Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

piece from Seth Godin was published in mid-December, just noticed the above slideshow. At the time, it prompted some blogosphere discussion including some questions ( here ) and thoughtful debate ( here and here ) raised about Web2.0 and Nonprofits ! Check out Laura Quinn's thoughts on it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

One of the takeaways was, don't assume that everyone thinks like you do - and expose yourself to different points of view. The diversity comes from the different generations in the room, types of nonprofits, and budget size. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. This week I put that into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2008

He talks about what motivates bloggers and how we're different from mainstream press. Photo from Chris Brogan Chris Brogan does it again. My favorite: Bloggers Like Free Prize Inside Experiences. If you want us to write about your software app or your new gizmo, give a few away. handled well, and other times handled a bit weirdly).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

I am no stranger to family diversity having adopted two children and being of different cultures and races.) The film helps kids see and understand that families can different shapes today. That's a different issue and you definitely need to use a spam filter. They were kind enough to send me a copy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We t require us to have a dramatic revolution, turn into communists, or all become like Mother Theresa. We can end extreme poverty - but I have to tell the students the bad news: it???s s your homework??? - Dr. Jeffrey Sachs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2008

A loosely coupled online community is a group of people who are joined together by a common interest and have conversations is different - this might include groups on social networking sites or a network of blogs. There is a difference between an online community and a larger social network strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups. Here’s some ideas for different questions for virtual icebreakers for nonprofits ). There are many different techniques for brainstorming that can easily be adapted to a virtual meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

They're different animals, aren't they? And, do they require different approaches to planning? We know there are different approaches to strategic planning. In other words, how can your organization's social media strategy co-exist, support, enhance, or dovetail with your Internet marketing communications plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

When I was in Cambodia, I was told that most Cambodians don't celebrate their birthdays. particularly those in rural areas who don't keep formal calendars. When I purchased the above card from a street vendor in Phnom Penh for Sara's birthday, I asked her why she sold birthday cards if people didn't celebrate the day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. NpTech Talk. The Socialmarkets Manifesto is here. There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. The "Failure is an option" particularly caught my eye.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. Use Cases We discussed different use cases beyond productivity for writing tasks and processing email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

I got an email from Christopher Penn who does the Financial Aid Podcast at the Student Loan Network who is hoping to hire a marketing director. He even placed a recruitment video on YouTube! The job description is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with the Sharing Foundation's founder, Dr. Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies to work on a couple of projects and get ready for the final phase of the our America's GIving Challenge campaign. Dr. Hendrie has been working tirelessly on this campaign using her social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is a guide about how to navigate and thrive in a connected world that has been increasingly been influenced and increasingly defined by two different forces, old and new power. One of my favorite chapters of the book describes different leadership profiles based on the values and leadership approaches that different leaders use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2007

Meet Sokhodom Pheng. He is a Khmer geek going to school in Austraila. Here's how he is supporting the Cambodian Bloggers Campaign I am studying in Canberra, Australia at the moment so i won't be able to attend the summit. Having said that, I have contributed 5$ through your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2020

The workshop, Work/Life Balance: Tips Fundraisers During A Pandemic included fundraisers from many different countries. This morning I facilitated a virtual mini-workshop for the Resource Alliance as part of its Plan C Online Discussions. The recording and resources can be found here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There is a lot of experiments and research in different areas, including the international development sector to address the 2030 development goals, emergency and humanitarian aid, medical fields and many others. Evaluate model performance across different dimensions that may highlight areas of unfair bias (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This is not a unique problem, many nonprofits face the issue of “silos,” often because different departments or teams don’t have the opportunity to get to know others in their organizations in an informal way. Their idea was to have virtual pizza parties using Zoom and simultaneous pizza delivery at the different sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This will be an interactive session and we’ll each be tackling a different aspect of resilience. In my next post, I’ll share some examples of how different nonprofits have used rituals to boost effectiveness and build relationships all of which lead to more effective team work and more impactful results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. It is also used in education, although it is called something different, “ The Human Continuum.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I don’t know about you, but with everything that is going on in the world today – from natural disasters and political issues – I’m frequently being asked to donate to different causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. It works, in part, because your brain doesn’t know the difference between the actual event or the visualization. We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? The most needed skills differed by their level but also by the type of job they held. Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Or is there a set of skills fundamental to every level? Collaborates and promotes teamwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

As people begin to use these creator tools in different fields and jobs, including fundraising as the example in the Chronicle piece illustrates, there are some benefits. Already, we are seeing artists protest about stolen creative property and school systems ban tool s because of cheating concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

As I do this in different places around the world with different types of nonprofits, different themes bubble up. Look ahead rituals can even be as simple as encouraging staff to take 20-30 minutes on Mondays to look at their week and different deadlines. One of the topics includes stress triggers in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

Allyson Kapin shares a blog post that showcases four different ways that nonprofits are using AI tools. These insights are used to better customize messaging in different digital channels to improve results. The article includes list of proposed best practices for use of AI in development and other social good fields.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I really enjoy teaching in different cultural contexts and observing different learning styles and approaches to working for a nonprofit. When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever. More and more nonprofits are adopting flexible workplace or have remote teams in different cities. Having a remote team or a hybrid of on-site and remote team members requires a different way of working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2022

We are thrilled with the initial reception for the book, here’s a few links to different articles we’ve written and interviews. You can use the social sharing buttons to share this post on social media or forward in email here. Here are some messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

Below are a few links to different articles we’ve written and interviews. This is a must-read for smart leaders who plan to ensure their organizations remain both human-centered and impactful within this fluid, innovative era of AI and automation. I recommend you buy it today! We are thrilled with the initial reception for the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

Jeremiah Owyang has a comprehensive post cataloging different methods to use to facilitate innovation and Design Thinking is one of them. I also get asked about where to get facilitation training for design thinking methods. This post summarizes a few resources. The Big Picture: Design Thinking in the Context of Innovation. Luma Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it. percent change, percent difference). Within the same group at different points in time. Trends : Looking at data over time (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Different culture has different understanding of philanthropy and we use different words to represent various aspects of the concept. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Fundraising, however, can take many different forms, so it can be difficult to know which is best to improve your online donor engagement. If you want some more guidance on different types of nonprofit software, check out DonorSearch’s list of best online giving tools. Click here for a free template. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

only Grant suggests there are three different styles: Givers (those who give to others without an expect for a return); ”Matchers” (those who give to get something in return); and “Takers” (those who pretend to be givers, but are only motivated but what they gain. Interesting food for thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. Mike Radke agreed to share this post about the work. One of the most admirable things about the people who run non-profits can also be their achilles heel: they love helping people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Different experts can speak at different locations. Involve Different Office Locations. If you are not doing walking meetings because your nonprofit has different office locations or you have some “virtual staff”, you can still have walking meetings with everyone.

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