Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. One is a collection of selected articles, slide decks, and interviews with Robin Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Police use real-time evaluation to allocate their resources. For example, if crime increases in a neighborhood, they know how to allocate patrols. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? A List of Examples. he Hold The Sign Meme : Examples of different campaigns on flickr. Example of Technical Support How To. How-To Resources. Screencast: Using Flickr As A Resource for Presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). Take the above example from charity:water for World Water Day. The first step is to get organized.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s important to know what causes burnout, the signs to look for in individual employees, and the responsibility of leaders to set an example. How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits? You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout will take on the outdated work ethic that plagues many nonprofits: “The Scarcity Mindset” of working long hours with few resources without investing in an organizational strategy for self-care. Stress reduction techniques. Managing technology and information overload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. For example, note their call to action right on the YouTube video. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

No matter how much marketing techniques evolve, that equation doesn’t change. In an interview for our Book Association 4.0: CertLink is a perfect example of technology with a heart, or systems where the pulse is customer satisfaction. Faster innovation providing tools and resources to experiment with new technologies and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, you could need assistance with: Fundraising strategy, including a wide range of specialized campaign types. Our expertise is in tech, so check out our guide to nonprofit tech consulting for a walkthrough of an example project. RealHR Solutions – Human Resources. Advancement Resources – Managing Culture Change.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2016

If you're filming somebody a yard away, for example, your smartphone's microphone might not pick up the sound as well. If your video has a lot of "talking heads" and interviews, you might consider using a lapel or lavalier microphone that discretely clips on to a person's shirt. Image : Stokkete / Shutterstock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

I'm working a "rubric" of different types of social media projects, from the easiest lowest risk to the more complicated and resource intensive. If you want to try some more intermediate or even advanced techniques for using social media, you can move from collecting third-party content to producing your own. Rinse, repeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The point was driven home to me by a commenter from a nonprofit organization named Paulette who works for an arts organization who left this comment on the interview with Marc from the Chicago Symphony: We're trying to figure out how to best engage in social media. What are some advanced techniques for listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

One of the participants was an organization named GroundSpark which has a project called "Respect for All," that facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers. Related Articles selected by Beth. by Ken Fischer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. A connection between people is called link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I also put together a wiki filled with links and resources to aid your learning. Anyway, I've discovered some techniques in making the process a bit more efficient. Take this screencast for example. So, it took me a few weeks to learn it, do some interviews with more knowledgeable people (like Marc Sirkin ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Just for giggles, I started a thread on Google + to do an interview with nonprofits and social activists exploring Google + as part of some preparation for an interview with Alison Fine for the Social Good Podcast. Take for example the conversations Jillian York is having on the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2007

The father of screencasting, Jon Udell , who of course is a technical expert in everything, uses this technique -- the screencast interview or talk show. He invites an expert in a particular software or technique and they are on a conference call together to look at and discuss what is on the screen. Does he edit in Camtasia?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I incorporated examples from people in the room and then asked them talk about it. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories. I used a “living case study&# approach – doing an interview with them to share how they achieved their success. It directly increased ticket sales.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

So instead of just talking about the wide needs as if it’s a fact, include: testimonials, statistics, reports, articles, interviews, etc. Here are two examples to show the contrast between flowery, non-cited needs and grant-appropriated cited needs. Example #1) Flowery wording in grants that doesn’t get awarded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Live Tweeting allows other people who may not be in the room to respond to questions or share resources. Some identified include: -Build Community -Engage People -Advocate for Policy Change -Coordinate resources and services -Learning Networks - Develop and share best practices -Innovate -Get to Scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that. The Wild Apricot Blog has published a nice list of ten examples of how nonprofits can use Facebook. You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. For example, if you’re seeking to boost online fundraising revenue, you might study data on past online campaigns and set a target of raising 10% more with your upcoming campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video. Our Terms of Use explain it all.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video. Our Terms of Use explain it all.

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