Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

How do you blend? How can your organization inspire an enduring and loyal following in an era of transient affiliations? How can your organization harness the best of both new and old power? How do you decide which one is best for a particular situation? New power is not just a passing trend, it matters for civil society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

By getting to know these ideas, we blend them into our own frame of reference, creating something that is changed, if not wholly new. You’re introducing an idea into a new environment, where it may be adapted, absorbed, and morphed by people who are looking at this old knowledge from a new perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Blend the personal and professional. In fact it’s enabled me to form strong long term relationships with a broad range of people. In turn that’s given me great insight into bowel cancer treatment and care and the impact the disease has on people’s lives.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In truth, however, your ability to effectively blend the two turns on how you frame your role within your non-profit organization. One of the important issues she raises is “how do you balance a personal brand and an organizational brand to best serve its strategic goals?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

.” The Presencing Institute grew out of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning, which was founded by Peter Senge and his colleagues. The word “Presencing” blends the words “presence” and “sensing” and works through “seeing from our deepest source.” It’s a systems leadership framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Tuesday takes a lot of these ideas and blends them together. Don’t ever think that you, as individual, have to top the Forbes 400 list – like my modest charity:water campaign , small actions add up to collective impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend). Photo by Chris John Beckett Sean Stannard-Stockton wrote a reflection on my analysis of the list of “foundations that tweet”. on the Philanthropy411 blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

One of the more chilling innovations in marketing over the past few years is called “predictive analytics” It’s this blend of statistical analysis, data mining and psychology which enabled Target to conclude that a teenage girl was pregnant before her father did. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2013

Blender company Blendtec’s sales shot up more than 700% a few years ago after videos of the CEO blending things like iPhones spread like wildfire. And word of mouth and virality have a huge impact on businesses, large and small. But what makes something go viral? Viral isn’t a strategy, it’s like buying a lottery ticket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

From an emerging leader’s perspective, the kind of leadership development that supports these collaborative structures calls for a blending of both hard and soft skills. While we watch the workforce fundamentally change around us, are social sector organizations primed to keep up with this changing definition of leadership?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

She again invited me to present at the Nasscom NILF Conference in 2010 and teach workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing can be done at an organizational level, blended into the way nonprofits create , implement, and evaluate their programs. And, taking this example further, the National Wildlife Federation has created the hashtag #nwf for crowds of Wildlife Watchers to connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When Gabriela started working at Issue One, a nonprofit that has a people first culture and wellbeing policies, she found it difficult to participate at first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Just blend it in with the other media you make. . - This isn't 1:1, but when you shoot personal video or make very personal audio, people get the sense that they've seen you, and that helps with the time between connections. Leave comments on those people's blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Our ceremony blended customs and traditions from both our families. Our conservatory friends (a string quartet) played for our wedding. I walked down the aisle to Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet - (much to the dismay of my mother.) At our reception, we had the best wine, including some bottles of Coche Dury Meursault.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Hosting engaging online events and learning experiences has been of interest to me over the past ten years and the question of whether or not virtual events replace the face-to-face or how to best blend together. Will the Virtual Summit Replace Face-to-Face?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Resources “>here ] My training craft and what I have been teaching in train the trainer’s sessions around the world – how you blend content with engagement, both online and offline. I was challenged when I walked into the room and saw a podium, two large screens, and microphones set up in the middle of a sea of tables.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Some other blog posts about viral videos can be found here: Will Video for Food: How To Promote Your Video Tube Mogul: Video Marketing Best Practices Robin Good: Ten Ways You Can Promote Your Content on YouTube Marketing Profs: Case Study - Will it Blend? E-Politics Video Blog Posts Heather Diosa's Best Practices for YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The boundaries between sharing definitions are very blurry. Some people blend the personal with the professional or organization to make the brand more “human” or personalized. Some people are comfortable with this, while others are not. Typically, this information about your brand or nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2006

Do you have a blend of humility and Ego? Are you thick skinned? Are you willing to be in the public spotlight? Do you want to be the central on your website? Do you take yourself too Seriously? Are you willing to learn? Do you enjoy reading? Do you enjoy ???virtual virtual relationships???? Are you honest and transparent?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

What are the best practices for blending face-to-face and online so it adds to the conversation in the room and doesn't cross the line to "rude" or "heckling"? There are different methods of incorporating audience feedback depending on the format of the panel or session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

If you want to follow a specific space, consider finding the right people twittering about that space, and building a blended RSS feed in Yahoo Pipes , and adding that to your RSS reader , instead of using the Twitter interface itself. t just blurt out your podcast url. Why build a persona and add people if you???re

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JANUARY 27, 2006

I've been doing a Webinar for N-TEN called "Designing Effective Technology Learning Experiences" -- basically about how to make technology trainings more interactive -- which includes designing participant interactivity - either in small groups as well as blended into presentation/lecture.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media. Digital media’s potential for building harmonious civil society is considerable.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

WHen do the online/offline experience converge or blend as Alexandra Samuel reflects over at netsquared. I've gotten comments from other people in the room that have told me they found the notes of use, but I wonder how valuable it is for people not in the room?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

This looks like an interesting experiment to blend citizen journalism with philanthropy in the real world. Speaking experiments and philanthropy, Lucy's post on Philanthropy 2173 the other day about Virtual Philanthropy Simulations is definitely worth a read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

  I kept wanting to blend them. They recommend that you allocate time and budget equally 1/3 between each. This sounds good, but I wish that the sections were as clear cut as the illustration.    Are those categories mutually really exclusive?  Especially after viewing this slide show and especially this slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

You need to blend the best practices of marketing and social movement building? Nonprofits have a moral obligation to the highest quality work. There's lots of competition and if you want to stand out, you need excellence Change your concept of what a campaign means. Is there a better way forward?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

These ventures offer solid rates of return as well as environmental and/or social benefits, sometimes called blended value. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Some are calling it impact investing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

This is a good example of a "Blended profile.". Holly's Twitter account is her personal but it is clearly branded as NTEN. Even the user name, "ntenhross" incorporates her organization's brand. Scott Harrison is the CEO of charity:water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

I love to see personal narrative blended with broad social commentary, the way Barbara Kingsolver tells stories. That way, as a reader, I can participate vicariously in the experience; I might come away with an entirely different new kernel of truth that the writer expresses, but it is still much more of a shared experience. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The hybrid workplace model is a blend of people working in different locations or a mix of people working in-person at the office and others working remotely from home or other locations. Tip 2: Understand the New Power Dynamics of Hybrid Models. The model is not new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Here's some points on that: Blend the numbers and non-financial factors into a concise and informative presentation. So, look for small, low risk pilots so you can understand the cost/benefit. ROI Story Telling. It is important to communicate your results and be an internal evangelist for your project. Focus on the value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Here are some additional questions to consider for your organization's offline event strategy: How would you blend the best elements of the event models described above with your ideas for creating a framework for bringing together your community in the real world? Please share your ideas in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ).

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