Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Foundation Center released a report that documents the usage of social media tools by foundation executives based on survey responses from 73 members of the Center’s Grantmaker Leadership Panel. in philanthropic work, and highlights the social media activity of two “power users&# in the field.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change?

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MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Jon Lebkowsky - Social Web Strategies.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. When developing social sites, personal user accounts and profiles form the backbone of such destinations. Social Conversations. User Accounts & Profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has discovered what social media folks who work for zoos, aquariums, and animal welfare organizations already know. Cute animals rule the social web! The example below is from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and one of their most popular videos. Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. The above visual is a social network. The definition of links or how you’re connected is defined however you want in social network analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

Our online community and social media team helps to do that by sharing what we learn as we develop our own projects, making education a central goal of our activities. We're excited to announce a brand new window into what we do and what we're discovering with the launch of our Community Team Wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. There were questions about social media policies as well as content and engagement strategies and handling mistakes.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Keeping track of your organization's social media accounts is tricky enough, but things get even more complicated when you have your personal accounts to maintain as well. These apps will also help you manage your social media presence from wherever you are — not just when you're in front of a computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I used this metaphor to talk about the importance of having both the strategic view of social media as well as the hands-on experience of the tactical and tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Fortunately, there are a number of tools to help organizations monitor what is happening and manage their use of Twitter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. TechSoup's Social Media Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. There are many ways to “get social,” and so many reasons for doing so. Create on-site engagement.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. As was noted by one chat participant, the tools are not enough and it is helpful to make fundraising fun if it is to be successful.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

You've heard the maxims of social media before: "Join the conversation," "Engage your audience," "Be authentic!" — but what does all of that really mean? If you attended last Thursday's free webinar, 10 Social Media Tips & Secrets , you can now answer these questions for yourself. Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

We've come the close of the first week's round of We Are Media Toolbox fun. Some awesome tool resource pages where you'll find links to simple definitions, tips and tutorials, and some tools. This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring. Social Bookmarking. Blogging Tool. RSS Readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media. The etoolkit wiki is here. "The Membership project explores changes that the social web and other factors may bring to groups and organisations. We are doing that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It also connects the social media technical assistance to results. Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Integrated Social Media Strategy. and storify. Momsrising Layer Cake Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Source: Nonprofit Next Report form David LaPiana Last week we invited people to help us crowd source a Hollywood Ending for the WeAreMedia Wiki. We've spent the last 18 months focused on how social media can support communications and fundraising strategies and now it is time to turn attention to program delivery and other issues.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. organizations. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library. professionals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The two discussion questions were: What are your expectations for the project as a social media trainer? Fluency in social media skills. Integrating the training and social media. The next session (conducted in Arabic) was a demonstration of listening tools for social media trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors! Today we're looking at Micro Media tools. The tools listed include one from each - text, audio, and video - but there are many, many others. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Via the On Social Marketing and Social Change Blog summarizing an article in the NYTimes. Designing the innovations of using wikis and blogs to be quickly and broadly adopted by a critical mass of workers (early adopters and early majority) and not just a few fashion-setters or geeks. social software,???

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We Are Media is a terrific resource for anyone looking for tips, examples, case studies and information on using social media in a nonprofit organization. Now, the content from We Are media is available to you in a brand new “ Choose Your Own Expert &# format. The best part: any path you choose will be a good one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. The organization's goal is to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy. The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." Unconference here: [link].

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. TechSoup's Social Media Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2010

I'm moderating a panel at SXSWi called " Crowdsourcing Innovative Social Change." Everywhere you turn, you're hearing about social media. We know that social media is good for a lot more than raising money. We know that social media can be used to change the world. We want to know about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

" It is a stern warning to avoid falling into the trap of playing with the tools first without thinking of strategic outcomes. The NTEN WeAreMedia project has been hard at work over the last few months building the house so to speak -- focusing on how nonprofits can use social media effectively. Tools: Monitoring.

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