Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Moon Phases: Chinese New Years

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Robin, from the Chinese New Year blog sent along this cool moon phase calendar as a reminder. With the attached pdf file you can see that the phases of the moon do not line up with our months, and why 1/1 is on February 18th this year. I also found a moon phase widget! CURRENT MOON lunar phases

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The Promise & Peril of Creator Tools Like ChatGPT for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As with any technology moving from emerging to mainstream phases, it takes time to become fluent and this might lead to new job requirements, skills or even jobs. As people begin to use these creator tools in different fields and jobs, including fundraising as the example in the Chronicle piece illustrates, there are some benefits.

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Book Review: Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll summarize her points here: Phase 1: What is the worst thing that could happen? Phase 2: What is the worst headline you could see about your organization in the front page of the NY Times? Phase 3: What assumptions will be made? Phase 4: Outline a Process. Create a crisis management team.

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#AI4Good: What Your Nonprofit Needs To Know About AI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About two in five nonprofits (42 percent) report researching AI but less than a third (28 percent) said that AI is either deployed, in the implementation phase, or experimental. We are well into the age of automation – bots, artificial intelligence and virtual assistants, but still in early phase for the nonprofit sector.

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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Overall, when we went into the first phase of the campaign, we had two goals: to secure at least three Blue Key Champions , and to get 6,000 keys ordered between May 9 and June 20 (World Refugee Day). The Google Analytics chart looks at web traffic and trends between May 9 and June 20; the first phase of the campaign.

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AI and Nonprofits: Will Bots Make Transition from Functional to Friendship?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next disruptive technology phase is already upon here and it includes a technology designed to emulate human conversation – chatbots programmed with artificial intelligence. It will have implications for nonprofits way beyond simply setting up a Facebook Messenger bot for your nonprofit’s Facebook Brand Page.

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Are Your A Fearless Changemaker?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first phase is to get crowdsourced nominations of ”fearless changemakers,” people who have a social change project in the early stages and a Fearless prize could help them make the leap to scaling.

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