Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2012

October 17 from 4-6 pm, Book Party and Discussion – hosted by ZeroDivide, Northern California Grantmakers, and the Levi Strauss Foundation. October 18 from 5-7 pm, Stanford University PACS - Book Discussion with the authors moderated by Lucy Bernholz. And, we also have some four-legged fans from “ Nptech Dogs.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. A definition of screencasting, with real examples. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3 Top Three Takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2008

This week we'll be discussing and building Module 2: Thinking About Social Media Strategically? as part of NTEN's We Are Media : Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits project. In module 2 , we look at these learning goals: To understand the elements of a social media strategy map. Photo by Editor B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I blogged about the content last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Six lucky wiki contributors to Module 5 between now and August 3rd will have an opportunity to get a free copy of either Media Rules and Mobilizing Generation 2.0.). Today we're going to discuss community participation, but I wanted to first acknowledge some of the contributions. Wiki participants have been very busy bees!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

During the month of September and into October, the WeAreMedia project will be discussing the content in the tactical modules on the wiki. As the ExperienceTheBlog suggests: Simply put, the best way to use social media is to use it. Market research generates answers, while listening using social media generates insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

However, if you were doing a 6 month peer learning program, you would definitely want to look at the four levels of outcomes and measurement them. Here are some examples of the questions you can ask adult learners to write down and then discuss in small groups. Too often, our participant surveys only focus on the first level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. For example, Socialedge compiled a list of Twitter users in the social entrepreneurship sector that included a list of hashtags.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. . The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. 20" or "Social Media." ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0 " We???ll This session is NOT going to be a web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki). Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

I met Lina Srivastava at SXSW last month and I found her clarifying commentary on the " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social good/systemic change? Now to dig into this topic because it combines a couple of interest - storytelling with social media and working in a networked way. very insightful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London. It all translated into electricfying conversation -- both formally during the Summit and informally during social interaction. (I The Summit was a full-day session with all 80 or so people in the same room.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Openness - ????A

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page , I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki. NutshellMail : About a month or so ago, Manny Hernandez mentioned this free tool as a social media time saver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." We addressed two content areas: The art and science of crowd sourcing for social change. Next practices in integrating social media for program delivery that leads to social outcomes.

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JULY 7, 2016

Organizational Definitions. Here we will take a quick look at critical vocabulary for each system type, and apply a written definition to further comprehend these differences. I’ve hinted at this in my above definitions; semesters, as opposed to business’ quarterly scale is one very noticeable difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

Not sure how to use the wiki software and may feel too difficult or time consuming to figure out. One of the design decisions in setting up the wiki was registration. The wikispaces discussion feature on each page is great for brainstorming ideas, problem solving, or pre-writing. We decided to make it easy as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Here are three techniques I use: Connect with and research audience via social media.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

If you’re using social media, please use the hashtag #NPTechLeaders, and some of our team will be on social media with you as well. But there definitely are issues to pay attention to there. There are definitely tools out there that can help you with that. You’re not definitely hamstrung in that situation.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

She didn't really know what a wiki was, but she liked the idea of it. There are two things that worry me about this: Museum executives are often fascinated by the social/cultural outcomes of social media but may not understand the specific characteristics of the platforms (and are too busy to spend their time learning them).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks. Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Here's a quick working definition to get us started: Content curation focuses. from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. on using the web to highlight important information in situations where.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Presentation looks great and also some really good points made in it too, will be interesting to see how they move forward with integrating social media. Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] The blog coincided with the rise of social media, showing how Flickr could truly be used in a collective manner.

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