Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Adaptive learning models can empower teachers to customize instruction for each student’s needs, and students can even personalize a digital tutoring experience. No AIs were used, consulted, or harmed in generating this summary of our bbcon session. We also have t-shirts for the best audience-submitted prompts). *No

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system. Based on this PDF, create an executive summary for a board of directors Prompt: Based on the attached PDF titled “{title}”, create an executive summary suitable for a board of directors meeting.

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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. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 12, 2021

Mission statements can often be taken as a summary of your nonprofit in its entirety. For example, as Double the Donation’s guide to corporate philanthropy explains, corporate sponsors want to align themselves with nonprofits whose missions reflect their own philanthropic interests.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. This is not only a disappointing experience for your visitor, but it can also lead them to ask a series of questions about your organization as a whole. Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. Your organization’s logo is the visual summary of your organization’s brand.

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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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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

Note: We combined our summaries for the SXSW bonanza because, Texas. About : Collaborative, brought to you by Classy.org, is a two-day experience dedicated to nonprofit professionals. Extend the experience by attending our new User Conference bonus day for Classy customers. . Where : Austin, TX & Online (Hybrid).

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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? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? How to make these summaries more useful to you all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

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. A good summary of my talk can be found in this blog post from Civil Society Fundraising and this summary.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

So, how do you break through the noise of your members’ busy lives to keep their attention, while also providing an exceptional experience? Providing a seamless experience for your members that boosts engagement and loyalty begins within your organization at the association management system (AMS) level.

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NTEN

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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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 ? Powered by ScribeFire.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

They really got involved here, asking for advice as they crafted summary statements and job descriptions. There were also unexpected discoveries and learning experiences during the day that proved why mentoring is so important. After the orientation, we helped each student create his/her own LinkedIn profile.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is building time in for reflection and putting I find out into practice. Sense making is also experimenting and learning by doing. It is also a process that happens, in part, in quiet – and for me that means embracing slowness. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

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. Answer the question yourself: Answer the question raised in the article from your own experience. What does this mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. Social Networking Sites, Online Communities, and Experiments. It's a must-read.

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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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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

The unfortunate truth is that many nonprofit leaders never receive the education or have the experience necessary to handle executive-level accounting. This one reflects a moment in time rather than a period of time. . This is the date that your financials and budget reflect. Many organizations do not use the calendar year. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Kim Lowery also gives us a round up the sessions she attended as well as her Day of Service experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. and Associations thoughts from Acronym: Experience Web 2.0 Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

However, the 5 percent given to international causes reflected a 15.3 Accompanying the Annual Index is an Executive Summary. The need to help families ‘back home’ experience some kind of economic stability is very real. In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 billion from $226.2

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Until then, when you’re advocating for the nonprofit where you currently work, the professionalism of your profile directly reflects upon your nonprofit. You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. Include the majority of your work experience and all schools you attended (even study abroad programs).

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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

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? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Make sure your online donation form reflects your branding. When you make your online donation form recurring gift-friendly, be sure to modify gift amounts to reflect that they’re for recurring gifts. For instance, with Qgiv, your confirmation pages support custom content so it can be more than a transaction summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here. 20 practices.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

This Board member’s experience is very common. An organization’s budget, financial statements and summary reports to Boards of Directors should all do the following: Set expectations (budget and/or prior year experience, plus acceptable variations to. It’s not easy to report on financial statements in an engaging fashion.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I’ve done this as a reflection exercise towards the end of a multiple day training or full day training. What if nonprofits made a rule about meeting length and experimented with 30 minutes meetings or conference calls? Would we get the same amount done in less time? Here’s some examples.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization , Beth Kanter. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation , Beth Kanter. Greenpeace Experiments With Technology Team Structure , Derek Lieu. Reflecting on the #12NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference , Lauren Girardin. Shai's #12NTC Summary , Shai Coggins.

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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. Here’s a summary of content posted by world leaders. Specialization.

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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

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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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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