Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Effective Social Media. Example: Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I thought I had posted this case study from the NTC 08 Panel called "Social Media Case Study Slam" already, but looks like I didn't. This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. The rest of the case studies are here.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Generosity Xchange Nonprofit Marketing Summit Cause Camp TNPA Leadership Summit The Nonprofit Social Media Summit Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) AFP ICON Engage for Good Good Tech Fest Bridge Conference If you’re thinking to yourself “I can’t make all those conferences,” you’re probably right. Cost: General admission is free.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 6, 2009

This Wednesday, MIT and Tie-Boston are hosting The 140-Character Mission: Social Media & Entrepreneurship event. Instead, I’m going to be presenting by proxy: the wonderful and talented John Haydon will be walking you through my slides. Ask questions via Twitter - just include the hastag in your post!

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Care2

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Last Friday, Care2 held an information packed webinar Engaging Baby Boomers and Seniors through Social Media with panelists Gina Pagliaro, Immersion Active, Jen Smith from AARP, and Molly Connors from Care2. 84% of internet users 50 and over use social networking sites. You can also check out the slides below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm beginning to post the slides and detailed notes from the session at NTC08 here on my blog and on my Social Media Metrics Wikispace. The introduction set the ground rules and offer these overview points to the what and why of social media ROI. What are the challenges in measuring the success of social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Guest Post by Frank Barry: Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon. Here’s a few of the videos focused on using the social web for social good. Social Media for Nonprofits Ignite! Social Media: Paint by the Numbers with Holly Ross of NTEN. We had 2,200 attendees!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. Secret sauce of social media success. View more presentations from kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

ONTC Slides View more presentations from kanter. The chapter includes detailed checklists, case studies, and how-to steps for analyzing ROI for nonprofit technology projects. How can we help Pauline and her organization reduce their frustration and get work done using ROI to find the right technology solution?"

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

The process of considering how to get social starts with considering goals. What are the reasons for integrating social media into your website? It all begins with a goal: what do you want to accomplish using social media? The goals seek to address “Why” you might want make your website social. Raise funds.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While the full 2023 data has not yet been compiled, FEP has found that, through Q3 2023, donors decreased moderately and donor retention continued to slide, driving a slight decrease in fundraising dollars. Studies also show that the best major gift and planned gift prospects are donors that have been retained for multiple years.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 25, 2011

Description : This session is targeted at beginner and intermediate knowledge or experience with Twitter and other social media platforms. Katherine Snider, Executive Director of Baby Buggy will join to share her case study of using Twitter with her organization. Blog post with slides and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Social Media: Getting the Word Out in the New Information Age View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. This slide deck comes via Tim Wilson who I "met" in Twitter while he was getting information to organize this panel. "Social Media: Getting the Word Out in the New Information Age???

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Storytelling for nonprofits can come in a variety of forms, from case studies in your annual report to personal stories or testimonials from people your organization has served. 14 Tips for Nonprofit Storytelling In a study by researchers Dan and Chip Heath, only 5% of people could recall statistics from a presentation they’d just heard.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Here are the slides! Different platforms have different users – be sure to do your homework by reviewing statistics and reports from various social media tools to know who’s really using them, and ask your community where they want to engage with you. Case Studies. Principles of Community Organizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities. On social networks on the organization’s web site, 25.2% Research Studies of Nonprofit and Social Media Adoption Overbook Foundation Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2008

Source: Universal McCann International Social Media Research Wave 3 The PDF Version is available here. I have a collection of social media snack facts misc. bites I've screen captured from research studies about social media over the past couple of years. Take a minute to cruise through the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  It included two excellent case studies and social media metrics- one on ASPCA and the other Georgia Tech. some pics of slides are here ).   The notion that you can manage your reputation through social media gets you into trouble.     Social media? 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 7, 2011

In this session, participants will get their hands dirty planning a social media campaign that integrates traditional organizing theory and practice. During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles, campaign mapping methods and case studies. Slides and notes. Related Links : NCVS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

My colleagues at The Monitor Institute just published a study called “ Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ,&# a national study of member-based advocacy organizations. The study was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The John S. This is troubling given the changing media landscape.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

  In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.    So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Hawaii Social Media Game View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate. Not every social media tool will work for every project.   Hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

How, When, and If to Weave and/or Strengthen Networks Using Social Media." We can answer this question pretty well in the context of nonprofit organization for its external communications. If you remember, Facebook had just opened up to people who were not college studies. Lots of best practices over at the WeAreMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. Broadband users are more critical of their communities and local institutions."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor, AARP gave primer about developmental evaluation – what it is, how it is applied, how it different from other methods, and why it is useful in evaluating complex systems projects. You can l isten to the video or view her slides here. Here are my notes and takeaways.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. Listening and engaging with people has been critical to any success I’ve achieved as a social media practitioner.

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Forum One

JULY 9, 2008

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2012

Ogneva’s talk examined what the difference is between an organization that merely uses social media to one that is a social organization. Ogneva also provided advice on how organizations can make the shift to becoming social organizations. Please visit the site to view this file).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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