Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

A content curator v ets, filters, organizes, and presents information in a instructional way. He has organized clusters of tools around different concepts of use that a social media professional might need. Format: He has organized this resource in a Google document — his slides, FAQ, and links are on one page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?” What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Over at the WeAreMedia Wiki, we have a " Expertise Map " where people self-selected to add their names and in a number of cases share their expertise by contributing to the wiki. It includes a lot of consultants, bloggers, and service organizations. I'd like to see the list organized by different segments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

As someone who spent half her career working for and with arts organizations this news makes me sad: A report yesterday from the USAToday that quotes Bob Lynch , the President of Americans for the Arts estimating that 10,000 arts organizations will close this year, 10% of the total number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Gunner also facilitated a brainstorming and affinity mapping exercise to unpack all the possible topics for deep dives in small groups in the afternoon. These techniques are based on human-centered design principles. It is a technique that is used in Open Space design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was fun to see NGOs in Tunisia begin to embrace, adapt, and apply the concept. The template itself is geared for the USA, but since Holly has so generously shared it for free in Google document, I suspect it could be easily localized for NGOs in many other places of the world and easily converted to other languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

This would have to be done with some social networking analysis software that maps twitter accounts to donors and displays results. It's basically Techmeme or Google News for Twitter, but for all popular links shared in a given day. Does it exist? ahem, @pistachio ?) Twitt(url)y.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

More and more we are beginning to recognize the risk of communications overload, and organizations are trying to simplify the workflows for teams. Some tip include mapping out a good process for work flow and using collaborative technology effectively. Amy Su Jen offers up a great framework for individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. It becomes part of your organization's culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

” There are two repositories: an organization archives – reports, data, and documented knowledge which is more and more in electronic format and individuals’ memories (if they are still working for the organization.) Organizational Amnesia. Accountability Buddies. Incorporate more movement into the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

But many causes and organizations are finding that it’s a lot harder to get picked up in the local paper and/or the national news than it used to be. So long live new media, which places your nonprofit organization in the driver’s seat. Our 2012 editorial calendar is presented as a Google spreadsheet. Content is King.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” It’s an important but often-overlooked practice for any organization. What other organizations do they support? How did they discover your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2007

As part of some research for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN, I gave a shout out to folks asking for examples. BTW, if you are looking to learn more about how to use Google Analytics, I highly recommend the Webinar that NTEN is offering next Wednesday with Avinash Kaushik.). Thank you Laura for sharing your knowledge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The first step is mapping your network so you understand the connections – hubs and influencers. Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. A post entitled “Trust the Curators” from Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0, Debra Askanase (Community Organizer 2.0).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Check out the Tunisian Prison Map. Tunisian exile Sami Ben Gharbia is the creator of the Tunisian Prison Map -- an idea inspired by a New York Times interactive map charting murder locations. What visual representations of geographic data can help tell your organization's or cause's story? in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just follow these steps: Go to Google's Blog Search. Search for your name or your organization's name. To learn more about listening, check out these resources: Beth Kanter - What is the value of listening to social media channels for your organization? Amy Sample Ward - Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we'll look at what these tools can tell you about your site. We'll close with a discussion at some of the more advanced packages - such as ClickTracks, WebTrends, HBX Analytics, and Omniture - that might be useful to larger organizations. measures of success???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

I've been preparing for a Leadership Conference with TCG (Theatre Communications Group, the service organizations for theatre companies) on strategic social media.   I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

It's basically Techmeme or Google News for Twitter, but for all popular links shared in a given day. It looks like a mapping tool in the works that will let you visualize your Twitter network by retweets from Dan Zarrella. Twitt(url)y. pronounced Favored) is a service that channels the most "favorited" tweets on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The group identified a few organizations that are using it well, but would it great to have a deeper field understanding of where we are with this technique. We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. While the idea of giving away a non-profit model itself isn’t new, KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The Valley Medical Foundation: This organization provided an example of the personal versus organizational voice issue that social media often brings up. Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

with a detailed account of her organization's experience. is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Think about what is most effective for your organization's goals, mission, and capacity. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Challenge of Transfer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

Even a place to bring together Google and SalesForce to create a virtual social-enterprise AppExchange, as I pondered here. (It Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. these folks can simply fly away. It would be called SecondGoogForce. Or maybe GoogForceLife.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. " I would appreciate any suggestions, improvements, pointers to other resources or if your organization has a story to tell about web analytics. Young Einstein.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

According to the NTEN blog, it's a much deeper set of tools than before, and the site provides integration resources for organizations using social media sites like Facebook and YouTube in their strategies. Plaxo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, blogging, forums??? Let me pause for a second. religion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The reports suggests that tagging is poised to go mainstream because of more and more sites, like Google and Yahoo, make it easier to tag. His reasons why tagging matters: First, tagging lets us organize the vastness of the Web -- and even our email, as Gmail has shown -- using the categories that matter to us as individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. The Real House Wives of Social Media You've heard the buzz around how nonprofit organizations and corporations are using social media for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

You may have heard the words, but what do they really mean for nonprofit organizations? This sent me to flickr to search by the tag steward to see if there was visual and found the above, plus some religious references from google. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0 Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. Katrin Verclas at NTEN is in love with Google Analytics V2 and so is Laurie Quinn. The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. The I Pulled My Hair Out Blog tells us how to consolidate google accounts and here are the top ten gmail hacks. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If CEO Kintera steps down. Generation.

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