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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

” The Top 5 Lean Startup Resources for Social Good Organizations – Guest Post by By:Leah Neaderthal, Co-Founder, Lean Impact. ” The Top 5 Lean Startup Resources for Social Good Organizations – Guest Post by By:Leah Neaderthal, Co-Founder, Lean Impact.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The webinar earlier this week from the Lean Start up team, Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations, did begin to address this gap with a discussion and examples from Akash Trivedi of Kiva Zip, a pilot program from the nonprofit Kiva and Christie George from New Media Ventures.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

The model indicates areas where organizations should focus time and learning to move to the next stage. I wrote an overview of the model over at the SSIR blog, but have also developed a detailed assessment tool that you can download for free and use along with the book. Is your organization leading with a network mindset?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Note From Beth: Blog Carnivals are a themed collection of blog posts. The nonprofit blog carniva l has been going for a few years, created by Kivi Leroux Miller, of the Nonprofit Marketing Guide, in 2006, and Joanne Fritz at About.com took over management of the carnival in 201o. Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. Words to live by!

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APRIL 7, 2011

Note from Beth: I love when I discovered folks who are community organizers and successfully transfer what they know about community organizing offline to the online world. Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter.

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JUNE 4, 2012

.” My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed. Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed, Guest Post By Elisa Batista, Donna Norton, and Monifa Bandele from Momsrising. It’s every blogger’s nightmare.

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MAY 16, 2010

Welcome to the new and improved Beth’s Blog ! After almost a decade of blogging and most of it at the same place, I’m starting over with a new platform and look thanks to Allyson Kapin and Jared Seltzer of Rad Campaign. Moving to this new blog put me in a reflective mood. 3129: Total Posts. 7641: Total Comments.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works. What is your organization doing to learn and adapt its strategy to the new changes?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. That was the call for blog posts. I received a rich selection covering this topic – from changing mindsets, new tool sets, and lots of tips on how to manage your social media, email, and work flow. Social Media Productivity Tips.

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MARCH 13, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. And the development of systems is a challenge, since learning, even when objectives are well-defined, is an organic process.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

It began to dawn on me that the next step was to explore ways of instigating completely self-organized, peer-to-peer online learning. The ultimate test of peer learning is to organize a course without the direction of an instructor. Howard’s goal is to ignite a a peer-created guide to pure peer-to-peer learning.

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MARCH 21, 2010

Photo Source: Yuba Colleage Public Space Back in September, 2008, after reading this post by Chris Brogan about taking your blog to the next level, I was inspired. I knew that I was outgrowing my information design as well as my blogging platform. The Blog Usability Checklist. 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. Additionally, over the past 2 years, Teddy and I were very lucky to work with other SF Arts organizations in the “Leveraging Social Media” (LSM) workshop series. Here’s his reflection.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. The project is called “ Tech2Empower ,” organized by Wake , an organization on a quest to leverage technology for women’s empowerment globally. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

National Study Reveals: Digital and Social Media Are Delivering for Arts Organizations , Guest Post by Mary Trudel and Rory MacPherson. Just over a year ago, we asked ourselves a question: How are arts organizations using digital and social media, and what sorts of results are they getting? Arts organizations are not alone in this.

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MAY 6, 2013

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. The third year now expands the program into a “train the trainer” model. The master class is part of a, NEA-funded experiment being conducted by arts service organizations like Theatre Bay Area all across the country.

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MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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DECEMBER 29, 2015

We want to include your voice, so we are hosting January’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival. Maybe your organization does a regular walking meet for staff? Write a blog post, or even choose a recent post that fits the theme. Be sure to include your name, your blog’s name and the URL of the post (not your blog homepage).

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JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The central question of the Networked Nonprofit is how organizations can embrace the change.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . What if the default was to share your organization's dashboard openly with everyone?

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JULY 13, 2007

If you type in the word "Beth," my blog comes up as the first organic search engine results (unpaid search results). Based on an analysis of 6 months of google analytics data).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I've been looking at the examples the folks have shared in the WeAreMedia Module 3: Sharing Your Story Social Media Style , particularly blogs and thinking about questions, strategies, and frameworks that one might think about before getting into the nitty gritty of the tool itself.  Who will write for the blog?

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MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. To date the survey has received 131 responses; 45% projects and 55% organizations.

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JULY 19, 2009

Organic Keyword Marketing (SEO/SEM). How to Create a Blogging Plan and Actually Reach Your Goals This Year by ProBlogger. Organic Keyword Marketing (SEO/SEM). You Need a Blog Strategy by ProBlogger (Darren Rowse). Blogging Strategy 101: a Primer by SCOUT. Incorporate these widgets into your blog.

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MARCH 14, 2006

I got an email from Cesar Vargas who writes the NPO Blog. He is currently working on a paper about: "How do blogs benefit nonprofit organizations in U.S." As part of research for his degree, he is conducting a survey about the Benefits of Blogging in Nonprofit Organizations. Check it out.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

One of the most interesting discussions I participated in this morning focused on what networks mean for those established field organizations whose names are often synonymous with the work we do. Funders also considered the impact of adopting a network mindset on an organization’s brand and fundraising potential.

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DECEMBER 12, 2009

I think it is more than just having self-organizing values embedded in the way the tool works. I think these are four qualities to look for: Network: This is a collection of people and organizations that linked together. It's your professional social network or a network of organizations or typically both.

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

Speakers: • Kathleen Enright, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (moderator). Stephanie McAuliffe, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Steve Downs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. So, in the next few days expect a series of thought-provoking guest posts about networks, grantmaking, and philanthropy.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

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APRIL 15, 2009

But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Not only about the potential concerns and how to respond, but how the organization or its internal culture can embrace social media. Who acts as a spokesperson on behalf of the organization.

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MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy? Be Responsible.

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JUNE 11, 2009

The Nonprofit Communicator blog has a round up of local reaction. I never dive into the tools, this session began with a focus on how and where listening fits in the organization and the work flow. I demoed a lot of different techniques in real time with suggestions of keywords or examples from the participants.

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MARCH 16, 2015

In addition to a plan and freezing other non-priority project work, reflection is a critical aspect so staff can make adjustments and also share their experience with others in the organization. According to the book, on-the-job learning is successful when: -Staff member has worked with the organization for more than 3 months.

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JUNE 13, 2009

Carie Lewis, HSUS Social Networking Maven I just discovered that Carie Lewis of HSUS has a blog ! Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. Better yet, she shared her listening techniques. She uses Igoogle which is a really easy, simple way to set up a dashboard.

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