Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

Regardless of your budget, this session will leave you in a better position to secure leadership buy-in by getting inside the head of a seasoned nonprofit leader, as well as offer concrete insights on how an established organization is able to use technology to better meet their mission. Social Media 4 NPOs (@SM4Nonprofits) July 26, 2012. .

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APRIL 2, 2013

The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. For example, if I send one email to 10,000 people and 2,000 opens the email, I have an open rate of 20 percent. You may ask, does that mean my organization should be sending more email? To the strategic services team, it’s our bible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. It has been adopted across the disciplines, institutional types, and throughout the world. In 2012, Howard Rheingold facilitated the production of the “ Peeragogy Handbook ,” a practical how-to.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Al Gore (@algore) September 23, 2012. Remember to watch today at 2:45pm!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Here are some examples: 62% of global respondents cite cost as an advantage to adopting cloud computing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. The group identified a few organizations that are using it well, but would it great to have a deeper field understanding of where we are with this technique.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

12NTC is the go-to event every year for nonprofit professionals who work on technology, communications, or guide their organizations in tech decisions. Come to our session to learn more about this cool cloud platform, how nonprofits can think about Azure in their work, and see great examples of Azure at work for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Getting It Right at the GEO Conference in Seattle – Guest post by Albert Ruesga.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated. Bridging the App Gap.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

And, Benetech is committed as an organization to all of these six principles. Accessibility However useful the Section 121 exception has been for Bookshare, it is very narrowly drawn to cover nonprofit organizations and government agencies with a primary purpose to serve people with disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

Note From Beth: With the rise of mobile adoption and the primary use to access the Internet and social platforms, it is reaching across consumer segments of all income levels. Consumer feedback offers critical information to funders, non-profit organizations, and the low-income people who use services and programs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. Social-benefit organizations can learn a lot from the preceding examples and those that follow to harness the power of technology and social media for fundraising. TechSoup hosted its first ever Nonprofits Live. Only one year later, much has changed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% Now, with the new Marrakech Treaty from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and our hundreds of direct publisher relationships, we are poised to help deliver on this promise worldwide.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2012

Based on the rock solid fundraising performance by Convio clients, I’m hopeful of what’s to come in 2012. We look forward to continuing the success of our year-end campaign throughout 2012 and working with our committed constituency to expanding the movement for a healthy, sustainable ocean.”

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

With all of these new devices, it is important for your organization to implement a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy. Adopting BYOD practices will make for a more flexible workplace and allow your staff and volunteers to work from their preferred devices. Windows Phone Evolves. Why should mobile payments matter to nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. Tablet adoption is very brisk. We’re working from restaurants, cafes, hotels, our cars, planes, the beach, and classically from home.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

If you're a seasoned digital marketer, you've probably noticed Facebook's organic reach has been declining steadily over the last four years. A study by EdgeRank documented that organic reach has declined from 16 percent reach per fan (meaning an average post reached 16 percent of a total fan base) in February 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Here’s a few examples: Cooper Aaker, 13 year-old son of Stanford Professor, Jennifer Aaker, is raising money for money for NothingButNets , inspired by Golden State Warriers, Steph Curry.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

For example, the Pueblo City-County Library in Pueblo, CO offers classes on how to use iPads and e-readers. century skills have been adopted throughout the Common Core State Standards Initiative by 45 states as of November 2012. According to the ALA report, 21 st. " The same could also be said of nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. By using this feature, Convio clients will be able to do things like, for example, use the API to display a list of your organization's upcoming events on your website. Oh, memories.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

Peer-to-peer fundraising or P2P fundraising is a style of fundraising where an organization recruits supporters to solicit donations from their friends and family on behalf of that nonprofit. According to the 2017 RWR 30 released in March, revenue from the top Run, Walk and Cycling events are down 8% since 2012. There are 1.8M

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Every organization needs a gatekeeper; your donors will thank you. For example, if my housefile is 10k and I send one email to everyone that’s 10k sends, but if I slice my file into two groups and send a total of three messages, I will have sent 15k total emails. And question unbridled urges to blast the entire housefile.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

We are 20 years into this online giving adventure and there is still a tremendous amount of up-side for nonprofit organizations. One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. It’s a trap!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It is estimated that the United States has spent over $200 billion in relief and recovery between 2012 to 2019 and still 25% of businesses affected by natural or human disaster never re-open. Take this year for example- there probably weren’t that many preparedness plans including pandemic procedure.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Let's say you work for an animal welfare organization. We do this with CRMs, web sites, and all sorts of geeky goodness, but, as with most things, cats make a better example.). If your org uses Facebook to raise money for animal adoptions, even if 50 shares are a record for you, is that a good number comparatively?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Organizations are getting smarter about email communication and seeing advanced segmentation strategies, often at the expense of increased number of messages, becoming the new norm. The San Diego Zoo is a good example. The New England Aquarium did just that in 2012. Does that mean, load everyone up and send again?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Is your organization ready? And that in 2012, sales of smartphones are poised to outpace sales of PCs. I was not an early adopter of a mobile device. For example, if I'm motivated to make a donation to an organization because of current events, and I'm not near a computer, then I'll try to use my phone.

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JULY 22, 2011

For most organizations, the heart and soul of communications is the email list. Some sources are indicating that more people will own smartphones than traditional cellphones by 2012. Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. See the donation form below, for example.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building and relationship marketing best practices. What can we learn from nonprofits who have been early adopters reaching out to and engaging Gen Z donors?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2012

Examples of content that could be produced in e-book format or targeted to long-form readers include: Strategic planning documents (audience: potential board members, funders). Depending on the organization, other opportunities may present themselves. Many readers are using time-shifting apps to collect web content and read it later.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2016

Understanding how people respond to different sorts of recognition will help strengthen supporters connection to our organizations, and will help us avoid the pitfalls that are inherent in other types of recognition. The Turnkey study examined 93 programs from 33 organizations between 2012 and 2015.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In this case, it's a recap of some of the big nonprofit technology stories of 2012. Top Nonprofit Technology Buzzwords of 2012. "Hackathon" was, in fact, one of Lucy Bernholz' top 10 philanthropy buzz words for 2012. By the way, Lucy Bernholz' top buzz word of 2012 was " data."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The 2012 blueprint is now available and it is well worth time to read. The guide addresses three big themes: Blueprint 2012 will help donors, investors, and enterprise leaders address three big shifts coming in 2012: Finding your way in the new social economy in which philanthropy and impact investing now operate. My favorite?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

.” Tomorrow, the Lean Start Up is sponsoring a free web cast called, “ Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-driven Organizations.” It’s no wonder why Lean is increasingly being adopted in the non-profit sector. If you’re looking for examples of lean startups , there are hundreds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

NTC 2012: Data Visualizaiton Panel. I’m here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week. Are you interested in what it takes for an organization to systematically use data? Exciting examples: What are some great examples from nonprofits? Examples of nonprofit infographics.

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