Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

I’ve captured some good notes, tweets, photos, and shared resources for each session, but here I wanted to dive into a few interesting ideas that bubbled up. Unfortunately, organizational memory is short, and without a way to capture knowledge and learning, they become lost. . Organizational Amnesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Photo by Nic's Events. I put out a query for examples of blogging and social network/media policies for nonprofits and got lots of good examples. Donny Peterson couldn't resist the urge to edit someone else's blogging policy before sharing a copy his policy. And, do all organizations with blog need a policy?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Fight Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a health impact organization dedicated to ending colorectal cancer and supporting those affected by the disease through patient support, funding research, and impactful policy change. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great. offers a profound analysis of #MeToo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Networked Nonprofits spell this out in their organization’s social media strategy handbook and policy guidelines and encourage personal exploration and learning. It’s one thing to have it written in a social media policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Despite the increase in knowledge and programs that support effective leadership, there remains a significant gap between the key concepts and practical applications in the workplace. We learned a lot. Effective delivery of content and learning experiences takes both on and offline connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change. The latter includes a lack of a formal communication strategy or staffing limitations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Photo by Dietrich I love the Red Cross's approach to scaling its engagement strategy by involving the whole organization - it is spelled out in their strategy handbook and policy guidelines. Using social media listening is somewhat more difficult to imagine, perhaps, if you're managing programs or at the policy/funding level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Set some ground rules: Set a social media policy for your organization, so it’s clear how to respond to what you’re hearing - and what types of initiatives have internal support. There is no shame in gaining knowledge from mistakes – for you, or your boss. Flickr photo credit: cbcastor by CC Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0

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APRIL 2, 2014

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Forum One recently supported a groundbreaking, education summit in New Mexico: "Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning", convened by the Stupski Foundation , West Wind Education Policy , and the Knowledge Alliance. Use media to your advantage. If you shoot video, make a reel of outtakes.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

They had at the tips of their fingers vast amounts of information and knowledge, so they no longer had to travel to libraries to obtain research and have access to information. Ashley Madison had a policy of not deleting any user information, including real names, addresses, credit card information, and other information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

After a year or so of building the brand recognition of your avatar, you can then switch and rotate square photos as avatars to spark curiosity and add variety, as long as they include a smaller version of your logo somewhere in the avatar. Basic knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) will make or break your social media campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2008

Flickr Photo by Liquid Lucidity. Flickr Photo by MPR529. Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to BE the media. Think we can build a module in a week?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

Photo by Kalabird Johanna Bates climbs a ladder to install the wireless nodes. The Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN sponsors the Day of Service , an opportunity for nonprofit techies to share their knowledge with the local community. Michaela Hackner got some excellent photos of the work down at the Community Center.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Photo and Bio. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? Community impact or commemorative wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. Nonprofit Use #2: Sharing Knowledge/Resources As Community of Practice Hashtags can create an ad hoc community of practice or a channel for people in a field to informally share resources or conversation. Another example is their use in a policy debate. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Why not share their knowledge on your blog? Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." Share who you really are (photos from the staff holiday party excluded).

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience. Top feature: Adobe users have access to a robust asset library of over 195 million royalty-free Adobe Stock collection photos, videos, and music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. Full report here )

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

There is another type of information and memory management that relates to the everyday memories and knowledge management of your staff, volunteers, and other supporters. ” A few key features of the tool include: syncing across devices, handwriting and text recognition, version tracking, photo and audio notes. Operations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I've heard leading thinkers like Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Guy Kawasaki provide nonprofit execs with practical tips and tools-actionable insights nonprofits can use immediately to raise more money online, market their organizations, and affect policy. Representative Samples? Weeks, if not months. Oy, what a mess!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Marc contributed some knowledge to the ROI section and also contributed some reflections about why he participated. (I Not just because of my own curiosity, but because I knew there might others there that could benefit from Marc's knowledge. One such example is fan photos. Tell me about you and your job. programming for kids???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. Thankfully, Laura White live blogged the session and captured the valuable peer knowledge that was shared in the room. As Lisa mentions in her wrap up post, the session ended up touching on the issue of blog policies. It was better than eating chocolate!

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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. In this photo, Pagna is on the left. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff. The executive director, Chim Manavy, was on the Cyber Cambodian panel and spoke about Cambodia's need for a telecommunications policy and action plan. Dee Dee with the BlogHer bag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. see for example the post about blogging policy ). Why not send us your own photos and join the discussion here at The Great Tate Mod Blog? I interviewed Jim Spadaccini and he told me that initially more people had viewed the photos in flickr versus the exhibition web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Fanton: MacArthur is a knowledge network. We have a role to play to work with those of you in Second Life to figure appropriate policy and approaches. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Second Life 101 - some great photos. We know who is doing the best research.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

"Update often" is my favorite tip but we need to make sure we update with vlaue-added quality, not just a quote of the day or a clever photo. Thx for enriching my knowledge. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. mkp [link] February 27, 2009 | Maryan Pelland Just wanted to say thanks for the great tips!

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Report back from colleagues Your organization is full of people with inside info — field staff, development officers, policy experts. Photo courtesy of US Forest Service This photo was taken just yesterday. Now, we have until midnight to make it to the finish line — will you chip in now to help get us there?

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Benetech, founded nearly two decades ago, has a mission to take the technology and knowledge Silicon Valley has figured out and move it into the nonprofit sector. But each of the records had different descriptions of the application process and only one explained about its curfew and waiting list policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

This post summarizes the knowledge shared by many nonprofit folks on how to use Facebook effectively. A social media policy provides the rule book for all staff to participate. The Mayo Clinic has addressed in its social media policy – many nonprofits have borrowed their language. What’s missing? Simply repeat it.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

If y’all don’t know Tom, one of the reasons I keep inviting him back for webinars is he’s an awesome, super nice guy really knowledgeable. And in this folder, we have the names of everyone and we collect the photos. And so I got a photo of them. So speaking of the photo frame idea, is that just a photo?

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Forum One

APRIL 5, 2010

To be fair, social media captured a lot of what was finally maturing: photo sharing sites like Flickr , video sharing like YouTube , professional networks like LinkedIn , and of course getting friend requests from Grandma as Facebook went from avant garde to ubiquity. " as the most eye-roll-inducing term of the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

The lucky winner was Common Knowledge who came up with a plan to establish a Neighborhood Digital Archive to catalog and create documentation of neighborhood planning meetings, allowing residents and displaced residents to access information about their neighborhoods via video recordings and meetings. proper due diligence???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It That's enough meta for now.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

We had to rely on those staff for their technical knowledge. Content and stories can be so many different things like videos created by participants, photo blogs from maintenance staff, schedule updates from instructors, sharing lesson plans, etc. This has radically changed the need for more stories and content. Think back 10-15 years.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

Think of it like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. Meaning the lack of knowledge of traditional digital media gets in the way of something that the social media - and service providers related to it - kind of make up for. To some extend anyway.

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