Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I’ll cover the basics of content curation – what it is, why is it important for nonprofits, and how to use curation as part of your content strategy. I’ll also be talking about how good curation skills can build staff expertise and avoid the pain of information overload and including some simple frameworks to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Anyone and everyone, even beginners, can learn how to analyze their own data in Excel. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. With non-English speaking participants, there is an extra layer of back and forth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. Also, you need, as Jan Gordon points out in the skype video interview, to know the audience’s content consumption patterns and interests. Moreover, adding context is another curation skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Be sure to check out Beginner's Guide to Facebook and How to promote your Cause on Facebook articles. Perhaps you're wondering what type of skills you need on staff to implement a social networking and media strategy. Perhaps there is a lot to learn from headline writing skills. " You read an excerpt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

(You can register and download the issue here for free and listen to the webinar recording here ) The main idea is that good curation skills can build staff expertise and avoid the pain of information overload. The list of skills might, at first blush, feel like a lot of extra work. It isn’t once you’ve established good habits.

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