Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal. I owe the CivicSpace community for this fortuitous virtual meeting. Despite working with George for over a year, we've never met in person.) People passed the message along and offered tons of advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. I was struck by Marnie’s comments on this and ask her to explain them on a FLIP video interview. She also blogged a few thoughts.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here are ten things that have worked for us well in the past: Conduct a live online interview with one or more interesting figures to warm the group up to the event & to get a feel for the big issues in advance. We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.) Use video, audio, or text--all work well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

I interviewed Jim Murphy , Senior Online Editor, about how Human Rights Watch ’s integrated social media strategy leverages the personal brands HRW 197 employees to get results. In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Heather Mansfield, Facebook Best Practices - Interview. Many nonprofit early adopters of Facebook set up groups as their organizational hubs because that was the only option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. In this segment I interview Jonny Goldstein about how to shoot video without shooting yourself in the foot in the editing room. Jonny's tips include: 1. You shoot something.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Superstar NTEN member Amy Sample Ward interviews Clay Shirky -- NTC09 Plenary Speaker and author of Here Comes Everybody -- about how social media will affect the future of nonprofits, specifically about how nonprofits are (and should be) communicating with their members/supporters. One tactic is going online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

About six months ago, we connected via a listserv I posted to and she emailed me privately to say hello. I interviewed educators in five countries on a multi-media conferencing platform, using over Internet. More than ten years ago, I met Janet Salmons the founder of Vision2Lead.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. I talked with Kathy Kraft, a fairly frequent participant in the listserv, and she is anticipating that when things come up on the listserv, being able to say, "well, look here on the ExhibitFiles," so it can be complementary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned. His post would be the perfect blog post. And as always, I met fans of Beth Kanter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

So, I interviewed Iavor Ivanov, United Way's director of Web Experience to learn more about their approach. Iavor works closely with individuals responsible for social media and the web at Local United ways, right now via a listserv that serves as a just-in-time support network for social media and web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

TechSoup publishes Soha El-Borno excellent post " Promote Your Cause on Facebook in Six Easy Steps " and do check out her interview with Carie Lewis from the Human Society about their work on Facebook. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki !

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Make sure you clearly communicate your needs in the job description, screen applications according to the identified criteria, and base your interview questions and reference checking around the required competencies. Each step of the interview process should be planned in advance to ensure consistency and equity across candidates.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

So, this week you are going to be a world-class listener, by: Reviewing any surveys or interviews that have bene done in the past; Asking whoever reads the feedback that comes in online what feedback they are seeing; Calling four donors on the phone and asking what they’re thinking about lately; and. Parting Word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I'd focus on the WHO first and the tools that can connect me easily and quickly with the WHOs (Linked In) and then go for the what by interviewing them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. New (to me) Blogs Blau Exchange is posting interviews with interesting ict-minded folks and occasional research and presentations. Check out the interview with Alexandra Samuels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her! Earlier this month, Janet sent me a note that she had completed her Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? And now for a chuckle from LOLnptech about twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I also discovered during our interview that Nedra plays the cello !) Take for example her write up on Games for Change. Why did you start blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. Check out the introduction video for more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

" In previous weeks, I interviewed nonprofits who have jumped into the blogosphere trenches feet first. They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. By that I mean that they should expose themselves online.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. We’ve been getting to know each other over the past few months. She works over at CCS.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I would just look at it as I call like an informational interview. Rachel: I think that the first thing is to determine how they want to be contacted. If they have a phone number, I would call. You’re not there to make an ask. You’re just there to learn, like, “Hey, we are ABC organization,” and do your research.

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