Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

The Google Translate gadget is something that I often use for web content that can translate phrases between over 50 languages, but I had never seen it used on a smart phone in the way it was demonstrated. Also demonstrated is how you can use the voice recorder to send dictate and send an email for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2013

The presentation was prepared for the Miami Philanthropy Conference and addresses a familiar issue: Many nonprofits feel that demonstrating impact through performance measurement is a top priority for their programs and communications efforts including social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And while the amount we raise as a group is a relatively small amount compared to other income sources, it demonstrates our commitment to the organization. Even though none of us on the board are millionaires, we still formalized our giving amounts (which include amount raised) to the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

A few highlights of the questions she addresses: How can nonprofit organizations improve their programs with testing and demonstrate impact without funding at an early stage? The answers are written in a fresh, accessible way and filled with valuable nuggets. How to go from Post-It to proof of concept?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Does not know where to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The StethoCloud is an extension of telemedicine. During the conference, we got a live demonstration of how Dr. William Kennedy, Chief Pediatric Urology, uses a video system from Cisco to check in with patients in remote clinics. (He writes about this on Huffington Post ). He did a live demonstration of a check in with a patient and reviewing (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2013

Beginning March 4th, video submissions will be accepted via the contest website until March 22, 2013, in the following categories: The ImpactX Award: honoring those videos that have demonstrated impact for their causes. The Best Nonprofit Video Award: honoring nonprofit organizations using video to make change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We’ll share the results of three demonstration projects based on social media and survey data from 6,000 respondents. How do you fill in the gaps in your analytics with insights into your customers’ purchases, your fans’ offline interests, or your users’ reasons for liking what they like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While most of the tech experts used lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice as their pedagogical approach and we did some pre-session surveys, it was still important for us to get to better understanding of the skill, knowledge, and mindsets of the participants once in the room. Speak at half your normal speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

The recently published study from Center for Effective Philanthropy, called “ Room for Improvement ” looked at foundation’s support of performance assessment. There is a lot of pressure for nonprofits to “demonstrate impact” and performance assessment is one method. This was a major step forward in theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Moira Gunn is enchanting storyteller and spent the first part of her session telling one story after another that demonstrated a simple idea: The dirty little secret to technology is how you use it. The plenary session on Saturday morning featured Moira Gunn, host of the weekly NPR show, Tech Nation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

They must ask "Have we provided enough value, and demonstrated enough proof behind our model or concept to ask people to give?". I'm not sure that charity: water's biggest challenge is scale, as it is demonstrating impact and long-term sustainability. At the end of the day, organizations have to earn the right to ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The survey reported that more than 80% of nonprofit leaders say “nonprofits should demonstrate the effectiveness of their work by using performance measures,” and yet 71% say they receive no foundation support – monetary or otherwise — for their organization’s assessment efforts.

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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. What advice do you have for others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Moira Gunn is enchanting storyteller and spent the first part of her session telling one story after another that demonstrated a simple idea: The dirty little secret to technology is how you use it. The plenary session on Saturday morning featured Moira Gunn, host of the weekly NPR show, Tech Nation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So, part of the presentation included a live demonstration on Twitter. I posted the following query: Here's the transcript of responses as of two hours after the demonstration. Doing a demonstration like this has a value - it opens up the conversation for further exploration. The first step, of course, is education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

And while the amount we raise as a group is a relatively small amount compared to other income sources, it demonstrates our commitment to the organization. Even though none of us on the board are millionaires, we still formalized our giving amounts (which include amount raised) to the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The demonstration sparked a discussion around the ethical issues of having people unknowingly interact with bots. More on the new law here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

New research funded by the Columbus Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation demonstrates that High dollar donors — especially 30-49 year-olds — use the social web, but have yet to be engaged by strong, trustworthy philanthropic organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

Then, I had them demonstrate different dance movements from their country - where one person would demonstrate and every would copy. I introduced them to the idea of walking and movement as work and incorporated some fun energizers that celebrated Latin American culture. We did this for 5 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

This workshop will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. Measuring Social Change & Media: Beyond BS. Monday, March 11 11:00AM – 1:30PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

This panel will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. The panel includes the same participants and will be looking back and forward about how social media measurement practices in the nonprofit sector have evolved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'm most curious to see how Pepsi will demonstrate leadership in social marketing and of course the longer term result - social impact. The last point is critical, in my mind, for Pepsi to demonstrate that the projects did have a social change impact. This is a big bold effort. Did it impact the brand of Pepsi?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

You can also ask the person to demonstrate it). How did a friend and tend to someone in my neighborhood, family, or community? How am I getting outside today? What desk stretch am I doing today? What beauty am I creating or cultivating or inviting in? What rainbow will I eat today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

Demonstrate progress and success of active projects. Demonstrate progress and success of projects – Publish posts that are specifically about the projects you have going on. Demonstrate progress and success of projects – Use video. Educate general public, local leaders, supporters, donors and volunteers. Build loyalty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Nonprofit executives (83%) understand that social media makes it easier for supporters to organize independently – underscoring how critical it is for nonprofits to demonstrate their value and relevance to advocates. Demonstrate their unique impact to underscore relevance to advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

So, find simple ways for employees to demonstrate their passion in the workplace and tying it to the work week. Then, ask yourself and others how that can be played out in a day-to-day realistic way. Nonprofit staff because they have a passion for what they do. Does your nonprofit have workplace rituals that help build your resilience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The nonprofit is designed to demonstrate the joys and benefits of pet ownership, thus driving increased adoption of pets and responsible ownership of pets. Never be afraid to be a bit silly. US Campaigners Pets Add Life weren’t with their series of videos and their channel has clocked up over 5 million views to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It is another reminder that in our clearly demonstrated that in our connected world, ideas and action can spread fast – and as Clay Shirky says, “We can feel faster than think.” This decision ignited a flurry of responses from individuals and organizations and mainstream media – both for and against the decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication released a significant study earlier this year demonstrating that social sharing does impact charitable actions and giving, many online communicators issued a sigh of relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I made a suggestion in my blog post this morning that Transparency is the discipline of an organization to demonstrate its integrity. The total value of our endowment took a significant beating as demonstrated in the online statistic. Certainly there were concerns initially, and there are limits to how open we can be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Kevin demonstrated the “Say So What To Your Data Three Times” principle. Here’s how he did it: A big spike in traffic to the Global Giving site. .” Kevin came up and gave a mini-lesson on how to use this technique. When he brought up the google analytics for Global Giving, there was a huge spike from last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Carol Dweck , a psychologist at Standford, has spent decades demonstrating that one of the crucial ingredients of successful education is the ability to learn from mistakes. “Unfortunately, children are often taught the exact opposite. After all, nothing focuses the mind as like a hanging as Samuel Johnson once said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Here are a few things are becoming more clear to me as I talk with my colleagues here at GEO: (1) We will always want to support the efforts of our grantees to build stronger boards, better fiscal discipline, more visionary leadership, systems that scale, and better ways to measure and demonstrate impact. None of that will go away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The next session (conducted in Arabic) was a demonstration of listening tools for social media trainers. The delivery was a more formal presentation and demonstration, with full group q/a. Having the small group exercise come first – was useful because people were able to take in the great content presented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Donors aren’t demonstrating that they’re tired of our appeals. This is compared with 7.3% repeat rate among our non-disaster projects during the same time this year, and 6.3% among non-disaster projects in the same period of 2016. We haven’t seen any decrease in email engagement rates (nor an increase in unsubscribes!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2015

Her workshop included presentation, demonstration, and lots of hands-on time. She took us through an excellent data visualization checklist, how to pick the right charts , and shared some of her creative process.

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