Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. A number folks offers some insights in the comments or on Twitter, including Amanda. I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 29, 2009

There’s been a bit of talk lately in the technosphere about the role of blogs in the new real-time web. Louis Gray has a wonderful post on the subject that reflects my own opinion, “Blogging Is Still the Foundation In A World of Streams.&#. I think there’s another benefit to a blog: it’s a mandatory time out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. What if you used that five minutes of reflection, to visualize and understand your network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 10, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The Benefits of Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships. Back on Twitter, Verizon’s campaign has a clear Call-to-Action. Your mission should reflect the values they embrace. Why should your nonprofit partner with a for-profit company? The ad is deeply emotional and uplifting. It’s genius.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Some Reflections. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

Where’s the Action : There’s lots of opportunity to improve the real-time-ness of the site. But, you can always leave feedback either in the comments or in email – any time. Look for that! Many folks recommended/requested ways to see what posts were most popular/read/commented on.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2022

International Women’s Day is on March 8 th , 2022, and it’s a time to reflect on the state of women and girls worldwide, how current events may make violence and abuse even worse than they were, and how to move forward by empowering each other. UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“ also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Click to see the larger image. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Because, midlife is a pivotal time to assess career goals, relationships, and lifestyles, to challenge ideals set earlier in life. “So If you’ve asked yourself these questions, it’s time to ROAR proclaims Michael. This guide for making the second half of your life the best it can be is incredibly timely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

This was also about the same time as the flood in Nashville. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

It’s that time when we reflect on our work over the past year and set goals for the new one. 550 +36% 162,288 +282% X (Twitter) 141,815 -2% 472 -73% N/A N/A Youtube 10,657 +24% 357 +52% 621,579 +184% TikTok 1,853 +437% 658 +30% 221,994 +526% *Engagement includes reactions, comments, and shares. X (Twitter) is not doing so hot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. With limited time and resources, we are often hesitant to make that trade-off. This is the gift of time.

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M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

Read time: 2 minutes. These findings reflect the determination of so many nonprofits to advance essential missions in the midst of uncertainty, hardship, and tragedy. Email list sizes were up by 3%, Twitter followers increased by 25%, and mobile audiences by 26%. Audiences grew across all digital channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Back in November, someone in Senator Dowd’s office made this epic Twitter mistake. Here’s a play by play of the Twitter Faux Pas. The hashtag #gettingslizzerd , a reference to drinking too much, trended on Twitter. Twitter mistakes are going t happen. They apologized and moved on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Having spent a year working with KD Paine on our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” we faced the same challenge at times, although we had fairly large group of Packard Foundation grantees testing the frameworks which helped. For starters, follow the #sm_re hashtag on Twitter. … Read More Measurement'

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 28, 2012

I had planned to take the day off from work to remember and reflect on the service of those in my family (my grandfather, now passed), and in my community. The timing coincides with the President’s remarks in Arlington, but one minute of silence can be pledged at any time, really. Sharing across platforms – Twitter.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

While we were busy catching up on sleep, we also spent a lot of time reflecting on the experience. It felt as though I was backstage at a rock concert - everywhere I turned there were the experts I learn from and follow on Twitter or blog posts. Sarah had the marvelous idea of doing Twitter song requests during breaks and meals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

So, as part of getting back into my blogging routine or rather establishing a new one, I'd like to reflect a little on TWT20 interview experience. Jay Baer is a blogger and social media consultant who has been doing Twitter 20 interview series with social media. Tags: twitter. Jay asked some terrific questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? The Twitter Advocate is someone who is watching the hashtag stream and can verbalize to the room what a question or comment posted on Twitter. You have to give everyone a specific job. My takeaways: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. The conversations that begin with “We did this and this is what we found …&# can always enrich a workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

That's a screencast (with time speed increased) of what is I think -- is a twitter group coming from SXSW Festival , a major new media/emerging technology event happening in Austin, TX. While there are some good reasons why you wouldn't want to use this tool, seems there's a lot of twitter experimentation going on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I've seen first hand how you can leverage your Twitter network to raise money for a good cause really fast. It's time update the history of fundraising on Twitter post I wrote that last month after the Tweetsgiving campaign raised $10,000 in 48 hours. The Salvation Army has also launched a Kettle Campaign on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I tweeted the link one of my twitter followers, Paul Young decided to give personal fundraising with social media a whirl. Twitter is a great way to drive people to take action - yes I tweeted many times (up to 20) and I ???bribed??? than a Twitter message - maybe a lot more people are on Facebook, but they???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

The use of mobile and social media enhanced the experience beyond having the standard back channel via a hashtag on Twitter, but the substance of his comments resonated. Mobile Technology and Social Media and Real Time Learning. His opening remarks and conversation were inspiring to say the least. Put them on the donor list.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We've been reflecting on all the great conversations we had with people from around the country (and around the world) on how new media is and/or might enhance their work. . Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? Be timely and relevant. Conference on AIDS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections. We could have allocated more time for the hands-on tactical small groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. This lead me to ask: Will board meetings of the future allow us to reach out to professional networks and get real-time advice and input for decision-making? It was dramatic.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 18, 2022

Diaz-Ortiz is one of the first employees of Twitter, is an author, speaker, and businesswoman. Claire Diaz-Oritiz "Many people avoid mentoring because they think it takes a lot of time," says Blanchard. "It The mission statement should reflect this. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D. It doesn't have to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2010

One of the common things I hear when teach workshops on social media is “We don’t have the time.&# We make the point in the book that if nonprofits make the shift from scarcity to abundance thinking – they will be able to leverage their networks. Leveraging the Network. Specchio Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

At the same time, our industry has shown remarkable resilience in times of greatest need, and this year has been no exception. Virtual participation in fundraising events isn’t new to 2020; the pandemic has just mandated a full transition from physical to virtual for the first time in history.

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