: Dollars and recruitment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Summer 2009 Our growth over the last year has been so phenomenal that I wanted to use this summer update to highlight some of the great people working for Benetech: our interns, summer associates and fellows. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Ask your staff to help set the agenda so theyll know the meeting will be relevant.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Helping those companies to earn that honor are the perks they give their employees, some of which you might want to consider for 2011. What To Think About For Next Year Discover Your Leader Grade Thanks For Your Loyal Readership Learn The Art Of Effective Messaging Check Out These Free Tips For Making An Effective.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal. Next on the list is benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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