Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The guide is useful for those beginners and early adopters alike. Luckily, Idealware has just published a useful guide cover the practical resources and technology tools for collecting, tracking, and reporting on program data. You can download a copy of this free guide (sign up required) on the Idealware site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

There are over 250 tools in this collection, so it might be a little bit overwhelming for beginners. Robin recently shared his comprehensive map of content curation skills, dividing them into couple of key categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

Google Fusion Tables was one of several tools mentioned in this blog post, “ Data for Good: A Beginner’s Guide for Nonprofits and Social Ventures.” I discovered while browsing through the gallery wondering if any of this technology was within the reach of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2010

More than two dozen breakout sessions on everything from online skills development for beginners to hard-core political technology development, plus in-depth looks at political media, internet-driven organizing, and the emerging world of “We.gov.&#. Micah Sifry has made me an offer I can’t refuse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Beginner Guide To Growing Your Audience on Facebook Messenger. To program a bot in Facebook Messenger, you don’t necessarily need deep technical skills as there are apps that make it easy, including Octiveai , Manychat , or Chatfuel. Here’s a few good tip sheets if you want experiment. The Complete Guide To Creating a Facebook Messenger Bot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Hawaii, each small group had a social media expert to facilitate the discussion - so the mix of beginners with advanced was okay. This group will most likely be beginners or just getting started and I have created a "Let's Get Started" version of the game and will share later. I set up a wiki. I set up a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Anyone and everyone, even beginners, can learn how to analyze their own data in Excel. Here are the top 10 things you need to know in Excel to become a data nerd: Secret #10. Data isn’t just for statisticians, accountants, and economists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

This week the beginner track got underway where 20 arts organizations will design and implement action learning experiments in Facebook , Listening , or Twitter to improve their social media practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

I'd suggest the following resources: Beginner Tutorials CoolCatTeacher Blog: Skype for Beginners Laptop Magazine: Skype Made Easy Skype Official FAQ: How Tos. It turned out to be pure gold! What do you think? If you need more detailed how to information in using SKYPE. Nonprofit Uses of Skype Skype Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies. She shared a few highlights from Microsoft’s recent nonprofit sector research. We also discussed use cases, benefits, limitations, adoptions, and lots of practical tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Mobile Instant Messaging Meets Social Networking : Twitter - A Beginner's Guide. hat tip to Stephen Downes. Robin Good, Master New Media. Downes notes: Some online goodness from Robin Good that goes beyond merely describing how to use Twitter to describe how people are using Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Luckily, Hubspot just published this awesome guide, one of the clearest and easiest to understand how-tos on A/B testing for Beginners. You are most likely to be testing email , social media , mobile, web site , and landing pages (fundraising, etc). It offers specific examples of what to test and mini-case studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2024

Join me for a LinkedIn Live for a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies to learn how your nonprofit can get AI ready in 2024. The technology is moving fast, but we are slowing down to have a conversation to get you started using the generative AI tools for productivity and creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Join me on February 22nd at 9:00 am PT for a LinkedIn Live with Zoe Amar for a conversation about taking the first step for responsible AI adoption.We’ll discuss the challenges, tips, and practical resources available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki. We had similar spread for those having experience designing and delivering trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

I’d recommend reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness for Beginners to get started and Chade-Meng Tan’s Search Inside Yourself. As a nonprofit leader or change maker, have you incorporated mindfulness into your daily routine? You can go deeper into mindfulness work, if you want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

When you have a beginner or novice technical level, combined with not speaking English you have work harder, but it can be done! For example, getting participants to share their questions, so you as the coach can clarify their information needs and organize the coaching for the different levels you might have seated around the table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2007

The 12-Step vlogging process is an excellent primer for beginner "Social Reporters," or for anyone who wants to do video blog interviews at conferences. We did two videos in the office together for fun, then did two video interviews jointly. The last two videos were published on their own. You can see them all on the GINKS blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

beginner's tools guide that I created last summer -- which is focused on skills and tools - and will definitely incorporate into the pages here.). Instead, we're trying to create something that's easily digestible and understandable for most nonprofits and that organizes the information in terms that. they are most likely to understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

