Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Note from Beth: I went to my first Games for Change Festival ten years ago, in 2005 and have been a fan and supporter ever since. Games — both digital and analog — provide a great opportunity for inviting players to interact with a real-world causes and societal challenges. Games for a New Climate.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Twice as many people play FarmVille as watch CSI now. An epic win for the gaming industry? Whether or not you you play games, you can’t ignore the gaming community’s far reach these days. James Shelton , Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement in the U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. People haven't reinvented school yet. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. Young people should enjoy the educational process. Helping people understand science will help us as a country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. With shorter sessions with half as many people and a decent room layout, you can run the mic yourself.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 20, 2021

Adhere to local mask and vaccination policies. Cap your fundraising event at the allowed number of people for gathering. Game of chance compliance. If you’re incorporating a raffle, a charity auction, or casino games into your event, make sure you look at state and local guidelines before proceeding.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 17, 2023

Check Your Ad’s Strength With Google’s sunsetting of Expanded Text (ET) ads last summer, Responsive Search Ads (RSAs) are the name of the game. This shows what people searched for to get your ads served to them. Pro Tip: If you have any paused ads, Google’s policy review can flag those as well. more on that below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

This makes people perceive that the other person is less friendly or focused. When these aspects are reduced, people feel more vulnerable to negative feelings. ( Self-Complexity Theory – BBC – Gianpiero Petriglieri ). It is a fun activity that gets a few laughs, people moving, and replenishes energy. second delay.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. Cameras weaponize an already unwieldy mob of people.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. People-problems are harder to fix. We all have problematic people on our Board– those that never speak. If people want to linger and chat afterwards, that’s up to them.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Are you ready to attract more people to your nonprofit website and pull in more support for your cause? In addition to having a valid charitable status, your organization also has to adhere to the website policy. Calls-to-action are simple statements that encourage people to take an intended next step. Let’s begin!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s just the contestants against the hard, cruel world, and it either brings out the best or the worst in people. Internal controls are not just for finance people anymore. What processes and policies are currently in place? Three Best Practices for Successful Grant Management. Surviving (and Thriving) Through Preparation.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. This tends to address 95% of the questions that arise.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2012

We’ve seen athletes kicked out of the games because of tweets including a track athlete and a soccer player. A journalist was kicked off of Twitter, then reinstated , for including the email address of an NBC executive while complaining vociferously about NBC’s coverage of the games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Funding Perspectives: New Initiatives Connie Yowell (MacArthur Foundation), Franklin Madison (ITAC), Chinwe Onyekere (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), Jee Kim (Surdna Foundation); moderated by Suzanne Seggerman (Games for Change) Description How can funders with a specific social goal ensure they get a useful game? Went to the Hill.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Reading time: 12 minutes Soon after I learned the rules of chess, I started playing a lot of games against myself. Your audience, on the other hand, is mostly full of normal people. People who care, yes, or they wouldn’t be your audience — but who very likely have other things on their mind. Or, not only that. Fair enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Marcelo expertly wove in audience interaction – which was quite impressive given that there were over 1,000 people in the room. He excited the stage while people reflected on their personal inspiration from their work. He did the game alone on the stage and then had everyone in the audience do again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

We knew that if our film was compelling, we could break through to the people in the audience — and maybe they would help get the word out about the film and the issues it explored. The more people we reach on digital platforms, the more attitudes we will impact and the more boots we’ll have on the ground to organize and advocate.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As with gift acceptance policies for in-kind and monetary gifts, creating parameters for volunteer engagement that align with your mission, values, and needs can fill gaps for your nonprofit while providing worthwhile opportunities for your community members. Do your donor recognition programs include people whose gifts are time or talent?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

Sharing a list of what is and is not acceptable can help deflect some of these donations from well-meaning people. The capital campaign became a capacity-building campaign and the house now more than meets the needs of the people the organization serves. It’s unfortunate, but it happens. Creating a Process for Inkind Donations .

