Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , a new book by Carol Cone, Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard, offers a detailed roadmap to help an organization develop a brand meaning that articulates what the organization stands for, the compelling, focused idea that sets it apart and is meaningful to its supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

It requires stakeholders to articulate underlying assumptions which can be tested and measured, and it also charts an incremental path towards results. Integrating Social Media Measurement With Your Theory of Change. It begins with a “To what End?&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The power of social media is that it is easier than ever to both articulate, and reinforce, the vision and values that create and inspire alignment,’ said Benioff. With this in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society. A is for alignment. L is for the leadership that does that.”.

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APRIL 3, 2018

It goes like this: The Crowd Leader: Combines new power leadership model with a commitment to, and articulation of, new power values. One of my favorite chapters of the book describes different leadership profiles based on the values and leadership approaches that different leaders use.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

We are honored to have Laura Arrillaga-Andreeseen, Author of Giving 2.0 , write the foreword and it articulates from the donor perspective why nonprofits need to embrace measurement and learning. The money went to support students like Maneth, an IT major who now teaches computer lessons in the orphanage where my children lived.

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APRIL 21, 2014

As part of the launch of my new company, BetterWorld Wireless , I recently wrote a blog sharing tips on devising an overall mobile strategy, with a focus on first and foremost clearly articulating and prioritizing objectives. But now let’s dive into practical considerations and tips that can actually help nonprofits execute on their goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

See Larger Version here from Labnol's Flickr Account Charting and graphing your data helps you see patterns and trends more easily and articulate them to decision-makers. Digital Inspiration found this terrific visual field guide to selecting the right chart or graph or graph format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. This year I was able to look at what I wrote last year. 2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

With almost 100 people in the room, I started the session asking folks to shout out the first two words that came to mind when they thought about social media. As expected, I heard two themes – words that describe the power and benefits of social media and those that articulate very real concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Guidelines should be articulated to participants in community guidelines. (Information shared behind this password protected area should not be shared with the mainstream media.). If community guidelines are formally articulated, they need to be enforced. User or community guidelines are important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And we’ve underscored the importance of networks articulating their values and keeping themselves accountable to those shared values. Value and Values: We’ve often defined network participation in terms of the value that network members identify for themselves.

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APRIL 1, 2014

We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important.

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JUNE 13, 2013

That taking the time to articulate big end goals and interim milestones is worth it, even when you might have to throw your first indicators out the window and track new ones as you zig and zag to hit your target. Look, if you’re reading Beth’s Blog you probably already think measuring progress is a good thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2008

The questions articulated by participants at the beginning were excellent and have given some good ideas for future posts. Since this group of participants were more or less at the same level - had some knowledge and experience using social media both personally and on behalf of their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I look for patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. I just stumbled upon " The Giving Carnival " over at the Tactical Philthanthropy Blog. I think this is a great example of the adhoc type of collaboration that the social web enables. I also like using the carnival to focus on opinion issue.

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APRIL 17, 2013

It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals. We have to look at what the result overall is – it is not just views for the sake of views or comments and likes for the sake of comments and likes.

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JUNE 2, 2010

This value network, or web of formal and informal relationships that must be managed, is the third level of network a leader needs to understand and articulate. At all three levels of network, and across the formal/informal dimension, leaders need to learn to leverage technology.

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DECEMBER 31, 2015

Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs. Self-care in a nonprofit organization is the responsibility of both the individual staff person and the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

It’s so great to see all these kids focused on education and with well-articulated goals for where they want to be someday. Even with his airline launching less than a week later, Wade Early, the CEO of Surf Air made time to mentor and shared, “I just loved being with the kids. You’ll Experience Growth And Learning Too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

So, articulated success metrics for a networked strategy is also important. David mentioned that many nonprofits have “broken business models” – some due to the change in our connected world and the need to be more networked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Two weeks ago, I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation's behavior. The following week " The Giving Carnival " over at the Tactical Philthanthropy Blog provided a roundup of several bloggers opinions.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important. (I’ve found the site invaluable because it aggregates information about foundations, including social media efforts, and it makes it very efficient to search for examples for trainings and presentations ).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I opted for a human centered design technique called “Concept Poster,” a presentation format that illustrate the main points of a new idea.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

But it doesn't end with the top ten ideas - they will select a nonprofit sponsor to help create nationwide movement to push the idea forward. More details on the FAQ.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

I have embraced this approach myself and I make it clear to my team that I would rather not get a pre-dawn email , but instead get a more fully articulated idea after they have had time to contemplate it and strategize on how to make it effective.”. Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

John Udell articulates a reason why screencasting is really cool: In my talk I suggested that this kind of unconscious transmission of tacit knowledge may be a key rationale for the practice of pair programming. Two programmers, working side by side, exchange tacit knowledge by osmosis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Articulating measurable goals. Participants identified two key areas of &# Measurement Stress&# – one was cultural and the other technical or systems-related. Organizational Culture. Finding the time to devote to measurement. Overwhelmed by data collection process. Technical or Systems Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Is there an articulated need that we can help fulfill? Here are a few conversation starters that you may want to have with your social media team on staff to help you prioritize your listening. What are people saying about our organization ("brand")? . Are there negative issues/complaints that we need to correct?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake. Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice. The audit and any information they provide will be used strictly for the purposes of improving organizational practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

And before even getting to the meat of the metrics, conceptual models, and ideas, the introduction provides a powerful case for using social media that is well articulated: For the first time in history, technology has reached a point where everyone has a voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Articulate learning questions on the front end, identify metrics/data to collect to answer questions. So a few best practices here for social media experiments: Design experiments so they involve some incremental changes of existing work routines. Spend time extracting lessons learned and design principles at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Over the past five years, we’ve stumbled our way into social media.

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