Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. So, what's my role in all of this?

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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

JULY 27, 2008

I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). The philosophy is: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building. So, I asked Dave via Twitter " Wow do you build a giving culture on a wiki?" Just keep adding sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. The best part of the project has been an opportunity to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media and instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

We invite you to join the conversation each week as roll out a new theme related to social media and nonprofits. This week we'll be discussing Module 1: Why Your Nonprofit Organization Should Be The Media. This week we'll be discussing Module 1: Why Your Nonprofit Organization Should Be The Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). Amy Sample Ward has already volunteered for one of the modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

During the fall, the WeAreMedia project is discussing the content in the tactical modules. on the wiki. The Tactical modules get to the nitty gritty, but with a lens of how many hours does it take. Each module discussing ideas and content that will progressively take more time to implement.

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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

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. The first module is on Listening. As the ExperienceTheBlog suggests: Simply put, the best way to use social media is to use it. My Listening Ears, Flickr Photo by niclindh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

For the WeAreMedia tactical module on Listening we need a few nuggets, anecdotes, or stories in a few sentences about how your nonprofit has used a listening tool (technorati, google alerts, or RSS readers, or summize/tweetscan to listen). Your organization and social media goal/strategy? Photo by I Timmy. What happened?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Presentation by Laura Lee Dooley a metrics and social media geek for a nonprofit. Where To Find Resources and Case Studies The WeAreMedia Wiki has several excellent collections of Twitter how-tos, case studies, and other resources for nonprofits. Social Actions Check out their action twitter packs by issue area.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Some are successful, but messy. commenting on any item.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc. Most of the tools that are used to do this integration are CMS modules or add-ons. Integration. at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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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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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum outlined the three pillars of open government thereby narrowing the discussion to transparency, participation, and collaboration. The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Vote for this Idea].

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

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