Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

to track how your online social network activities are driving offline actions. A few questions: What are you doing to encourage offline > online action and what are you doing to encourage online--> offline action? I've also been reading about tips. How are you tracking your efforts?

Offline 106

Offline Social Media Action Media 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

A theme I heard throughout the day on multiple panels was a call to action for people in the room to serve the world by following their passion. Conversation and engagement is the first rung on the ladder of social change. The next step is action.

Conversation 97

Conversation Reflection Action Impact 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Joe Solomon has a post over at Netsquared called " Social Media Powered Hope " and reports: Yesterday, the first ever hashtag made it into the center of the UN climate negotiations , #WeStandwithTuvalu (a Pacific island nation) -- an action that was coordinated by SMS inside the conference in Copenhagen.

Offline 93

Offline Maldives Action Web 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world???s Be sure to read " Kindness in Action " a guest post by Mark Hayward). (Be Be sure to read " Kindness in Action " a guest post by Mark Hayward). s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day.

Action 61

Action Blogger Podcast Issue 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

years, Peter has been working extremely hard to build Social Actions from scratch. I also remember when Peter Deitz launched the community discussion about his idea for Social Actions API back in January, 2008- he titled it " Help Me Clone Beth Kanter " as part of helping me with a Cambodian campaign was I working on at the time.

Action 50

Action Goal Social Help 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions.

Action 50

Action Web Change Plugin 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In my newest book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , the first half of the book addresses how nonprofit professionals can assess and become more self-aware about the symptoms of burnout and begin to practice self-care to avoid burnout.

Personal 50

Personal Action Exercise Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2008

But I think Pistachio has a better idea - we can take collective action. She has challenged us with some collective actions: 1. Dina has also shared a link to a wiki Nargis Help. She has compiled a list of bloggers and other individuals on the ground who are getting the word out. Take the news ???a a little at a time.???

Burma 56

Burma Action Network Texas 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

disclosure, I was a judge(=) 1st Prize ($5,000) - Social Actions Interactive Map 2nd Prize ($3,000) Zemanta's Related Social Actions for Bloggers 3rd Prize ($2,000) - SquarePeg's iPhone Application. Peter Deitz and Joe Solomon performed a skit at the NTC to announce the Change the Web Winners.

Challenge 50

Challenge Action Web Change 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   Share Blog Action Day posts in Google Reader.

Social Media 61

Social Media Action Personal Difference 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

So, while we were in the grocery store picking up some extra canned goods, I was thinking about the different hunger awareness campaigns that have come across my email this past week or two - and wondering how I might creatively take some personal action myself (beyond buying a few extra canned goods during our weekly grocery trip).

Hunger 50

Hunger Local Issue Global 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

Story 79

Story Action Model Adopt 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Alexandra Samuel, CEO of Social Signal How can you use the web to engage your members, supporters or the public, and move them towards a specific action? It's hard enough to get visitors to your site or social media presence, let alone drive them effectively towards action.

Action 50

Action Profile Netsquared Social Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. This module takes a look at ways that you can build an online community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and fundraising tools.

Module 50

Module Widget Social Network Action 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

This morning Peggy Duvette and Angus Parker from WiserEarth spent some time at the Foundation sharing their experiences in building successful online communities of action and networks of networks on the WiserEarth online platform.

Network 51

Network Platform Action Community 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

College of Consultants Presentation - Kellogg Action Lab View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

Slides 50

Slides Social Media Consultant Action 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

As you know, it is Blog Action Day - and I just saw that Pundit Mom launched a " make a comment on this blog and I'll donate $1 to Capital Area Food Bank "   So, I'm off to leave a comment.

Comment 50

Comment Action Hunger Raise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing.

Exercise 50

Exercise Knowledge Tag Collaboration 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. I met with the group last week. It was amazing because the participants spanned the globe - literally - we had representatives from UK, Spain, Denmark, Asia, Austraila, and US.

Second Life 50

Second Life Group Life Practice 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Particularly the tagging discussion which included an action learning exercise as well as lot of sharing of resources and information about tagging. Also, I had in the back of my mind that I might right a reflection in action case study on how adhoc communities may form, work, and dissappear via tagging.

Delicious 50

Delicious Reflection Tag Action 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Unesco has a paper and a call to action for international and national policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies benefit humanity as a whole. This research was supported by Microsoft’s AI for Humanitarian Action Initiative. . AI and Ethical Dilemmas .