For conference presentations, you can necessarily ask in advance what people's level of experience is with social media and measurement (beginner, intermediate, or expert).  I suspect we may have several different types of people in our session: metrics measurement geeks in nonprofits and government - it's their full-time job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2006

Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Flickr Official Documents How to get the most out of flickr FAQ. Flickr Tools The Great Flickr Tool Collection. Backgrounders Interview with Flickr Founder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

” Q: If you are just starting out, what is your recommendation for beginners? Here’s a great example of the dialogue that accompanies great curation on this article by master curator, Robin Good, “ What Makes A Content Curator Great? You need a deep understanding of what content meets their needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Wayside House for some beginner tools for automating a micro content strategy. Dan Michel from Feeding America shared how his team measures and tracks their social media and links to key performance indicators. Here’s the summary and it is filled with useful tips and practice. The answer is here. Many answers here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

There are, of course, many other nonprofit uses - but I wanted to get at some beginner use profiles. The organization wanted to create special cards featuring the pets that they could use as thank-you notes. Uploading the photos into Flickr, they were able to order cards and other items. So, if this is Flickr 101, what is Flickr 201?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

In terms of technique, I wanted to figure out the best first project for a beginner. You just need a little creative immersion time. The short piece explores the push/pull between computers/technology and people. How to make a video from stills and music and transition screens. I used MovieMaker in Windows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

If you are still thinking about doing a Blog here is a good starter resource: " NTEN Webinar A Beginner's Guide How to Blog For Your Organization " (Thanks NTEN). . – Determine what key words are important to you and spend time looking at what other nonprofits in your niche are optimizing for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Help us flesh out the Listening section by answering these questions on the wiki: What are some basic beginner steps for listening? If your first tactical step is to spend 1-5 hours per week putting on your social media ears, you can glean the nuances of what's on your supporters' minds. What are some advanced techniques for listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

The one on social networks is great for beginners.). This is part of my job and my organization has allocated 10 hours per week for me to work on strategy. (As As an aside, one of the best resources to explain Social Networks to people who are new to them is Lee LeFever's videos. His organization has a Cause and Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Documenting Events and Conferences Youth Service America Service Day Blog post about it. How-To Resources. Basic Overview. CogDog Blog's Brilliant: What can you do with flickr? Getting Attention on Flickr. Tips from Thomas Hawk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

How To Create Your Circle of the Wise from CoolCatTeacher - best place to start for beginners. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. Robin Good - Who is talking about me on the Web today? Robin Good - Ego Searching. List of Ego Searching Tools. Will Richardson???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

" There were some design challenges - how to keep it basic enough for beginner or novices to leave the room with some starting points, but also not bore the more experienced people - and get them to share their experience. I facilitated a session in the afternoon called Managing Information Overload: Finding Your Blog Community."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

How To Create Your Circle of the Wise from CoolCatTeacher - best place to start for beginners. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization. Robin Good - Who is talking about me on the Web today? Robin Good - Ego Searching. List of Ego Searching Tools. Will Richardson???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

It is making me wonder about how to remix this for a group where I have mostly beginners or don't have an expert at each table who is familiar with all the tools.   .  We didn't drill down into the tools at all - most mostly concepts and case studies.   Hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook. AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. An excellent primer that also describes why people love and hate Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

MasterNewMedia has published an awesome Video Beginner's Guide written by Michael Pick. This spring, Video Party , in association with Art Matters 2008 and Apathy Is Boring , will be presenting a selection of films about creating a world that we want to live in. " Whats Your Revolution?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. He also talks about how, contrary to some observations , Digg just isn't empty traffic. Haven't dug into Digg yet? Check this recent interview to learn more about Jonathan's secrets to using social media tools for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

About five clicks into one of the bookmarked urls I found the Us.ef.ul - The beginners Guide To Delicious by John in "Beelerspace." So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy.

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