Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. Several bloggers and social media gurus, shared their best tips for taming the social media jungle and getting stuff done. It is all about managing your attention. What you give your attention to, is what determines your experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

My colleague, Debra Askansae , who is a blogger and consultant with nonprofits recently wrote a great post about taking her medicine and this follow up post about content calendars. Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. My answer: Yes!

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

BlogDay is focused on getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. You are suppose to notify the bloggers, write a brief description of their blogs, and tag your post with BlogDay2007. It's simple to do and a great way to connect with other bloggers and pass along some link love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. Deanna Zandt is a blogger who writes about social media, civil society, and activism. The book is available on Amazon. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus! Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 and video blogging to Cambodians and a delivering a keynote! " Ah, I have no logo.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Action in this case really means interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Our biggest challenge as bloggers was getting off the soap box and into a facilitation role. That used to be hard to do because URLs on Twitter often use URL shorteners and that leaves no easy way for bloggers to see who’s sharing their posts. Backtype has also launched another tool called "Back Tweets."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline. Create a competitive marketplace that showcases a variety of ideas. Give voice to new and alternative actors. Trusting in the importance of new ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I tried to apply all that I learned about facilitating online conversations, connecting, and networking to blogging. In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. A totally manual blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Some bloggers, like Skelliewag, highlighted the best of best of their blog posts , while CogDog blog took the opposite approach and look at the Top 0 list. How do we continue to connect and have a conversation facilitated by different social media tools? " Emily offers her thoughts here. Thoughts, leave them in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

At the time, I now realize, there were three very separate communities: (1) The Lend4Health community (the families and lenders with whom I mostly communicated via email); (2) my Twitter community (analysts, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and bloggers); and (3) my Facebook community (family and friends). Moving Forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger. milllion blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. So, armed with an improvised mobile wireless mic, I used an Oprah style facilitation.

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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." By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. A large number of big corporations are using internal blogs to facilitate conversation between leadership and the rest of the organization. human aspects of technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. That's rare in a conference setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. Teaching in an international context. When teaching in different contexts, especially outside of the US, you need to make some adjustments to your context.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. 2016 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. Apr 19 - 21.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

You can think about it as learning to facilitate crowds, with their own free will, rather than dictating to people held within databases. AF: In the book I write about Jennifer James and her Mom Bloggers for Social Change. So, about two years ago she started the Mom Bloggers for Social Change site. AF: And I was a history major!

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JUNE 1, 2021

When I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank, we noticed our audience followed food and Mommy bloggers, so we reached out to these folks for endorsements. Because no donations will be facilitated through content that’s seen as stale, dull or otherwise unconnected to what a visitor cares about. Ask via survey.

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