Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2007

Nancy Schwartz hosted this week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, a roundup on professional development. Source Creative Whack Pack. Bloggers (including me ) answered this question "What's your method of continual personal learning?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2017

Working as a nonprofit consultant can sometimes feel isolating. This past week, I met up with nonprofit consultant Carrie Rice. That’s why it important to have networking opportunities to connect with professional colleagues face-to-face beyond online groups. I try to make an effort to do this regularly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Nor do many consultants, who, like most nonprofit leaders, tend to operate in functional silos and be very good at a few things (e.g. What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks? What kind of frameworks/ tools/ approaches do these consultants need? So what to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

One thing I realized is that training social workers receive as part of their education is also very relevant for change makers inside of nonprofits, consultants, and trainers. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. It typically involves a substantial commitment of time, energy, and emotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Based on the best practices of leading for-profit and nonprofit brands through our consulting at We First, they will empower your nonprofit to grow your awareness, engagement and impact. Simon Mainwaring is the Founder and CEO of We First, a creative consultancy that builds purpose-driven brands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to an article in Locavesting , the platform is partnership between Cutting Edge Capital , the Bay Area-based community capital consulting firm, Bequia Securities , a broker-dealer, and SVX Canada , an impact investing platform based in Toronto. The platform will handle a broad range of offering types. As a broker-dealer, SVX.US

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. Or ask around for consultants that your colleagues have used. (And my co-author, KD Paine , has been doing measurement consulting for nonprofits and businesses for over 25 years).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Richard Sved, a fundraising consultant from the UK, participated and wrote a reflection on the UK Fundraising Blog. He is also an NCVO consultant, and was recently interim Head of Fundraising at Epilepsy Society and Education Support Partnership. He graciously agreed to republish it as a guest post. Fundraiser, Health Thyself!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Advanced Zoom Tips (Grove Consulting). Robin Good’s Mega List of Online Collaboration Tools. Zoom Tips and Tricks. Super Easy Guide to Zoom (Visual and Fun PDF). Zoom Security Issues & Fixes. Example of Reminder Letter (Susan Partnow). Fun Zoom Backgrounds. Custom Zoom Backgrounds (Paid Service). More Fun Zoom Backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. It helps avoid burnout and improves attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2018

A writer, consultant, and coach, Maia Duerr draws on her decades of Zen practice and training in anthropology to create powerful tools for integrating mindfulness into the workplace and in the everyday lives of the people she works with. ” Given our mutual interests, we had a lot to share about mindfulness and well being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2017

she has been writing, speaking and consulting about social media since 2006 and social mobile marketing since 2010. She is a web and social mobile pioneer whose work helped shape the early new media industry. In addition to starting the first woman-owned Internet company in the early 90s, Cybergrrl, Inc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship. Maybe it takes the form of consultants using the findings to examine their own practice and improve it. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." " So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Carole Martin, Change Consultant, Martin Consulting. Anna Muoio, Consultant, Monitor Institute. Eugene Eric Kim, Cofounder, Groupaya. Mary Manuel, Managing Director, McKay Foundation. Stephanie McAuliffe, Director Organizational Effectiveness, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Gigi Barsoum, Consultant, Barsoum Policy Consulting. Jessica Bearman, Bearman Consulting. Roberto Cremonini, Principal, Cremonini Consulting. Efrain Gutierez, Associate, FSG. Eugene Kim, Co-Founder, Groupaya. Gale Berkowitz, Director, Evaluation and Learning, The MasterCard Foundation. Casey Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Gigi Barsoum, Consultant, Barsoum Policy Consulting. Jessica Bearman, Bearman Consulting. Roberto Cremonini, Principal, Cremonini Consulting. Efrain Gutierez, Associate, FSG. Eugene Kim, Co-Founder, Groupaya. Gale Berkowitz, Director, Evaluation and Learning, The MasterCard Foundation. Casey Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. Or ask around for consultants that your colleagues have used. (And my co-author, KD Paine , has been doing measurement consulting for nonprofits and businesses for over 25 years).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

What contributes to the consultant relationship success ? Many consultant engagements focus on the “ready, set&# part – expert consulting that helps grantees prepare to implement – an assessment, a strategic planning process. How and to what extent can we quantify impact, its staff, and their outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Gabriel Kasper is a senior consultant with the Monitor Institute, a social enterprise focused on philanthropy and social change that is part consulting firm, part think tank, and part incubator of new approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

That’s where I met Kim Kastorff who is the founder of Kimpacto , a San Francisco-based advisory & consulting firm working across the U.S., Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. Europe and Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

Along with my train-the-trainers session, project consultant Alli Houseworth ran sessions on using the tools and worked with participants to further customized the curriculum. Now the networked capacity building begins. Trainers from arts service organizations will train their members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a convening of ”network practitioners” (consultants and others who are working with or networks of people and organizations on social change goals) at the Packard Foundation and designed and facilitated by consultants Gig Barsoum and Heather Grant-McLoud. The purpose was share insights (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In partnership with strategy consultancy, I.G. In today’s global philanthropy landscape, the distance between donors and fundraisers is shrinking, with strategic partnerships on the rise and competition at its fiercest. What are the implications of this on the non-profit sector and how can fundraisers adapt to this shifting context?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Playbook also discusses the skillsets that a nonprofit needs to use data successfully, both for staff and for hiring consultants or working with skilled volunteers. There is also a section that discusses additional methods such using open data sets and program evaluation that may require hiring a consultant. Meaning Making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2011

GuideStar and Hope Consulting have released the results of new study, Money for Good II (MFGII). GuideStar and Hope Consulting have released the results of new study, Money for Good II (MFGII). MFGII summary findings Nov 2011. View more presentations from GuideStar USA, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

To help, we’ve included a directory of consultants with experience installing and implementing the systems in this report, organized by geographical region. The consultant you work with can also help determine which CMS you end up choosing, and can make or break your website project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Monitor Group senior consultant Heather Grant McLeod made the fascinating point that many of these established organizations began life as networks but adopted centralized organizational structures to bend to their funders or funding model. The visual is vertical as is the work of a traditional organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

I remember a hot consulting topic was how to get your database off those 3x5 cards into an excel spreadsheet or how to mail merge in Outlook to send out an e-newsletter. . In the early days, the event offered a small selection of consulting, on-site training, or actual hardware or local area network auditing projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

John Kenyon , a nonprofit technology consultant, writes about the need for us to shift from thinking about productivity as quantity of getting things done, but to the quality of getting things done. Marlene Oliveira, Copywriter and Communications Consultant, shares her secret to productivity: working in 50 minute chunks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pets Add Life – Talking Cat Consultants. In this hilarious video, we are introduced to two talking cat consultants who want to spread the message that all pets need a friend to talk to. The cute-factor is a powerful one, and nonprofits can really benefit from harnessing their power to drum up some support. Refurb the Cat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This week I attended a session with David La Piana , author and long-time nonprofit consultant, hosted by the Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

As a technology trainer, capacity builder, and consultant working with nonprofits, I always ask the fishing question, especially since I work in the area of emerging technologies that often falls prey to Shiny Object Syndrome — ( Google + anyone? Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Bring in new people for consultations, like we did with this small experiment. We will continue to hold consultative sessions with board members and community members. Figure out how to connect and leverage the networks of board members. Be as transparent as possible. Share your board materials and let everyone know what you are up to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Thanks to @PadillaCRT for their consultation prior to and in the heat of the day. Special thanks also to you Beth for your consultation, advice and cheerleading! To check some great examples on Twitter, click here. Jeff Achen is the interactive media strategist for GiveMN.

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