Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

That their web site may be or incorporate a blog as well as integrate, videos, podcasts, and photos. (2) Social Outposts: This is your organization's presence on social networking or social media outposts like Twitter, Facebook, or other places. Tags: wearemedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Training Design isconf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Guest blogger, Lauren Friedman ( @lauren_hannah on Twitter) is a community manager, writer, blogger, and photographer. This month's Online Community Meetup featured facilitator, Bill Johnston , Online Community Manager for Dell and longtime online community expert, Randy Farmer , speaking about online reputation systems.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." See how it is unfolding here in Kuwait: GDN 2009 Conference social network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

I spent sometime reviewing what Planned Parenthood was doing on social networks as well as their online presence - so it was good to get the inside story. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools. While the board wasn’t against technology or social media, it was a little bit of a mystery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". She often uses Twitter to get ideas and feedback on NTEN's various programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

2020 Web Tech Approach To Social Media Analytics View more presentations from Gaurav Mishra. 20:20 Social Media Analytics Blog; A colleague just shared a link to this blog by Guarav Mishra's company. I've been following him on Twitter and have been following his social media/social change blog but hadn't made it to his company's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. Naturally, my colleagues and I have taken the lead in establishing our organizational presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning and posting to our blog. These two differing cultures recently came to head over social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. with "just for fun."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My reflections have mostly that has been around the subject matter of how nonprofits and foundations are thinking about and using social media. But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. Additional Resources. Let me know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. For nonprofits, that means moving from the transactional to the constant relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

It doesn't stop at integrating social media into the external communications plan for the national entity, but includes training and support for local united ways to implement a social media strategy in their local communities. This a terrific example of in working in networked way. Tags: social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. and social networking tools? It is important to think about the benefits, objectives, and audience before jumping on the social networking bandwagon. I noticed Soup.io

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

As technology steward for an online community of practice or facilitator of a group that wants to work together online, it is valuable to do this exercise to help you get a better understanding. Tags: visual thinking. But, it's also valuable to do as a group exercise to spark discussion and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Right before I gave my keynote, My Charity Connects shared this video about why it is important for nonprofits to embrace online fundraising (and social media). Using Twitter To Research The Audience Before, During, and After. The conference hashtag became a top trending topic keyword on Twitter in Canada during the keynote!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. We did a riff on KD Paine SobCon ROI of Relationships in Social Media that I covered on my blog earlier this month. We adapted it for social change. Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages. The idea is that participants would learn some of the best practices for these social media tactics and then design and implement an experiment and share their results with one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. Jacob Harold, Guidestar , shared some thoughts to this question, “What are the basic building blocks to facilitate better access to data?” Notes from Session. A new type of CSR? Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 16, 2013.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud. New Networking Models -- Lastly, new networking models are starting to change the game for the community development sector.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud. New Networking Models -- Lastly, new networking models are starting to change the game for the community development sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

It is evolving from individuals leveraging their personal networks to groundswells. Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. Says Ben, "We knew each other on Twitter." First, let me recap what Twestival is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

What are the organizational change issues necessary for implementing a successful social media strategy? Who should drive the organization's social media strategy? How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? The Socially Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. Before I went on Twittered. My colleagues in the audience like Marshall Kirkpatrick and Holly Ross were twittering. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Some users are more savvy with Twitter and wikis, while others need help just accessing the conference wifi network. Tags: Collaboration Communication Strategy Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session was expertly facilitated by the Monitor Team which included David Sawyer, Diana Scearce, and Heather McLeod Grant. I put this question out on Twitter and summarize in the next blog post). Using social networks creates more information and touch points, how do you manage overload in a networked world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 article.

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