Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2012

It sounds like science fiction, but let me share a few examples I heard about at the conference. Intercepting wildlife transferred across borders is critical to slowing illegal trade and DNA barcoding provides a public library of DNA barcode tests for enforcement officials to use as a front-line tool.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Topics include the latest storytelling tools, fundraising strategies, and a video 101 seminar. Portland, Oregon: Websites as Storytelling Tools: A Case Study. Washington, DC: Workshop: Crafting Powerful Stories. April 19, 2016: Producing a Successful Video Story from Sound to Screen with Aaron Bramley of Lights.Camera.Help.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

In this session, you’ll get the tools to answer that fundamental question. That might sound like a wild fantasy, but it’s not: you can make it happen with some strategic use of automation. Save yourself time, stress, and money with a few tools and tactics. Kelly McLaughlin will share it all with you.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that?

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

She is regularly featured as a presenter at multiple chambers of commerce and local workshops and seminars on networking, event marketing, and sales training. This is as easy as it sounds! For nonprofits there are free or discounted online tools like Canva and Shutterstock that can help you create social media-friendly ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

We'll examine what can and can't be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. An introduction to analytic tools and individual/team reflection processes The panelists included Sarah Granger, Danielle Brigida, Wendy Harman, and Qui Diaz. Amy Sample Ward captured great notes. Takeaways: 1.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. Needless to say, the idea stuck and the workshop “. This sounds so obvious, but not planning ahead is easily one of the most frequent mistakes I see organizations making. was born. .

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Strengthen Culture Emotional Intelligence, or the ability to manage our own emotions and understand the emotions of others, is a critical culture-building tool whether workers are outside or inside the office. A facilitated workshop will put the five EI competencies on everyone’s radar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

However, now I’m bringing a new tool to my work in the form of mindfulness. I realized that mindfulness was a powerful tool for me in my personal journey, so I started thinking about how I could make it work in a professional context. My work consists of interactive talks, workshops, trainings, and coaching.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I'd spent years leading workshops around the world as a consultant. I had tools to achieve everything I wanted to achieve in that staff meeting. Sounds like great participation to me. The weird thing is that that wasn't true. My expertise was on inviting strangers to participate in public settings like museums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I started thinking, sounds like there are a lot of women out there who would like to start a blog, but don't know how. about the Basic Blogging for Women Workshop October 22, 2006 here. Revised 8.3.06: I am currently searching for a new space to hold a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop where everyone can be on computers. . *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

  That investment is staff time as many of the tools are free.     Geoff offers some time management techniques for social media strategists or what I'd like to call " Social Productivity " (I'm developing a workshop on that one.) .     I kept wanting to blend them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In our integrated communications plan, we believed that taking advantage of social media tools would assist us because of its social nature; allowing us “always be on” and present in the community conversation. The most critical aspect of this strategy was our ability to manage our message.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As a general rule, these are product agnostic, which means you’ll learn something you can use in your job that doesn’t involve using a specific platform or tool. If you attend a workshop, you won’t just listen to a speaker; you’ll work alongside other nonprofit professionals to create something unique. Save your spot.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print. impacts on decision making).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation. My secret is to write out a step-by-step facilitator agenda if using a new technical tool and rehearse it. My best tips and tools are in this post.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2016

Change Workshop: Managing Change to Ensure a Technology Project’s Success. I’m bummed I can’t attend this session (I am presenting at the same time), it sounds amazing. The Future of Collaboration: Tips and Tech Tools to Empower Teams. Even I get overwhelmed with this topic when consulting with organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

While organizational adoption of social media tools for external communications strategies is becoming more common, not to mention lots of practical advice such as this recent white paper: The Revolution will be Socialized and the many how-to primers for nonprofits like this one. tools would be misused by their staff. about Web 2.0

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sound good? Registration and Ticketing Registration and ticketing tools vastly simplify the process of attendee sign-ups and ticket sales for your event. These tools help streamline the registration process, track attendee information, and manage ticket inventory, leading to a seamless check-in experience on event day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. Remix this Powerpoint. If you don't know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

He sounds a lot like me! tools take collaboration and information sharing to a whole new level, the non-profits I work with have nuts and bolts Information Systems issues that are, and should be high priorities. For organizations that are ready, I am eager to help them explore these tools. So I dropped him a note. While Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings. However, as this word cloud from a recent workshop I did on virtual meetings illustrates, there are many challenges to running effective virtual or hybrid meetings. My best tips and tools are in this recent post.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If We also saw some.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Direct mail is the most important fundraising and communications tool you have. Using the right envelope as a fundraising tool. Make it sound like you sat down and wrote it to a friend. Her Fired-Up Fundraising Board Workshops have inspired thousands of board members to get actively involved in fundraising. Thanks Gail!

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CauseVox

JUNE 23, 2022

The pattern will probably sound familiar: a large group of email recipients results in a smaller group of website visitors, resulting in an even smaller number of donations. We’ve put together a free workshop to help you with this process. Stories and testimonials from beneficiaries can be a great tool for building trust.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Whether in my workshops in Romania or in Saudi (or in NYC), I’m often asking myself, “haven’t we had this conversation before?” Though, what is interesting to me, is that the question “how can I use this tool?” Remember, these tools are just that: tools. Social media platforms (tools!)

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The point of Second Life is to lower the barrier to build things--things that move, things that make sounds, things you can explore (like exhibits). If I ran a poetry or drawing workshop, we wouldn't critique participants' ideas for poems or drawings. The above points may make it sound like the virtual designers only contributed ideas.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Yes, it sounds overwhelming when David talks about monitoring all the boards on the USHMM website. open exhibit development projects like The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop. Once they are running, any of these projects, even the ones that sound most ambitious, tend to require part-time maintenance and management, not full-time employees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

What are the tools that they are using to work on this? They're certainly not available in that local marketplace in Africa, but it turns out, they're also not available anywhere in the world because people simply don't design tools and equipment for very poor people. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Kelli: The main goal of all the social media tools is that we want to engage more people with our mission, people who might not have had a touchpoint with COSI before. It sounds like COSI’s efforts in this arena are really focused on the local community. How do you manage the organizational use of social media tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” To help with this, I created a tool for them to use in conversations about their involvement with CFF. I’ve been calling this new tool a “business card for the Foundation.”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Sometimes the difference comes down to preferred tools. This sounds flip, but the reality as I''ve seen it is that every institution has its own criteria for what makes a project a success.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Sometimes the difference comes down to preferred tools. This sounds flip, but the reality as I've seen it is that every institution has its own criteria for what makes a project a success.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

If you’re attending in-person, you’ll have access to a workshop on April 7th where you can better your nonprofit organization through hands-on learning. Our three workshop leaders have years of experience in different aspects of the nonprofit sector. In fact, many nonprofits don’t even know these tools exist. ”; 3.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Whenever I do a workshop, keynote, or webinar for nonprofits, the most frequently asked question is “What social channel(s) should our nonprofit use?” ” or variations “Is X social channel worth it for our organization?”

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