Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. I did not use any of these methods. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I've using the social media game as a teaching method for nonprofits experience a strategy brainstorm that links to a communications objective or theory of change. One of fellow panelists is Gaurav Mishra who I very much respect and he has been a guest blogger for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions. I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media. Forensic Listening: Chris Abraham shared this method and is primarily for those who haven’t yet started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

4: Media Measurement Requires Quantity and Quality : This principle is about measuring both quantative and qualitative information. 7: Transparency and Replicability are Paramount to Sound Measurement: Measurement methods need to be shared as well as how specific metrics are calculated. Click for Larger Image.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 26, 2014

Guest blogger Allison Gauss offers some terrific advice this week on how to be most effective when you follow up. While there will be some differences in follow-up methods, depending on the size of the organization, there are three main elements to following up on a fundraising campaign. Gathering Information and Feedback.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

Twitter is a great tool for getting your message out in a method that spreads quickly. Although smaller than Facebook, how information spreads through the site allows a very large and diverse group of people to see your message. This viral method of getting information out, is just that - viral.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Wendy Harman, Director, Information Management and Situational Awareness, American Red Cross. Graham Reid, Information Technology Manager, Catholic Charities Society. Richard Wollenberger, Director, Information Technology, Parents as Teachers. Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blogger. Robert Weiner, President, Robert L.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them. Social learning begins looking like regular learning if you are just reading someone’s informative “How-to” post on your social network of choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Who is the audience for this information? What is the timeframe for needing information? In response to these questions, the evaluation approach selected may range from retrospective to real-time evaluation or a combination of both, using qualitative and quantitative data, and loosely aligned or highly rigorous methods.

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Qgiv

JUNE 24, 2021

Your method of asking will depend on your relationship with the person, so you may need a different strategy for different groups of people. Bloggers and journalists alike are always in need of tips, and most blogs and local weeklies make finding contact information pretty easy.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Include the following key items to make it easier for a reporter or blogger to develop your story into a feature, and increase the likelihood of it getting picked up: Direct quotes from “in the know” sources. Ways for the reader to get more information, including contact details and links to event information and dates.

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JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

A few bloggers like Tim Davies and Beth Dunn has shared their learnings in action and I would love to more of those visible. If your organization is implementing a social media strategy and using a method or have a story about ROI or methods or learnings, please do share. What information would be most useful to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Also, if participants don’t know each other yet, it gives them a chance to informally introduce one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter's analysis of my "method" made me stop and take a look at what my "method" really is because, certainly, it has not been strategically planned out or even really considered until now! I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." The goal is different.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

There are several key techniques for dispersing information effectively. It involves method, just like anything else. She "tweets" various tips for getting kids outside, links to new Green Hour blog posts and information on events and more. Reaching your goals doesn't involve magic. She provides a resource.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded. Marnie mentions one downside to FriendFeed - that she is unable to process the information as quickly or as seamlessly as she can with other tools that she is regularly using for social bookmarking, feed reading, and causal interactions. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Information-sharing tools are great, but they don't magically make this happen. nonprofit technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

It has tons of information about volunteering. It is a great starting point for information about service learning and to find out what colleges and universities in your area have service learning programs. Service Leade r ServiceLeader.org is a project of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the Lyndon B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Her articles are informative, well written, and provide good context. 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. ve traditionally relied on education as their main method ???

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2005

How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? Discussion will focus on exploring the latest trends in Web publishing for all, effective online communications, emerging research and discovery methods, and collaboration tools. What on earth is a Wiki? These leading voices of Web 2.0

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. You’re going to give them some information about why you care about this cause and why you want them to donate to it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

To make matters worse, Charity Navigator seemed standoffish and unwilling to work with the field or adjust its approach despite some pretty obvious shortcomings in its methods. The Holy Grail for an informational watchdog like Charity Navigator is to actually (gasp!) So, what kinds of information, if not outcomes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

I’ve been using this method for almost ten years! 3. Wikipedia Public Domain Images – Wikipedia uses public domain images and has organized a collection with information on how the photos can be used and attributed. Stock Exchange – This is a huge image archive of stock photos that are available for free.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 7, 2016

She is a blogger, marketer and communications coordinator for Qgiv , an online fundraising service provider. But it can be intimidating and daunting to look at all of the different ways you can get in touch with donors and determine which combination of methods will work best for your organization. Invite them to fundraising events.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2016

She is a blogger, marketer, and communications coordinator for Qgiv , an online fundraising service provider. But it can be intimidating and daunting to look at all of the different ways you can get in touch with donors and determine which combination of methods will work best for your organization. Invite them to fundraising events.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Whatever your passion – from mapping urban trees to advising nonprofits or building apps to make information more accessible – tune in to your ever-active nonprofit technology community to be inspired and stay connected! We live in such a fast-paced society that current information is critical to the success of anyone trying to raise funds.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

And, it never hurts to organize ‘listening tour’ to directly solicit input and feedback from members of your target audience, or to collect first-hand knowledge of how they get and share information, and how that impacts your work. A strong introduction and increased attention will fuel everything that follows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

It could be an encyclopedia, or it could be providing reliable and judgment-free information about sexuality to teenagers. We must maintain each of the social relationships, each of the informational relationships, each of the knowledge relationships and each of the mimetic relationships within the cloud.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Ok, we have this great database, now what do we do with all this information? What is their preferred method of contact? We are, each and every one of us, consumers. We buy things – products, services, insurance, etc. Was my experience at the bank better than my experience at the grocery store?

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Armed with this information I may choose to tailor my content to focus more on digital marketing and strategy over writing content related to fundraising. When you link out to a website in a blog post you’re providing supporting evidence to back a claim or enhance the depth of information your content may lack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

We are looking for bloggers from around the world to be a blogging mentor for 1 week sometime in February, March, April or May 2006. We need bloggers to blog on a specific topic on Sunday, hence inspiring the young women's blog entries. We'd love to have English language bloggers from around the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Annabelle Sreberny, Professor of Global Media and Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies (with special interest in Iran, bloggers & social media).

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