Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Note from Beth: E arlier this month, the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, hosted the USRIO 2.0 Preparation Conference where policy-makers, practitioners, and innovators discussed how to use connection technologies to advance sustainable development in advance of the June USRIO2.o conference (Rio+2.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Andy Gibson and David Wilcox , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney from Cass Business School, on a book about using new technologies for social benefit projects. Below, you can find the 45 Social by Social Propositions. The 45 Social by Social Propositions.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. The above visual is a social network. The definition of links or how you’re connected is defined however you want in social network analysis.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 20, 2014

Whether it be a CRM , GoogleAnalytics , or a social media analytic tool like SproutSocial , measuring and understanding data is an essential part of contemporary business. This is true despite that fact the majority of fundraising, data aggregation, and data storage is done using highly sophisticated software and technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

The workshop topics included trends in digital media consumption, social media, engagement on mobile devices and a variety of community foundation projects funded by the Knight Community Information Challenge. 3: Social Networking. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). Participants took the assessment and we saw the aggregate results. In other words, to what end?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Most nonprofits use marketing tactics to recruit, like emails, social media posts, blog posts, and web pages. Giveffect, for example, captures and aggregates check-in and check-outs at multiple levels: shift level, event level, and volunteer level. Supervise Volunteers. Recognize Volunteers.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Ever wanted to find out where your donors and activists are hanging out on social networks so you can continue deepening your relationsips with your supporters and foster more two-way conversations? Thanks to Care2's new Social Network Tracker that allows you to match your email lists across major social networks it's now super easy to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Post 2 : Facilitating Blog Discussions. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. of our connected conversations and resource finds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I just spent two amazing days at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 , a cross disciplinary crowd of people who work on social good in the areas of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. He said that customer details will be know so that business will customize the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Microsoft’s Social Entrepreneurs: A New Approach To Employees Making A Difference. This enables us to have impact, scale and sustainability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. Ten Cool Status Update Tricks.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

But what about taking an inventory of your social media tools? are you keeping the recent news, discussions, and links sections up to date? (an If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. Social Actions. Delicious / Bookmarks.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Social and Community-Based Learning: The experience within an LXP occurs through both formal and informal learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2010

The way it works is they invite a “host&# to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds. Can social help this & how?). Q2: What is the easiest way for an NPO to figure out how to do social?

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

I find the rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) thrilling, with endless applications for our Forum One partners, but I know from discussions with my counterparts in government agencies that AI and ML can also be mystifying, and even scary. Then, ideate and socialize broad ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2007

Jerimiah Owyang points to a social media measurement tool called Blogscope. In the post, he includes a paragraph about why social media measurement is important (for businesses) Why is social media measurement important? With the brands being so decentralized , marketers now know that marketing has shifted off two domains. ???the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I’ve discovered some wonderful discussion threads about one of my favorite topics: Information Overload and Strategies for Coping. Paginator: These tools organize your social sources and streams into neat and organized pages. Aggregation: These tools aggregate sources/content on a central site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2014

People often complain that social media can become an echo chamber to reinforce pre-existing beliefs and expectations. Earlier this spring, I decided to go on a mission to use social media to increase my cultural competency around Latino experiences, issues, and interests. It''s true. How did I find these sources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

A Communications Evaluation Guide by Asibey Consulting I've been exploring different ROI and communications evaluation approaches and how they might be adapted for social media strategies. I've been reviewing it thinking how to specifically apply or adapt it to a social media strategy. Source: Are We There Yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2007

Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 We can say MyPacis.com is a social network with a social mission. Can automatic translation tools, social bookmarks, news digging, etc. make communication easier?

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

While these initiatives may be important and impactful — indeed, many advocates have called for addressing inequit able company operations — lumping them together makes it challenging to estimate what proportion of racial equity funding is actually making its way into the social sector. [ 3] . the NBA Foundation ).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Topic: How do social media open new doors for collaboration (especially internationally)? for your work via social media use/presence? have you reached out, either as an individual or an organization, with opportunities to collaborate to others you only connected with via social media? Details: Date: August, 13th. Stay on topic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

” Is there the potential for greater good from aggregating and analyzing our collective fitbit and other personal health data? These are the questions discussed during the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C. We’re just beginning to l ook at the implications for the social good sector. last month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The discussion was not a black and white debate about the definition of transparency or whether it was good or bad. I worry that we’re not discussing critically the information foundations are being transparent about – and I am not sure there is value in transparency without engagement. Required for foundations, the right thing to do.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. This post provides a simplified overview of that more in-depth talk, as well as a quick reference guide to the tools and technologies that we discussed as important for any modern data management stack.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Digital transformation allows organizations to aggregate information across systems. Your CMS, LMS, website, and social platforms all provide clues to understanding how your members want to interact and what you can do to gain their appreciation and confidence.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We are aggregating answers with each recurrence of the event. Based on informal discussions with webinar attendees, the problem seems clear. We provide examples of how to achieve this alignment more effectively, as well as examples of common data problems that organizations encounter and need to overcome. 52% – not sure.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. How can we do that?

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Care2

MAY 18, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Guide to Online Community Management ReadWriteWeb launched a great report and cool new tool that provides organizations with the latest research and best tips in social media. Social Tech Training The inspiring folks at Web of Change are hosting the second Social Tech Training scheduled for June 10- 12th in Toronto.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. NTEN’s gathered some of the top nonprofit social media experts to help your organization devise a solid strategy as well as learn the secrets of using a variety of social media tools.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

After all, the nonprofit association for people working at the intersection of technology and social change should have a website to match that mission and vision. In our last post, Karl Hedstrom and Jessica Holliday discussed the overall website redesign process. Follow along as we chronicle the joys and occasional headaches.

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