Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

" It is a version of the Cute Dog Theory - what organizations need to think about to be successful. What the heck is the Cute Dog Theory? was invented because people want to share cute pictures of their cats. That cute puppy belongs to Nigel Allen, a nonprofit techie in Sydney.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

I don’t have a dog right now or else I’d bribe it with some cheese and snap a photo. However, Amy Sample Ward took this adorable photo of her dog Simba with the book! Definitely a keeper for the Cute Dog Theory Wiki ) You can order your copy of Social Change Any Time Every Where on Amazon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2008

Meanwhile, I'm thinking about remixing the cute dog theory into the cute crocadile theory. More about the conference in the news here. Any travel advice? If you had an opportunity to go to Australia - what is an absolute must-see?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

As Cute As I Get by Hermanosmccoy (used with permission) Photograph of "Calder," from Richard McCoy IMA Blogger. I wasn't surprised to discover that two of the IMA bloggers, Richard and Robert were dog lovers. Richard has an appropriately named bull dog - Calder. What makes them a success?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

A tiny black horse, about the size of a large dog, nuzzles a ten-year-old girl named Faith. And yes, cute animals have serious social media power. Read Beth Kanter's Cute Animal Theory to learn how to tap into the power of cute animals — even if your organization doesn't necessarily work with animals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

And definitely as a great addition to my Cute Dog Theory personal learning space. A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily : Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple. Giving and taking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Tags: cute dog theory ROI listening 2ndwave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

I talked about the Cute Dog Theory of Social Media Adoption, A Few Tools, and A Story about social media and fundraising. It also covered the differences in technology styles of digital natives compared to analogue adults or can old dog learn new tricks? It was a fantastic bi-generational question. Twitter Comment ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2008

Dave did a video interview of me about the cute dog theory ). I met Dave Cohn (aka Digidave ) at the Netsquared Conference where I did a quick video interview with him about getting started in social media. The site is called Spot.Us. I enjoy reading his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

For the two months leading up to my brief vacation, I've been doing a lot of training and presenting - chewing on some lessons learned from the America's Giving Challenge , Social Media ROI , and Cute Dogs. Strategy and Theory. It's time to reinvent some more. Some places I want to go. Social Media Readiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

The Cute Dog Theory. Twitter Demographics. Social Change Behind the Firewall. Twitter is the Second Highest Referral After Google. Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes. Pimp My Nonprofit Panel at SXSW. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Interview with Jonathon Colman. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Cute Dog Theory: Thinking Strategically about Social Media. With using a wiki, you can add resources or answers to the questions throughout the day - so people feel like they got their question answered without taking up too much time in the whole room discussion or getting to far off track in the agenda. Why It is Important ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Understand Your Theory of Change As It Applies to Donations. Michaela Hackner's cute dog, Atlas , a bark and paw shake to the Cute Dog Theory. One lesson is that if your fundraising platform doesn't allow this flexibility, don't use it. Or maybe Causes will improve the goal setting feature. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University has been doing biannual survey of nonprofit technology benchmarks for its regional nonprofits (Southwestern Pennsylvania) for the past ten years. I remember how excited we were when the first data was published ten years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2008

Skip, David's dog. I'm doing a series of blog about lessons learned from nonprofits in adopting social media projects as the Cute Dog Theory. (If If you want to do an interview and have a dog, feel free to add your dog to the NpTech Dog Group ) David J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2008

I'm going to explain on the Cute Dog Theory but I need some photographic evidence. I need photos of nonprofit techies who do work in social media strategy and love dogs - need a photo of you with your dog. Also include a pointer to you with a photo of your dog (or cat). Garrett - Dogs in Tracks Via Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

And, of course, to revisit my Cute Dog Theory and see how it applies to Networked Nonprofits. This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page. Social Learning In Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

I've been working on something called the " cute dog theory " of social media and nonprofit adoption. I couldn't help but notice that you're a dog lover - I saw your dogbook on Facebook. Can you tell me about your dogs? We have three dogs in the house right now. She is the alpha for sure.

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