Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

She agreed to write this post about what she learned from a panel presentation she and other nonprofit social media professionals gave at the Social Media Week in DC – several of whom have presented or participated at one of the Packard Foundation OE Program Peer Learning Exchanges I facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

We wanted to approach the need for employment and training opportunities from a more positive angle, demonstrating through first-person success stories the remarkable impact that finding a job can have on individuals and their families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Along the way, I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. One of my favorites is Friends Restaurant – which provides vocational training in the restaurant field for street kids – a sort of DC Central Kitchen with a restaurant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2015

When she was 14, Sejal founded the Elevator Project , an organization that aims to lift people out of poverty through apprenticeship, vocational training and job placement. She was inspired to create her project in 2012 when she met a man named Juan in a Soup Kitchen in Washington, DC. I was so impressed that made a donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I was in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday for a two-day workshop is designed for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Justice Leaders, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. Tags: scholar social media training materials working wikily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Dave Witzel was a participant in the workshop and thought the game could be adapted as apart of training on social media at the staff retreat. In fact, just last month, I took.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

My next remote apperance is at Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. Tags: Conferences Tips Training Design ffog remote presentation skype twitter video. It was great to get this feedback during the presentation and helped make it more effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. As a trainer, I always like to check back with participants 6 months to year after a training to see how they are doing. Have they been able to put the ideas into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

In the early days, the event offered a small selection of consulting, on-site training, or actual hardware or local area network auditing projects. See you in 2011 in Washington, DC. The volunteers went out to the community and worked in the offices of local organizations. Photos: Lydia Mann - Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a grantee organization and also attended the Packard Foundation's recent Network Effectiveness Convening by the Monitor Institute in Washington, DC in May. For more context, see Networks and Philanthropy Exploration and the most recent release of the Working Wikily paper from Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

During the past 8 days the two of us have wandered this great land of ours, bouncing around from Reston Va, to Ann Arbor Mi, a stop in Boulder Co, a quick hop over the Rocky’s to Seattle Wa and finally coming home to Washington DC. He is a member of the national CIO 4 Good and Green IT Consortium Groups in DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

He edited the above short little video of the discussion while on the train to New York and uploaded it to blip.tv Next month in Washington, DC at the NTC Conference, I designed a session on video blogging for nonprofits. while visiting blip.tv As he notes in an email, "something poetic about that" or geekily recursive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2008

Jocelyn Harmon started the Marketing for Nonprofits blog a year ago as a place to share her thoughts on nonprofits, social media, marketing, and training. I had applied to be a Training Manger at the Georgia Center for Nonprofits ??? an organization that provides services, training and consulting to other charities - and didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. She asked me if I would write about it or Tweet it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

If you are reading this roundup, and you haven't registered for NTC in Washington, DC, go do it now and while you're at it, register for Penguin Day too. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Since not every person in the cohort could travel to Washington, DC, we had virtual participants who joined us via phone and the webinar software. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

When we both got back to DC we got together , and he and Mari needed some help with some business development support. Build Skills and Income by Training Guatemalan Women - This is an economic development project, a self esteem project and a human rights project all in one. So I started working 3 days a week with them in 2003.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Of course, being in touch with our supporters in so many ways means we'll also be able to thank them in just as many ways!" This is a youth-run organization that works in the DC area. She has been using blogs in the computer walk-in center since 2005 (through a technical assistance grant with the CNET, I worked with them back in 2005 ).

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