Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” I spoke with the CEO one-on-one to probe further and learned that he wanted board to focus on strategy and not get involved in micro-managing. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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JUNE 9, 2009

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. There are many Twitter applications to manage multiple accounts. (See See 25 Twitter Apps to Manage Multiple Accounts.) A Few Tools.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

I caught up with her to get some tips on managing angry people. Anger in Action from HSUS blog What are your tips for managing angry or disgruntled people online? Carie has proposed a panel at SXSW called " Let the Haters Hate " (and while you are voting for Carie's panel, consider casting votes for these nonprofit panels ).

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APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. The book, written in 2002, does not address social media and change management or even technology. The typewriter, by reducing the time and expense involved in creating documents, encouraged the spread of systematic management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2015

Earlier this week, I was honored to present at the #octribe (online community tribe) meet up “ Walking Communities: Fit Fanatics Online and Off ” with Allison Leahy from Fitbit who manages fitbit online communities. The #octribe meetup was hosted at TechSoup and organized by long time colleague Susan Tenby who has supported this community (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My colleague, Steve Heye ,and fellow chapter author for the NTEN book, Managing Your Mission To Meet Technology , created the above slidedeck for a career training workshop at the YMCA. It's about using social networking tools to support your career. Slide 44: Some good time management tips for using the social web purposefully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Another set of skills that go into that job description -- well at least for nonprofits who don't have the resources to have fully funded positions in on area - are community management skills. There was a post on Seth Godin's blog talking about this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

To whit: the second coming of the online community manager. ReadWriteWeb has a new report out, " The Read Write Web Guide to Community Management ", that marks the ascension of the online community manager (2.0). I love the list of ways to screw up online community management. Is the ROI all about the web metrics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

NTEN has just announced its forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders. It was written by NTEN members for nonprofit leaders who want to harness the power of technology to support their work. . The book will be published in March 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. The report condenses and summarizes the best thinking about online community management from a cadre of experts - those are online community manager practitioners and gurus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Some of you in the nonprofit technology field may remember this wonderful cartoon " Time Management for Techies " created by Miriam Engelberg who we lost breast cancer about two years ago. Flickr Photo by Mangee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Games for Change is looking to hire a community manager to manage a variety of online projects, primarily the Knowledge Network. This is a resource directory and social networking space for the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, a 4-year funded project going into its 2nd year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2008

A lot of good practical information about setting up and managing your individual profile and groups (and Fan Pages) on Facebook, Myspace, Change.org, and YouTube. In passing, Heather made a comment, "You need to have a person with the right skill set to manage your organization's social networking presence."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  The notion that you can manage your reputation through social media gets you into trouble.     Do the math - and you're going to do podcasts She made the point that you can manage relationships, not reputation.  some pics of slides are here ). Today, it's about relationships. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

Read on as we explore the concept of an environment of fairness, the impact of the pandemic on workplace culture, and the need for good management and accountability. We also discuss the implementation of anonymous upward feedback surveys and pulse checks to create a safe and productive work environment. Joan : Yes, Beth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I've been doing research for an article I'm writing for TechSoup about social networking tips, tricks, and tools -- once you've made the decision that it is right for your organization to work across multiple sites, how do you manage it efficiently and effectively? What do you think of sharing the workload or the concept of persona managers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Meanwhile my colleagues in education and communities of practice ( Browyn Stuckey , Jeffrey Keefer , and others) hosted an online conference about Managing Multi Memberships in Social Networks. How do you manage your mulit-memberships without going crazy? So, I'm learning third hand through looking at the materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Encourage staff to look for “points of pain” where busy work, known as the “digital debt” – processing endless emails, managing back-to-back meetings zaps people’s energy or reformatting information and robs time away from strategic thinking. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

The Accelerated Millennial Manager ” by Devon Scheef and Diane Thielfoldt of The Learning Café is a summary of a research survey from 2011 through 2013 of 400 millennial managers, their managers, peer managers, team members, HR, and business leaders. What does it look like? Leadership'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Planning and managing in different time “resolutions” : future log, monthly log, daily log. It doesn’t fully replace digital tools for project management (especially when many people are involved or code is developed), or organizational knowledge management tools. For me, BuJo makes time management and planning more enjoyable.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators. Here’s my curated list. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2020

One question that came up was about how to avoid overworking as a result of the stress by the situation or if your manager expects that you will be in front of your screen at all hours because you don’t have anyplace to go. The interactive workshop focused on personal resilience tips based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. (The

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

You will learn how deliver your elevator speech, work effectively with a board chair, deal with fundraising challenges, managing tips for staff and volunteers, crisis management, and leadership transitions. The chapter includes a highly useful and practical guide to building a crisis management plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Talent managers and HR directors must move beyond the development of processes and policies and focus on embedding a culture of learning that can support and nurture talent within their organizations. 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

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Management attitudes. Management attitudes remain positive with 70% of responded excited about using social media but many report outside pressure with more than 50% noting “our audience expects it of us.” More than 25% remain “daunted by the technical aspects” of managing digital communications across various platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Original cartoon from Rob Cottiingham Social Signal. Yesterday, in preparation for a session I'm doing at BlogHer Boston , I created a quiz for folks to self-assess how much information overload was a factor. I got some great feedback and was able to revise the quiz - thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

It uses the four p’s of time management: planning, people, priorities, and being present. Here are two more tips for productivity routines: Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Looking Ahead Rituals. I use the technique of Bullet Journals , a hand-written system to manage your to-do lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2008

Source: Universal McCann International Social Media Research Wave 3 The PDF Version is available here. I have a collection of social media snack facts misc. bites I've screen captured from research studies about social media over the past couple of years. They've even been helpful to others in preparing presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2016

IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?” There’s still a bit of a hurdle for organizations that don’t think their content is good enough,” as Justine Greenland Duke, senior manager for knowledge management at MasterCard Foundation, puts it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs. There has been a couple of studies and workbooks that speak to the growing need for nonprofits to embrace the use of performance measurement data as a management tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Note From Beth: I am thrilled to host this guest post from Microsoft Philanthropies General Manager that showcases examples of digital transformation and fundraising. How To Use Microsoft Technology To Supercharge Your Fundraising guest post by Justin Spelhaug, General Manager, Microsoft Philanthropies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The platform is described as a “Slack-first” HR platform designed to help managers proactively combat abuse by fostering collaboration, teamwork, and inclusion. Companies add the Valued chatbot to their Slack chatrooms, and employees and management can ping the bot with commands to solicit — and provide — feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2017

It isn’t so much about time management perhaps, as energy or attention management and also being able to prioritize what is really important. How important are all of the 50 things on your to do list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The platform is described as a “Slack-first” HR platform designed to help managers proactively combat abuse by fostering collaboration, teamwork, and inclusion. Companies add the Valued chatbot to their Slack chatrooms, and employees and management can ping the bot with commands to solicit — and provide — feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

Sanebox – Email causes a lot of stress for everyone with a never ending dump of 24/7 messages. Sanebox can help you clean up your email and make it manageable so it isn’t a time suck. There are many Mood Trackers, apps that let you you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Inside the walls of nonprofit organizations, social sector talent managers and executive leaders must now prioritize an internal culture that embodies this new era of leadership. In large part, this focuses on setting policies and creating structures to support and manage teams.

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