Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. Social Impact Nonprofit Social Media Survey View more presentations from Weber Shandwick Social Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. In a follow up email, she asked what might be different about the adoption issues for social media? In the past, adoption of technologies like Web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Technology adoption is part choreographed, part improvisation. Technology adoption is part choreographed, part improvisation. The point of that Hinchliffe makes about best practices for adoption of Enterprise 2.0 (or or social media for inward facing work) is that there aren't any best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption. Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

At last weekend's Transparency Camp West , Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation asked me a great question. "What are the characteristics of nonprofits that have successfully adopted social media?" . I think this is the key to adoption and social media success. I think it is culture. Perhaps it looks like this: Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. The book, written in 2002, does not address social media and change management or even technology. That lead me to the above noodling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I contributed my two cents about wiki adoption off the top of my head and Rob did a great summary of my advice and also from others -- so I'm posting here for the next time I want to think about wiki adoption. An interesting examination of the " ten best wiki communities " More general tips and a case study of wiki adoption

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

By adopting these principles, nonprofit organizations can create a more supportive and inclusive work environment. Beth : I couldn’t agree more. It’s crucial for leaders to be held accountable for creating such an environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with methods for facilitating innovation for nonprofits. It isn’t a matter of facilitation techniques, but process design. The field of innovation practitioners, whether in corporate labs or working in social good sector, comes with lots of tool kits that offer different ways to help groups think of new (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Here's another flash site that allows you to "adopt the sky" while signing a petition. To raise awareness and encourage action, they've launched a project with Earthjustice called Adopt the Sky ([link] This site offers everyone a chance to make their voice heard. I adopted square mile 42,985.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

Carr reports that some hard data is coming out this week on the adoption of Web 2.0 Fully 89% of the CIOs said they had adopted at least one of six prominent Web 2.0 Fully 89% of the CIOs said they had adopted at least one of six prominent Web 2.0 adoption, and the results are quite different. It indicated that Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It looks at infrastructure, software, hardward, connectivity, communications, policy, and adoption. Bear in mind that is the reality of social media adoption with most nonprofits. The survey incorporates and expands nonprofit technology assessment/benchmarks used by practitioners in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

This got me thinking about the adoption challenges faced by nonprofits in embracing these new tools. However, based on observing nonprofits that have been effective - there are definitely some patterns of success for social media adoption. They are learning what works and what doesn't for nonprofit organizations here in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Second Wave Adoption The slide show comes from Nancy White (I've had slide share on my list. "I have been thinking about six practices around tool adoption. She starts off with a post that summarizes what she and her colleagues have been writing about as it relates to " Second Wave Adoption " and online collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

He also touched on what skills and mindsets fundraisers need to adopt, including using Behavioral Economics as discussed in the book Change for Good. And that’s where I’ve spent the last 25 years of my nonprofit tech career, finding the technology interesting many years before we see it on the ground non profit adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

I think this is the key to adoption and social media success. Get in touch with every negative aspect, all the things that could go wrong. Then figure out a way to get that negative force on your side. In short, "Dream your worst nightmare and invest in it.". I call this putting a smiley face on the screamer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Ted Fickes (note the dog in the avatar) I'm trying to use relatively high profile project for wiki-type adoption internally. What is your best tip for wiki adoption in a nonprofit for internal collaboration? i.e. Can you email me the job desc?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

and nonprofit adoption. Jeremiah Owyang lay out a set of social media adoption questions that corporations ask: 2005: What is Social Media? activist organizations need to increasingly adopt the role of convener and connector supporting rather than dictating the work of activists. 2006: Why does it matter? With Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. Corporate types resist the adoption of these technologies, and then, subsequently embrace them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A big hat tip to Nedra Weinreich for a link to this study about nonprofit social media adoption: Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson at U Mass Dartmouth surveyed the 200 largest nonprofits and found that they are adopting social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2006

via ext337 I found a link to an interesting article entitled " An Adoption Strategy For Social Software." Nothing groundbreaking, but good advice based on change management literature related to introducing new technologies tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

" He talking about building shared language and understanding in order to successfully introduce a change (adoption of social media principles and tools) in an organization. I am thinking about the Concerns-Based Adoption Model which is based on extensive research on why science teachers didn???t t universally adopt new curricula.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2007

adoption at the enterprise level. Here are two wonderful slideshows I found on Slideshare both on the same topic: Web2.0 Note the visual style with a narrative structure. This are very engaging ways to do presentations. I especially like slide 13

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Michelle Martin, reflecting on Nancy White's musing on Second Wave adoption of social networking tools, wrote about the nonprofit technology adoption curve and pointed to some theories on innovation adoption curves. Update: Read Allen Benamer's comment - he shares his view and some links about what Web3.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Marginalized communities will be disproportionately affected by the adoption of AI, an imbalance that calls out for giving. Now the pandemic has given this approach more urgency and we will see more adoption. The coronavirus has accelerated the use of AI, with technology stepping in for human interaction and efficiencies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

So, where will is a nonprofit playground for npos to learn how to adopt (strategically) Web 2.0 Nancy White has a great post about "Blog as Classroom, Playground, Mind Trip" I went directly to the playground, a place to experiment and learn how to incorporate web 2.0 technologies into teaching practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

Our family with adopted senior rescue dog, “Tigger.” One thing our family did was adopt a senior dog from Muttville, a local animal rescue. ” Greetings from shelter in place California! I have not left my house much in the last few weeks due to being in a higher risk category for COVID-19.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2006

I realize now that I didn't adopt all those things all once! It's inspired me to go back and reflect on how I'm (not too successfully at times) integrating all these techniques into my online publishing. One value of a blog is at least I captured my reflections from several months ago and a workflow diagrams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

She also lays out some excellent questions as related to nonprofit adoption of social media: Is it possible for an organization to operate in a culture of scarcity and still embrace social media and Web 2.0? Michele Martin has an excellent article called Is the Scarcity Mentality the Biggest Barrier to Social Media in Nonprofits ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The specific technologies highlighted in the reports are place along a continuum of near-term, mid-term, and far-term field adoption: One year or less to adoption: Cloud Computing (K-12), Mobile Learning (K-12), MOOC (Higher Ed), Tablet Computing (Higher Ed).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer. He introduced surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – He was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owned the first Greg Noll surfboard. We will also adopt the beach at Brunswick Avenue in his memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2018

While it is behind the paywall, we looked at some early adopters and how they use ChatBots for fundraising, identified specific challenges, and lay out steps to get started. HR leaders and employees to better understand how companies are adopting AI in the workplace. It is part of a special report on AI for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n YQe91n #npsmpeer. Brian Fitzgerald (@brianfit) March 10, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings. Nonprofit organizations that have been early adopters of social media are exploring, like Momsrising, carefully. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

&# I think this is the key to adoption and social media success. Here’s one from the early 1990’s when nonprofits were first adopting email and other Internet tools. It is an approach that has been used by social media early adopters like Carie Lewis from the Humane Society. Some organizations have used Yammer! (a

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Our article, “ 8 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Adopt AI Responsibly, ” published in the Stanford Innovation Review was listed as the ten top most popular articles of 2023. Training & Facilitation: I have maintained an active schedule of leading workshops, facilitating retreats, and presenting.

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