Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. Additionally, over the past 2 years, Teddy and I were very lucky to work with other SF Arts organizations in the “Leveraging Social Media” (LSM) workshop series. Here’s his reflection.

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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.”. We can now discuss, highlight and organize around the initiatives that work. Her stories also reveal the importance of social media to development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." There are examples (see below). But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

While Twitter and other platforms can amplify the under belly of the world, they can also connect people with nonprofit organizations and spread social good, joy, and even fun. Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today.

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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. Change Native to the Digital World : Lucy Bernholz is for examples of social change organizations that are totally native to the digital world. 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 9, 2008

So, here's my plea for examples and pointers. How do organizations create policies? If you have an example or any insights, please leave a comment. Easter Seals has always encouraged staff and volunteers to be champions on behalf of the organization by spreading the word about Easter Seals??? Our goals are: ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2019

As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Do people genuinely like each other?

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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. Take for example Connie Bensen 's post and story. There in lies the key to effective conversation sparking. When someone is new to a field or an organization, there is an orientation period. I understand Chris. Being a learner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, turned to Facebook messenger bot when the organization’s 1.5 It’s available for free to other nonprofits through BotsForCharity.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

For example, take a look at what EDF has put together. Does your organization have an example of strategic tweeting that is social? So, the idea is that you do your listening and engage, but you think about how your engagement supports overall communications goals. This can be done with direct replies @ on Twitter or hashtags.

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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

JULY 22, 2009

So, I wrote a post organizing all the questions and providing some short answers in a follow up post. This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. How often should an organization post to Twitter or send out updates on Facebook? Thank you Kevin!

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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. Take for example this recent case study on the blog. Joe says, "It happens when organizations aren't responsible in using the tool. Think like an offline community grassroots organizer.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. Your leader as a champion and personal brand for your organization is going to have less risk than external volunteers or champions. Rich Huddleston Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, is an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Grassroots organizing. Right now it is difficult to discover bots, but after a bit of research I found a few examples of nonprofits making use of Facebook Messenger platform. This is one of the best examples I saw of using bots for engagement and it most definitely required some custom programming. Poverty Reduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Last week, I was in Sao Paolo for the ABCR Festival, the leading conference in Brasil for fundraising for nonprofit organizations. The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. This was my third visit to the country. A multi-screen world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Community Organizing. Tracking: This is keeping track of the conversation themes and threads. The facilitator indicates that they will summarize the discussion and names the themes in play and then invites moving the conversation onward with “any more comments? Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. Any many more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It isn’t a new field—it has been around for decades—but recent increases in computing power combined with decreases in the cost of that power have created a new generation of AI-powered tools and applications that are available to everyday people and organizations. AI can increase online donor conversion and retention rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2018

This year #GivingTuesdayIndia, organizers expect over 10 million people in India will celebrate giving by taking part in over a dozen digital fundraising campaigns. Leading up to the day, organizations provide training in online digital fundraising and giving via mobile apps.

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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? Source: How To Add Blogging Conversations by Darren Rowse. Source: How To Add Blogging Conversations by Darren Rowse. Answer questions.

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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? When I see posts that relate to these topics -- or am pointed to people and organizations who are using Twitter -- I follow them. What is the benefit of having a conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. Also, larger organizations might have silo issues, with walls between alumni outreach and development functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

She points to a good example in healthcare and how radiologists are using AL algorithms to more quickly (and accurately) analyze scans. She pointed an example of using natural language processing algorithms to analyze research papers over the past ten years in a particular scientific field to determine what connections might have been missed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Here’s some additional thoughts sparked by our conversation after reflecting on various blog posts I’ve written and others. Organization. The notes are here.

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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. I am Khmer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . What if the default was to share your organization's dashboard openly with everyone? That's the cultural norm in the nonprofit sector, with a couple of exceptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

One example of Narrow AI that most of us interact with everyday and where you can see many nonprofit examples is “Conversational AI.” Let’s look at some examples of Chat Bots and Voice Activated fundraising being used by nonprofits today. Nonprofit Chat Bots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

It is an array of technology that includes: robots, chat bots, artificial intelligence, machine learning, conversational interfaces, smart devices, drones, self-driving cars and others which are increasingly becoming the interface between organizations and humans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The nonprofit organizations I’m working with are are seeking out ways to create collective resilience in their workplaces. The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas. These are just a few of many examples of using technology to facilitate staff relationships and encourage workplace wellbeing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

What is the best way for a non-profit organization to engage the audience? How can we turn our fans that we engage with on social media into financial supporters of our organization? Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. How can we get people to talk to us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2019

These include: Focus on Donor Empathy: Understanding the donors point of view and shaping engagement based on that knowledge. It is about creating an experience for the donor, not so much an ask based on what the staff or organization needs. Nonprofits are selling donors joy and passion through the experience of their donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

Using monitoring and measurement tools such as Radian6, Topsy Pro, Google Alerts and Tweetdeck, Upwell builds a meteorology of ocean conversations, pinpointing opportunities for intervention. We find out what is spiking, and join the conversation. Matt Fitzgerald has detailed some of our Big Listening insights on our blog.

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