Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

Not too long, I had the pleasure of “walking The Dish” with Kathleen Kelly Janus, a social entrepreneur, author, and lecturer at Stanford University’s Program on Social Entrepreneurship. She just published a new book, Social Start Up Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make a Difference.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Over the next three hours, I absorbed the things my instructor was teaching, but I also found myself reflecting on a bunch of things he wasn't trying to teach at all – unless he's really good at Jedi mind tricks ! I discovered there were rich lessons in the "white space" of class. Unintended) Lesson #4: Listen, then be relevant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

If you moan to 10 of your nonprofit colleagues about how you don’t have time to get your nonprofit on Facebook and other social media sites, I’d guess seven of them will tell you to get an intern to do it for you. Social media is. well, social. The other three? Make it a team effort, led by the intern.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

There were also plenty of leadership lessons in Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. . Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. Be willing to adapt to your audience – Leadership lessons from Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle Click To Tweet. Caution: Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle spoilers below.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Take seriously the ideas and lessons offered in The Public Relations Handbook. Technology will bring us new ways to communicate in social media circles. This new installment, edited by Robert L. I believe that public relations is uniquely positioned to address that need. I’m expecting a dramatic growth in the industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About the Giving Challenge – Guest Post by Susie Bowie. I just read a fun piece on Next Avenue called “5 Sesame Street Lessons We Need Again As Adults” by Bryce Kirchoff. Here are Kirchoff’s five big Sesame Street lessons with a little Giving Challenge commentary added. Friends Matter.

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

From the summer to the end of the year in 2022, the program grew in size, scope, and influence—with lessons we can apply to nonprofit volunteer efforts of all kinds. Volunteers self-selecting into text banking, phone banking, social media, community mobilization, and/or storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

In my training work with emerging nonprofit leaders , teaching how to ask powerful questions and hone your listening skills is part of the leadership development curriculum and workshops. Listening is also an important competency to master for an effective social media strategy. The answer is…sort of….

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 15, 2020

Understandably, a lot of nonprofits struggle with this, as youtube seems to fall in a grey area between a search engine and a social media platform, with its own set of rules and opportunities. Your channel, like your other social media accounts, should look professional and branded. Enable comments.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

​. What Makes Social Learning so Interesting? A Comprehensive Examination of Social Media in Our Learning Programs. Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. The World is quite plainly at our fingertips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. The participants represent a diverse cohort of 41 women’s rights and social justice leaders from 18 organizations from 11 states across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. The goal to help their members, small arts organizations, how to use social media and digital technologies to transform and energize their relationships with audiences, supporters, funding bodies and other arts groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media. So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

One has to step back and marvel at the most successful networked fundraising campaigns in the history of social or crowd fundraising. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. The numbers speak for themselves. Ice Bucket Challenge in winter time would not have worked. (6)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2020

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Take a look at your social media to see what posts are getting clicked and shared. Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Civil rights and social justice. They must write for the website, blog, email, social media, and more. . Here are a few things you should do today: . Arts and culture.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

In partnering with the White House, National Lab Day, and videogame makers Sony and EA, the Digital media and Learning Competitions has prizes up to $200,000 and is open to all kinds of innovative projects (including games) that make use of digital media for education and social change. " My favorite lesson? . "This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! s social media strategy is not the icing but the cake itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The book also has a social good purpose. I’ve done this through social media, winning some of the early online fundraising contests. I also donated my share of the royalties from my first book, The Networked Nonprofit , to support the Sharing Foundation’s college education fund.

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NTEN

JULY 20, 2010

We haven't collectively watched cat in a fishbowl over ONE MILLION TIMES because it's socially relevant. Are there any other lessons we can learn from the man in the towel? Tags: E-mail NPTech old spice Social Media Web Sites Communications. Your campaign has to be one, if not both of the following: funny and immediate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. For Washington Trail Association volunteers like Chris O’Brien, donning an orange hard hat out on the trail is a badge of honour.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

You may know I love applying lessons from other disciplines to nonprofit fundraising and marketing; recently an article from Merkle inspired me to consider how the social benefit sector might use commercial business insights to increase donor loyalty. Even if folks don’t attend, just the opportunity to attend is a reward.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 16, 2021

There are a variety of ways to raise private money including grant writing, special events, telethons, posting on social media, and others. My focus has been on teaching principles, strategies, and best practices on what to do. He is author of 10 Simple Fundraising Lessons, which was recently released and can be purchased here.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Then why is it so hard to explain the value of social media to people who dont get it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s made think about how far social fundraising has come in the last four years. That all seems like ancient history now but this started a journey of experimenting with personal fundraising campaigns using social media to raise money for kids in Cambodia and share lessons learned with other nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

Over 80% of all adults under 50 use social networking sites of some kind. Develop a large, diverse network on social media. Organizations that do the best on social media have the largest networks. Take to social media only to fundraise for immediate solutions to problems.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

My professional role includes three aspects: teaching, research, and service. What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned in your career? It’s not the lesson I have learned, but rather it’s generally an important point for junior scholars to keep in mind, to protect your time for research and learn to say “No”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 31, 2012

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog is up! The Sesame Street show teaches basic lessons through stories of characters in typical situations and common scenarios. This meant fans could share it on social media sites like Facebook, where it’s easy to share images.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Black Teach Project is the definition of “small but mighty.” This Black History Month, they're undertaking a social media campaign on the best part about being a Black teacher. A recent study they released found that schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery. Black Teacher Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. Our group was assigned to "Social Media."

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