Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. The Giving 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

Help I Just Lost My Google Ad Grant – Guest Post by George Weiner. A statement to the international news agency Reuters read: “We revised our Ad Grants policies to help nonprofits be more effective with AdWords and improve the quality of their ads, which will lead to targeted awareness of their projects and mission.”

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Even if you don’t have a lot of money to donate, every little bit helps. For example, Global Giving. We are horrified by the scale of destruction and suffering of our fellow Americans as they wait for aid to reach them. Where should be donate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

(I have personally found this use case extremely helpful to have a one-click summary of really long threads transformed into actionable steps w/ links to source email.) These examples of micro productivity examples can applied easily to working. She pointed out there was a wide range of use cases for staff as well as volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? Here are some of the tools that can help make better habits or break bad ones. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India. Those people can provide “on-demand” help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In less than a month, the " Crowdsourcing Innovative Social Change " panel will take place at SXSWi To prepare for the panel, we decided to do a little crowdsourcing of our own by asking folks to submit examples of how they are using social media to deliver programs that have a real world impact. The deadline is February 26th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, if I have to do some writing – that requires a higher level of attention for me than does scanning Twitter or reading and responding to email. I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. When I’m feeling most overwhelmed, I take a break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

He gave context of social network analysis, explained the value proposition for using it to help you make social media strategy improvements, and walked us through some examples in the software. Or, a guide to before/after maps so you could see how visualizing your network helped you improve strategy. Have some examples?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What a passionate, amazing group of people who are running these small and mid-sized nonprofits, many in remote and rural wilderness locations in the US. I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. This is an example of “SMARTer Social Media.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. Reciprocity is the secret to building a strong network – and understanding who is paying attention can help you give back some love. Here’s an example of my storify for the recent Network Funders conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2016

I did make time to attend different sessions and walk through the exhibit hall, but one of the most exciting things I saw was the “ Gamestorm: Take on the Refugee Crisis ” organized by colleague Brian Reich for USA for UNHCR , the agency that helps and protects refugees and people displaced by violence, conflict and persecution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

So, here's my plea for examples and pointers. If you have an example or any insights, please leave a comment. work in providing life-changing solutions that help all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy? What kind of polices are there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Can anyone help her? We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned? I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. November 1-15th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. In this example, the video would be used to get Beth’s friends to donate to support her participation in the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. Can I help next time? Blog helps deepened expertise. Artist Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

You get a little help from your friends. He included templates, examples, and steps. And while the advice was fantastic, you need a little time and a good eye. This is when I turned to colleague John Haydon to help me out. So, what you do? Here’s what my first attempt looked like (don’t laugh).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I’ve been complaining about Apple’s anti-charity approach , but for this post I want to share an example about how one company is encouraging acts of kindness and charity during the holiday season. It comes from Apple’s Silicon Valley neighbor, Yahoo. Your turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One crucial aspect of empathetic leadership is willingness – a willingness to help employees through their personal issues, recognizing that work and personal lives are becoming more and more intertwined. Leaders need to set an example and hold themselves accountable. You’re laughing, but we mean it. )

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Here’s a powerful example of personal storytelling using the threads by Charlotte Clymer on depression and suicide. If your nonprofit has an example, please share in the comments.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Here are some examples from Beth from November, 2008 - I'd be interested in hearing about more data and experiences myself. Kevin Gilnack came by and wrote terrific responses to those questions. Thank you Kevin!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Here are some examples: Rituals to Celebrate Success. Of course, a raise or bonus is nice, but it is the public acknowledge that helps builds community. All this can help humanize your workplace. One example is “ Stop Days ” where there are no meetings and people plan for the next month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

To help people make connections to other people who are interested in doing this work to give/receive peer support. I wanted to begin with viewing and debriefing some examples of video blogs by nonprofit or social change causes. I have no idea what these examples might be just now. Check out his Group Learning page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I'm working on what has become my annual holiday post at BlogHer on the topic: Helping kids understand why it is better to give than to receive. I have many examples from my own children and those of Sharing Foundation stakeholders - many who are adoptive parents and have encouraged their children to give back to Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, I have a daily reflection ritual of walking a few miles a day to think away from screens. My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

For example, I can clearly see the Aussies I met or connected with as part of my trip to teach there last year. I can also click on a map of someone in my network, KDPaine , for example, and see who her inner circle is. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. They identify different nooks and crannies of my network. silkcharm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2006

With help from Marnie , I began to understand how I could bootstrap the RSS feeds generated by del.icio.us. For example, we have an extensive resource directory in the program area of the CERF website for Prevention, Protection and Recovery and Professional Development. Feed Digest bootstrapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It lessens the fear and it helps them focus on where these tools are useful and where they can become more useful, valuable to your nonprofit’s mission. Discovery can help them understand the benefits and the limitations as it applies to their specific work flows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. With your help, we can draw desperately-needed political attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur. Causes has incorporated two more viral features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

But it can also help you feel closer to your colleagues when attending a meeting. Ice breakers and energizers are helpful to check in with your colleagues or even to share optimism and fun. It’s helping you to stay focused while avoiding the so-called “Zoom overload”. Example of Reminder Letter (Susan Partnow).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The contest has a toolkit to help nonprofits encourage their donors to share their giving stories and to help share the story entries on social media channels. Here’s a curated list of examples, tips, and tools that can help any nonprofit improve their storytelling skills. Examples of Great Nonprofit Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2018

More recently, Woebot , an AI therapist bot designed to help humans with mental health issues , has had over 2 million conversations since is launch last year. You can see some early examples of bot as companions here. One example, is Replika , which uses AI to create a chatbot in your likeness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2019

As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Make sure there are enough to go around.

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