Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. I need get rid of clutter, revise, and re-organize. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Last Thursday, I attended at the Berkman Center Bloggers Thursday night meeting and shared some learnings about personal fundraising and facilitated a discussion. The internet allows some organizations to embrace long-distance involvement. | View | Upload your own. See Birthday Challenge ( pt.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 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. And the development of systems is a challenge, since learning, even when objectives are well-defined, is an organic process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). Since Virak was also one of the organizers and I was also doing too many other things, we didn't have the luxury of indepth planning and we had never worked together!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. How do you get other people in your organization on board with social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

David shares why he decided to respond to the blogger outreach - a counterpoint to my advice about what not to do: I went along because an email from Svetlana was a model of how an organization can reach out to bloggers. The interview is with Sharath Jeevan and his colleagues Rachel Smith and Svetlana Gitman.

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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

MAY 17, 2016

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. In 2007, I was the first person to use Twitter to fundraise so I could attend and help sponsor the first Cambodia Bloggers Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

I've been a member for over a year only because my Cambodian colleagues and blogger friends introduced me to it. A new profile called "Nonprofit Organizations" friend me to day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. He spoke about networked mindsets and how to work across sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

This one was pretty interesting because it gave me some insights into the fact that organizations are treating bloggers as journalists. This webinar is designed especially for bloggers who blog about flu or who blog. For some reason, I'm receiving many more more (unsolicited) holiday fundraising and campaign requests than usual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2011

I’ve been a member of the Global Voices Community since 2004 where I first connected with Cambodian bloggers like John Weeks , Tharum, and others. I’ve been a member of the Global Voices Community since 2004 where I first connected with Cambodian bloggers like John Weeks, Tharum, and others. Donate today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Over the last six years since our founding, MomsRising has worked with hundreds of bloggers and has learned how to strategically use social media to ensure that key audiences don’t miss compelling posts. We started by proactively reaching out to bloggers of color to participate in the blog carnival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2005

When I interviewed the Walker Bloggers two months ago, there were only two departments. I just popped over to the Walker Arts Center blogs to see if more departments had entered the blogosphere. Now there are four, including the Film/Video department. They posted some notes about their future plans for podcasting. Download walkerproject_0001.wmv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The Nonprofit Blog Carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants, support organizations, and nonprofits themselves are offering to the nonprofit community through their blogs. I purposefully left it the bloggers to frame it, and so many of them did that so beautifully—most on the theme of forward momentum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Your organization and social media goal/strategy? The XYZ organization provides phone technical assistance for whatever you fill in the blanks. The marketing director read the post and left a comment saying they were gong to investigate and thanking the blogger. What happened? Why was it valuable and not a big waste of time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

As Cute As I Get by Hermanosmccoy (used with permission) Photograph of "Calder," from Richard McCoy IMA Blogger. Furthermore, it is a great strategy for engaging people in the organization to discuss and own the organization's social media strategy. What makes them a success? This is what leds to success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

And, as blogger Vu Le says, donating to organizations on the ground can be a form of self-care. I have my go-to global organizations that do a great job at relief efforts on the ground, set up funds for long-term rebuilding, or do a terrific job of vetting local charities to support. For example, Global Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraising experts and direct mail gurus all in one place. Fill out the form here and download free your copy of ebook: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

Most recently, I was reminded of this as I live-tweeted an event for MomsRising put on by Latino civil rights organization the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). MomsRising is an online and on-the-ground organization with over a million members, many of whom are Latinas.

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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. Kicking off the effort was paired with an e-mail to a list of about 30 classical music bloggers. Four bloggers wrote a post; one blogger used the banner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. .” Animal welfare organizations and zoos went wild. What to do? Quit Facebook or other social media? People were so hungry to read some good news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2012

The conference registration is $99-$125, but I have four passes to give away to the four best answers to this question: Why do you think it is important for nonprofits to engage Millennials both inside and outside of their organizations? This year’s study on Millennial engagement with nonprofits is out and can be downloaded here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 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. What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your organization’s capabilities for doing this? Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. The questions are: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place recently in Seattle. And we released a report recently that shows foundation funding for advocacy, community organizing and civic engagement has a return on investment of an astonishing $115 to $1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2008

I work for a conservation organization and we???re The first step for any nonprofit is to hit the pause button and ask whether it is appropriate for your organization to pursue a social media strategy. Here's an easy first project - set up an a google alert with your organization's name and/or url. t know how to begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It includes a lot of consultants, bloggers, and service organizations. I'd like to see the list organized by different segments. This list is evolving and has grown overtime and is not curated. I'd like to see a list of people who work as social media strategists as part of their job at a nonprofit or a community manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 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. According to a survey recently released by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the answer appears to be ‘not by much’ or at least not fast enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2010

A year later, I launched my first professional blog on the software that eventually became Google’s blogger. I had a couple of false starts. His comment inspired me to start a personal blog on Cambodian culture and connect with other Cambodian bloggers. I wrote about nonprofits, technology, and training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I attended a local unconference for nonprofits about two years ago with the intention of learning how I, as a blogger, could help local nonprofits… you & your blog were mentioned several times. There’s nothing uglier than a blogger with a sense of entitlement. How did you discover my FB page? Together with Girls Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. To cite just two interesting efforts: STRIVE is layering the use of robust data platforms on to local community organizing and social service delivery in Cincinnati and other cities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

My colleagues Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos (who have day jobs at Blackbaud) have published a new social media how-to book, 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide. The book is a collection of time saving tips for using social media organized into the following categories: set up, communicate, engage, fundraise, and measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

There are organizations and individuals who work as intermediaries on connecting the dots between data experts and the people, but what about a network? ” The blog post is about the launch of the Boston Foundation’s new resource for community organizations and media, the Boston Indicators Project website.

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