Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” ” Facebook Ads as Filters. Facebook enables you to run hyper-targeted ads, slicing and dicing your audience in all sorts of interesting ways. Survey Your Tribe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Without making sweeping generalizations, today’s emerging social sector leaders have an increasingly egalitarian view of leadership. While we watch the workforce fundamentally change around us, are social sector organizations primed to keep up with this changing definition of leadership? We want to invite you to our virtual table.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Yesterday, I attended — and live tweeted (#baruchnp) — an interesting panel discussion at Baruch College here in New York, “ Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know.” The panel featured some great nonprofit social media heavy-hitters: Allison Fine , Speaker and Author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

I think they are more alike than many people think — at least the people who get tied up focusing on the tools, rather than what they are trying to do with the tools. It’s like they just want to quietly blend in, when what they really need to do with their marketing is stand out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts.

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JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. It’s an interesting model that blends the kind of action triggered approach to donation that HelpAttack! Facebook Pages Manager.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

A learning experience platform (LXP) is an innovative tool that associations and other learning businesses can use to disseminate educational content to members. Social and Community-Based Learning: The experience within an LXP occurs through both formal and informal learning. Why are learning experience platforms rising in popularity?

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. It’s an interesting model that blends the kind of action triggered approach to donation that HelpAttack! Frogloop has you covered. Checkon.me

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. Causes has recently expanded their Facebook offerings to allow fundraising via custom tabs for pages.

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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. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Not five minutes after I mentioned on my Facebook status how much I love California Farmers' Markets and posted some of the photos, then I got tagged in a photo by a friend who is doing a little network weaving if his Facebook friends feeds. Connect in Facebook and group by list. - Leave comments on those people's blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Secret sauce of social media success.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

In my mind, the comparison works this way: DM=oil TM=coal DRTV=Nuclear Email= Natural gas Mobile, social, geolocation= solar, wind, geothermal. And most organizations that spent money developing their own have had to let go of those and focus on herding their sheep in someone else's social pastures.

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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. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. Social Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You’ll leave with strategies and tools and a plan to cause board and staff to be fully engaged—AND raising more money. If you are ready to transform your D list to an A list come learn tips and tools to get board members to engage, share their contacts, and give! In fact, many nonprofits don’t even know these tools exist.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Identify corporate sponsors , grant matches , social media advocates, and peer-to-peer (P2P) advocates. Prepare social media content and schedule posts. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. 4-3 weeks ahead: Start promoting on social media two times a week.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing guidelines, and a disrupted economy have all completely changed business-as-usual for nonprofits. Even better, the top navigation bar shrinks instantly into a drop-down menu that highlights the most important links, such as the donation page and ICA’s social media pages. SEEP Network.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

While this can be facilitated digitally, it doesn't take complicated tools to create an environment in which guests are treated personally based on their preferences and interests. Facebook , a social network for friends, asks, "What's on your mind?" Facebook asks, "What's on your mind?"

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. ” It has a Photoshop type interface with all the different tools, basic menus, plus things like layers. I also like the very easy collages you can make with this free tool.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

The next thing that’s important about Gen Y and Gen Z folks is the fact that we have a lot of hard skills and we’re ready to share those skills with the social sector if you let us. Like we are ready and we want to advise on social media strategies and engagement strategies. And they’re social savvy.

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