Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

A way to connect your org to your community? When an org sends an email, the open rate can be low - but when a person sends an email to friends, the open rate is 90%! When it comes time to ask your network for something, they will not need the time to interpret your motivation - because they know you and your org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

If you come across any useful Twitter accounts related to Ida - local news accounts, weather spotters, volunteers, local orgs, etc - please add them to the wiki here: [link]. This site worked much like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

YOUR ORG NAME] helps [TWITTER FOLLOWERS] to [BENEFIT/VALUE YOU. It may take you some time to boil it down to just a few words and you may not be able to get all those concepts in the bio line. Here’s a template to get you started. DELIVER ON TWITTER FEED]. Here’s a few good examples of Twitter Elevator pitches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

What’s the end result besides social change, what does the book help the reader or org do? We were told think about the following: Put yourself in the shoes of potential buyers who don’t know either of you and are looking for some answers, solutions, a new perspective, etc. Ah, so a sub-title is designed to sell books. Would this work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

org Facebook community has thrown their weight behind the Maldives President by leaving comments on his Facebook page. This wasn't just an online petition, it was a new form of solidarity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Here are a few main points of the second half of the presentation that resonated on the backchannel: anilkanji : Social influence: should orgs measure reach or affinity? anilkanji : In writing your social media policy & guidelines, build in answers for your org to “what’s the worst that could happen&# @kanter #ncwk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

” While the specific topics will emerge from the people in the room, impact leadership is focusing within, people, processes and plans to help the org reach it’s mission. One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

What do orgs receive if they are selected, how comprehensive is the submission process.) The ZSL team had to manually review these images to identify species and draw conclusions but is now able to use AI to identify species and free up staff time to focus on interpreting and acting on that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2009

Staff - prominent people in your org, like your CEO. Current - issues that people are talking about that involve you right now. Detractors - people you know don't like you but talk about you. Competition - people in the same space as you. Filtrbox - a paid monitoring service to make sure we catch everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Paid volunteer team at another org. Include personal growth in professional development plans. Encourage staff to be creative or do creative things. Asking about career goals and how they might be pursued at current job. Encourage sharing what is learned at conferences with staff. Professional development plans/funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2008

a checklist helping orgs understand when they should not devote resources to Web 2.0. So does that mean that our org should not be investing time and energy in social media tools? Do you ever need to walk the line between cutting edge social media and Old Skool in your org? Kool Aid? , Some are showing signs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

Mari mentioned in an email was that one of the women in this workshop was a lawyer, who heads up WRAPA (Women’s Rights and Protection Alternative) and LACVAW, a coalition of 70 orgs working on rights issues (see below). This workshop participant had never used social media, but was open to learning and asked many great questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

The Networked Nonprofit: Beth Kanter And Allison Fine Tell Orgs How To Use Technology To Their Advantage Huffington Post, Jonathan Harris. I also want to thank everyone who has written about the ideas in the book: Social Action Learning: Touching the Hand of Those in Need Coolcat Teacher Blog, Vicky Davis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

I think there is real potential for significant positive change in our communities in next couple decades, primarily because everyone is getting it, i.e. no one org. SVP IS a network so that kind of work should sort of “tailor-made” for us to do and be effective at.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2011

It is also helpful to look at what other organizations are doing and pick out the elements relevant to your org and goals. Discussing the results of the strategy along with the guidelines is valuable. There are many examples out there, so there is no reason to start from scratch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

All you have to do is submit a 4-8 line poem expressing the heart of your mission at www.communitytech.net (orgs must be US-based 501 c3s). But, more important than the money is the process for applying, which is unlike any other grant program! How do you apply for these grants?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

It also helps illustrate that the orgs who you think of as competitors for funding are actually great collaborators on campaigns. For example, redundancy of messaging across many campaigns at many orgs can create a helpful sort of messaging resiliency. The big listening approach allows you to identify more collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

org/digitalstor y. Digital Storytelling: Using Technology to Create and Share Powerful Stories. What digital storytelling is, and how you can use it tell. your nonprofit's story. March 28-29, TechSoup's Community forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Deepen relationship through custom apps that improve on org activites (event fundraising, petitions). That way you can meet the activist "where they're at" willcoley @ kanter I'm interested in how orgs can use offline content dev among their constituents. See example of EQCA No on Prop8 [link]. Create something to attend!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

