Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can watch the video here as well as the human curated resources shared and a Copilot created summary transcript here. When it comes to using generative AI tools such as Copilot for drafts of written materials, a human must always check it for accuracy because it can make mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). ” Other amplifier tools include JustCoz and Gaggleamp. The first step is to get organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits should not start with the tools and data, but start to clearly define success and their audience. By doing so, they will understand the few data points and the tools needed to collect that data to figure out if they have been successful! Then check out Simply Measured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

But what if you don’t have the resources to hire a graphic designer and need to do it in-house? How To Create A Terrific Facebook Cover Image If You Don’t Have Resources To Hire A Designer by Guest Post Ash Shepherd. This post is simply to share a couple resources for those folks looking to build their own covers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The details are below, but before you enter, you might want to review some good storytelling resources to ensure that your story is as amazing as Dr. Cairo’s. The chat was great, so I’m summarizing the resources and key points below: What do you think makes a powerful story? Stories Worth Telling: A Strategic Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Join my session “ Unlocking Productivity with Generative AI Writing Tools for Nonprofit Marketers ” on March 7 at 10:30 am PT. Your ticket includes: 1: Access to my session and 70+ others taught by the top thought leaders, all working together to give you the education, resources, and tools needed to make an unthinkable impact a reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Here’s a few good resources shared on the wall in the past week. Social Media Initiative Guide: This guide from Spreadfast, a social media management tool vendor, has some great tips and ways to think about Key Performance Indicators, tactics, and metrics. A big shout out to their new Director of Social Media, Jordan Viator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together. Some techniques and resources that the panelists shared: What is responsive web design? Lots more resources on responsive web design: - [link]. Some tools mentioned: Landr.co : Good, inexpensive, easy to use tool for building simple mobile websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The Playbook offers practical tools grounded in research, and accompanied by systems of support to guide reflection, growth, and organizational best practices. I am thrilled to share The Emerging Leaders Playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Here’s an overview the tips and resources I shared. Here is a list of resources for nonprofits to get better at online meetings: Virtual Meetings: General Tips. Virtual Meeting Tools. 111 Tools To Get You Through Pandemic. Robin Good’s Mega List of Online Collaboration Tools. Don’t wing it alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Check out blog for in-depth posts on Twitter tools, for example this one about url shorterners. I'd like to point a few examples that were not on his list and share some good nonprofit Twitter resources. Twitter Tool Box : A collection of Twitter tools, tips, and how-tos assembled by nonprofit techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Join me on February 22nd at 9:00 am PT for a LinkedIn Live with Zoe Amar for a conversation about taking the first step for responsible AI adoption.We’ll discuss the challenges, tips, and practical resources available. Staff also need to learn the limitations in using these tools for these types of tasks and how to ensure responsible use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

And, tools and platforms make it easy for any of us to be philanthropists by tapping in our networks. He page features this video about how he uses technology and why NTEN is important to him. These authentic messages from NTEN Champions tapping in their networks are the secret sauce of social media fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." " So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). Take advantage of that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

MindTools Team Management Tools -Mindtools is a robust collection of resources to increase productivity, improve management and leadership skills, and support organizational development initiatives. Mural: This is an online visual collaboration tool, but it is embedded with innovation facilitation methods, including Luma (see #9).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

MindTools Team Management Tools -Mindtools is a robust collection of resources to increase productivity, improve management and leadership skills, and support organizational development initiatives. What are some of your favorite resources for designing and facilitating meetings for nonprofits? Share in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It represents the convergence of two ideas: mobile phones have great cameras and you can quickly create great visual content as part of your content strategy by using it, along with a few tips and tools. I’ve included a select list of resource blogs, books, collections, and additional curated lists. But that’s not all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

We're going to kick out this week's NTEN We Are Media Toolbox fun with blogging tools. One of the best resources on blogging for nonprofits comes from Idealware, the blogging tools report. It presents a side-by-side comparison of features for 7 lower-end blogging tools commonly used by nonprofits. Photo by Dave Melbourne.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

And while the bulk of nonprofits put most of their resources into Facebook ( whether Facebook is perfect or not ), there are many nonprofits effectively using Twitter and leveraging the platform for social good as well as their staff and leaders. My colleague, Neil Parekh, created a Twitter Moment with some tips and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2008

All this week for NTEN's WeAreMedia project, we've been focusing on the tools that let nonprofits share their story social media style!      So, if you're like me and little bit behind this week, you can play catch up today and tommorrow by suggesting tips and tools for photosharing and videosharing. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2017

One of the biggest challenges that many nonprofits face is the finding time and resources for professional development activities. Test out new tools and practices to help strengthen your skills – from leading effective meetings to mastering learning agility. Register now! The Emerging Leaders Playbook was curated with this in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2009

Those who are just beginning to incorporate social media into their strategic thinking struggle with: "How do we get to know and understand how a particular tool can help us meet our goals, but not let the tool drive our decisions?" Fire, for instance, was a society-changing tool. The alternative? A forest fire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

The first session I co-lead with Katrin Verclas which was a look at social media and mobile tools. It was a great opportunity for me to learn a little bit more about mobile tools. You'll find lots of great resources over at Katrin's web site, mobileactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

Fund for Shared Insight (Shared Insight), a funder collaborative that pools financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy, has released a national open request for proposals for its signature initiative, Listen for Good (L4G). If you answered an enthusiastic “Yes!” to these questions, keep reading!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I asked fellow nonprofit marketing and fundraising consultants to recommend the best resources. Here’s a curated list of examples, tips, and tools that can help any nonprofit improve their storytelling skills. Comprehensive Resource Sites focused on Nonprofit Storytelling Best Practices. Center for StoryBased Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So, go over to the wiki and add your best how-to resource and you could win a t-shirt. And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. Long term vision: They think there are many more activists out there and the best way to connect and collaborate, but give them their own tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The month of October we've been focusing on building out the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box and awarding t-shirts to contributors!   We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Some awesome tool resource pages where you'll find links to simple definitions, tips and tutorials, and some tools. This week we worked on listening and participation tools: Monitoring. The tools we'll be focusing on next are those that can be used for sharing your story social media style. Blogging Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization. Talent professionals in the social sector desire more opportunities to efficiently access, implement, and share quality leadership development tools and practices. And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2006

A couple of years ago, I collaborative with several colleagues at Summit Collaborative to develop a list called " Fifty Fabulous Free and Low Cost Nonprofit Friendly Web Resources." and four years a later, there are lots more free tools. " It was pre-Web2.0 NPower Seattle???s 4) Take Action. 4) Take Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

He recently shared “ Toolsets for Social Media ,” a brilliantly curated collection of tools. He has organized clusters of tools around different concepts of use that a social media professional might need. These are all tools that mostly for mobile phones, easy to use, and for individuals, not enterprise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I mentioned a twitter tool called Group Tweet that let you create groups on Twitter. Sus Nyrop, colleague from Denmark, mentioned a new tool called Crowdstatus. Sus Nyrop, colleague from Denmark, mentioned a new tool called Crowdstatus. maybe and the work product of the project require some rapid resource sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I popped over to flossmanuals - and what a terrific resource. It reminded of the ngo in a box collection of open source video editing tools that I read about on the NTEN blog. Jay Dedman recently asked about linux video editing tools on the Rising Voices list: Does anyone here use Linux to edit video? I'm very impressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Additional Resources. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

If you are finding yourself looking through a lot of unrelated or useless stuff or the content you are sharing is not resonating with your audience, news discovery tools can help. It is a content discovery tool that helps tune your Facebook newsfeed based on keywords. What content discovery tools do you use?

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