Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. His commentary was first posted on the Communications Network blog. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! We are now cross posting it here to share with our readers. Foundation application?

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JULY 17, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

After some results from routine tests during my annual physical, my doctor informed me that my cholesterol was high. ”Start exercising more and stop eating bacon cheese burgers ” were the doctor’s orders and we’ll retest in 6 months. .” Are there other benefits? What are the challenges? last month.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Timeline when you will create key content for upcoming campaigns, events and conferences, and marketing initiatives, and clarify who on the team is responsible for overseeing and implementing tasks. Look for opportunities to test different calls-to-action and other key content that is important to your organization.

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JULY 26, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. The social network market place is already competitive on the second tier below Facebook.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

Register for the Nonprofit Management Institute''s NMI 112 - Marketing & Social Media online course. 2013 AMA Nonprofit Marketing Conference. There will be a great amount of talent and knowledge at the AMA (American Marketers Association) Nonprofit Marketing Conference. Social power not new to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. He went through some recent trends with social networking use. One thing he pointed out that older generations absolutely love social networks because it allows them to connect with people from their past.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Last month, during the Nonprofit Technology Conference plenary session on placing little bets and learning from failure , we issued a challenge to 1,000 nonprofits in the audience. Test your assumptions. Fundraising. Motley Zoo : Don’t set an unrealistically large fundraising goal because it is too daunting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

but after four hours of testing and coming up against numerous brick walls and errors on Justin.tv (primarily with their Facebook and iPhone Apps), I went with Ustream. When you are ready to broadcast, simply posts links to your “Show&# [see below] to your social networking communities. for Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2010

I'll be red-eyeing it to New York tonight so I can be bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed for the start of the conference tomorrow morning and will be planning to live-blog posts throughout Thursday, Friday, and some maybe even on Saturday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In my spare time, a video crew was following me around to create a short piece for Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. (I’ll I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.).

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MAY 4, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The platform war between Facebook and Google + officially launched with a press conference at Facebook announcing the new “awesome&# features including one click skype/Facebook integration for video chat. What’s interesting is that many of us have five or more years experience on social networks. Simon Laustsen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

These were the questions that were going through my mind as I listened to a presentation on Google + Alex Abelin at the Social Media for Nonprofits Conference as he explained some of the benefits. This post will help you create a plan for getting started with a low risk experiment. Before jumping in, hit the pause button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? The Annenberg Foundation has been sharing snaps from behind the scenes at its leadership conference.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of that work we get to connect with and learn from organizations using new media in the field -- and this summer we hit the road, attending the International AIDS Conference , CDC's Health Communication, Marketing, and Marketing Conference , the Ryan White All Grantee meeting , and the U.S. Conference on AIDS.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

You may not be able to locate your cause in a penthouse, but you might want to test high-altitude imagery or perspectives in your electronic outreach. When you decide your donation amounts, test something high (but probably not $30,000 unless you are wearing a sash) and work backwards from there. Almost all of them did.

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MARCH 24, 2015

This means testing news ideas quickly, failing fast, and taking those lessons learned to continue to iterate on the program or product. Conferences Nonprofit Events Online Fundraising Social Networking Technology Trends Web 2.0 This means building programs or products that can scale. crowdfunding'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society. Warren noted that in their tests people became blind to the red button which I’d like to call the social procrastination button. Jerry Michalski is the moderator. I, for one, would love the option to hide it.

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APRIL 30, 2015

Today I presented on a “featured session” at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Grapevine, Texas. The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.” Social Chorus : Social Chorus is an enterprise platform tool to support employee engagement and champions programs.

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APRIL 29, 2010

I've been preparing for a Leadership Conference with TCG (Theatre Communications Group, the service organizations for theatre companies) on strategic social media. So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  Foursquare is a location-based social network. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

Last week, Allison had a chance to test some of our thinking at the Games for Change conference. . We did a riff on KD Paine SobCon ROI of Relationships in Social Media that I covered on my blog earlier this month. We adapted it for social change. Now we've transformed into the concept of learning and listening loops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. This the process of designing deep engagement and relationship building with your network and measuring it.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

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MAY 22, 2008

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MAY 22, 2008

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JANUARY 15, 2009

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AUGUST 16, 2007

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

A few days ago, I moderated two panels at Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on arts and technology. The panel featured some previews from a recent research study “ How Strong Is Your Social Net? A few days ago, I moderated two panels at Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on arts and technology.

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JUNE 16, 2009

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

Social media requires a little bit of micro planning - those small tests and this could be a tension point for social media strategy mixing with communications. For example, deeper dives on the mechanics of listening, engaging , social networks, or social content.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

Organizations must test appeals to determine which messaging works best. They should have all their member contact info, lists, events, conferences and webinars, social media, and other files in one location that has an open API environment. This gives them options to move between different CMS's or Mobile apps.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Each has withstood the test of time – Surviving no matter what the communication channel or how their message is spread. How To Create a Grassroots Movement Using Social-Networking Sites (YouTube video). A Few Examples: ZeroTrash shows how to create a social media grassroots movement by David Scott of Web Ink Now.

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