Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I presented a plenary session on networked mindsets and leadership and facilitated two workshops on SMARTer Social Media. Many activist nonprofits have used it to inspire people to raise awareness, change behavior, or other action. It also has a benefit of generating campaign content as well as documenting support for an issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

So, we scheduled an encore today for 65 people on the waiting list. I tend to do a lot of "share pairs" where people get a chance to do a debrief with someone else in the room. It helps people process what they are learning. It helps people process what they are learning. It worked much better. And it worked!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The content was on all channels, not just social media. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What did you learn?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Dd co-founder and executive director Emily Jacobi recently showcased some of Dd's projects at an event hosted by the Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in Berkeley, California. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. Social Capital 2018 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. Nonprofit Management. Research / @SSIReview.

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MAY 6, 2021

Text fundraising is a popular method of charitable giving facilitated by messages on a mobile device. If people unsubscribe, make sure their numbers are taken off. For instance, this is a screenshot of what the Junior Achievement of Northern California’s donation form would look like on a mobile device.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In California. A small room, packed with gadgets, packed with fossils, packed with tools, packed with PEOPLE everywhere making and exploring and building and learning. The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework.

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MAY 13, 2015

Loyal museum visitors – members, patrons, volunteer docents, people who grew up coming to the museum -- love the old exhibits they are used to. Schizophrenic bird halls with 5 different design and content presentation styles. This isn’t an isolated issue. Familiarity may breed contempt in some contexts, but apparently not in museums.

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

Four examples worth considering: Content comfort. My inclination in most situations is to challenge, confront, and yank people around--in the spirit of welcoming participation. The "Fear" exhibition currently at the California Science Center asks you to confront your fear of tarantulas, loud noises, and falling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be somewhere in the air between California and India to facilitate a “Networked NGO” training for NGOs in India that are Packard Foundation grantees. In January of this year, I predicted that 2012 would be the year of content curation. More about that later.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

Marketing Cloud – Create Quality Content + Engagement It has never been more important to reach your constituents where they are, and there’s never been a more versatile product to facilitate that need than Marketing Cloud.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

In 2006, the Aquarium sponsored a letter-writing campaign in the museum, giving visitors an opportunity to send postcards to the governor expressing support for the establishment of marine protected areas on California's central coast. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. We welcome your questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I asked for examples from the group. Several participants observed that with recent natural disasters the people they want to provide support to are organizing faster than their institutions through the use of social networks. This help inspire change. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Photo by Christine Beddia.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

" Causes facilitates these communities and combines them together, though Jen was quick to differentiate them from a software as a service. Massive number of people. Massive number of people. ' It's much more meaningful to the people involved and they can sense the impact they're having."

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

For diabetes patients in Georgia, mobile phones have facilitated an instant connection to help and education. "You can ask people what they have for breakfast, and it sounds healthy, but then you see the proportions on the plate, and not so much," said Mynatt. Mobile Monitoring.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Because there’s plenty of research showing giving leads to a boost in health and happiness for both givers and recipients — and their collective peoples. Giving Makes People Feel Happy. Warm glow is the private benefits people receive, such as self-satisfaction, for having done their part.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

Your organization needs a nonprofit content marketing strategy. Replete with, dare I say it, content. The No-Content Problem. The Lousy Content Problem. The Nonprofit Fundraising Content Conundrum. Neal Schaffer, digital and content marketing expert, suggests such lifeless content is no better than none at all.

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