Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2006

Last night we attended a performance of Sandglass and Sovanna Phum ( Here too)- the culmination of these two artists working together from different cultures, puppetry traditions , and language. I just had to get that out before I connect to social networking. And just for giggles, I made a flickr slide show out them here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? or not work ??? " It is written for nonprofits newbies.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Social media is no longer seen as a fad or waste of time or thing that young people do. Think about what social networking sites are right for your organization and go create an account.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Carla Schlemminger and JD Lesica led a 90-minute session titled You Need a Strategy, Dammit, Not a Twitter Account that focused on how to create a social media strategy for your nonprofit instead of starting with tool or tactics. Check out the slides here. Check out the slides. If they don’t, consider outsourcing the work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share and Comment on Breaking News.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Some of the students already work at nonprofits while others hope to when they are done with the program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

How deeply your nonprofit can dive into social media is directly related to your capacity in terms of staff time. The truth is that you get out of social media what you put into it. If you can invest only 5 hours a week, then you will get the return on investment (ROI) from 5 hours of work. WiserEarth is for environmentalists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

page on your website that details the purpose of your group texting campaign, how it works, how often text messages will be sent, and, most important, how to subscribe. Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog. Use Bit.ly

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With over 45 million active users worldwide, LinkedIn is a social networking site that is becoming much more than just a place to have a Web 2.0 3) Use Your Personal Profile to Benefit Your Nonprofit : Post Network Updates about your organization’s work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

has turned out to be the glue that holds it (the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand) all together and makes it work, surprisingly. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Offline : you would probably not have someone who’s had no physical connection with your organization be so excited about your work that they design and produce their own fliers about your work and then canvass their local community to raise awareness or your programs. So, how do you respond? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Using Social Networking to build your YMCA career View more presentations from steveheye. My takeaways: Slide 31: Some great points about balancing the line between individual presence and organizational presence on social networking sites: Read the policies in your employee manual. Use of YMCA equipment.

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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. Then, if all works well, I will bring in Robin for a discussion. Content Curation for Nonprofits.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

To effectively steward supporters, you must work to build a strong, mutually beneficial relationship with your organization. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. On social media. You can effectively steward your donors in a number of ways including: Using the donor’s gifts as intended.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Today I attended an informative lunchtime presentation by Chad Nelsen who is the Environmental Director at the Surfrider Foundation where he has worked since 1998. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.). He's currently getting his Ph.D in surf economics!)

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JULY 19, 2010

Blood and Milk » Blog Archive » Ushahidi, Twitter, and the future of foreign aid – Alanna's post is a great example of the power of networks, social media, and open systems. It's about having a CONVERSATION with people who care about your work and can help you reach your goals. Great slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I had a lot of fun doing a panel with colleagues Jordan Viator, Carie Lewis, and David Neff called " The Real Housewives of Social Media." Our task was to present practical and tactical information about social media using metaphors that related to housewives. You can see the full slide deck here. I'm still laughing.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do. The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare. We learn new community organizing tips and tools from them all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi called this "just a social graph" (or just a social network). The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity.

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MAY 26, 2010

47% receive E-newsletters (who said enewsletters don't work?). The social media profile of a Gen Xer is: 56% regularly use Facebook. Click here to listen the webinar or you can view the slides below. Tags: Online Fundraising Social Networking. 17% Texters. 55% do their banking online. 33% Shop online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. I spent some time in the beginning asking questions and letting people share their experience and perspectives on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving I ended up getting sick and have been behind in posting my conference slides and reflections. In this workshop you will discover how the latest tools for online collaboration and sharing can offer opportunities to improve the way you work. Using the clickers, they go instant polling results.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Direct Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The New Social Economy. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

has turned out to be the glue that holds it (the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand) all together and makes it work, surprisingly. All that said, the following is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Last week, I was in NYC to deliver a keynote with Allison Fine about our book, The Networked Nonprofit. My slides are above and my reflections are below. An Impressive Week-Long Learning and Networking Event for Nonprofits. I’m working on perfecting the conversational keynote. Room Layout is Important.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This spanned all the projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 12, 2010

There are a few ways to dive in: View the book as a slide show: on the website or on slideshare. What is thrivability – a working definition. How do you apply the idea of thrivability in practice – in your life, at your work, in your community? In aliveness, there is a yearning for thriving. I think he is right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. Others will simply focus on the networks that have the most impact on their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

View more documents from Working Wikily. As they mention on the Working Wikily Blog , they are releasing the findings of the study in a more dynamic form because they want the organizations and funders to be part of telling this dynamic story. DISRUPTION: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." This slide shows the different type of relationships and shift in thinking. Beth's Other Ramblings on Relationships/Engagement in a Social World. Social Relationship Development.

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