Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. The study and presentation begins with some context.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. To start off, ask these questions about your peer-to-peer campaign: Will this be a purely virtual, in-person, or hybrid event ? Staff Assignments.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Look carefully at the email and ask yourself the following questions: Do you know or recognize the "from" address or contact's name? Read our latest blog post about the Equifax breach. Find out how TechSoup and Symantec are making a difference in the lives of at-risk teens. Additional Cybersecurity Resources.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Have you asked yourself similar questions? If you have asked yourself some of these questions, here are some thoughts about how to build lifelong relationships—starting at a very young age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

If you’re reading this blog, it’s probably because you’re a huge fan of social media and believe that it empowers all of us to connect, create, explore, and understand our world. Question: We’d love to hear from you. Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Instead, make sure you are offering personalized outlets to stimulate both feedback and questions. Define your Call to Action. Administer a Survey Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I’m in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources. You need to ask and answer the same questions you would for any communications, marketing, or fundraising strategy. Certainly, these and other questions would be a good start for a survey. Planning for Integration First.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Boost Church Giving by Using the Givi App – Qgiv Blog.

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MARCH 20, 2013

It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect? Learn how to say “I’m sorry” publicly on your blog, on your website, on Twitter, Facebook, and any other channels you actively engage your audiences on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement. There was some good discussion and questions about how you measure results from social media offline and the reminder that influence can be and should measured offline. p/QTToUNlZjr/.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. The discussion started with Fanton and Linden asking questions of each other.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some people asked questions about the role of GSA in establishing policy for Federal agencies on open government issues. NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. The DipNotes blog is also a good and early example of government blogging.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And that’s another question that I get, I’m not, you know, by any means an expert in, in business and an expert in this kind of law. I just think non-profits, if they are getting questions from their stakeholders, they need to be very transparent. And they wrote an entire blog post about why they did that.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Supporters can register a team and compete against other teams to answer trivia questions. For older age groups, convert the readathon goal to be less about books read, but pages read with donations for every hundred pages for teens. The post Make P2P Fundraising Elementary for Your School Group appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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JUNE 21, 2011

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2014

It was no frills; when my sisters & I suffered our teen angst-y issues or had drama there were no ‘ Full House ’ type moments. Further more we should question ourselves more and ask those we serve more questions. More questions to find out if what we think they need is in fact what they know they want. Ouch, burn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. The Second Thoughts blog, in a post called " We Need A New Kind of Philanthropy " outlines ten ways a new kind of philanthropy could get started with the combination of social media and virtuality in worlds and games. That's always the challenge. to move forward.you have to give up something.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. Students are stressed and overwhelmed when facing questions about tuition, loans, housing, books, and classes–not to mention the personal stressors they’re experiencing as they transition to this next chapter of life. Start the connection online.

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JULY 1, 2009

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! Don’t just come to the party and start asking questions or push calls to action; instead, actually join the community, answer questions, share links or information (even ones that aren’t related to your work but you may just know!),

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Every time, we have to ask ourselves that question, balancing innovation with our institutional capacity. Asking those questions and refining your practice is precisely how you continue to stay inventive and responsive. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. This would be a major institutional undertaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

But in the race to remain current, we can sometimes forget to take a step back and ask ourselves a few basic questions: How do we know if all our social media efforts are actually worth the investment? Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Helping Your Teen Give Back. More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

It was a fantastic opportunity to learn what types of questions are raised about social media in the context of strategic planning with nonprofits. I got hit with a question that I could not answer on the spot - a very good question. The question I was asked had to do with the demographics of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, this gets to the question of whether your nonprofit needs to be on SnapChat or not? Snapchat users share “snaps” or micro moments of their lives privately with a their friends, or as “stories” with their followers. Does your nonprofit need to be on an emerging social media channel beyond Facebook and Twitter?

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Boost Church Giving by Using the Givi App – Qgiv Blog.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2016

We could ask Jesus the same question. Tom, an insecure teen struggling to find his place in the world and still reeling from his parents' recent divorce. This blog post was originally posted on ChurchTechToday's blog. Why not just throw the message out there to whoever will grab it? spanhidden.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. Likewise, you can host your organization’s own version of a TED talk and entertain questions from parents and community members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

When I arrived to check it out, I heard Michael Verdi talking to a few others about the video blogging documentary. It was a little strange, reminded me of citizen band or "CB" radios we used to use as teens in the late 1970's.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Welcome to a new ASU Lodestar Center Blog series, “Get to Know the Lodestar Center!” When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. Asking questions like: Where am I in this place? Any secondary interests? What surrounds me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

When a question about the color of a dress went viral, several nonprofits joined the conversation to help their messages spread along the viral wave. And, if you're thinking that only teens like memes, look at the range of people who drenched themselves for the Ice Bucket Challenge. What Dress? Memes travel within all age groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I'll be adding a bunch of answers to your questions and some other ways to browse the archives this weekend, and then I'll link to it from the main blog site starting on Monday. related questions , starting points , and guides to the blog--for this to truly be a living resource it has to keep growing. Living Archive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Some notes from the white paper, I'm still digesting it (not being a digital native, I had to print it out).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

HRDAG has now worked with nine truth commissions over the past 15 years and we have given this question careful consideration (link to TRC FAQ). Instead, it is drawn from the responses of statement-givers to an open-ended set of supplemental questions included in the TRC's statement form. Liberian children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

One of the places I go for inspiration during my day is to the books , blog , podcast, and Twitter feed of Kimberly Wilson. We decided to start with teen girls, ninth through twelfth grade, and with the notion that that's when as a young girl we're beginning to make important decisions about college, about life steps, and about goals.

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