Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I met James Leventhal via Twitter and we ended up working together on a project. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

This post is by guest blogger Ritu Sharma, who is the executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. Check out our new website featuring a video of Guy Kawasaki’s keynote speech in San Francisco, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay tuned, and here’s our schedule of upcoming events: Toronto, Ontario – June 26.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Two weeks before the 2011 San Francisco municipal elections, mayoral candidate David Chiu. They created a campaign video spoofing the new film “ Moneyball ,” which the Huffington Post San Francisco called “the most entertaining campaign commercial yet. Chiu crushed this one out of the park."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

While our community is busy from March 6 – 12 picking their favorites for the Audience Choice Awards , our panel of expert judges will be selecting the top digital stories from among hundreds of entries. All winners will be announced on March 28 at an awards ceremony and screening party in San Francisco and on streamed to the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What are the best strategies for engaging people on Twitter/Facebook? My big takeaway: A successful social media strategy with arts audiences is more like an audience development or education program, not a straight ticket sales strategy. They did a lot of listening and searching for local Twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft. Here they are: Guy Kawaski: Facebook is picture economy, while Twitter is a link economy. The small circle economy ?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Not sure if your followers are paying attention to you on Twitter? Want to get started on Twitter but don't know where to start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. Through this initiative, we are supporting a group of dynamic, next-generation leaders in the social justice field in the San Francisco Bay Area as they retool their organizations for greater impact.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This guest post was authored by Ritu Sharma, Social Media for Nonprofits executive director and co-founder. Timing is Everything: Surprisingly, the time of day that you post to Facebook, Twitter, and other networks has a big impact on the likelihood of your post being seen.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2014

This post was written by Chris Bernard, the research and editorial director for Idealware , a nonprofit that creates impartial research and written resources to help other nonprofits make smart decisions about software. According to the Open Data Institute, open data saved Canada $3.2 Here in the U.S., What were your results? Shutterstock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

That is the case for Twitter, words alone, no matter how good of a translator you are, won't do the experience justice. There has been an amazing conversation about twitter on the social web over the past couple of days. It prompted me to ask my readers, " What are the six signs that Twitter isn't for your Nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What are the best strategies for engaging people on Twitter/Facebook? My big takeaway: A successful social media strategy with arts audiences is more like an audience development or education program, not a straight ticket sales strategy. They did a lot of listening and searching for local Twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento. My co-presenter was the talented Bryce Skolfield , Director of Communications and Public Policy at the Children's Council of San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

She is an experienced Director, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter and Social Media Marketing Strategist with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana, Thailand and Laos. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Not sure if your followers are paying attention to you on Twitter? Want to get started on Twitter but don't know where to start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What are the best strategies for engaging people on Twitter/Facebook? My big takeaway: A successful social media strategy with arts audiences is more like an audience development or education program, not a straight ticket sales strategy. They did a lot of listening and searching for local Twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Our next episode of Nonprofits Live on August 26 at 10:00 a.m.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

She is an experienced Director, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter and Social Media Marketing Strategist with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana, Thailand and Laos. Aaron Bramley is the Co-founder and Director of Communication/Education for Lights.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. The world’s brightest fundraisers and philanthropic minds will drop anchor in the booming home of the Golden Gate Bridge, Levi’s and Twitter - where old school meets new school and the vibe is California cool. Mar 11 - 13.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

You may not have heard about Lara Stockman's "25 Days to Make a Difference" blog, or how, after profiling different nonprofits, random acts of kindness, and community-driven efforts she mobilized an audience of 25,000 readers after just a few weeks. Follow Darian Rodriguez Heyman on Twitter at www.twitter.com/@dheyman.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Our next episode of Nonprofits Live on August 26 at 10:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

On Day 3, we covered the best practices of using listening, Twitter, and Facebook, with ample time to practice. Using this concept, we set up Twitter scavenger hunts to explore lists and users in the reproductive health field as well as to practice tweeting. I wrote about the practice of Team Tweeting here.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Join CMMB on Twitter. Fundraising Events. of People Taking Action.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. We will share your organization's work to a potential audience of more than 300,000 people! Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

All three winning stories will also be published on the TechSoup.org blog, and will be promoted in our By The Cup and New Product Alert newsletters, as well as our Twitter and Facebook channels. We will share your organization's work to a potential audience of more than 300,000 people! Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Note from Beth: The Social Media for Nonprofits Conference is returning to San Francisco on October 11th. Guest Blog by Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Social Media for Nonprofits. So instead of just making a statement, ask a question and invite your audience into a conversation!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. More on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. Flickr Photo: Mr. T in DC.

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APRIL 11, 2012

It’s been a few days since I returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. The Director of Idealware Laura Quinn delivered a popular session titled Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. The conference was amazing! Check out the slides here.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

This post was written by Ritu Sharma, co-founder and executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. Of course you should experiment with your unique audience and see what works, plus bear in mind what time zone(s) they’re in, trying out weekends and weekdays. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay tuned in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Royal Opera House is crowdsourcing the storyline for an opera on Twitter in a month's time. (Hat In addition to the summary, the music director is blogging about on how the story can combine with some music and acting and singing to become a finished piece. Photo by 1066. Hat Tip Blog Herald ). Anyone can contribute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The latter is exemplified by the work of “ Lean Impact ” which is hosting a conference in San Francisco in 2014. One of the most inspiring presentations was by the social good entrepreneur Kimberly Bryant, founder and self-acknowledged “accidental nonprofit executive director” of the nonprofit, Black Girls Code.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. With continuous shifting trends in the landscape of arts marketing and audience engagement, arts organizations must go beyond “embracing” change. AFP / San Francisco, CA / Not available.

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MAY 3, 2011

Twitter at @Scav. At this month's packed Online Community Meetup (also referred to as #OCTribe), Jen Burton , director of Community and Support at Causes.com , spoke about Facebook's largest fundraising platform and its role in supporting nonprofits. " "Here's a note from the director." Search is hard.

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JULY 23, 2009

"By being almost always with you, anytime you had a question or concern or surprise, the device was available for capturing those concerns," said Professor Elizabeth Mynatt, director of the GVU Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology , which does technology research. At any time, users can access clinic information as well.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Fiery content that compels your audiences to action can yield wonderful outcomes , helping your nonprofit reach a myriad of marketing and fundraising objectives. Be sure to first spend time figuring out who your target audiences are. Nor does every audience. Know, and Write For, Your Audience. Who values what you do?

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