Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The After Action Review is a reflective practice that can be used for anything, but I find it especially valuable for social media pilots and experiments. The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Produce quality, scalable, documented, maintainable code: ensure the acceptance criteria passes before you are finished. You may be writing components or features from scratch, refactoring code, adding incremental improvements, writing and maintaining technical documentation, writing tests, and fixing bugs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 7, 2024

a Google-certified digital marketing agency focused on the Google Ad Grants Program and recommended 600+ clients. Google Ad Grants is a program that offers a unique opportunity for nonprofits to harness the power of Google Ads, providing them with up to $10,000 per month in free advertising credits.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Here are just a few of the apps you can use to transcribe your files: Google Assistant . How to take text from scans and cell phone photos of documents. Simply take a photo and use Google to highlight and copy anything in the image. Then paste it into the document you’re using to compile these notes. Transcribe.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. On July 1, 2024, Google will permanently remove access to all Universal Analytics data.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Communication Tools In remote or hybrid workplaces, organizations are likely already utilizing popular tools like email, Slack , Teams , Google Meet , Zoom , etc. and/or tagging them in comments in your project management tool or shared document. Google Docs can be used to create collaborative agendas or meeting minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now posted – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR opinion blog , or in full below. Encourage volunteers, program officers, donors, or other community members to become social reporters and document events in their neighborhood.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 17, 2023

As you navigate optimizing your paid search campaigns, here’s how to audit an AdWords campaign to help improve your performance: Check Spend + Pacing Unlike Facebook, TikTok or even YouTube, Google Search campaigns do not have lifetime budgets—meaning you set daily budgets at the campaign level.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 21, 2013

Why aren’t you just using Google Docs?” ” Yes, some of what we’re doing in Smartsheet could be done in Google Docs. But aside from the fact that KELL doesn’t use Google Apps so documents wouldn’t be centralized and owned by the company, Smartsheet does so much more than just flat spreadsheets.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

We were shocked when we saw the 25 winners of the big $100,000 to $500,000 Google Impact Challenge Awards. Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners. Google Impact Challenge Awards'

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Well, maybe the student didn’t delete the whole roll sheet – maybe it just got moved into the document header. So I started using collaborative Google documents. If you share a document, someone may corrupt it.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2023

While the customer is researching salons, the salon owner is executing an SEO strategy, cultivating positive reviews on Google and Yelp, and ensuring their business’s social media presence is up to date. Together, separated by the line of visibility, this creates a service blueprint.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Google Workspace Platform overview: Google Workspace for Nonprofits is a flexible productivity and communication platform with multiple apps to streamline team collaboration. Top feature: Google’s Drive app is a helpful resource management solution for nonprofits.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Tips for making documents more accessible. Helpful Pressbook for Google Slides. Review any accessibility features available to participants, such as captioning. A simple text-based document is sufficient. Prepare a checklist for speakers to encourage them to consider accessibility and plan for it accordingly.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Reading financial statements, analyzing data, reviewing the Form 990 before it’s filed, approving policies related to conflicts of interest, tapping into reserves, and conducting internal audits might not light your fire. The three basic financial statements most nonprofits use should be reviewed monthly. It’s not sexy.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Other risk management strategies that you can implement ahead of time include: backing up or making hard copies of any important documents drafting emergency protocols and distributing them to staff purchasing and installing a security system making any necessary repairs or safety modifications to your building/office space 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

It isn’t just about writing it down, it is also reviewing what your captured with your team in an “ After Action Review.” Use a google document (or create a Slack channel or What’s App group) so your team can capture during the event. Review it together in a meeting and summarize. Additional Reading.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. Google Drive.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Benefits of Using BigQuery and Google Cloud with GA4 Report on more than 14 months of data Bypass GA4 quota limits when connecting to Data Studio. Google is imposing strict limits on the number of data requests users can process when connecting their GA4 account to Data Studio for reporting. You will now see a Welcome screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?” Speaking of documentation, that’s where digital tools can come in handy – for example your mobile phone camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One of the most valuable is to incorporate a process evaluation, capturing what actually happened as the event or program unfolded. You can always learn from documenting as an event unfolds and having a formal reflection or debrief post program or event. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

The grant’s funder uses a team of reviewers to choose which organizations will receive funds. Draft a proposal to convince the reviewers that your organization is the best option to fulfill the grant’s purpose. For eligible organizations, Google provides $10,000 worth of ads each month for free. Tell your nonprofit’s story.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center developed a social media strategy, but did not finalize it until after a half-day staff meeting to review the plan and think about the realities of implementation. The social media team maintains an internal document within its shared Google Drive folder called the “NYCEAC Internal Resource List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Google’s photo identification mislabeled black people as gorillas in 2015 or Microsoft’s AI-powered social chatbot that started tweeting racial slurs. The Next Web. This will be help voice assistants like Alexa improve as well as software that automatically analyzes documents inside law firms and others organizations.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? These could be articles, resources or documents. Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins. How do we get constituents to log in?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Hold annual board reviews. Use a 360-degree review process that includes feedback from many stakeholders. Create real-time financial statements using Google Sheets or QuickBooks Online so that the board can review them on their own time. Include expectations as part of your onboarding process for new members.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 4, 2021

Hold annual board reviews. Use a 360-degree review process that includes feedback from many stakeholders. Create real-time financial statements using Google Sheets or QuickBooks Online so that the board can review them on their own time. Include expectations as part of your onboarding process for new members.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

But if you engage in targeted advertising or use Google Analytics to track website visitors, privacy-first marketing should be a priority for your organization. When done right, you won’t be guessing using anonymous and often conflicting data from multiple third parties like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

An online communications and fundraising audit is a review of all your online communications and fundraising systems and it should be done by the person in charge of writing and implementing your strategic plan. Your budget should be an Excel document that visualizes monthly and annual totals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

If your event includes a discussion or speaker, you can solicit questions from your audience ahead of the event using a tool like Google Moderator. She uses IFTTT and sets it up to collect photos with the event hashtag into a google document and then add captions and curate the sharing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2011

I’ve documented the community and content mapping processes before, you can use the slides above to see the process or review the blog post with instructions. Here are some of the resources to help get Google Analytics set up elsewhere and make the most of it: [link]. Data: Strategy and Storytelling.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While the customer is researching salons, the salon owner is executing an SEO strategy, cultivating positive reviews on Google and Yelp, and ensuring their business’s social media presence is up to date. Together, separated by the line of visibility, this creates a service blueprint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. The 2014 version – new and improved has arrived! You can download it here. How do I use it?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

We thought it might be fun to share with you some TechSoup staff recommendations for apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. Documents To Go for Microsoft Office documents. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. TuneInRadio.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

And we’ve compiled a list of matching gift software reviews from the leading provider, Double the Donation , for your benefit. Customer service was great with everyone at Double the Donation, and the documentation provided is clear and concise, allowing us to really hit the ground running. Huge thanks to their team once again!”

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 24, 2015

To begin, review and backup the original files of content you wrote before it was uploaded to your site: if push comes to shove during a legal process, it will help you prove that you’re the original author. Then, carefully and thoroughly document the sites on which your content was used without your permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I also use it as a year in review tool. The work related tasks also correspond with color codes on my google calendar and my hard drive/google drive files. Year in Review.

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