Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

For instance, if your mission has to do with environmental conservation, you may choose green as one brand color. With card sorting, you’ll ask a group of volunteers to organize cards with content topics into groups that make the most sense to them. This will include information such as: Brand colours. Share This Post!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Appearing as her super hero alter ego, complete with green cape, Super Green, Kroll spoke about how online activity can be used to inspire offline action. The goals don’t always have to be large and an activity for the group in its entirety. Photos: SusanChavez.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Book group, conversation, whatever. Lindsay Green suggests: I’ll go with make the work the team are focussed on visible - literally a list of projects or challenges you’re currently solving on the wall. Allow them to decide, using their knowledge of their work, where space could open to open up to do that presentation or paper.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2013

This is vital knowledge for sharing fundraising campaigns, petitions, or events. The subscribers are divided into two groups (of about 200-300 people. Email Marketing Green IT newsletters' The results provide insight into how pictures, colors, captions, and so on can affect user clicks. Image via Flickr user HowardLake.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2009

Here is how the CyberOptic Group describes it: Essentially, cloud computing enables computer software and hardware resources to be accessed over the Internet without the need to have any detailed or specific knowledge of the infrastructure used to deliver the resources, much like a utility model. What Is Cloud Computing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

GiveMN and Dana have been a key part of the Knight Foundation Giving Day Learning Exchange that I have had the honor of facilitating. This network of community foundations are actively experimenting and learning how to get better results on their Giving Days and adding to the knowledge in the Giving Day Playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Social media tools can help you easily connect with people who have the knowledge, resources, and ideas to share. I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset.

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Care2

MAY 17, 2013

She has extensive knowledge of NP technology, organizing and fundraising, gathered in part from her role as a co-founder of a national coalition to protect national forests from industrial logging. Ryan works jointly for all three groups as part of the central campaign team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. New Zealand: Tables for Small Group Exercises. Circle and Workspace in New Zealand. I have written about this in great detail here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. Also, it allows for a more interactive discussion because participants can share their knowledge. Social Engineering the Small Groups. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Impact Nonprofit Donor Databases: The Ultimate Guide 35 min read Read Now The Five Best CRMs for Small Nonprofits Our team has reviewed the available options and determined that the following five systems are the best options for small nonprofits: Neon CRM Bloomerang Little Green Light Network for Good Excel or Google Sheets 1.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Forum One was a sponsor, and several of my colleagues from our user experience and design team lead sessions on topics ranging from tips on quick and simple audience analysis to learning from design mistakes and making client engagement fun in a group setting. Thanks for the creative tour, @mojoguzzi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

WiserEarth is more than a "green" online social network for individuals, although you join as an individual. The vision is to help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborative, share knowledge, and build alliances.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

In addition to providing direct support to local nonprofits, LIN also serves as a vehicle through which donors can effectively contribute their knowledge, energy, and resources to support these nonprofits. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam. The Viet people are the most numerous ethnic group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

So, let's say that as part of your social media strategy - you've hashed out those questions and you've been green lighted for a social media training. This requires ongoing professional development and the skill or knowledge required should be part of the job description. What's the most effective way to do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). This feature enables a group of people to join and share items they have discovered from their FriendFeeds (or elsewhere) and have micro-discussions. Want a fuller description of FriendFeed? Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

By joining already established groups you can target a lot more people fairly quickly. Why not take advantage of a group that already has established members?? We did create a group on LinkedIn and a Twitter account. People think that by creating their own social media site that everyone will just flock to them. Thats wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

The I LIKE TO WATCH tag (and feed) identifies provocative, proactive, or practical videos that feature sustainability leaders talking about solutions or what she describes as "Viral video and the bright green future." She's just the type of nonprofit tagger we're looking for over at the NP Tagovates Affinity Group at N-TEN.)

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Bicknell Information Group in booth 75. Stop by Booth #75 to visit Little Green Light (online donor management) and drop your business card off to get a chance to win a Flip HD video camera. Zuri Group in booth 2. Stop at booth 2 and register to win a free Zuri Group Facebook strategy and badge design--a $3,000 value.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They might use different marketing messages and imagery to appeal to each group. Draft and design your email based on targeted group interests, then send it out directly to the desired list of constituents. Little Green Light offers a 30-day free trial for new users looking to test out the platform and see if it’s right for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I observed her sharing her knowledge with other women at the conference. Sopheap did an excellent facilitating the group. These two young women were in the small group role play exercise. The woman wearing the green t-shirt played the role of my daughter. Dee Dee with the BlogHer bag! Photo by Thomas Wanhaff.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Bicknell Information Group in booth 75. Stop by Booth #75 to visit Little Green Light (online donor management) and drop your business card off to get a chance to win a Flip HD video camera. Zuri Group in booth 2. Stop at booth 2 and register to win a free Zuri Group Facebook strategy and badge design--a $3,000 value.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

What kind of knowledge does the staff already possess? The secondary target audience is the people in the community who ought to know about you to build power and brand for your group. The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. Establish you goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Rapid Donor Cultivation white paper from Common Knowledge. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here. Digidave of Spot.Us

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

From facilitating green commuting, to employee gift matching, to paid time off for volunteering, Google inspects nearly every part of their business with a social impact lens. The LEGO Group is one of the most notable examples of how social responsibility can be an incredible asset to a well-known brand. Ben & Jerry’s.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Golf Tournament Bring together avid golfers and local philanthropists—in many cases, they’re one and the same—for a day on the greens. And you don’t need famous musical groups either: Local acts with local fan bases are a great way to attract audiences and put on a great show.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. create and manage a Facebook group or page, or a MySpace page. They have some content knowledge and an interest in engaging with visitors. Absolutely.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. And like I say very often on these sessions, I always look for folks with that firsthand fundraising knowledge. And that’s a group of organizations, nonprofits who are relatively new in their fundraising and really new to the capital campaign landscape.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Bar Crawl Host a group of supporters in a bar crawl or standalone brewery fundraiser where participants pay in order to sample local craft beers, enjoy each other’s company, and support your mission. Tutoring Services Utilize the knowledge within your community by offering tutoring services for a donation, helping students while fundraising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Coworking, a group of individual entrepreneurs sharing a work space, can provide that community while also being an environmentally sustainable choice. I got involved in green coworking, being here in Citizen Space and trying to bring some of the green values that I promote on my Internet sites into actual practice here in the work place.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We draw upon their latest knowledge and innovation and then steer toward the solutions-based food economy.”. This means connecting across sectors, beliefs, and knowledge bases — and empowering local communities to protect the resources that sustain them. So that is our ethos at its core.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By using shaded maps, clear data points, and red/yellow/green indicators, users can easily identify areas in need of improvement. Focus on key audiences Some data-driven sites want to reach audiences that are already deeply knowledgeable about the topic to which the data relates.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Have your supporters put their knowledge to the test as they go head-to-head in a virtual trivia night fundraiser. They can also put together a presentation or write up some fun facts or interesting insights about their cultures, and then post it all on a website or in a social media group. Virtual trivia night. Plant sale.

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