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APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Social Change. Here’s this month’s roundup. AI Technology. AI Is Getting Better At Conversation.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Note from Beth: Social media is not a waste a time, but there are ways to waste your time. A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Not surprisingly, there are number of tools that allow your organization to automate saying thanks and recognizing people. Spontaneous celebrations or thank you notes can go a long way in creating a more positive culture at work versus a once a year thank you. Encourage staff to send a thank you with a cc: to their manager.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018. Not all influencers are the same.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

What I love about FAQs is that you can easily transform them in Social FAQ s by adding real questions asked by your audience. Take for example, ” The 100 Tweeters of Social Good You Have to Follow in 2013 ” or the Top Nonprofit Blogs. Short List of List Making Tools for Content Curation.

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MAY 9, 2014

Few would deny that storytelling is a powerful tool for inspiring action and influencing thought leaders, donors, and decision makers. However, few of us working in the social impact space could admit to utilizing storytelling to its fullest potential. Are organizations using the rights tools to collect and store stories?

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. Call this “social change 2.0”.

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APRIL 13, 2017

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. For this workshop, I wanted to people share a big or small win with networks or social media with a peer and their challenges.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Bots are also not limited to social media. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

But you are probably, like most who work in the social change sector, incredibly busy. Maybe you are muttering to yourself ”Who can find the time to do social media?” What other executive directors in your field that you respect, follow or and feel inspired by are using social creatively?

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JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Media Applications and Tools.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net?

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JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. The above visual is a social network. The definition of links or how you’re connected is defined however you want in social network analysis.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. How much effort are your social media channels really worth? Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is a Twitter analytics tool. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. I’ve been looking for a tool like this and grateful that Avi Kaplan told me about Snapbird. It’s my tool of choice for documenting Tweeting at conferences.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems.

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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 for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. Model the Model.

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JUNE 24, 2015

He recently shared “ Toolsets for Social Media ,” a brilliantly curated collection of tools. A stellar example of content curation : Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic list of links. He has organized clusters of tools around different concepts of use that a social media professional might need.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social by Laura Quinn. But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy.

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JUNE 5, 2009

CLEAR Training: Social Media and Mobile Phones View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I'm back in DC where I facilitated two workshops on social media. The first session I co-lead with Katrin Verclas which was a look at social media and mobile tools. Tags: social media.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Today, the NTEN WeAreMedia project is working on the podcasting tool box. I'm hoping folks in the know about podcasting in the nonprofit technology space will jump in add their favorite tools and tips. Let us know the best tools and tips and you could win a t-shirt.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. Everyone was using Facebook. There were a handful who were using LinkedIn and Twitter as professional networking tools.

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JULY 11, 2017

The reports defines many challenges, but through the research and interviews, there was critical alignment around this all familiar problem: “Capacity builders and trainers in the global progressive space are too few and too disconnected to fulfill current demand in supporting social change leaders, practitioners, and activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

My colleague, Derrick Feldman, has just published a new book, “ Social Movements for Good ,” a guidebook for driving change, by taking advantage of the social “currency” that makes movements go viral. Derrick has analyze the various the approaches that make social good movements work.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Note from Beth: E arlier this month, the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, hosted the USRIO 2.0 Bridging Social Technologies and Sustainable Development: Social Squared – Guest Post by Kriss Deliglmeier. The focus of the conference was on the role of technology/connectivity to drive social change.

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JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. What are the best examples of social networking use?

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APRIL 12, 2013

Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control. 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.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

How non-profits become experts at Social Branding, Guest Post by Simon Mainwaring, Founder/Author WE FIRST. The first is compelling brand storytelling, and the second is fluency in social technology. The second major element of social branding success is fluency in social technology.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

For the past two days, I’ve been attending (and also a speaker ) at The Social Innovation Summit , a private, invitation-only forum that explores the frontiers of social innovation. She framed it as “edgy technology that may not work, but if it does it will leads to dramatic social innovation.”

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

We did a modified World Cafe and during the full group sharing, we told us about a cool tool for listening called Social Media Firehouse. I got to meet Lorelle from WordPress !

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MARCH 8, 2010

The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog. The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media.

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JULY 24, 2009

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Moderate* 10.

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