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Next Year's NTC in New Orleans is Here! I'm a session designer!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the closing party of last year's NTC Conference in Washington, DC, after too many glasses of wine, I made this video " Next Year In New Orleans." " I can't believe NTC is two months away. The session presenters will include nonprofits using social networks or other web2.0

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Vote for Your Favorite Nonprofit Technology Conference Panels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Part of what makes the NTC unique is how they involve the community in every aspect of conference planning. I proposed two panels You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time on Social Networks and I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Social Media in 30 minutes a day for the under-resourced organization new to social media.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. My Three Words.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. Allocate specific chunks of time for your social media execution.

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy! For more on building your social media strategy: Read the full post with the 5 Steps from above. Review the POST Method. Goals & Objectives. Then…repeat!

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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Attend NTEN's NTC Conference in April and attend the social media tracks. Allocate specific chunks of time for your social media execution.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.