  More than 350 orgs received $10,000 or more.  This was among the key findings of the  “Community Philanthropy 2.0,” conducted by  Geoff Livingston (he is a Society for New Communications Research Fellow),  Qui Diaz  and myself. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This was on top of the dozens of “expert interviews” conduced by the org, surveys of lapsed editors, conversations conducted around the world (via all different media) as well as commissioning droves of data by Bridgespan to support the effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2015

Last year, many organizations wanted to participate in Give Local America but did not have a local community to participate under. Based on the interest from a broad range of nonprofits, we opened up registration for all nonprofits on givelocal15.org. 4) Leaderboard App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Look for the unique value your org provides and share that value, help others. Use keywords to find people who care about issues ur org cares abt. sarahmarchetti: @kdpaine slightly diff perspective since I was Development Comm, but I think that the whole org is responsible for FR in some way. How do you address resistence?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

The funny thing is - let's see who actually follows Org.2.0 The NonprofitTech Blog posts a reaction to the NpowerNY Org2.0 piece in Seth Goodin's blog. May I point out that many Web widgets or Seth Godin???s document do not directly address social services problems? Of course, that isn???t advice, particularly point 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Holly started with a great question, "What's in the DNA of each of these orgs that allows them to embrace this change and experiment?" In turn, I suggested that we have a conversation with the nonprofit technology community with Holly Ross at NTEN as host. This conversation took place yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

org/blog/your-votes-community -values-immigration-video -contest. Vote for the video that you think best tells America that, immigrants and citizens alike, we're all in it together! So, without further ado, the finalists (in no particular order) CLICK HERE: [link].org/blog/your-votes-community

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Even though we can assume every org has a range of target audiences, members have to be a priority for every arts and culture organization. Then we just received a full-color 16-page annual report, printed on heavy paper, featuring 10 pages of donors names. Expensive to produce and mail, but it has no value to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Thank you for your kind support, David Bacon About Carpets For Communities We offer instant intervention into child trafficking & labour by empowering mothers to earn a steady income from home & return their children to school, giving us time to work with the families in a participatory fashion towards exiting the cycle of poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Staff of this org are friends of mine (and neighbors).any Via my colleague Rachel Weidinger. any help/ coverage/ support of this devastating fire at a digital divide-bridging nonprofit on Valencia Monday night would rock. I donated $100 and plan to donate more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

For those orgs, Beth and Allison advise individuals at nonprofits to go small, try simple stuff , not focus on ROI, be willing to fail, and leverage small successes. As they explore in their new book, fear of failure holds many organizations back from a networked nonprofit approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

That's because when I started at the HSUS, I was obsessed with MySpace on a personal level, and I was challenge with the task of figuring out how the org could use it for their benefit of advocacy and fundraising. I did some outreach to my friends and colleagues from other orgs that are involved with doing social media. My job is fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

If website person is not around/available, ask local folks in your org network who they use/recommend. Note the feedback as to what is not working. Meet with the person who built your current site & discuss the findings. 5 Interview several of them, get quotes, make a choice, budget for it (consider a fundraising campaign around it).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

Watford Gap : wiki adoption tip - everyone in the org can share thier stories and buildup a collaborative picture of what they do - any good? Or there is prize Eduardo Jezierski "B uild a sense of what to shape the wiki into, a goal, beyond a dumpster. I'd borrow, steal & give credit. i.e. Can you email me the job desc?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It's call org.2.0! Graphic in Flickr Source: Tara Hunt's post " Cross the Chasm " Chris Brogan sent me a link to the new NpowerNY/Squido Handout on Seth's Blog. It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0 in nonprofit land. Or maybe not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

You can leave a comment below or I can be reached by e-mail at connect(at)handsonnetwork(dot)org. Please let me know what you liked, what you’d do differently and what you’d do next. Jessica Kirkwood is VIP for Social Media at HandsOn Network. The organization inspires equips and mobilizes people to change lives through service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

When nonprofits started using the web, it was largely disconnected from what the rest of the org was doing. "The Web is still its own silo in many organizations. It isn't used as part of an overarching strategy. It started out as something done by communications or marketing or "owned" by IT. That makes sense, but it created a silo."

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