Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. And if you???re

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MARCH 31, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Nick Sonnenberg Play special attention to the Three Key Takeaways and Pro Tips that expertly summary each respective chapter's teachings. For example, Slack and Microsoft Teams are both “internal communication tools.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Here’s some examples. In Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” offers several simple principles to incorporate based on brain science, including: Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Take the above example from charity:water for World Water Day. The first step is to get organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

I've been a fan of Vicki Davis's blog ( CoolCat Teacher Blog ) for sometime now. One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog. WOW2 hosts immediately made the connection to micro blogging or micro media making. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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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.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. It can be done simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. We did a sessions on measurement, integrated content strategy, and content for blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. This is a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track. I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

We were seeing examples of amazing results and also groups who were struggling to catch up on all the latest developments. As readers of this blog well know, digital and social media can be difficult to keep up with. Questions of measurement, ROI, and how to set goals and define success were plaguing everyone. There’s more, of course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Seeing how others are doing this work can help you develop or improve your assessment plan and lead to improved results. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking. It’s curation of real-time learning. The Social Media Measurement Checklist.

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JULY 18, 2018

Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Fundraising plan summary. For example, many consultants include fundraising appeals in emails to their mailing lists in support of their nonprofit clients. Just a heads-up: this is a long read. Let's get started! This is definitely an “ask” worth making!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time. In our guide, you will find a straightforward summary of what to listen for, as well as tips on engaging the users who mention them. Your People Are Talking.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

A few examples of PII are: Name. Criminals use a variety of techniques to break into SaaS applications and steal data. These are most prevalent techniques. For example, an email may appear to come from a bank, asking the recipient to log in to their account for some seemingly good reason. Date of Birth. Phone Number.

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JUNE 23, 2021

For example: if you know that your average donor gives you ~$70, that some of your donors give $100+, and that a large portion of your donors give at the $25 level, you can make some solid predictions about how your donors will interact with your campaign. Gift range chart. Understand the Giver’s Journey. Be sure to: . Save donors time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus. (I learned so much that I enough material for several blog posts, my first post is here – it is about content curation.). Take for example the conversations Jillian York is having on the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three She started her blog this year in May, 2007 because it was an opportunity for self-expression. Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. Why did you start to blog?

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MAY 18, 2021

Gorton’s technique arose when a former leader of his ended each meeting with the rally cry “go forth and be awesome”. One of the examples Gorton gave is when he took over a team that was struggling. The post Managing eLearning Podcast: Episode 2 Summary & Highlights appeared first on Web Courseworks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. And the blog post’s playful tone draws readers in.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog post yesterday entitled “ The problem with non ” that has definitely sparked a bit of conversation. It's easy to buy more stamps and do more direct mail, scary to use a new technique…Please don't tell me it's about a lack of resources. Author: Jordan Viator. He's out of touch.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Most examples we have of successful IT practices would likely fail in a nonprofit context, though. Trying to follow the example set by a commercial company, just in a nonprofit way, probably won't work, but there are lessons to be learned. If users focus too much on solutions (ie: "We need a blog now!")

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Schedules greatly depending on organizations, teams, individuals and evolving public health safety guidelines, but here are some examples: Office Cohorts: This model is for larger organizations where rotating cohorts of people work in the office. For example, can you get feedback asynchronously on a proposal or concept before the meeting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

For example, this could include personalizing email campaigns or making targeted recommendations based on their giving history. Examples of Beneficial Artificial Intelligence Technology for Nonprofits In this section, we will explore some examples of artificial intelligence tools for nonprofits you can use to augment your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Harold blogged about that here.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Here’s a couple examples pulled from recent CauseVox campaigns. With content marketing, you and your supporters can create and upload content (blog posts, photos, testimonials, etc.) One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Take Card Kingdom’s The Gauntlet campaign for example. Progress Bars.

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