Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

I’ve been thinking about conversation lately. Conversation is the natural, driving force of social change. You can plug into conversations on lots of different platforms and channels; on Facebook, blogs, Twitter, and, of course, by email. These conversations are how we learn to embrace unthinkable things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Brian Solis has created the next reiteration - the conversation prism. Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue, and Partnership. I purchased Jaffe's Join the Conversation book when it came last October, 2007 when I first heard about it. I've been a fan of Joseph Jaffe's blog for a while, so when I first heard about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

And, we were lucky enough to have her paired with Pat Mitchell at the Paley Center for Media recently for a conversation titled “Building a Movement in an Interconnected World.”. Building a Movement in an Interconnected World: A Conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz (Part 1). We would love to hear from you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The other day of I saw the term "Conversation Graph" in a title on a post by Brian Solis. The Conversation Graph Has Gotten More Complex. Click to see larger image And, blogging was not just about conversations on your home base, but also on other blogs. From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. It is very easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

This week we've moved onto Module 2: Participate in the Conversation. If you've put on your listening ears, it should give way to joining the conversations that relate to your organization or issue area. Or how do you encourage your stakeholders to engage a conversation with you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

And, there have been many spin-off conversations on other blogs as a result. There in lies the key to effective conversation sparking. Take for example Connie Bensen 's post and story. As Holly Ross notes on the NTEN blog , Chris doesn't like to call himself an expert. I understand Chris. Expert would imply that you are not a learner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2009

I only had time for a quick dip into the social media and nonprofit stream and found a couple of hot conversations. Photo by Lecerle. Today is a bit a whirlwind for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

In the evening on April 5th from 6-7 PM PST, I’ll facilitate an evening conversation about inspirational stories of the power of networks. How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? How to support networks of individuals and foster citizen engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

This week we've had a lively discussion about Module 2: Participate in the Conversation. How do you find conversations on Twitter that you want to join? It has been exciting to watch the network grow and to see how the conversation has expanded. What is the benefit of having a conversation? Has it brought you readers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Charlene Li writes about the potential of Google Talk to generate searchable conversations. Imagine if you were using audio in asychronous way in a forum - audio as dialogue - imagine how easy that would make it to scan the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

I asked my Twitter followers for suggestions for questions , I tweeted the key points from the conversation yesterday. They also have a @causes on Twitter and I hope they will use that to engage directly with the nonprofits who want to get better results rather than just tweeting about themselves. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Alan has replied and Karen has jumped into the conversation. My virtual colleague, Alan Levine has been exploring the use of YouTube, Flickr, and other free tools in the classroom for the K-12 Online Conference. When I saw his video, I responded with one of my own pointing him to my YouTube Interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Ironically, I read a post from a month ago by Stowe Boyd called " Beyond Blogs: The Conversation Has Moved Into Flow " where he stats that conversation is moving from blog comments thread which is slow and static to a more fast form of conversation - the flow in Twitter, Friendfeed, and other places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2006

We had dinner, took a walk on the board, and I got a chance to have a conversation with my dad about blogging. (He I decided to video blog the first conversation. Our first conversation was about what he hoped to do on his blog and to come up with a name. He said he wanted to create a blog. We accomplished that! (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Last week, I had a conversation with a respected colleague and we were musing about the difference between a 20 something who lives online and a soon to be 51-year old who lives online and how our wired fundraising tactics might differ. Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2008

In September, a day or two after I got back from Cambodia, I had the honor to have a conversation with Jon Udell on Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators. I was just reading Paul Windley's Technometria blog and discovered that the interview made the top ten list (based on number of downloads)! I almost feel off my chair!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2005

We did a few experiments in the Full Circle on Audio as Conversation and some of the tangents included some vlog posts, but here's a new forum set up at vlogdir that can embed video and mp3 in messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

David Wilcox has an excellent post about generating conversation on blogs or for that matter other social media tools. The other reason is that I'm prepping for a couple of conference sessions on Social Media Metrics and one of the areas to consider is "conversation index" - more on that later. Source: Skelliewag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2008

I was pleased to see this post over at the Nokia Conversations blog discussing the problems with the firmware upgrades. I'm glad to see that they are willing to have an open conversation about glitches. As they mention on the post: Still, as exemplified by Amy, there is always a chance that something will go wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

What tools and techniques do you use to create good conversations on your blog? Do you have an awesome example of a conversation on your blog or one that you've started elsewhere? Here's Step 2: Conversation Read someone's blog post and start a conversation: Advice: Before you leave a comment, ask yourself: What did they say well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Five Hot Conversations. Screenshot of a poll from Philanthropy 2173 Still time to register your opinion! NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Based on Social Messenger Framework by David Lipscomb. I'm getting ready for the WeAreMedia Webinar , a deeper dive on listening, and have been thinking about how you analyze what you hear and apply it. Also, how to avoid what Holly Hight at Project Bread last month - getting past command and control messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

So, here's a podcast of my first real-time conversation with Wanna, who proceeded to give me a Khmer Language lesson! I noticed one of the Cambodian bloggers, Wanna , had logged on to Yahoo IM. So, I pinged him. And he typed, wait a minute, I'll call you. Download wanna.mp3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

The emphasis of the session was on how to find conversations online and respond to them. I like how Bryan and Doug framed using several social media tools (google alerts, tags, and rss) to find conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

We are not used to conversations with another person while we are staring in a mirror. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. The walk could incorporate unstructured conversation or could be focused on a work topic. We are not able to be in the moment with that other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you are new, start at the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Hurdis Griffith is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the LIFP program. She attended my Web.20 20 and Nonprofits workshop at the annual meeting. She asked me to demonstrate how to create a blog post. This blog post serves that purpose. I decided to ask her a few questions: Why do you want to set up a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Niels' Blog has a post called " Wanted - A President Candidate That Blogs " wondering if presidential candidates understand what it means to have a conversation online and a related post called " How Not To Blog." " Web 2.0, Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here. 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

And back to David Wilcox's posts about blogger actvists preparing for a conversation. So, the question isn't should we put down our social media tools and have a conversation? I think it is how do we use our social media tools to extend the conversation and bring in other s both online and offline. I think I am onto something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

My goals for this screencast: -Informal conversation about benefit of using Skype with video -Integrate music, real life video, screen video capture to figure out best production flow -Weave audio/video channels -Do over narration of a real life video clip -Do the whole project in less than two hours (goal met!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2005

One action learning experiment played with was titled "Audio As Online Conversation." " Some inquiry questions: What is the best way to weave audio into online community conversations? What are the challenges and opportunities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2008

Source: Mzinga: How To Determine Operational Readiness for Building a A Community vs. Just Enabling conversation. A loosely coupled online community is a group of people who are joined together by a common interest and have conversations is different - this might include groups on social networking sites or a network of blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For instance, NeonMoves, a mobile application, is designed to help fundraisers spend less time trying to figure out whom to contact and more time in conversation with donors. AI can increase online donor conversion and retention rates. Software vendors in this category include Blackbaud , boodle.AI , Gravyty , and Neon One.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2018

The next disruptive technology phase is already upon here and it includes a technology designed to emulate human conversation – chatbots programmed with artificial intelligence. More recently, Woebot , an AI therapist bot designed to help humans with mental health issues , has had over 2 million conversations since is launch last year.

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