Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Participants included executive directors and communications directors from a variety of nonprofits from the Bay Area and beyond. One communications director shared that she scans the headlines every morning and only goes deep into stories that are relevant to their communications strategy and limits her time.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

The NonProfit Times just announced its 2009 Power & Influence Top 50 , an annual list of the most influential nonprofit leaders in the sector. Holly Ross is on the list and it makes me so very happy to see Holly get the recognition she deserves! You rock Holly!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Social Media and Its Relationship with Online Fundraising by Carie Lewis , Director of Emerging Media at HSUSA. The Science of Email by Steve MacLaughlin , Director of Ideas Labs at Blackbaud.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

Is it true? What organization? Well, that's just one of the links that showed up on my NpTech Tag Summary over at Netsquared. If you're curious or want to explore the many other tasty and useful nonprofit technology links, go right over there and read it !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Special thanks to awesome guest bloggers who will be covering these important topics over the next week on my blog: Special thanks to the following members of the conference social media team for their contributions: Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Efrain Gutierez, Associate, FSG.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums , a Points of Light enterprise. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. By Ben Duda. We’d love to hear about your experiences and ideas.

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MARCH 16, 2012

Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. Darin McKeever, Deputy Director, Charitable Sector Support, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Linda Wood, Program Director, Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr.

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APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

No matter the organization’s size, it’s critical to have leadership at the executive director level deeply invested. Adoption Strategy Devi mentioned that small nonprofits have been more motivated to get in front of generative AI tools because it shifts them out of time scarcity to time abundance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

About a month ago, I presented at O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns West where I met Jesse Stay co-author of the excellent guide about Facebook. He graciously offered to give me a copy of his book about to be published book, "I'm on Facebook, Now What?" " as a book away for the blog.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

John Esterle, Executive Director, The Whitman Institute. Paula Goldman, Director, Omidyar Network. Mary Manuel, Managing Director, McKay Foundation. Mary Manuel, Managing Director, McKay Foundation. Stephanie McAuliffe, Director Organizational Effectiveness, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2012

I also wanted to recognize the amazing women I’m working with through the e-mediat project: Heather Ramsey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Center for Women’s Leadership Initiatives @hramseyIIESF. Nermeen Obeidat, Country Director, Jordan, @nobeidatDiana. Widad El Hanafi,Country Director, Morocco, @woodalisa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

One of the basic tenets of my first book with Alison Fine, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” was that everyone in the organization participates in social media from the executive director on down – not just the “social media person.”

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Before their annual staff retreat, Erika discussed the takeaways from the workshop with her executive director and some ideas of how to apply it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

What other executive directors in your field that you respect, follow or and feel inspired by are using social creatively? What are your strengths and preferences and what is the best match in terms of social channels? How will social improve things you already KNOW and value?

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The panelists included, Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY and author of Automating Inequality ; Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy Research for the AI Now Institute ; and Di Luong, Research and Policy Organizer at Media Mobilizing Project. You can watch the keynote on YouTube.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. So, imagine how I must have felt two years ago when I became the Executive Director of the Social Sector Accelerator.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

They can, for example, provide executive directors with leadership training, organizations with skills and tools to develop strategic plans, and networks with training on the latest technologies to scale their work across the globe. OE grants help nonprofits strengthen their leadership, organizations, and networks. She tweets at @kdreich.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jeremey Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab has been studying this malady suggests that it is caused by Nonverbal Overload. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Says Jim Murphy, “In the early days of Twitter, our Executive Director, Ken Roth , was an early adopter is still active on Twitter. Kenneth Roth , Executive Director. Lotte Leicht , EU Director. Andrew Stroehlein , European Media Director. Nadim Houry , Deputy News Director, Middle East.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

Jay Geneske is Director of Digital at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he pioneers new ways to hear and share innovative ideas and perspectives on serving the needs of poor or vulnerable people in a time of rapid change. While there have never been more ways to reach audiences, it has also never been more difficult to really reach them.

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MAY 28, 2014

The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell. Humberto Kam , Director, Online Engagement & Marketing, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Abdi Soltani , Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Bob Agres Executive Director of Hawai’i Alliance for Community Based Economic Development said that network weaving is the humility to discover the unique gift of each person you encounter and to connect it with a need. Photo by Rumpleteaser. Guest post from Stephanie McAuliffe. That’s beautiful.

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JUNE 30, 2016

“Standardizing how we classify and catalog documents creates more entry points for people—specialists or generalists—to help them find content more easily,” Nicolette Lodico, director of information management at Ford Foundation, told us in a recent interview. “[I]t We’d be glad to hear those thoughts in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2011

Speakers include Guy Kawasaki , author of the new book “Enchantment,” JD Lasica of SocialBrite , Susan Gordon of Causes.com, Charles Porch of Facebook, Darian Rodriguez Heyman , Susan Tenby of TechSoup Global and Kellie McElhaney, founding faculty director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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JULY 28, 2017

We met in a nonprofit conference space of another colleague, Corey Newhouse, executive director of PublicProfit. I try to make an effort to do this regularly. This past week, I met up with nonprofit consultant Carrie Rice. Her organization helps youth organizations do program evaluation using data. (If ”).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

During my tenure as the Executive Director of GLAAD, I struggled with them constantly. Often, it’s Executive Directors who set this kind of tone. More than that, I’ve been that Executive Director. I’m the ED whose intensity nearly killed my own Development Director. They are complex, built into the DNA of nonprofits.

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JULY 24, 2018

.”Every time humanity goes through a new wave of innovation and technological transformation, there are people who are hurt and there are issues as large as geopolitical conflict,” said Fei Fei Li, the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. “AI is no exception.” ”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Transmedia – Making Change Across Mediums by Danny Alpert, Executive Director, Kindling Group and Executive Producer, See3 Communications. His work as a producer, director, and editor has been nominated for Academy and national Emmy Awards, and has aired on PBS, HBO, and A&E. ” Enjoy.

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APRIL 7, 2014

You don’t have to do a comprehensive survey, you can use some participatory research techniques like interviewing or fly on the wall observation. Or just keep your ears open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. The visual nature makes it a perfect channel for executive directors to engage with their stakeholders. Is your nonprofit executive director or board members using the tool?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day “Digital Strategies&# seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors. How To Convince Policy Directors. It is a good idea to include a fun question appropriate to the audience to illustrate the technique. We used: I love grass-fed beef.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Alison Carlman, Director of Impact and Communications at Global Giving, offers a deep dive into some Global Giving data to find the answer. Alison is the director of impact and communications at GlobalGiving. It will surprise you. The Surprising Truth About Disaster Donor Fatigue – guest post by Alson Carlman, Global Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A newly-hired Development Director is struggling to meet their capital campaign goals. Here are a few examples: A veteran grant writer offers guidance to a novice grant writer that helps him or her achieve greater results. She exceeds that goal with tips from a veteran fundraiser. Find your nonprofit ally.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Dr. Dietmar Kress puts his PhD in Sociology to work as Director of Actions and Volunteering at Greenpeace Germany. Executive Director Aprajita Pandey says that while community-wide change is the desired outcome, the motivation for becoming a Haiyya Fellow often begins with a personal story.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

As an experiment, we decided to pick up a crockpot from the Canadian Craigslist, and that was the beginning of Crockpot Mondays,” explains Jason Shim, Associate Director, Digital Strategy and Alumni Relations at Pathways. His organization combines healthy eating with communal meals. “As

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