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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Colleague Miriam Brousseau tagged me and several other “close professional ties” asking us for resources on nonprofits and content strategy. I asked Miriam if she would summarize what she learned about nonprofits and content strategy in a guest post and here it is. Content strategist Jonathon Colman.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm. And, if you want to dive deeper into content marketing for nonprofits, go subscribe to Kivi Leroux Miller’s blog. If you are new to the concept of an editorial calendar, it is a user-friendly tool for mapping relevant, compelling content to your media channels.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits should not start with the tools and data, but start to clearly define success and their audience. By doing so, they will understand the few data points and the tools needed to collect that data to figure out if they have been successful! Then check out Simply Measured.

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APRIL 25, 2014

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. As he notes, the analysis can be helpful to him as a journalist and content curator to identify potential sources online. The notes are here.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Last month, I had the pleasure of doing a session on Content Curation called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from the Best Content Curator on the Planet: Robin Good? I spent some time going through the tools on Robin’s list to find the ones that were easy to use and gave me good stuff quickly. Which ones?

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AUGUST 19, 2015

(Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Content curation: Best practices. Dilbert characters are talking about content curation. Scoop.It one of the premiere content creation tools is now out beta. In my own curation of content , I’m discovering many more content curators out there. Everyone can be a content curator!

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JANUARY 19, 2012

(You can get a discount of $20 off the registration by entering the code “Beth” when you sign up ). This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network. It is a great technique to keep up with your field.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

Based on the research, they have launched a platform that helps connect practitioners with tools and resources to tell better stories of impact. I particularly like the sections about how to create a culture of storytelling and measurement. The 40/60 Content Rule: Less Time Writing, More Time Sharing. We’ve named it Hatch.

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MARCH 29, 2013

E-Book #2: Feeding the Content Beast. The book has useful content curation tips, but what really reasonated was this one: Organize based on audience needs. Make sure that you present your curated content using categorization and hierarchy that’s as useful to your audience as it is to you. Happy Friday!

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MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). ” Other amplifier tools include JustCoz and Gaggleamp. The first step is to get organized.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Most importantly, participants began to think through their content and engagement strategies. There is no better tool for doing this than the LightBox Collaborative 5th Annual Editorial Calendar. And it’s all stored in a handy interactive, multiuser tool so you can edit, share and execute across your team.

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JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Media Applications and Tools.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. It is a Twitter analytics tool. Storify is a content curation tool.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book is not only an excellent reference for many Facebook questions, but also provides tactical recommendations for an effective Facebook content, engagement, and measurement strategy. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. .&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly.

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JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first. Front of House team.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. Is there a tool that can automate this someone asked on my blog’s Facebook page ?

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AUGUST 3, 2007

Jerimiah Owyang points to a social media measurement tool called Blogscope. ll start to need these tools to, track, and centralize one???s ve predicted that the future websites will be community based websites, so aggregating that content in one area helps to make you the first stop for product knowledge. s not about that.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. I have used online polling mostly on Webinars to learn more about audience characteristics at the beginning of the session and as reflection exercises in between sections of content.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Your nonprofit can co-create high quality content that is of value to your audience. Your nonprofit can have influencers share your content with their networks, expanding your reach and engagement. The key engagement opportunity is to give them some social media love and ask them to share your content.

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JULY 9, 2019

Lucy Bernholz in a post about Nonprofits and Artificial Intelligence also points out that we should not focus on the how nonprofits are using the tools, but there are also some very important ethical concerns. Artificial Intelligence: Snake Oil or Powerful Nonprofit Tool?

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

The template has been adapted by others, including this version for small organizations created by John Haydon. I also suggest that you pick up a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller’s “ Content Marketing for Nonprofits “ to also help you in your content strategy for next year. Great idea! Great implementation!

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

GivingCompass , a web site that delivers content and tools to help all of us become “impact givers” and improve the quality of our philanthropy, recently added a tool called the “ Giving Planner, ” that allows you to build a personal impact giving plan in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors! Today we're looking at Micro Media tools. This is any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This article summarizes how some corporations are doing this with AI and other automation tools. How AI Is Transforming Content Creation reviews the impact that AI tools are having in writing content. This CMS Wire article describes more about the impact and highlights six tools your nonprofit can start using today.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Rituals can also be used by teams in the workplace to improve effectiveness. Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

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JULY 2, 2009

There is a tool called TweetChat and as you can see from this week’s community chat conference , it grabs all the posts with the same hash tag, deposits them into a separate silo, giving you the experience of being in a separate chat room, rather than distributed all over Twitter, which is actually what is happening.

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MAY 15, 2020

This makes it easier to focus on the content while handling additional questions, troubleshooting and technical problems. Virtual Meeting Tools. 111 Tools To Get You Through Pandemic. Robin Good’s Mega List of Online Collaboration Tools. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators.

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JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. Long term vision: They think there are many more activists out there and the best way to connect and collaborate, but give them their own tools.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. People can add and embellish your content and if you have access to the remix, it can give you new ideas. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. "You are free to use the content, just me credit and/or a link."

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Ironically, these posts and a few others last week upped my reach by 274% but more importantly supported my goal of generating ideas for blog content! As Stephanie mentions in her tips , “Create Awesome Content” is at the top of the list. You have all the tools you need to “go viral.” No problem.

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APRIL 23, 2014

Instagram has a couple of marketing benefits. It’s a great branding tool because it can engage audiences, creative instimacy, and appeals to the emotions. There are lots of photo editing apps that work with Instagram, management tools, and tools to measure Instagram. What’s your best tip or tool?

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AUGUST 14, 2008

Last week, I did my annual Blog ROI benchmarking and I started to noodle around with the question - How can I use AideRSS as a tool to help me evaluate engagement and improve my blog? Aide RSS wrote about measuring social engagement on a blog which that looks at a number of different metrics. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors!   We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others. 

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