Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

Ed Batista posted some of his reflections about nonprofit blogging in response to reading the interview with Michael Gilbert as did Jon Stahl. In my experience, ???overwork??? The large organizations were two conservative. But the groups I work with tend to be mid-sized at their biggest. overwork??? Hard to say???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Jessica Kirkwood from HandsOn Network who oversees social media strategy about how the strategy and measurement component for this campaign. Our digital engagement success is evolving based on our experience and it is difficult to outline what metrics of success might look like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. Top Ten Flickr Hacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: I was just reading an interview with The Nature Conservancy's Jonathon Coleman on Treehugger.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2009

Largest Online Social Action Community of 10 Million "Do Gooders" Adds Fundraising and Advocacy Experts Allyson Kapin and Stephen O’Keefe, Who Bring Decades of Experience at Helping Nonprofits Succeed Redwood City, Calif. Both Allyson and Stephen are available for press interviews. About Care2. Visit Care2 at www.care2.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. People are looking for higher quality food, they're looking for healthier food, and they're looking for a more pleasurable experience around food.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I realize that finding the time to experiment for many of us can be difficult, especially if those experiments do not lead to direct outcomes. And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That will make it possible for you to send an appeal written specifically for that group—and that kind of relevant messaging will make it easier for you to craft an appeal that will resonate with them. Or “Florida conservation efforts?” Are they searching for terms like “food pantries in Lakeland?” First, use the 80/20 rule.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. Cynics say they are monetizing free programs; supporters say they are providing something worth paying for to a self-selected group for whom traditional membership is not appealing. Both are true.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

61% said they want to volunteer with friends and family, 56% said they want an organized group. Young Professional Groups – 40% said they would be interested in joining a young professional organization. Help Millennial donors experience your cause online. As examples, check out Conservation International.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Groups like the Lady Parts Justice , Ms. askformore. Rachel Carson. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Lorraine Hansberry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social Amazing job by the conservancy.???

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For example, their article about a group of women who started a coffee cooperative in Vietnam does an excellent job telling the women’s story and setting the scene before mentioning how the nonprofit gave its support. If you don’t have your own video equipment or experience, don’t sweat it!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The program guides environmental project managers through a series of step-by-step interview wizards similar to the popular TurboTax program. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We work with human rights groups all over the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By this time, there was an official California Condor Recovery Program that included many groups: government agencies managing the program under the Endangered Species Act , environmental organizations, Native American groups, scientists, and zoos. Want to get hands-on experience with Collective Impact? This is success.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

That’s why we work with a group of like-minded strategic partners— BDI , DNL Omnimedia , Donorly , and Oneicity , who share our passion to help make a difference. You have to create messages and experiences that are true to your brand and relevant to people, reflecting their needs. In this context, relevance is as important as reach.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

61% said they want to volunteer with friends and family, 56% said they want an organized group. Young Professional Groups - 40% said they would be interested in joining a young professional organization. Help Millennial donors experience your cause online. As examples, check out Conservation International.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Perhaps this is obvious to say to the group, but more is better, more often is better, deeper engagement is better. ” And Lynn Grant, a great fundraiser working with Nature Conservancy in Canada, was going into a corporate office a number of years ago, they were going to ask for a quarter of a million dollars.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Based on your experience, you create a fictional profile of four different donors who have interacted with your organization. She will participate in causes related to animals and environmental conservation but tends to steer clear on matters of policy or legislation. Say you run an environmental organization.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Start conservative and build from there. We’ve known for a long time that visitors define their own museum experiences. interview Core Museum 2.0 into their repertoire?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there are 12 team members on my group, and we have really expanded what we do. Is there something more quantifiable that you can gather and assess and look at as a group? Even maybe you want to be very conservative and say that for a high ranking, maybe it’s only a 50% chance, and a low ranking is only 10%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2011

One of the books in my summer reading pile is Eli Pariser’s The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You. Last week, my Networked Nonprofi t co-author Alison Fine recently interviewed the author on her monthly Chroncile of Philanthropy podcast. Design experiments so they are not a time suck.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

I come to you today with about six years of fundraising experience, traditionally, and lots of other additional nonprofit experience as well. So I will always be a millennial and I will always have the characteristics that kind of come with being a millennial because of my lived experience as a millennial growing up.

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Achieve

JANUARY 11, 2017

In support of these evolving generational trends, the Post-Election Survey results confirmed that millennials voted for Donald Trump because of his business experience and new approach, and for Hillary Clinton because of her political experience and activism for minority groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

In my most recent interview for the Big Vision Podcast , I talked with Andre Carothers, the Executive Director and Co-founder of the Rockwood Leadership Program about the Program's work, and nonprofit leadership trends. You can read a transcript of the interview below. We have a Facebook group called Rockwood that people talk to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. We design the home page and the website for the ACLU.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. Honorata joined a small group of women who also suffered in war. In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

Consequently, it is a special treat for me to share with you the transcript of my interview with him for the Big Vision Podcast. We are going to use some of that money to train some of the young people in energy conservation, in renewable fuels. Britt: You give a lot of talks and interviews. And that costs money.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

Thanks to Kate and the team at Minnesota Historical Society for the fabulous photos from the project, which are sprinkled liberally through this interview. We had success with another exhibit with an unusual format called open house in which the visitor experience is pretty open-ended. How did this project get started?

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