Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. One of the key principles for an effective social media strategy is experimentation, learning, and rapid prototyping. It is really hard to carve out time to take a step back and reflect on what has gone well, what hasn’t, and what to do next. The organization is a Packard Foundation grantee.

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MARCH 3, 2024

During March 1 – March 31, the United States chooses to remember the accomplishments of women, reflecting on their often-overlooked contributions. Clarify your stance on equity, diversity, and inclusion Celebrate Women’s History Month by reflecting on your association’s stance on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation. How to Approach Social Media Internationally Guest Post By Christian Arno. Does that mean your social media is international?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Gold Medaling in Social Media and Arts Organizations, guest post by James Nickerson. I was in a random hotel ballroom in Denver, ready to present on the importance of social media to over 60 social media managers from LGBT choirs around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall. Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. SMMStandards Progress and Roadmap: Marklein and Paine Present the First Social Media Measurement Standards at the Dublin Summit. Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Depending on the size of your organization and what the mission focus is, there’s probably a social media campaign that’s been executed with the ultimate goal of rallying followers to help you win an award, attend an event or just increase engagement overall. organizationally, our mission and trust in our social media channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 10, 2018

Julia Campbell is social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. Pinterest remains one of the fastest growing social media platforms, reportedly closing in on 250 million users, the majority of whom are women. . By Julia Campbell .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. (So Tags: community networking jumo nonprofits social media social network. Functionality. Messaging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

For example, you may have a very horizontal logo with both an icon and text you use for your website’s header, and a version that is just the icon you only use for social media where space is limited. Whatever you choose, colorizing your photos will bring a sense of uniformity to your photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. “Social Reach” according to Thunder Clap was 1,058,410 (and I can just see Katie Paine’s eyes rolling because it is sort of a bogus number).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. Photo Views. Unsubscribes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by El Dave. I’ve looked to meditation and reflection practices before – in fact – last year during a guest instructor appearance in Jennifer Aaker ’s “Power of Social Technology&# class at Stanford, I had the class do a reflection activity that involved eating a Hershy kiss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

How can create a back channel or other social media tools that can engage people in the room, but also around the world with an interest in the topic? The panelists included: Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mark Horvath of Invisible People and Jessica Dheere , of Social Media Exchange Beirut in Lebanon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Expert new media managers have the ability to anticipate the impact of emerging trends in mobile and social media. They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Good Writing Skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Social media. Reach out to supporters with a large social media following and ask them to act as ambassadors for your cause. This type of social fundraising taps your most loyal supporters and turns them into avid fundraisers for your cause, giving your nonprofit more time to focus on running its event.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

We are now living in the age of click and snap-happy visitors, but it’s not enough to simply count on the fact that they will post about your organization on social media when visiting. Spotlighting content from happy visitors allows you to turn those socials media shout outs into powerful marketing tools. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2009

Photo by eschipul Yesterday's SXSW Nonprofit Social Media Poetry Slam was so much fun and from the feedback we all learned a lot about measuring the return of social media for nonprofits. The panels, judges, twitter moderators and audience rocked! What is your conversion rate? Need that to show the ROI. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 22, 2014

That’s because social media outlets are a place we go to catch up on what our friends and family have been up to. So where does that leave your organization in terms of social media? Especially when you’re trying to get the word out about a fundraising event on social media. Probably… well, never.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Panelists: Wendy Harmon: social media manager, philosophy is to use social media to execute mission. Discussion: What is your learning process from social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. The documenter will also transcribe sticky notes into a word document and capture any thoughts shares via social media hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why the number 52?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One of my biggest takeaways from last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco was this oft-repeated advice on social networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter: you can't make them come to you. Social media became another place to tell our story, to engage readers and attract new supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

Photo by TCMHitchHiker. At last weekend's Transparency Camp West , Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation asked me a great question. "What are the characteristics of nonprofits that have successfully adopted social media?" . Organizational leaders are curious, not scared by social media. Style of Working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

Photo by Chris John Beckett Sean Stannard-Stockton wrote a reflection on my analysis of the list of “foundations that tweet”. Sean takes a point of view: I think that technology and social media in particular is best used when it helps us more fully express those things that make us uniquely human. It's good for society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption. The leaders of the nonprofits that can embrace social media can tolerate vertigo. Another way to put this is: the c-suite is comfortable with discomfort.

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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. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Photo by Nelson Layag.

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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. The Topics.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Know how to untag yourself from embarrassing photos. The answer: it's a huge gray area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Group Photo with Certificates. Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.)

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