Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Flickr Photo by Helokee. Seek outsider knowledge. Learn to relax.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

I've organized them into sections: creative ladies, yummy food, nonprofits/do-gooding, blogging/social media, and events, so that you can peruse the ones that fit your interests. A collection of blog posts and articles that caught my eye this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. To make it easy to browse, I’ve organized all the posts on a list.ly – enjoy!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity. Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India. She has big plans for her next campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

T he fourth guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Sample Ward. Amy is a blogger and trainer focused on supporting and educating organizations and changemakers in the use of evolving technologies that cultivate and engage communities. Happy Monday, Have Fun, Do Gooders!

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Points of Light, the organization that established this program in 1974, says "National Volunteer Week is about taking action and encouraging individuals and their respective communities to be at the center of social change – discovering and actively demonstrating their collective power to make a difference.". Chris Lundberg, CEO, Frakture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Don’t update your organization’s profiles on the weekend. I do use the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page for work. What happens after 6pm can wait.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

I really think that it is much more effective for learning than talking heads or expert brain dump. On the content side, I was surprised to hear the responses to the simplicity exercise - what could your organization do less of? Meetings was a big one, followed by worry!

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

If you manage social media for your organization, you probably face incredible pressure to show growth and success. Do they really give you the full picture of how your organization is connecting with your constituents and moving them up the engagement ladder? The human brain is the best analytics tool. Is it positive?

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

Many of the conference workshops helped in making me more aware of how to become a technology leader, not only within our organization but in sharing what I've learned with 211s across North America. They recommended following interesting and smart people, listening and sharing and asking for contributions through guest bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Shawn Ahmed showed a powerful video of people in his network who donated to the organizations he was working with because he was brokering the relationship. He said suggested going out and trying to raise money for your organization as an individual and learn how easy or hard it is. You need to engage the whole brain in learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2010

I use a custom page at Alltop to track the top bloggers on nonprofit marketing, fundraising and social media. Organize What You'll Need Again and Again Collect all that stuff you are constantly searching for to use yourself and to send to other people in one place on your computer. Then go do it!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

The sixth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Desiree Adaway. She uses her superpowers-her voice, sense of adventure and belief in the transformative power of community-to help organizations design programs that create unrestricted revenue, volunteers and advocates. Egypt I volunteer! It’s what I love.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Always ready with great fundraising advice, guest blogger Gail Perry has terrific guidance for us in her guest post this week below. Just say you want to pick their brain. Ask questions like: What do you think about our organization? You finally got an appointment to meet with your Big Donor…now what? Ask for advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2009

The Tech Hermit blogger, Mike Ames, was so irked by the inaccuracies and negative tone of the article, that he emailed the authors. I summarized the article and reactions in my post " Hey Washington Post - Dollars Per Donor Is The Wrong Way to Measure Success."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0 Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. and teaches yoga in San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

This process has been significantly augmented by social media, instead of limiting the practice to a regional endeavor where only local personnel can apply their skills, members of the organization in satellite offices can now contribute to the learning environment as a whole.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. But, the brain fog has started to fade. The group organizes and selects the topics and the learning is through discussion, peer to peer. What is the best blog platform for mobile bloggers? The questions are way more important than the answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

There were five organizations participating. One organization did not finish the program. Can't just build a blog and let it be. We need to make the time to blog after hours. They replaced the organization. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. There 10-15 bloggers - a wide range of ages. What is Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds. Full disclosure: I did some work for Green for Al l to help spread the word about The Green Collar Economy to other bloggers when it came out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I have a hypertext brain. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. I have a confession, I'm one of those people who does not read a book cover-to-cover in linear way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2008

an organization that provides services, training and consulting to other charities - and didn???t Qui Diaz and I had done a workshop called 2Blog or not 2Blog at the Center for Nonprofit Advancement (one of our local nonprofit capacity building organizations.) m not sure that I am an efficient blogger. t get the job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. " Web 2.0, 20 practices. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

" Here's my interview with her: I am curious as to whether or not you work for a nonprofit organization? I understand that to have a well read blog most bloggers are working very hard to specialize and target a subject area and become an expert. Yes, I do work for an environmental non-profit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

Last fall, I hosted a Have Fun, Do Good series where 12 bloggers shared how they have fun and do good. The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success. Accenture, Sony, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change. Women here in Oakland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

is a site that helps young peole and their families easily donate to charities while learning more about the organizations. The organizations listed are profiled by other young people. Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

And then, in April 1997, I became a blogger. In my communication workshops, I still find that nearly every nonprofit organization is rather afraid of the idea of blogging. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible. human aspects of technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as an Editor at newassignment.net , which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. We need to be able to collaborate and organize at least 10 people to do that. Why is this needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. And, the low goal was one of the reasons that community rallied with the self-organized surprise party.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a corporate license, this means that it is for use by people within your organization. Michael’s not in this for the money.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

But this age group is the second most likely to fundraise and volunteer for your organization, and the most likely to spread the word. Support in the Philippines is needed and this post has compiled a list of nonprofit organizations providing aid. Mary Cahalane challenges organizations to do more asking. Every dollar helps.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I only needed to dump it from the temporary file into blogger, but I couldn’t find the five minutes. Then, when you look through resumes, your unconscious brain might move you to a certain candidate. Everyone’s process is different, and if you want to understand work in your organization, you should start with you.

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