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FEBRUARY 12, 2008

One of the most interesting discussions this year was about gaming. Games have come to rival (or exceed) Hollywood in terms of dollars. Games have come to rival (or exceed) Hollywood in terms of dollars. Gaming is huge. On the gaming panel was Eric Brown, the CEO of ImpactGames.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 2, 2019

Earlier research focused more on improvements of procedural documents, structures, policies and bylaws. As one author put it, “earlier works examined how the governance game was organized; we concentrated on how it was actually played.” It also means getting rid of the wrong people.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

A nonprofit board is a group of people committed to the organization’s mission who oversee the long-term direction of the organization. But the board is responsible for ensuring that the nonprofit has all the necessary legal, ethical, financial, and overall good governance policies in place to succeed long-term. Let’s get started!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

If you can’t convey why they should care, and how what you’re talking about relates to their interests… it’s game over. So what’s the secret to unlocking the “Kevin Bacon effect,” AKA viral marketing? Compelling: Never mind the what ; the key is sharing the so what with your audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

It turns out that "The Farmers [Insurance] in-game integration will use the likeness of its Farmers Insurance Airship, a 246-foot long Zeppelin. Some people say we're in the midst of a revolution where the new tools of social media are reinventing social activism in vital ways. Do you have insurance? "Saw

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

Many AI writing tools are already built into our work but the real game-changers are still developing with advances in GPT3 that allow large amounts of text to be analyzed and written. AI writing tools can help you communicate more effectively by understanding the way people read and process information.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That’s millions of people who work day-in and day-out to provide the critical services at which nonprofits excel—cultural, social, medical, and otherwise. They’re examples of what it means to be mission-driven: true helpers that provide support to some of our nation’s most vulnerable people and communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2015

The participants include a mix of people from nonprofit and for-profit online communities – and it is an excellent opportunity to learn and network with peers, not to mention have healthy food and drink, like Hint Water. Advocate for a bring your dog to work policy because they need walks. Make tracking steps an office game.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Talk to your Board and your active volunteers to find the right people to help you plan for success. Look for people with event-planning experience and who aren’t shy about asking for what’s needed. Especially look for people with experience getting event sponsors, as this is the key to putting on an event that brings in money!

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re making an addendum to safety policies, focus on realistic scenarios (ex: what to do if there are too many people in a room at once) rather than outlandish, but exciting, “what if?” Often times, people soliciting donations aren’t warmly welcomed. However, we made it a fun e-learning game that’s much more engaging.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

All that leads to more money, more people and more community awareness. So whether you had a great discussion, made a key decision, agreed on next steps for a project or set a new policy – get the minutes out within a few days. Could you have a year-end celebration at a ball game with your volunteers? Wouldn’t that be nice?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2019

Getting supporters to take action and engage with elected officials on policy issues can be a challenge, requiring organizations to start thinking outside the box. Chris shares how the Alzheimer’s Association has experimented to get more people engaged in Alzheimer’s advocacy. It’s the long game that we’re ultimately looking for.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

But what we’ve seen in the market out there is that people are seeing subscription pricing models as a solution to the problem of deflation in CE pricing (see the Value-based Accreditation entry, above, for more discussion of that issue). In the early days, it had a different name (Tin Can) and people just knew it was a thing.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

For instance, people such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and others suggest we enter into a doomsday scenario. . In the early 2000s, Google gained broader traction and then took off to become what it is today as it became accessible to people beyond government and businesses. Thankfully, they changed the name to Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?” Scarcity captures the mind.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This may seem repetitive, but it works wonders to reinforce your brand and put a face to the donation because, after all, people give to people. We’ve highlighted a great use of the recurring gift nudge on the Special Olympics USA Games donation page. The amount matched depends on the employer’s matching gifts policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

My kids have become more and more interested in playing video games. And like Suzanne Seggerman who plays video games with her daughter, I will play video games with my son and daughter. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s no longer a question of whether young people can take leadership, it’s whether the rest of the world can keep up with them.” – Jayamatha Wickramanay, UN Youth Envoy. Young people can use their social media and their following to not only draw attention to an issue but to educate people how to take action.”–

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