Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good?

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JANUARY 1, 2023

Note: We combined our summaries for the SXSW bonanza because, Texas. About : If you’re the kind of person that thrives in crowds, parties, and socializing, this is your home. About : Collaborative, brought to you by Classy.org, is a two-day experience dedicated to nonprofit professionals. Website s: [link] & [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Net2 Secret Plan from Marnie Webb NpTech Tag New Year's Reflections, Predictions, and Best Ofs What are some of the ways that the social web marks the New Year? For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? Let's take a look.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Getting the Most out of your Social Learning Program. ” or “let’s get social with our learning plan.” In order to come up with the answer as well as enact a proper social media approach, be sure to reference the steps below: Don’t Lose Sight of your Current State. Clear Direction.

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MAY 12, 2021

Nonprofits strive to make the world a better place in a variety of sectors, from the arts to the environment to societal and social equality. Mission statements can often be taken as a summary of your nonprofit in its entirety. Few donors will give to a nonprofit without understanding its cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. “Social Reach” according to Thunder Clap was 1,058,410 (and I can just see Katie Paine’s eyes rolling because it is sort of a bogus number).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

A social change fighter ! Marcelo asked the audience to reflect on what inspires them and to write it down on a card that was placed on their seats. He excited the stage while people reflected on their personal inspiration from their work. All in all one of the most amazing experiences I ever had.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. What do you think?

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APRIL 2, 2014

Relive the conference experience and learn from many of the 2,120 attendees through this content round-up! NTEN staff has finally recovered and we are positively overwhelmed with all the blog posts, videos, pictures, and other instances of the 14NTC celebration from the nonprofit technology community. Did we miss anything?

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

In modern social lingo, ghosting isn’t about an unwelcome haunting by a sheet-draped apparition. They ignore text messages and social media contact, and they may even avoid the person in public. So, how do you break through the noise of your members’ busy lives to keep their attention, while also providing an exceptional experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. Last week, I was noodling around with the idea of professional learning in a connected age : How professionals learn using social networking tools to improve their effectiveness at work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. Reflection and Takeaways. Opening Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Recently, Robin highlighted an article by Jarche titled, “ Ask What Value You Can Add ” on Social Media Today. Synthesis: Combining ideas and themes or boiling down a lot of information into a summary. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Holly Ross, after her 21-day experiment, now says she's an addict and others are trying to like twitter. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? and Katya A. Powered by ScribeFire.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Until then, when you’re advocating for the nonprofit where you currently work, the professionalism of your profile directly reflects upon your nonprofit. Experiment with Answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. We encourage you to read the full report or executive summary here ; full citations are available for all data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. The summaries are released on cc 2.5

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Since our work is at the crux of the social good sector, it was important for us to share more about the sector as whole. They really got involved here, asking for advice as they crafted summary statements and job descriptions. My colleagues and I spent an afternoon of job shadowing at our office with ten students from the high school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. " and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. Social Web. Here's two roundups of links about social media and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Genuine: It reflects their character, behavior, values, and vision. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. He is curating the experiences he shares. Take for example this shot of fireworks and the accompanying reflection. It’s about authenticity which breaks down as follows. Specialization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

12NTC: Engaging Youth Using Social Media , Ariel Gilbert Knight. Let's Get Local: Using Social Media in State and Local Campaigns , Ted Fickes. Nonprofits Chalk Up Big Gains in Social-Network Followers , Derek Lieu. Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization , Beth Kanter. If we missed your blog post, we're sorry!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are many learning theories and can be categorized in different ways: External: These theories take into account self-learning and learning in groups. This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? Some really good links to and about Social Media that nonprofit techies will love. Do you have advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. " Web 2.0, 20 practices. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

In the for-profit sector, we’re seeing more and more senior managers turn to social networks to keep up with their employees as this study indicates. A recent study of foundation leaders use of social media , indicates that more leaders are personally using the tools, but there is a long way to go. Criteria for Success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Until then, when you’re advocating for the nonprofit where you currently work, the professionalism of your profile directly reflects upon your nonprofit. Experiment with Answers.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. In summary, coaching is a unique value added concept to a learning and development program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Here is a summary of the stories and what people learned from the experience: Events. Social Media. Dr. Mani Children Heart Foundation : To raise money using social media as part of your strategy, you need a group of champions with tight connections to your mission and voluntary opt-in email works well for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment! Here's a few reflections from people in the room. After the session, I toured the Aho Museum , an exhibit created as an experiment by the Aho Museum, juxaposing real world art with second life where I got to climb onto a Caulder scuplture.

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JUNE 23, 2021

You can do this by hosting events to launch your campaigns or using relevant media to introduce your cause across various social platforms. . Social media outreach. Use your social media platforms to share updates about your donors’ impact, invite supporters to events, and even to ask for feedback on past events and campaigns!

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JULY 23, 2019

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. With this in mind, when we produce participatory experiences, while our impetus is to serve our power users with extra content or “check for understanding” interactives, there are so many other ways to use interactives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

So, for my first experiments here is what I used: Project #1: Music as intro and summary. Reflection: MovieMaker is limited or perhaps it is my technical skill. Reflection: This time I experimented with using QuickTime Pro as the audio editor and video editor. Technical Skills and Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Sending a short summary of progress made and any issues or challenges ahead of a meeting. PRIORITIES. Are there competing priorities?

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