Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. will partially determine how quickly the relationship moves to the next phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

Creator tools can redesign fundraiser and nonprofit staff jobs and reengineer workflows to enable people to focus on the parts of work that humans are particularly well-suited for, such as relationship building, intuitive decision making, empathy, creativity and problem solving. We call this the dividend of time in our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Relationship Building Is King. It focuses on relationship building -- very important to any fundraising success -- both online and offline - and regardless of tools. s about building relationships with supporters. When will relationship begin online and enhance offline activism on Facebook? donate now???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Those other options are a CRM where you own your relationships and donor data like email addresses. Yes, social media is about giving up control of your message, but you shouldn't be giving up your donor and supporter relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Today, it's about relationships.    Do the math - and you're going to do podcasts She made the point that you can manage relationships, not reputation.    It included two excellent case studies and social media metrics- one on ASPCA and the other Georgia Tech. some pics of slides are here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

I think the key is to go beyond "friend collecting" and to leveraging social capital through building relationships one-to-one. This happens by building personal relationships, getting to know the people beyond names on your list. It happens one person at a time. Watch out for Google's Facebook killing strategy, OpenSocial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Now more than ever we must create a robust workplace culture and stronger relationships to retain our humanness. The inability to create a variety of different contexts in our lives including different social roles, relationships, activities and goals. Why Remote Work Is Exhausting. We also feel self-conscious about our appearance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2008

Social networks becoming utilities for peer-to-peer relationships - 74% use them for messaging friends. The most recent find is this slide deck with lots of detailed usage information about global social media usage over the past 2-3 years from Universal McCann International. US saturated growth stalls at 41%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

strengthen relationships, tell stories, empathize with others.). AI and other smart tech can make work culture more human, but only if you know how the tech works and focus on using it to do what it does best (answer rote questions online) and allow people to do what we do best (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

One area that was identified was how to build cross-department relationships. At another workshop I did for a different organization, the staff came up with the idea of using technology to help support and sustain a culture of resilience and build relationships with remote staff. And, of course, there is a pizza ordering slack bot.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Major gift fundraising is an intuitive blend of art and science, with relationship-building at its core. While, of course, each episode and ‘type’ of funder has a unique take on fundraising best practice, what shines through the season are strong threads of commonality defining what an excellent relationship means in practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Your nonprofit can increase trust, and credibility by cultivating a relationship with influencers. VIP Influencer: Well-known celebrity or VIP is has a relationship or connect with your organization. It is based on developing a longer-relationship. Not all influencers are the same. Step 4: Activate. What were your results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The internet and 24/7 connectivity to the world around us have changed our relationships with people, businesses, and nonprofits in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. 1: Relationships Matter. In a sharing economy, it’s not about the transaction, it’s about the relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Stronger relationships at work help us to feel more at ease in sharing our concerns and ideas, seeking new information, and can give us more confidence to speak out if there’s something that can be done more efficiently and effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2020

And, of course, AI can’t fix bad fundraising practices that prioritize transactions over relationships. . We look forward to upcoming events that dive further into our report’s findings and exploring ways that nonprofits can benefit from AI to increase and deepen support for their efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Humans are good at relationships, empathy, intuition, and judgement. If AI can do the boring grunt work for a nonprofit human, use that free time on building relationships,identifying innovation solutions, and scaling services. The algorithms are able to crunch large amounts of data quickly, data entry, and repetitive tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Even if there’s not evidence yet of donor fatigue, we should stay vigilant about nurturing meaningful relationships with donors right now. This makes a donation feel less like a transaction and more like the beginning of a relationship. GlobalGiving sends very specific updates about how donations are used. How do we know this works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Most jobs will have some parts of it automated, freeing up those people to do more human things like build stronger relationships and solve complex problems. How to get the best out of both and, as a result, re-make work as something better than the always on, 24/7 grind it has become.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Last year, one thing that annoyed me about Causes, that it was time consuming to welcome new members and thank them personally once they joined or donated to the Cause. It's an important principle of building online community - greeting new members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But there is always more to learn and participants shared a few ideas worth noting: Empathy or Discovery Walks : We talk a lot about the health and productivity benefits of walking meetings, but there is yet another benefit – building stronger relationships. It comes from MIT’s U-Lab. You can learn more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

The point is that the LIKE is the start of the relationship, not the end.&#. Not minutes before, KD Paine had just said the same thing in an email: &# Relationships are the end result of all the interactions and engagements you have with an organization, in social media or otherwise.&#. There was a little bit of kismet happening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

But few nonprofits use social media to build relationship with potential Big Fish donors. Yup, you can target and build these important relationships by engaging with them through LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2017

The book looks at our relationships with ourselves, other people, careers and money, our environment, and technology—and shows how our relationships with people in our workplaces heavily influence our well-being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. The problem is that walking is perceived as a “break activity” not part of work as explained in this Harvard Business Review blog post, “ Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It A Break.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2018

” I have to say that the best thing shared was from Rob Cottingham who illustrated a key point about the importance of building relationship and engagement! Yesterday Allison Fine and I participated in a chat hosted by the Salesforce Foundation and moderated by Emily Goodstein on the topic “GivingTuesday Myths.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Relationships with funders. It’s the ability to initiate and nurture these relationships that has helped us succeed. Relationships with sponsors. Relationships with key partners. Relationships with nonprofits. Relationships with donors. So what gives in Minnesota? None of us is as strong as all of us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Professional Networking Meetings: Meetings with people for coffee or lunch or visiting their office (or vice a versa) for professional relationship building. Socialize and build team spirit ; relationships are developed while walking and team building occurs while involved in informal activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

They discussed any common contacts, and if the two staff shared the same contact were aware of it, and if they have a coordinated “relationship strategy” for that contact ala a triad approach. They also discussed being strategic in the relationship building: What is the strategic value of investing in the relationship with that person?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2014

But walking with colleagues can boost relationship building and collaboration. Professional Networking Meetings: Meetings with people for coffee or lunch or visiting their office (or vice a versa) for professional relationship building. That means rethinking meetings. What are some practical ways to integrate walking into work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Technology products have trapped our attention and the down side, according to Center for Humane Technology is that it is impacting our social relationships, mental health, children, and ultimately chipping away at civil society. They’ve outlined their strategy on their web site. You can read more of his writing and about him here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” on June 20th. When favors come with strings attached, it leave a bad taste, feeling more like a transaction than a relationship. The latter are acquaintances, the people we know casually and strong ties are those that we have close relationships with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Whether connected or cold calling, you can build long-term, valuable relationships using LinkedIn. For Brothers, success means building long-term relationships with funders. People covet their relationships with funders so he opts for a different approach: a paid LinkedIn plan. Find out how easy it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Each of these verbs would describe a type of relationship between things that exist in what Facebook has up until today called the Social Graph (our connections) or now what is being called the “Open Graph.” Relationship Building Is Even More Important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

Our use of digital devices, apps, email , and social media (even for work purposes) has crossed the line into an unhealthy relationship. It is one of a growing number of “ digital diseases ” that can cause painful physical symptoms as well as mental health issues that ultimately make you less productive, depressed, and sick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

How can social media be used to build high-quality connections, a motivating relationship between members and build trust and reciprocity? The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2011

It assumes that consumers start with a large number of products or brands in mind and methodically limit their choices until they’ve decided which one to purchase. After purchase, their relationship is focused on using the product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The point of a Strolling meeting is not a race, but rather a chance to get fresh air and fresh ideas and build relationships in the process. Build Relationship: Team building occurs while involved in informal activities and outside our normal environment. ” Step 1: Identify Meeting Goals.

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