Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Last week I attended the launch of the book, Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector by William F. Together these best practices form an “engine of impact” that nonprofits need to build, maintain, and hone over time to scale with results. Source: Engine of Impact.

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JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Based on the research, they have launched a platform that helps connect practitioners with tools and resources to tell better stories of impact. I particularly like the sections about how to create a culture of storytelling and measurement. Each of Hatch’s five sections are designed to help you craft, curate and share impactful stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2012

The Collective Impact of Love guest post by Stefan Lanfer, Barr Foundation. There is a lively debate these days in the nonprofit sector about how the solutions to intractable problems depend on “collective impact” and what it means to be “outcomes-focused.”

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MAY 4, 2017

at Social Sector Accelerator, a member of the Counterpart International Network, has been doing research on this topic: Is it possible to effectively measure the impact such “capacity building” services have? If so, what approaches lead to the greatest impact and under what conditions? . Presentation slides.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

How are you using experiments, a/b testing, and validated learning to improve your nonprofit’s impact? Share an example of your experiment in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. 1. Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The opening plenary was hosted by the renowned Usha Menon , past chair of the Resource Alliance and celebrated speaker, connector and consultant to the social impact sector. If you want to see storytelling at its finest, coupled with breathtaking social impact, watch the videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2011

What if we stepped away from the process of checking off items on our to do list, and spent a little bit of time charting impact of our nonprofit’s social media use? What if we made sure the process for identifying SMART objectives included capacity building, measurement, and reflection?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Dave wrote this follow up post summarizing his remarks at the conference over the Huffington Post Impact Section. ” Dave analyzes trends and technologies to predict what is next on the horizon. “The cows will be tweeting.” ” And, of course, someone set up a spoof Twitter account.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Guest Post: The Future is Now: Mobile Strategies for Social Impact. ZeroDivide explores these questions and others in our new report “Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact: The Future is Now”. By Laura Efurd, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, ZeroDivide. – @lefurd, @zerodivideorg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It’s an important challenge to meet because I think that unless relationship building is broadly recognized as a key measure of impact, it will continue to be under-resourced (to the detriment of achieving the larger goals and outcomes people are working toward).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. Open/Closed and how it impacts the learning. There are many challenges to assessing the impact of networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2015

Having handled over 5 million text messages to date, Crisis Text Line has a tremendous amount of information to help them maximize their impact. Thanks to data science, Noelle was able to take a fuzzy concept like “gratitude” and measure it so CTL can better understand its impact on those it serves. at anytime, to receive support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'm most curious to see how Pepsi will demonstrate leadership in social marketing and of course the longer term result - social impact. Jeremiah Owyang has shared his initial analysis of Pepsi's Contest, summarizing the opportunity, risks, strengths, weaknesses, metrics, and impact. Overall impact towards helping communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2016

How small changes in individual mindset and tiny habits can help your nonprofit, association or membership organization make a big, positive and sustainable impact. How to shift from a chronic state of stress to a chronic state of self-care . Date: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM (ET) / 12:00 – 1:00 PM (PT).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The measure needs to be in the impact. We make the point that the focus should be on the impact or the change in the real world. . We should be less concerned about how many followers one has and more about what that person does with that many followers. If we concentrate on our influence, we forget the end goal.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

He asked the audience a series of questions about whether or not they thought most nonprofits they knew were using the new tools to the great impact. Getting from Collective Conversation to Impact. Irving also acknowledged that there was a lot more work to do to get nonprofits to adopt these new technologies. Not many hands went up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

How small changes in individual mindset and tiny habits can help your nonprofit, association or membership organization make a big, positive and sustainable impact. How to shift from a chronic state of stress to a chronic state of self-care . The Practices: Create A Self Care Bill of Rights. Understand and Apply Habit Change Frameworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Recently, I've been getting a question like that goes something like this, "All this social media stuff is great if you're fund raising or selling something or running a grassroots advocacy campaign, but what if you're focusing on carefully vetted scientific research or want to impact policy? They rely only on credible sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

On October 17 and 18th, I will have the honor of participating in an interactive convening , hosted by GEO and the Monitor Institute focused on how funders can increase their impact by supporting networks and embracing more open and collaborative approaches to grantmaking.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Guest Blogging Team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits. Point #3: Inspire Evangelists: High-impact nonprofits build strong communities of supporters who help them achieve their larger goals. High-impact nonprofits then nurture and sustain these communities of supporters over time, recognizing that they are not just means, but ends in themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Guest post by Laura Efurd. While we continue to grapple with some key questions around supporting, investing in and growing networks, on day two of the conference we got a bit more down and dirty with practical matters like “how to”. We started the morning by reflecting in small groups on emerging insight and strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

Sample messages : The Smart Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine gives readers everything they need to know to leverage AI and other automated technology to its fullest (and safest) potential to enable nonprofit leaders to do what they do best: impact the world. I recommend you buy it today! I recommend you buy it today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Over the past 30 years, they have built the world’s largest network of nonprofit organizations, funders, and corporations – all striving for social impact through technology. TechSoup is introducing a direct public offering (DPO) to offer impact investment opportunities to people of all economic backgrounds.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

And I do give to disaster relief or practice “rage giving,” but I also want my giving to make a difference and have the most impact. That’s where the concept of impact philanthropy comes into play and you don’t have to be a millionaire or billionaire to practice this approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My colleague, Anne Whately, who works for Network Impact watched the web cast and offered to share what she learned: Notes from the Lean Impact Webcast by Anne Whately. The Lean Start Up approach has appealed to me from the first time I heard about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I’m excited to co-presenting a session at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

” The Top 5 Lean Startup Resources for Social Good Organizations – Guest Post by By:Leah Neaderthal, Co-Founder, Lean Impact. At the Lean Impact launch parties we we invited several social good leaders to share how they have used Lean Startup methods in their organizations, including SamaUSA, Code for America and Girl Develop It.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Measure Networked Nonprofit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. Her work is focused on how AI will affect the way people work and live and it will impact the human experience—and not necessarily for the better. AI and Workplace Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Worse is the impact of siloed organizations on nonprofit audiences – cuz really, how many emails can you get from the same organization before you go a little nuts? We have existing meetings with departments across the organization, but now we’re approaching them with an eye for their stories of impact and success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

is/will impact nonprofits. TechSoup Online Event: October 24-October 28. Emerging Technology forum www.techsoup.org/web2event The topic is how Web 2.0 Some of the questions: *What do we mean by Web 2.0? How can you use an RSS feed to get pushed information as well as to push your content to others? What on earth is a Wiki?

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