Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. The webinar is sold out, but the folks at Convio are making the recording available if you sign up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

Holly knows how to weave people together, give recognition, create rituals, and all the many other skills of building a strong community. One tradition she started last year, in response to the economy, was to get extra sponsorship from Convio to cover some scholarships for those who otherwise couldn't make it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

I'm really excited about the Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their social media measurement lessons learned. I'll be attending SXSW in Austin, TX the week after next. I am participating in several panels and events at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

For the past eight years, I've attended NTC , NTEN's premiere conference for nonprofit techies.* Convio is offering to match the dollars raised up to $10,000. During the holidays, I was talking to Holly Ross on Twitter wondering if the bad economy would be a damper on conference attendance. And, you can donate miles too. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

(See NetGen research and comparison of older and younger brains and how they change with using the Internet ) Allyson Kapin, Frog Loop Blog, in a post called " Reaching Babyboomers: The Next Big Demographic in Online Fundraising " discusses the question: "Should nonprofits continue to pour money into direct mail programs to reach new Baby Boomers?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. That nonprofits and companies should not set up a Twitter account to "prattle on about their products and services." Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

Last week I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research on different arts organizations using social media effectively. Hat Tip Jordan V at Convio ) Photo by Aur2899. Shelley Bernstein, staff members at the Museum responsible for social media projects, left a comment on my blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Convio , Sea Change Strategies and Edge Research asked 3,000 donors from 32 nonprofit organizations about their online behaviors and preferences. What was surprised me was they came from people we didn't already have on our radar (yep, we've cultivated them since).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Or will Convio innovate less due to their massive new market share and potential perceived lack of competition? Jon Stahl gives us a good reading of the Tea Leaves. A Few Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Are you impulse adopting tools? Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. Chris Pirillo was there and at one point got up and offered to do silly stunts if we donated money to 140 Smiles. I have it on video). I'll look forward to hearing a report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

I stopped for yet another a latte on the way home, checked my treo and discovered this email from Ryan at PicNet about the big news in the Nonprofit Technology World -- Convio Buys GetActive. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday. Convio says it plans to integrate GetActive???s GetActive???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Twitter Focus Group: Jordan V from Convio calls Twitter an unofficial focus group! Automating Listening: You can automate your listening by using a tool like Tweetscan and search for particular terms - like nonprofit. Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation." Twitter As A Conversation Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

I’m looking for good examples (and stories) about nonprofit dashboards, especially ones that support social media decision-making. Nonprofit Dashboards, Guest Post by Jacob Smith. Nonprofit Dashboards, Guest Post by Jacob Smith. A dashboard can be your nonprofit’s trusted adviser. 3) Accountability Dashboards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

Here's what I learned: What are some of the best practices for nonprofits who are planning/implementing a keyword advertising campaign? SalesForce/Google AdWords Learning Center Google AdWords Learning Center Leveraging Google AdWords for Fundraising Convio Primer on SEO. We'll still learning and tweaking. And that's the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Get Active (best for advocacy, easiest to use email tool) Kintera (big program and lots of features are not necessarily used) Convio (fundraising) Blackbaud. Need SSL Merchant Account Nonprofit status Documentation on your site to demonstrate the rules Privacy policy ??? Vendors: Recommendations on which one depend on organization???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. Read his " 15 Clay Shirky Quotes That Blew My Mind " Here's my quick recap of the Q/A: What is the value proposition for nonprofits where people can organize themselves?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2012

Guest Post By Dennis McCarthy is Convio’s. We’ve known for some time that an integrated multi-channel approach to constituent engagement is key for nonprofits to be successful; however there’s been limited understanding of optimizing integrated marketing or its impact. Integration on both fronts is imperative. See chart above].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The most recent example comes from Holly Ross, Executive Director of NTEN, who is willing to loose her dignity to help $10,000 for the Nonprofit Technology Conference scholarship fund. The Nonprofit Technology Conference is the premier meeting for people who work with nonprofits and handle the technology. Donate Airline Miles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

” Occasionally, like today, I find myself stuck or lack inspiration for what to blog about or there is a hole in my editorial calendar. I have been using the “Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly” Maturity of Practice model as a framework for over a year now to assess nonprofit social media practice. Source: Copyblogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

James Young talked about how nonprofits are using these tools for campaigns , Randi Zuckerberg gave an overview of Facebook and nonprofit activity and Scott Goodstein shared his experience from the Obama Campaign. The next three panelists spoke about the topic from the institution and campaign perspective.

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