Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works. What is your organization doing to learn and adapt its strategy to the new changes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I've been in brainstorm mode for a panel called Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam that I submitted. This is a new and improved version of the Social Media Case Study Slam I organized at the NTC last year. " organized by Kami Huyse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The central question of the Networked Nonprofit is how organizations can embrace the change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2014

Last month I moderated a panel of nonprofits sharing case studies about their integrated digital strategies. Integrate Into Your Editorial Process: Your organization no doubt has an editorial process where you brainstorm, plan, and produce content for various channels each month. One option: Use quotes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

From GiveMN Case Study - Click for Case Study. Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Google Impact AI Summit that shared the learning and case studies from Google AI Challenge winners. The Summit included presentations, panel discussions, and a “science fair” where we could see demos from and talk with the winners. Nancy comments are always right on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone. The Case Study. I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Make it fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2013

Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity (Mario Morino) – Provides a call to action and a set of case studies that highlight the importance of outcomes-based management in the nonprofit sector. The resource also includes some case studies. What methods are you using? What have you learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

In fact, 80% of respondents said video is important to their organization today, 91% believe video will become more important in the next 3 years, and. Large companies like Zappos and Cars.com have impressive case studies showing how video has helped them reach their goals. 92% value the investment they have made in video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Case Study. I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! Just last week we published a new case study of KaBOOM! is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. Case Study View more documents from Noah Flower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

s largest and most powerful animal protection organization. I love animals and I love the internet, and I???m m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. ABOUT THE ORG The HSUS is the nation???s Our mission is ???celebrating celebrating animals, confronting cruelty.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Zoe Amar and Matt Collins of Platypus Digital created the #SocialCEO Awards in 2013 with the goal to celebrate charity leaders who are using social media in support of their organization’s missions. The guide includes some case studies and practical tips for CEOs. CEO Case Study: Bowl Cancer UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

As a trainer, I strongly believe that learning experiences need to weave content delivery with participant interaction. Also, it is far more effective to have peers share their own case studies and experiential learning with others. Peer Case Studies. Connecting Learners to the Content and Each Other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In organizations, people struggle to capture knowledge and to find answers across organizational boundaries and silos. A new comfort with transparency combined with easy access to online social networking tools, makes it easy to share what we do, but also how we do it. Show Your Work by Jane Bozarth. The Connect Effect by Michael Dulworth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. It is someone who has humility and realizes that this is about something bigger than themselves or their organization. Guest post by Laura Efurd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

An interesting examination of the " ten best wiki communities " More general tips and a case study of wiki adoption Sandboxes can be used for people to introduce themselves and get used to the wiki. Wikipatterns has some useful practices as well as some to avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

Ivan Booth has an excellent post about outcomes for Social Networks - it's organizing, not mobilizing. What it all comes down to is that we're focusing on organizing people into a permanent anti-genocide movement (and much of that happens in a decentralized, self-organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2012

” A new case study in the Stanford Social Innovation Review injects that most potent of weapons – love – into the debate. There is a lively debate these days in the nonprofit sector about how the solutions to intractable problems depend on “collective impact” and what it means to be “outcomes-focused.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2016

Are you wondering how your organization can more effectively harness and gain value from your data? The sessions are focused on how to help your organization use data better. Do you believe data can help make the world a better place? Are you constantly thinking about how to gain the information you need to improve your program?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2013

This story became a case study in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” to illustrate the value of crowdsourcing and how to measure the return. Taryn Degnan picks up on this them of using social media to save lives to share her observations about the use of social media to find organ donors and her own personal story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. We predicted it might be smaller as the campaign is disruptive to the usual pinterest pattern. Please tell us if you know of one! Is your nonprofit placing a little bet on pinterest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

As we have seen over the last decade, with the power of connectivity comes the opportunity for people with similar interests to come together and organize themselves in ways that transform geographic boundaries. We also seen how organizations can harness connectivity as well as movements. These are key questions of our times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. Members of the network can take advantage of whatever makes sense for their organization–like a cafeteria model. Chris Lynch. Annie Hernandez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , a new book by Carol Cone, Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard, offers a detailed roadmap to help an organization develop a brand meaning that articulates what the organization stands for, the compelling, focused idea that sets it apart and is meaningful to its supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

It's from the mini case study about Planned Parenthood where Cecile Richards said, "Confidentiality is a big part of our institution's culture. It made me think of the phrase "Opening the Kimono" which is a vivid metaphor for organization transparency, sharing internal processes with the outside world. What are the cautions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to change the world. Under what circumstances should your organization NOT pursue a social media strategy ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If you don’t know Derrick, he has spent a career showing organizations how to best reach donors, activists, and employees, and engage a new generation of supporters. The book includes: Case studies of the most successful social good movements. Creation stories of today’s social good movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Each module had a trainer’s guide and materials that was provided to the training teams in each country who customized the material — translated into French or Arabic and localized case studies. Each country team communicated with each other through an online site where the trainers shared lessons learned and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? It would be a video, instructional role play, or case study, where a network leader would share their story of events leading up to the groan zone and getting past it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Who in our organization is going to do the work? The organization has a small administrative staff. Tags: Case Studies Experimentation. Three Models. No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

For the third and final Conversational Case Study on America’s Giving Challenge from Allison Fine and I, we pose a question rather than answer one: Is there a “special sauce” for successful participation in online fundraising contests ? Are the sponsors and competition model in alignment with our organization values?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The big mistake that many organizations make is that they stop at the “attention&# phase of the ladder of love. Tags: Case Studies Engagement Facebook. What’s nice about this approach is that it isn’t a contest and the only “winners&# are the people who are served by the Food Bank. The very first [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

You could do your organization a disservice if you think that the written policy that results from this tool is your final product. I think it is also very useful to review other organization's policies. The language, of course, needs to be customized to your particular situation and the biolerplate included may not be relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

One of the great techniques that Gigi and Heather used was “sticky note synthesis” so anytime during the session we could jot down takeaways, or ahas and Gigi would collect them and organize them into themes. By the end of the day, she was able to summarize ideas and takeaways that we discussed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve also done this with groups of organizations who have collectively created their network maps on the wall. Living Case Study: The living case study is when you make participants part of the content. Then the group draws the connections. 2. Balancing Content Delivery and Sense Making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Take a look at the web site of any well-established nonprofit organization , and you'll probably see past invitations to these types of events or one for an upcoming event We're seeing the rise of social media to promote, organize, and in some cases hold the actual charity event itself.

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