Homeless 163

Homeless Research Global System 163

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? I've been doing a small research project. Then add some type of social rating system.

Linkedin 50

Linkedin Search Research Action 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As a trainer, I know the importance of ensuring that people take concrete ideas to put it into action after the training. And, in the course of writing my book, I also know that making personal resilience or self-care into action requires habit change. . Once we’ve started, it’s easy to just keep going.

Personal 80

Personal San Francisco Training Train 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

The next thing now is to add the new AdWords-Style Widget from the Social Actions folks. Just today, I got a Twitter question from DeafMom asking for advice. (I I pointed her to my personal fundraising case study ). Here's a widget I created for Breast Cancer social change campaigns.

Cancer 50

Cancer Widget Campaign Action 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

It isn’t just about writing it down, it is also reviewing what your captured with your team in an “ After Action Review.” IFC-ASIA Program Committee – After Action Review. After Action Review Guide – [link]. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. Review it together in a meeting and summarize.

Practice 105

Practice Thailand Asia Reflection 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

One way to achieve this is through anonymous upward feedback surveys, which can provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of management, as long as leaders take action on the feedback they receive. It’s crucial for leaders to be held accountable for creating such an environment. Can you share your experience with this approach?

Environment 116

Environment Conversation Support Create 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Three new actions were announced at the time, including: Read, Watch, Listen to help people better understand what their friends are doing online. Facebook called it the “ Open Graph ” and the pr people called “A revolution to the whole meaning of listening to music together or family T.V.”

Music 114

Music Facebook Nonprofit Action 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

On Thursday, I was able to do a full-day - 2 two hour workshops for nonprofits on Web2.0. What a fantastic opportunity to break the mold from the 90 minute conference panel quick hit! In the morning, I did the interactive presentation - where I was able to engage participants in a discussion about web2.0 and explore the benefits and challenges.

Twitter 50

Twitter Reflection Action Network 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2006

Chris Heur of BrainJams , along with Shannon Clark from MeshForum, organized something called MeshWalk for the day after Gnomedex. The idea is brilliant. You know how inspired you feel after attending a conference? You get stacks of business cards, a notebook full of new ideas, and some great energy.

Reflection 50

Reflection Ideas Action Seattle 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

Use A Structured Process like “After Action Review”: One easy way to incorporate team reflection is to integrate a review process at the end of a project and include others from your organization not directly involved in the project. This is known as an “ After Action Review ” or “AAR.”

Reflection 94

Reflection Structure Journal Nonprofit 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Focus on Engagement That Leads To Action. The Facebook “Like” button will morph and include more actions. According to this post from All Facebook , these actions might include: Want, Buy, Own, Listen, Read, Eat, Watch, Work Out – whatever developers create. And, that is how they measure success.

Facebook 135

Facebook Results Change Organization 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We’ll be talking about NTEN’s great work, # GivingTuesday , and why collective action and community participation is so powerful. We’ll be talking about NTEN’s great work, # GivingTuesday , and why collective action and community participation is so powerful. You can sign up for the chat here.

NTEN 103

NTEN Sample Celebrate Linkedin 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2019

The actionable ideas that emerge are not overly complex or expensive to implement. Do people genuinely like each other? Do they feel appreciated? These are the conversations I’ve been facilitating at nonprofit staff retreats or training others to facilitate.

Culture 107

Culture Tools Build Facilitation 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2019

I have been working on an exciting project along with dream team of network thinkers and people who are excited about the idea of how collective action drives health in our communities. I want to share it with you. The network is called “WEB” which stands for The Well-Being and Equity Bridging (WEB) Network.

Network 93

Network Web Leadership Roles 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

These included website traffic, donations, email list size, and moving people to action (advocacy actions). And more than 65% said that they’d had some success with moving people to take some form of action for a cause, like signing petitions or other advocacy actions.

Facebook 123

Facebook Research Advocacy Analytics 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

I have personally found this use case extremely helpful to have a one-click summary of really long threads transformed into actionable steps w/ links to source email.) 65% are using it to clean-up their Monday morning inboxes. (I These examples of micro productivity examples can applied easily to working.

Conversation 122

Conversation Adopt Generation Nonprofit 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

Few would deny that storytelling is a powerful tool for inspiring action and influencing thought leaders, donors, and decision makers. Some of the findings in this report were expected, others surprising, but all can inform action for those working in the social impact space, including the team at the Rockefeller Foundation.

Storytelling 115

Storytelling Digital Report Impact 115