Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

At the closing party of last year's NTC Conference in Washington, DC, after too many glasses of wine, I made this video " Next Year In New Orleans." " I can't believe NTC is two months away. I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year took me to Europe to keynote at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy and to Amsterdam to give a plenary talk at International Fundraising Conference. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. My Theme for the Year: Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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APRIL 8, 2014

To recognize the tireless work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions. The Leading Change Summit (LCS) Steering Committee is the advisory board for our inaugural conference that we''re launching September 2014. NTC Steering Committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It The Pomodoro method and app is one way to avoid the productivity loss of procrastination. challenge for the NTC Conference! I set a Fi.tt

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As Samuels writes in his personal blog , he knew that NCFR was due for a major reinvestment in server hardware in 2015. The migration method Samuels used was the "manual cutover migration" recommended by Tech Impact for a small organization such as NCFR. It's too high stakes to have any trial and error."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us. This blog post shares some thoughts. What is Collaborative Overload?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

As Samuels writes in his personal blog , he knew that NCFR was due for a major reinvestment in server hardware in 2015. The migration method Samuels used was the "manual cutover migration" recommended by Tech Impact for a small organization such as NFCR. It's too high stakes to have any trial and error."

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As Samuels writes in his personal blog , he knew that NCFR was due for a major reinvestment in server hardware in 2015. The migration method Samuels used was the "manual cutover migration" recommended by Tech Impact for a small organization such as NCFR. It's too high stakes to have any trial and error."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

But what happens when you go into the real world and attend conferences? He wrote about the shift from Me to We and how conference panels are really important manifestation of this: Speakers, Panelists, and Moderators must monitor back channel. I'm presenting in August at a conference and I'm so going to test it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

It’s that time again: time to meet up at the Nonprofit Technology Conference! Science Fair: The NTC Exhibit Hall. This marketplace of ideas will be filled with simultaneous presentations and hands-on demos, and includes the conference’s Opening Reception. Follow the Conference Live. Friday, April 9, 2010.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I was fortunate enough to be invited to be a guest speaker at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Now let me say upfront, this blog post isn’t going to be about those techniques for diversifying an office culture. The truncated title of the session I spoke at was Observing Oz. Pretty big and worthwhile stuff.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

Thanks to NTEN for sharing live webinars of the NTC sessions for those of us that couldn’t make the actual conference. Segment list by those taking the most online actions Conference calls/webinars Organizing real-life training. Real-life training Job descriptions Testing Management procedures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This framework works like a charm, whether it is a one-hour webinar or 7 day intensive International training or college graduate course or year long peer learning program. Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE !”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called “ Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Day. View more presentations from burowe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. The opera staff collected the suggestions and summarized them on their blog. Opera is not the only art form, there’s been crowdsourced choreography – Dance Theatre Workshop. A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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