Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

In those days, I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on a project called ArtsWire, an online network for arts organizations and artists. That small community evolved into the organization – NTEN – the association for nonprofit techies. Develop new programs and resources for NTEN’s growing community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

One goes something like this, ”Our organization has to collect a lot of data, mostly counting data for our funders. What is funder’s role to support good measurement? And there are other intermediaries, e.g., REDF, New Profit, and a few others, supporting this as well in a substantive way. That says volumes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works. How can Facebook support your organizational communications, marketing or program objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

The four-day workshop covered effective practices of networked ngos, including culture change, integrated social media strategy, and tactics. I worked with a group of eight organizations with two staff people from each. So, I’m very interested in this topic and will have a lot more to say once I recover from jet lag.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. The project is called “ Tech2Empower ,” organized by Wake , an organization on a quest to leverage technology for women’s empowerment globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

However, no one to my knowledge has organized a service/platform that would rapidly connect program officers needing reviews to suitable subject matter experts, who happen to be available, complete with a reputation management / feedback system. Scarcity can also drive people and organizations to mesh-based solutions.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

These three characteristics hold true for resilient organizations as well.…Resilient The Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) has a r esource collection on how funders can support resiliency. How do you ensure that your organization is building its resiliency muscle? Others do not.”. Talent development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The webinar earlier this week from the Lean Start up team, Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations, did begin to address this gap with a discussion and examples from Akash Trivedi of Kiva Zip, a pilot program from the nonprofit Kiva and Christie George from New Media Ventures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

The first and most important step is for organizations to put on their listening ears and monitor conversations, get feedback, and continuously improve. New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening Guest Post By Roz Lemieux. Your People Are Talking. Are You Listening?” Get it here: https://attentive.ly/listen.

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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 master class is part of a, NEA-funded experiment being conducted by arts service organizations like Theatre Bay Area all across the country. Trainers from arts service organizations will train their members.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. Additionally, over the past 2 years, Teddy and I were very lucky to work with other SF Arts organizations in the “Leveraging Social Media” (LSM) workshop series. Reach out to others for the support you need to make this happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

It was a bit of a culture shock using a computer that was part of an organization's IT system after being my own IT department for many years. This is a question mostly for larger nonprofits with IT departments or support. With technology, there is always more than one way to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is an interesting social media networks fundraiser that asks donors to stop using Twitter or Facebook for a day (November 1st) to call awareness and financial support for autism. I got a follow up, personal email, from the organizers thanking me for the Tweet. The campaign caught my eye and I tweeted about it.

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

While I’m not active in the community, I continue to support this community – as a donor and a board member of ” Friends of Global Voices ” for the past few years. While I’m not active in the community, I continue to support this community – as a donor and a board member [.]

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Among the proposed new gTLDs is.NGO.NGO will be the exclusive domain for local and global non-governmental organizations looking to advance their missions or to inspire their communities. Sign this online letter of support to ensure that.NGO is maintained in the best interest of nonprofits worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. To date the survey has received 131 responses; 45% projects and 55% organizations.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Most recently, I was reminded of this as I live-tweeted an event for MomsRising put on by Latino civil rights organization the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). MomsRising is an online and on-the-ground organization with over a million members, many of whom are Latinas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I've been playing in a sand box to explore online collaboration/social media tools and how they support network weaving. I think it is more than just having self-organizing values embedded in the way the tool works. It's your professional social network or a network of organizations or typically both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. The central question of the Networked Nonprofit is how organizations can embrace the change.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

  This organization is part of a 40 member organization network called International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR).   This organization is part of a 40 member organization network.    How did the earthquake impact PROFAMIL Haiti's work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

So, the idea is that you do your listening and engage, but you think about how your engagement supports overall communications goals. The guide points out the hashtags used by people who are supporting the bill or against. Does your organization have an example of strategic tweeting that is social?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

In addition to a plan and freezing other non-priority project work, reflection is a critical aspect so staff can make adjustments and also share their experience with others in the organization. According to the book, on-the-job learning is successful when: -Staff member has worked with the organization for more than 3 months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

The case study brings up some great questions that we’d love to discuss with you: How does your organization vet online contest opportunities? If an online contest has brought you new members and supporters, how do you continue to build your connection to them once the contest is over? Come join the discussion !

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MARCH 16, 2012

Darin McKeever, Deputy Director, Charitable Sector Support, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Victoria Vrana, Senior Program Officer, Charitable Sector Support, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Carrie Avery, President, The Durfee Foundation. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom Subak, Vice President of Online Services, adds "Looking back over the three years, Cecile made it clear to everyone that the Internet was a critical part of our future and that she was going to be personally involved in the organization's transformation to embrace it.". We support it, guide it.". . We help guide it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . What if the default was to share your organization's dashboard openly with everyone? That's the cultural norm in the nonprofit sector, with a couple of exceptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

I never dive into the tools, this session began with a focus on how and where listening fits in the organization and the work flow. I demoed a lot of different techniques in real time with suggestions of keywords or examples from the participants. How do you organize listening within your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Organizations should recognize that AI, like other technology, could exacerbate the blurring of work/life boundaries by pushing workers to remain constantly ‘on’. Organizations should protect against the ‘datafication’ of workers and work. Read the full paper here. .

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APRIL 21, 2020

Nonprofits can also engage their supporters to help spread generosity around the world. While you certainly can use the day to raise critical dollars for your mission, here are a few simple ways your nonprofit can easily participate: 1: Encourage Your Supporters To Chalk The Walks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Should they establish a nonprofit for their work to support growth? In tough times like this, it's so critical to focus on the core of your mission that any support you can receive, such as the one that comes with being a fiscally sponsored project as explained in the interview with Melanie , is something to consider very seriously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Each organization received $25,000 and the announcement caused some controversy because of the contest eligibility rules and lack of a leaderboard. . The 100 organizations are now participating in the next round , "The Big Idea" where the 100 charities share their big idea for changing the world and get votes. For example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Not only about the potential concerns and how to respond, but how the organization or its internal culture can embrace social media. Who acts as a spokesperson on behalf of the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

How is it being organized? Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event. The charity isn't the central organizer of the event - it appears that they are letting their stakeholders run with it and not imposing "branding and messaging" standards. How did the relationship originate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

So, EPIP provided a self-organizing platforn (a flip chart with a time line sign up.) This let everyone organize into small groups and get to the airport without having to spend a lot of money. What do you need in your social media strategy to facilitate your supporters self-organizing around your goal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Being Leng Sopharath's sponsor is more than raising money to support the Sharing Foundation 's program. I write regular letters of support and encouragement. While Leng Sopharath is covered, there are 40 other college students that the Sharing Foundation supports. I'm thrilled. You can donate online here.

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MARCH 19, 2009

As someone who spent half her career working for and with arts organizations this news makes me sad: A report yesterday from the USAToday that quotes Bob Lynch , the President of Americans for the Arts estimating that 10,000 arts organizations will close this year, 10% of the total number.

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